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Keith Smith
1926 - 2008 (82 years)
Keith Wilfred Smith was an English actor who is known for his roles in The Army Game and The Beiderbecke Trilogy. Smith also appeared in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin as a manager of a Grot shop.
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Donald Bell
1934 - Present (92 years)
Donald Munro Bell is a Canadian bass-baritone and vocal pedagogue. For over four decades he actively performed in concerts and operas internationally. He retired from performance in 1994. As a vocal pedagogue he has researched and published studies on vocal acoustics and laryngeal function. He is the founder of the Vocal Arts Acoustical Research Group at the University of Calgary, where he currently serves on the voice faculty.
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David Ott
1947 - Present (79 years)
David Ott is an American composer of classical music. Born in Crystal Falls, Michigan, Ott's works include four symphonies, an opera , the Annapolis Overture, written for the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, and various pieces of children's music. He has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Music and the Grammys . The premiere of his Concerto for Two Cellos and Orchestra, performed by the National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Mstislav Rostropovich, gained Ott the 1988 nomination. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville in 1969. He received his master's degree at I...
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Claude Cymerman
1947 - Present (79 years)
Claude Cymerman is a contemporary French classical pianist. Biography Born in Metz , Cymerman dedicated himself very early to music and began his training in a provincial conservatory before finishing it at the Conservatoire de Paris where he studied with Pierre Sancan.
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Grant Strate
1927 - 2015 (88 years)
Grant Strate, was a Canadian dancer, choreographer and academic. Born in Cardston, Alberta, though he started out in Edmonton as a lawyer he was an original member of the National Ballet of Canada and was a soloist, choreographer and teacher with the Company as well. From 1970 to 1980, he was the founding Chair of York University's Department of Dance. From 1980 to 1989, he was the Director of the School for Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University. In 1994, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada in recognition for being "a creative and tactful presence on arts and dance committees nationwide".
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Tomeka Reid
1977 - Present (49 years)
Tomeka Reid is an American composer, improviser, cellist, curator, and teacher. Reid has performed and recorded with the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Nicole Mitchell, Anthony Braxton, the AACM Great Black Music Ensemble, Mike Reed's Loose Assembly, and Roscoe Mitchell. She leads the Tomeka Reid Quartet, with , , and Mary Halvorson, and is co-leader of Hear In Now, a trio with and .
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Paul Chihara
1938 - Present (88 years)
Paul Seiko Chihara is an American composer. Life and career Chihara was born in Seattle, Washington in 1938. A Japanese American, he spent three years of his childhood with his family in an internment camp in Minidoka, Idaho due to Executive Order 9066.
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Brian Torff
1954 - Present (72 years)
Brian Q. Torff is an American jazz double-bassist, songwriter and composer. Career Teacher Brian Q. Torff is a Professor of Music and the director of the music program at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut. He has taught at New York University and makes frequent appearances at the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts leading the Fairfield University Jazz Ensemble along with guest jazz artists including Randy Brecker, Bob Mintzer, Bernard Purdie, Milt Hinton, Dave Samuels and Paul Wertico.
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Pyotr Fomenko
1932 - 2012 (80 years)
Pyotr Naumovich Fomenko was a Soviet and Russian film and theater director, teacher, artistic director of the Moscow theater Pyotr Fomenko Workshop. Created 60 productions in theaters in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tbilisi, Wroclaw, Salzburg and Paris.
Go to ProfileEduardo Rodríguez is a Venezuelan film director and screenwriter whose professional career in the United States began after Bob Weinstein, founder of Dimension Films, offered Eduardo a contract to direct three feature films in 2002. Details of his unusual deal were featured on the front page of Variety on April 17, 2002, as well in articles from Entertainment Weekly and Premiere Magazine . Eduardo was also anointed a member of Entertainment Weekly's 2002 "It List" of the 100 most creative people in entertainment.
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Robert Woods
1936 - Present (90 years)
Robert Woods , sometimes credited as Robert Wood, is an American film and television actor. He is noted for extensive work in Spaghetti Westerns and in the European film industry in the 1960s and 1970s. His numerous credits include parts in over 50 films, including 42 in which he was top-billed.
