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#10351

Stephen Clapp

#173490

Overall Influence

1939 - 2014 (75 years)

Stephen Clapp was a violinist and Dean Emeritus of the Juilliard School. Education Clapp earned the B.M degree from the Oberlin Conservatory and the M.S. degree from the Juilliard School. He was a student of Dorothy DeLay, Ivan Galamian, and Andor Toth. He studied chamber music with Claus Adam, Robert Mann, Felix Galimir, Raphael Hillyer, Louis Persinger, and Walter Trampler.

#10352

Gordon McPherson

#170699

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Gordon McPherson is a Scottish composer. McPherson was born in Dundee. He studied at the University of York, England, returning there for his doctorate, continuing with post-doctoral research at the Royal Northern College of Music.

#10353

Andreas Sieling

#180900

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Andreas Sieling is a German organist and musicologist. Life Born in Oldenburg, Sieling studied musicology, German studies and journalism in Berlin. In Düsseldorf, he continued his education with organ studies at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf with Hans-Dieter Möller. In Halle, he completed the A exam for church music. Sieling teaches as an honorary professor the organ, performance practice and organ methodology at the Berlin University of the Arts. He has been organist at the Berlin Cathedral since 2005.

#10354

Dimitri Terzakis

#175554

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Dimitri Terzakis is a Greek composer. His father was the author Angelos Terzakis. From 1959–1964 Terzakis studied composition with Yannis Papaioannou at the Athens Hellenic Conservatory, followed by five years spent at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne, Germany where he studied composition with Bernd Alois Zimmermann and electronic music with Herbert Eimert. Works by Terzakis have been performed at the International Society for Contemporary Music Festival in Basle , the Darmstadt Artists' Colony summer courses and the Hamburg Das Neue Werk series . He taught counterpoint and fugue and Byzantine music and composition at the Musikhochschule, Düsseldorf.

#10355

Adam Rickitt

#172199

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Adam Peter Rickitt is an English actor and singer. He portrayed the role of Nick Tilsley in the British soap opera Coronation Street from 1997 to 1999, and again from 2002 to 2004. He later joined the New Zealand soap Shortland Street for a three-year stint in the 2000s. From 2017 to 2020, he appeared in the Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks, and from 2023, he is set to join the BBC soap Doctors.

#10356

Beata Heuer-Christen

#178414

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Beata Heuer-Christen is a Swiss-German soprano concert singer and voice teacher. Life Born in Bern, Heuer-Christen is the daughter of the violinist and member of the Bern Symphony Orchestra, Caesar Christen, and Greti Christen-Schiffmann, also violinist in the Bern Symphony Orchestra and Primaria of the Schiffmann Quartet.

#10357

Mike Morgan

#172384

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Michael Robert Morgan is an American Texas and electric blues musician. He has released 14 albums to date, on various record labels including Rounder, Black Top and Severn Records. The majority of his releases have featured his long standing backing band, The Crawl. Morgan has played alongside Darrell Nulisch, Lee McBee, Gary Primich, and Randy McAllister.

#10358

James Erber

#169535

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

James Erber is a British composer of the New Complexity school. Born in London, Erber studied music at the universities of Sussex and Nottingham, and worked in music publishing from 1976 to 1979. His first work, Seguente for oboe and piano, appeared in 1976. In the early 1980s, he undertook serious studies in composition, first with Jonathan Harvey at Sussex, and then with Brian Ferneyhough at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg.

#10359

Dean Dillon

#85052

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Dean Dillon is an American country musician and songwriter. Between 1982 and 1993, he recorded six studio albums on various labels, and charted several singles on the Billboard country charts. Since 1993, Dillon has continued to write hit songs for other artists, most notably George Strait.

#10360

Yee Chih-yen

#175824

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Yee Chih-yen is a Taiwanese film director, screenwriter, critic, instructor, and writer. He was born in Taipei, Taiwan. His works include Blue Gate Crossing , Dangerous Mind --Yee Chih-yen's television debut for the Taiwan Public Television Service that won Best Television Series at the Golden Bell Awards, Meeting Dr. Sun that won Best Original Screenplay at the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards, as well as City of Lost Things that won Best Animated Feature at the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards.