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Gottfried von der Goltz
1964 - Present (62 years)
Gottfried Graf von der Goltz is a German violinist and conductor, specialising in the baroque repertoire. Early life Born into the ancient Brandenburgish noble von der Goltz family, as the son of Conrad Graf von der Goltz and his wife and relative, Kristine Hjort . Gottfried was a great-grandson of the former commander of the Baltic Sea Division and the Baltische Landeswehr during World War I and the Russian Civil War, General Count Rüdiger von der Goltz.
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Ellen Alaküla
1927 - 2011 (84 years)
Ellen Alaküla was an Estonian stage, radio, television, and film actress and theatre teacher whose career spanned over forty years. Early life and education Ellen Alaküla was born in Kohtla-Järve in Ida-Viru County to parents Rudolf Alaküla and Johanna Alaküla . She was one of three siblings; having a brother and a sister. The family moved to Tallinn when she was young. Her father was a stage actor and sang in the church choir and her mother was a homemaker. Her father was later deported to Siberia by Soviet authorities, but was eventually allowed to return to Estonia.
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Ashley Walters
1982 - Present (44 years)
Ashley Anthony Walters , also known by his stage name Asher D, is a British actor and rapper. He first rose to fame as a member of the UK garage group So Solid Crew, which hit the top spot with their second single "21 Seconds" .
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Susan Allen
1951 - 2015 (64 years)
Susan Allen was an American harpist and music educator. She was particularly known for her world premieres of music for both the classical and electric harp by contemporary composers. She performed in a variety genres—classical, experimental music, jazz, and world music. For many years Allen was also Associate Dean of the Herb Alpert School of Music at California Institute of the Arts.
Go to ProfileBetzy Bromberg is an American director, editor, and experimental filmmaker. She is the Director of the Program in Film and Video at California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been shown at the Rotterdam, London, Edinburgh, Sundance and Vancouver Film Festivals as well as the Museum of Modern Art , Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the San Francisco Cinematheque, the Harvard Film Archive , Anthology Film Archives , the National Film Theater , The Vootrum Centrum and the Centre Georges Pompidou .
Go to ProfileEdward Harrison is Principal Timpanist of the Lyric Opera of Chicago and Artist Faculty and Head of Percussion at the Chicago College of Performing Arts, Roosevelt University. An internationally known maraca expert, Harrison is considered the leading exponent of contemporary maraca playing in the United States and Europe. In 1999, he performed the world's first concerto for maraca soloist with symphony orchestra, which was written for him by Ricardo Lorenz, at Chicago's Orchestra Hall. The composition was entitled Pataruco: Concerto for Maracas. The Chicago Sun-Times lauds his "remarkable mastery as a solo performer".
Go to ProfileJohn Richards was an English stage actor of the seventeenth century. An early member of the Duke's Company in London, he was lured away to the new Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin by John Ogilby. He was back with the Duke's at the Dorset Garden Theatre from the mid-1670s, but while in Ireland he was able to play major roles his English performances were generally supporting parts.
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Martin Schneider
2000 - 2021 (21 years)
Martin Schneider was a German opera director and former . Life Born in Merseburg, Schneider studied music education, Germanistik and musicology as well as violin, piano and singing at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. His teachers included the musicologist Walther Siegmund-Schultze and the music historian Max Schneider. Schneider completed his studies with a diploma and worked as an editorial assistant at the Rundfunk der DDR. In 1962, Schneider moved to the Komische Oper Berlin as assistant director and . From 1970, he became Spielleiter at the Komische Oper Berlin and worked under Walter Felsenstein, Götz Friedrich and , among others.
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Mikhail Sado
1934 - 2010 (76 years)
Mikhail Yukhanovich Sado , was an Assyrian Russian linguist, scholar, Professor of Semitic languages, orientalist, politician, former paratrooper, and wrestling champion. Mikhail Sado was born on June 9, 1934, in Leningrad. He was a linguist of Semitic languages and was fluent in many other Assyrian dialects. He taught Hebrew in Russian Orthodox seminaries. He obtained his doctorates in Oriental Studies at Leningrad University in 1951.
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John Lessard
1920 - 2003 (83 years)
John Lessard was an American composer and music educator noted among peers for his eloquent and dramatic neo-classical works for piano and voice, chamber ensembles, and orchestra, as well as for his playful pieces for mixed percussion ensembles. He was also an accomplished pianist and conductor.
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Steven Gellman
1947 - Present (79 years)
Steven Gellman is a Canadian composer and pianist. He has been commissioned to write works for the Besançon International Music Festival, the CBC Symphony Orchestra, the Hamilton Philharmonic, McGill University, Musica Camerata, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra, Opera Lyra, the Pierrot Ensemble, the Stratford Festival, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra among others. Since 1976 he has taught music composition and theory at the University of Ottawa.
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Robert Helps
1928 - 2001 (73 years)
Robert Eugene Helps was an American pianist and composer. Career Helps studied at the universities of Columbia and Berkeley He was one of the most distinguished pupils of Abby Whiteside and perhaps the most well-known practitioner of her theories of rhythm and of a technique directed from the humerus rather than the fingers. He studied composition with Roger Sessions, who exerted a strong influence on his career, and whose music he often performed and recorded. He cultivated a lifelong interest for Frédéric Chopin's Études as well as Leopold Godowsky's Studies on Chopin's Études which info...
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Lecrae
1979 - Present (47 years)
Lecrae Devaughn Moore is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record and film producer, record executive, actor, and entrepreneur. He is the president, co-owner and co-founder of the independent record label Reach Records, was the co-founder and president of the now-defunct non-profit organization ReachLife Ministries, is an investor and co-owner of the audio production software MXD, and is a co-founder of the film production studio 3 Strand Films. To date, he has released ten studio albums and three mixtapes as a solo artist, and has released three studio albums, a remix album, one EP, and numerous singles as the leader of the hip hop group 116 Clique.
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Kyung Wha Chung
1948 - Present (78 years)
Kyung Wha Chung is a South Korean violinist. Early years and education Kyung Wha Chung was born in Seoul as the middle of the seven children in her family. Her father was an exporter, and her mother ran a restaurant. She began piano studies at age 4, and violin studies at age 7, where she proved more sympathetic to the violin. She became recognized as a child prodigy, and by the age of 9 she was already playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. As time progressed she steadily won most of the famous music competitions in Korea. With her siblings, Chung toured around the country, performing music both as soloist and as a part of an ensemble.
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Peter Wexler
1923 - 2002 (79 years)
Peter Jacob Wexler was a British Romance scholar and lexicographer. Life and work He received his doctorate from Sorbonne in 1951 on La formation du vocabulaire des chemins de fer en France, 1778–1842 . He first taught at the University of Manchester, then at the University of Essex. Wexler contributed many materials for Bernard Quemada's Matériaux pour l'histoire du vocabulaire français. He also contributed 50,000 quotations to the Oxford English Dictionary, including over 500 first datings of words. He also published in Cahiers de lexicologie.
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Antxon Olarrea
1960 - Present (66 years)
Antxon Olarrea is a Spanish syntactician and a professor of linguistics within the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona. He is the author of several books and articles on theoretical linguistics and Spanish morphology and syntax. He also has a solid career as an educator and is the recipient of numerous national teaching awards in Linguistics.
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Dragan Maksimović
1949 - 2001 (52 years)
Dragan Maksimović was a Serbian actor. Biography Maksimović performed in more than sixty theatrical plays, movies and TV productions, between 1971 and 1999. His debut was in National Theatre in Belgrade playing Soldier in the play Mother Courage and her Children, 1971.
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René Abjean
1937 - Present (89 years)
René Abjean is a French composer associated with Breton revivalist choral music. Life Born in Brest, René Abjean made his début as a musician in the choir of Plouguerneau in 1953. At age 17, he created his first vocal work as part of a choral group Ar Baganiz, a precursor of the Breton revivalism of An Triskell, for which he made many arrangements. He co-founded the Cercle Breton de Brest, and organised the Festival International des Cornemuses at Brest from 1969.
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Vladimir Djambazov
1954 - Present (72 years)
Vladimir Djambazov is a Bulgarian composer and horn player. Education He first studied at the Music academy in Sofia under Professor Karel Stari . He then won a DAAD scholarship and graduated from the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, Germany, having studied electronic music composition with Dirk Reith and horn with Hermann Baumann. He later specialized in electronic music at ICEM, Essen, Germany.