#10361

Victor Feldbrill

#156416

Overall Influence

1924 - 2020 (96 years)

Victor Feldbrill, was a Canadian conductor and violinist. Early life and education Feldbrill was born in Toronto, the son of Polish Jewish immigrants, Helen and Nathan Feldbrill. In his teen years he played the violin and attended Harbord Collegiate Institute. He joined the Navy in World War II, playing the violin in the Navy Show and studying part time at the Royal Academy of Music. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto.

#10362

Elaine Bonazzi

#171034

Overall Influence

1929 - 2019 (90 years)

Elaine Bonazzi was an American operatic mezzo-soprano who had an active international career from the 1950s through the 1990s. A singer with an unusually broad repertoire that encompassed both classical and contemporary works, she notably created roles in the world premieres of operas by composers Dominick Argento, David Carlson, Carlisle Floyd, Gian Carlo Menotti, Thomas Pasatieri, and Ned Rorem. In the United States she was particularly active with the New York City Opera, the Santa Fe Opera, and the Washington National Opera.

#10363

Joe Jones

#152196

Overall Influence

1934 - 1993 (59 years)

Joe Jones was an American avant-garde musician associated with Fluxus, especially known for his creation of rhythmic music machines. Early life and career Joe Jones was born in New York City in 1934. He grew up in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and received a classical musical education at Hartnett Music School in New York City.

#10364

Victor Rosenbaum

#177238

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Victor Rosenbaum is an American pianist, teacher, educator and administrator. Early life Rosenbaum was born in Philadelphia, but spent most of his childhood, from age 5, in Indianapolis, Indiana. Showing an early interest in music, he began piano lessons at age 5 with Elizabeth Brock with whom he studied for eight years, later studying with Martin Marks of Butler University's Jordan College of Music. Rosenbaum also studied with Rosina Lhevinne for two summers at the Aspen Music School. His principal teacher during his college years and beyond was Leonard Shure, who himself had been a student and disciple of Artur Schnabel.

#10365

Vladimir Grammatikov

Vladimir Grammatikov

#119779

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Vladimir Alexandrovich Grammatikov is a Russian and Soviet theater and film actor, director, screenwriter and producer. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation . Biography Vladimir Grammatikov was born 1 June 1942 in Sverdlovsk. He graduated from the construction faculty of radio Bauman College in Moscow, and then decided to link his lives with cinematography. Later, he got an education at the acting department Russian Academy of Theatre Arts, becoming an actor pantomime.

#10366

Marjorie Merryman

#180712

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Marjorie Merryman is an American composer, author, and music educator. She is a member of the composition faculty at the Manhattan School of Music since 2007, where she also served as Interim President, Provost and Senior Vice President at Manhattan School of Music. She previously taught at Boston University and Macalester College.

#10367

Dorothy Rudd Moore

#175953

Overall Influence

1940 - 2022 (82 years)

Dorothy Rudd Moore was an American composer and music educator. She was one of the co-founders of the Society of Black Composers. She is considered one of the leading women composers of color for her generation and did commissions for the National Symphony, Opera Ebony, the Buffalo Philharmonic, and solo artists. She was a member of the American Composers Alliance, BMI, New York Singing Teachers Association, and New York Women Composers. Her works were unpublished, but are available through the American Composers Alliance.

#10368

Atar Arad

#140764

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Atar Arad is an Israeli American violist, professor of music, essayist and composer. Biography Arad and his brother, architect Ron Arad, were born in Tel Aviv, Israel. Arad began his training on the violin in Tel Aviv and received an Artist Diploma in 1966 from the Samuel Rubin Israeli Academy of Music. In 1968 he was selected for study at Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth in Waterloo, Belgium, earning a Laureate there in 1971 and a Diplome Superieure from Brussels Conservatory in 1973.