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Patrick Warren
1957 - Present (69 years)
Patrick Warren is an American musician, composer, and record producer. He is known for his work on the films Magnolia, Fifty Shades of Grey, Boogie Nights and Red State, as well as the television series True Detective for which he composed and performed his original music for which he was awarded an Emmy. He composed the theme song and the original score to the Showtime original series The Chi. As a recording artist, he has worked with Michael Penn, Fiona Apple, The Wallflowers, Eagle-Eye Cherry, Stevie Nicks, and Liz Phair. As a touring musician, he has toured with Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Lana Del Rey.
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Thomas Daniel Schlee
1957 - Present (69 years)
Thomas Daniel Schlee is an Austrian composer, arts administrator, and organist. Life and work Schlee was born in Vienna as the elder of two sons of the Austro-German musicologist, theater scientist and music publisher Alfred Schlee and of Margaret Molner. Therefore already from his early childhood on he has been in close contact with a large number of important personalities of the music of the 20th century. He studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna with Michael Radulescu and Erich Romanovsky. He then earned a PhD in musicology and art history at Vienna University. ...
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Alexander Satz
1941 - 2007 (66 years)
Alexander Igorevich Satz was a Russian pianist and educator. Satz's musical career is quite unusual. He did not take up music in a professional way until the age of 14, when he started taking piano lessons with Leonid Brumberg . After only one year of intensive practice, he was accepted at the Gnesin School of Music for highly gifted children.
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Patricia Smith
1930 - 2011 (81 years)
Patricia Smith was an American actress who performed on stage, in films, and on television from the early 1950s to the late 1990s. Early life and education Born in Connecticut in 1930, Patricia was the younger of two children of Virginia and E. Allen Smith Jr., who worked in New Haven as a salesman of plate glass. She began her primary education in New Haven public schools and completed her secondary education in her father's native state of New Jersey, where by 1940 the Smith family had moved to the city of Summit and where Allen was employed as a representative for a paint manufacturer. The...
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T. G. Lingappa
1927 - 2000 (73 years)
Thiruchirappalli Govindarajulu Lingappa was an Indian music director who worked predominantly in Kannada language films. He also worked in Tamil and Telugu movies. He was the son of G. Govindarajulu Naidu who was also a musician.
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John Hollenbeck
1968 - Present (58 years)
John Hollenbeck is an American jazz drummer and composer known for his work with The Claudia Quintet and Bob Brookmeyer. Early life and education Hollenbeck was born in Binghamton, New York. He earned degrees in percussion and jazz composition from the Eastman School of Music.
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Dana Claxton
1959 - Present (67 years)
Dana Claxton is a Hunkpapa Lakota filmmaker, photographer, and performance artist. Her work looks at stereotypes, historical context, and gender studies of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, specifically those of the First Nations. In 2007, she was awarded an Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art.
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Irina Nikolaeva
1962 - Present (64 years)
Irina Alekseevna Nikolaeva is a linguist and Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the SOAS University of London. Biography Nikolaeva gained her PhD from the University of Leiden in 1999. She worked at the University of Konstanz and the University of Oxford before joining SOAS in 2007 as a Lecturer. She was appointed Professor of Linguistics in 2012 and Emeritus Professor in 2020. She was awarded the Humanity Award at the 2008 Women of Discovery Awards. She was elected as a fellow of the British Academy in 2019.
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Roger P. Minert
1952 - Present (74 years)
Roger P. Minert was a professor of family history at Brigham Young University until he retired in 2019. He is a professional genealogist and an emeritus AG . He has a background in German language study and has published reference books for genealogy work on German immigrants, guides on performing German genealogy research, and books about the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Germany. He frequently presents on German family history topics at genealogy conferences.
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Ester Mägi
1922 - 2021 (99 years)
Ester Mägi was an Estonian composer, widely regarded as the First Lady of Estonian Music. Biography Her compositional output is substantial and represents all genres, from chamber and vocal music to choral and highly regarded symphonic works. She trained initially under Mart Saar at the Tallinn Conservatory, then from 1951 to 1954 at the Moscow Conservatory under Vissarion Shebalin. Amongst her best-known works are her Piano Sonata , Piano Trio in F minor , Piano Concerto , Violin Concerto , Symphony , Variations for Piano, Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra , Bukoolika for orchestra and Vesper for violin and piano/organ .
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John Butler
1972 - Present (54 years)
John Butler is an Irish director, screenwriter, and novelist. in 2011, Picador published his novel "The Tenderloin". His TV work includes sketch show Your Bad Self , and writing and directing on "The Outlaws" for BBC / Amazon. His feature films are The Stag, Handsome Devil. and Papi Chulo. Other writing has appeared in The Irish Times, the Dublin Review and elsewhere.
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Edith Wiens
1950 - Present (76 years)
Edith Wiens OC is a Canadian opera, recital and concert singer with a soprano voice. Early life and education Wiens, daughter of a Mennonite pastor, grew up in Vancouver where she finished high school at the age of 16. She studied theology and church music at Columbia Bible College in Clearbrook. At age 20 she received a bursary to study singing in Hannover, Germany. She went on to Oberlin Conservatory of Music to study with Richard Miller. She received her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees here.
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Martin Schlumpf
1947 - Present (79 years)
Martin Schlumpf is a Swiss musician, composer, conductor, improviser and academic teacher. Career Born in Aarau, Schlumpf studied at the conservatory of Zurich, the clarinet with Hansjürg Leuthold, the piano with and Evelyne Dubourg, conducting with Ferdinand Leitner, and theory and composition with Rudolf Kelterborn. He continued his studies with Boris Blacher in Berlin.
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James Tocco
1943 - Present (83 years)
James Tocco is an American concert pianist. He is the youngest of thirteen children born to Vincenzo and Rose Tocco, both Sicilian immigrants. Early life Born of Sicilian immigrant parents in Detroit, Michigan, Tocco's love of music -especially opera—began in early childhood. At six years old he began studying piano and at twelve he made his orchestral debut, performing Beethoven's Second Piano Concerto. He won a scholarship to the Salzburg Mozarteum and a French government grant to study with Magda Tagliaferro in Paris from 1964 till 1969. His classical music education was completed with Claudio Arrau in New York.
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Douglas Lawrence
1943 - Present (83 years)
Raymond Douglas Lawrence is an Australian organist who is director of music at the Scots' Church, Melbourne and Teacher of the Organ at the University of Melbourne. In 1969 Lawrence completed his master's degree in music at the University of Melbourne. He then studied for two years at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna between 1969 and 1971, under the tutelage of renowned Austrian organist Anton Heiller.
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Noël Valis
1945 - Present (81 years)
Noël Ritter Valis is a writer, scholar and translator. She is a Professor of Spanish at Yale University. Biography She was raised in Toms River, New Jersey and graduated from Toms River High School in 1964; she was inducted into the Toms River Regional Schools' Hall of Fame in 1995.
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Emily Vey Duke
1972 - Present (54 years)
Emily Vey Duke is a Canadian-born visual artist who has worked collaboratively with Cooper Battersby since 1994. She is an associate professor in the Department of Transmedia at the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.
Go to ProfileJacques Desjardins is a Canadian composer whose music has been performed by important ensembles internationally like the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the Ijsbreker Ensemble. He has won first prize at the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada composition competition twice and was chosen to represent Canada at the first International Forum of New Music that was organized by the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne. He was awarded several grants from the Canada Council and has been commissioned to write works for the Arthur-LeBlanc String Quartet, the Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal...
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James Avery
1937 - 2009 (72 years)
James Avery was an American classical pianist and conductor. Avery was born in Hutchinson, Kansas and studied at the University of Kansas, and then at Indiana University under Tibor Kozma. From 1967 to 1980 he taught at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, and from 1980 until 2002 at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg in Germany. From 1992 he headed Ensemble SurPlus, playing mostly new music. Avery recorded works by Stefan Wolpe, Charles Wuorinen, Brian Ferneyhough, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. In the fall of 1978 he took a leave of absence from the University of Iowa in order to be a visiting ...
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Alexandra Kertz-Welzel
1970 - Present (56 years)
Alexandra Kertz-Welzel is Professor and Chair of Music Education at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany. She studied at the Hochschule für Musik Saar and Saarland University in Saarbrücken, where she obtained Master's Degrees in music education, German studies, Philosophy, piano performance , and harpsichord performance , and was a scholarship holder from Cusanuswerk between 1992 and 2000. In 2000, she received a PhD degree in Musicology from Saarland University, with a dissertation on aesthetics in literature and music during the early romanticism in the Nineteenth century. Pri...
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