#10369

Peter Zajac

#95311

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Peter Zajac is a Slovak literary critic and politician who served as an MP of the National Council between 1998 and 2001 and again between 2010 and 2012. He is married to the science fiction writer Alta Vášová. In 2020 president Zuzana Čaputová awarded Peter Zajac Ľudovít Štúr Order, 1st class.

#10370

Johnny Vidacovich

Johnny Vidacovich

#173272

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

John Joseph Vidacovich Jr. is an American jazz drummer and a member of the band Astral Project with James Singleton, Tony Dagradi, and Steve Masakowski. He has also worked with Bobby McFerrin, Stanton Moore, Charlie Hunter, Willy DeVille, Robert Walter, Mose Allison, Johnny Adams, Professor Longhair, James Booker, and Alvin Tyler. He began teaching at Loyola University New Orleans in 1982.

#10371

Phillip Scott

#179067

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Phillip Scott is an Australian actor, singer, pianist, writer and comedian. Career He has appeared on film as well as in sketch comedy television programs. His television appearances include The Dingo Principle and Three Men and a Baby Grand, satirical sketch television comedy programs for which he was a writer/performer with Jonathan Biggins and Drew Forsythe. He also appeared with Max Gillies in The Gillies Report and its sequels, The Gillies Republic and Gillies and Company, and was a writer/performer on ABC TV's The Big Gig and a regular writer for Good News Week.

#10372

Șerban Nichifor

#156755

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Șerban Nichifor is a Romanian composer, cellist and music educator. Biography Șerban Nichifor was born on 25 August 1954 to Ermil Nichifor and Livia Nichifor, née Balint in Bucharest, Romania. Both his parents were physicians. His father was also a musician and conductor of the Orchestra of Physicians in Bucharest.

#10373

Ulf Grahn

#164609

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Ulf Grahn , Laura Kuhn and Dennis McIntire, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, January 1, 2001, Online Early life and education Between 1962 and 1970, Grahn studied music primarily with at the and subsequently at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm. He earned degrees at the Stockholm Institute of Music Pedagogy and after moving to America in 1972, the Catholic University of America, and has also studied business administration, economics, and development at Uppsala and Lund.

#10374

Hilary Tann

#182458

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Hilary Tann was a Welsh composer based in the United States. Career Born in Llwynypia, Glamorgan , Tann held degrees in music composition from the University of Wales, Cardiff, and Princeton University. Her compositions are published by Oxford University Press. Tann's orchestral works have been released on the North/South Recordings CD Here, the Cliffs, – "music of great integrity, impeccable craft, and genuine expressive ambition" Robert Carl, Fanfare 36:I. Her overture, "With the Heather and Small Birds," commissioned by the 1994 Cardiff Festival, is her tribute to the land of her birth.

#10375

Dorothee Oberlinger

#111753

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Dorothee Oberlinger is a German recorder player and professor. Biography Dorothee Oberlinger was born in Aachen and raised in Simmern. At the University of Cologne, she studied music education and German studies. After university, she studied recorder in Cologne, Amsterdam and Milan. Her teachers include Günther Höller , Walter van Hauwe and Pedro Memelsdorff . In 1997 she won the first prize at the international "Moeck" UK / SRP competition. In 1998, she made her solo debut at London's Wigmore Hall.

#10376

Bud Goodall

#141265

Overall Influence

1952 - 2012 (60 years)

Harold Lloyd "Bud" Goodall Jr. was an American scholar of human communication and a writer of narrative ethnography. He was a professor in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University.

#10377

Susan Stocklmayer

#163171

Overall Influence

Emeritus Professor Susan Mary Stocklmayer, , is a science communicator who served as Director of the Centre for the Public Awareness of Science at the Australian National University from 1998 to 2015.

#10378

Andrea Segre

#180294

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Andrea Segre is an Italian film director. He directed more than ten films since 2004. Filmography Fiction2007 La mal'ombra2009 Magari le cose cambiano2011 Shun Li and the Poet2013 First Snowfall2017 The Order of ThingsDocumentaries2004 Dio era un musicista2006 Checosamanca2008 Come un uomo sulla terra2010 Il Sangue verde2012 Mare chiuso2013 Rebetiko Crisis: Undue Debt2014 Come il peso dell'acqua2015 I sogni del lago salato2017 Ibi2021 Venetian Molecules

#10379

Werner Hollweg

#165509

Overall Influence

1936 - 2007 (71 years)

Werner Hollweg was a German operatic tenor. He is best known for his interpretation of Mozart's operas. Hollweg died from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

#10380

Simone Zgraggen

#180087

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Simone Zgraggen is a Swiss violinist and professor at Freiburg University of Music. Career Simone Zgraggen began playing the violin at the age of five. She studied from 1991 to 1994 at Lucerne University of Music under Alexander van Wijnkoop, from 1994 to 1995 at Basel Conservatory also under van Wijnkoop and from 1996 to 2002 at Karlsruhe University of Music under Ulf Hoelscher. She received all degrees with highest honors.

#10381

Kendall Taylor

#179669

Overall Influence

1905 - 1999 (94 years)

Edgar Kendall Taylor CBE, FRCM, Hon FRAM was a British pianist, who had an international career as a solo concert pianist. In the United Kingdom, he was well known for his concerts, which were broadcast on the BBC. He was also known for his recitals and broadcasts to the troops during World War II through the Entertainments National Service Association. He also had a career as a teacher and pedagogue.

#10382

Salvatore Champagne

#168851

Overall Influence

Salvatore Champagne is an American operatic tenor and the Director of the Division of Vocal Studies at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. He earned a bachelor's degree in music at Oberlin College in 1985, where he studied with Richard Miller, and a master's degree in music at the Juilliard School in 1987. Champagne has sung in many opera houses throughout Europe including the Bavarian State Opera , the Zurich Opera House , and Teatro Massimo Bellini and has also sung in concert under such composers as Leonard Bernstein, James Conlon, and Leonard Slatkin.

#10383

Reinhard Febel

#175013

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Reinhard Febel is a German composer, notable for his operas. He is also a music theorist and a university professor at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover and the Mozarteum. Career Febel was born in Metzingen, Baden-Württemberg, and first studied music and piano with Jürgen Uhde at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart. On a recommendation from Helmut Lachenmann he studied composition from 1979, with Klaus Huber at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and at the IRCAM in Paris where he attended courses in electronic music in 1982. On a commission of the Bayerische Staatsoper he composed the chamber opera Euridice, premiered in 1983.

#10384

Anders Lundegård

#87348

Overall Influence

Anders Olof Lundegård is a Swedish classical saxophonist. Lundegård is best known for his cello-like tone and intense performance style. Anders Lundegård was born in Växjö, Sweden, and made his debut at seventeen as a soloist and broadcast performer during a youth artist festival in Stockholm. He earned his undergraduate degree as a student of Christer Johnsson at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in Stockholm, whereupon he received both a Fulbright and a Sweden – America Foundation award to continue his studies in the United States. Lundegård completed his Master's, Certificate of Performanc...

#10385

Lisa Brescia

#135599

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Lisa Brescia is an American musical theatre actress who has performed as lead and understudy in several Broadway shows. Raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, she went on to pursue acting and graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She taught Acting I and IV at Missouri State University and is now set to be the head of the Musical Theatre department at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri.

#10386

Marcus Thompson

#161887

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Marcus Thompson is a violist and viola d'amore player known for his work as a recitalist, orchestral soloist, chamber musician, recording artist and educator. Thompson is a founding member and is currently artistic director of the Boston Chamber Music Society, and is Institute Professor at MIT and a faculty member at the New England Conservatory of Music.

#10387

Maggi Payne

#163142

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Maggi Payne is an American composer, flutist, video artist, recording engineer/editor, and historical remastering engineer who creates electroacoustic, instrumental, vocal works, and works involving visuals .

#10388

Chris Wood

#135910

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Christopher Barry Wood is an American bassist with the jazz trio Medeski Martin & Wood and The Wood Brothers. Biography Wood was raised in Boulder, Colorado, where he studied jazz and classical music. He attended the New England Conservatory of Music in 1989. His teachers included Geri Allen, Dave Holland, and Bob Moses. Reducing his classes, he accompanied Moses and John Medeski as sidemen for a tour, then played with them in New York City.

#10389

Richard J. O’connell

#185745

Overall Influence

#10390

Pamela Frank

#179251

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Pamela Frank is an American violinist, with an active international career across a varied range of performing activity. Her musicianship was recognized in 1999 with the Avery Fisher Prize, one of the highest honors given to American instrumentalists. In addition to her career as a performer, Frank holds the Herbert R. and Evelyn Axelrod Chair in Violin Studies at the Curtis Institute of Music, where she has taught since 1996, and is also an Adjunct Professor of Violin at the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music since 2018.

#10391

Neill Gorton

#137457

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Neill Gorton is an English special effects artist, visual effects specialist and make-up artist specialised in animatronics and prosthetics. He is known for his work on films like Saving Private Ryan and Children of Men and the series Doctor Who .

#10392

Mina

#177992

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Mina Anna Maria Mazzini or Mina Anna Quaini , known mononymously as Mina, is an Italian singer and actress. She was a staple of television variety shows and a dominant figure in Italian pop music from the 1960s to the mid-1970s, known for her three-octave vocal range, the agility of her soprano voice, and her image as an emancipated woman.

#10393

Roman Laskowski

#147258

Overall Influence

1936 - 2014 (78 years)

Roman Laskowski was a Polish slavist. He was a member of the Polish Academy of Learning, as well as a professor at Jagiellonian University and the University of Gothenburg. Laskowski was also a Solidarity activist.

#10394

Yōko Oginome

#175251

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Yōko Oginome, married name Yōko Tsujino, is a former pop idol, actress and voice actress, who gained popularity in the mid-1980s. Her fans often call her Oginome-chan. Her husband is Ryuso Tsujino.

#10395

Hans Kann

#185759

Overall Influence

1927 - 2005 (78 years)

Hans Kann was an Austrian pianist and composer. He taught music in his native Austria and in Japanese schools such as the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. He was the son of businessman Emil Kann and Karoline Kann.

#10396

Gary Lee Nelson

#158577

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Gary Lee Nelson is a composer and media artist who taught at Oberlin College in the TIMARA department. He specializes in algorithmic composition, real-time interactive sound and video along with digital film making.

#10397

Deborah Holland

#90139

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Deborah Holland is an American-Canadian singer-songwriter. She rose to national prominence in 1987 as the lead singer and songwriter of Animal Logic featuring Stanley Clarke and Stewart Copeland. As of March 2020, Deborah Holland has released six solo albums: Freudian Slip , The Panic Is On , The Book of Survival , Bad Girl Once... , Vancouver , and Fine, Thank You! .

#10398

François Sarhan

François Sarhan

#179449

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

François Sarhan is a French composer, installation artist, visual artist and writer. Biography Born in Rouen, Sarhan studied composition with Guy Reibel, Philippe Manoury, Brian Ferneyhough at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1996 to 2000. Sarhan is known for his mixed and ambiguous works, which cross the accepted artforms, often confronting stop-motion animation, performance, text that he realizes himself. He has achieved international recognition over recent years, thanks to his collaboration with William Kentridge, and his solo shows like Lâchez Tout!. His works have performed and broadcast...

#10399

Jack Behrens

#178005

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Jack Behrens is a Canadian composer, music educator, and writer of American birth. A member of the Canadian League of Composers and an associate of the Canadian Music Centre, his music has been performed throughout North America and on CBC Radio and radio stations in the United States. In 1970 his orchestral work The Sound of Milo won first prize in the New Orleans Symphony contest and his choral work How Beautiful is the Night was awarded the Francis Boott Prize at Harvard University. He was married to the late Canadian pianist Sonja Peterson Behrens.

#10400

Colin Eisler

#96032

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (95 years)

Colin Tobias Eisler is a German-born American art historian. He is the Robert Lehman Professor of Fine Arts at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, and a widely published expert on early Netherlandish art.

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