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#10501

Zora Dirnbach

#119768

Overall Influence

1929 - 2019 (90 years)

Zora Dirnbach was a Croatian-Jewish journalist and writer, born in Osijek on 22 August 1929 to a Jewish father and Austrian-born Catholic mother who converted to Judaism in 1922. She was raised with her sister Gertruda.

#10502

Vladimir Soltan

#186175

Overall Influence

1953 - 1997 (44 years)

Vladimir Yevgenievich Soltan was a Belarusian composer. He was born in Baranovichi. He graduated from the Minsk Conservatory in 1979, and as post graduate in 1981 from the composition class of Anatoly Bogatyrev. He died in Minsk.

#10503

Kalmen Opperman

#173822

Overall Influence

1919 - 2010 (91 years)

Kalmen Opperman was an American clarinetist. He was a noted performer, teacher, conductor, mouthpiece and barrel maker , composer, and writer of numerous clarinet studies. A noted pedagogue, many of his students are currently working as soloists, recording artists, orchestral players and university teachers around the world.

#10504

Geoff Smith

#177942

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Geoff Smith is a musical performer and composer from Brighton, England. He was previously a member of the group Attacco Decente. He was a pupil at Varndean College from 1974. Smith is considered to be one of the world's leading players of the hammered dulcimer. In performance, he plays three custom-built prototype dulcimers sequentially - diatonic, chromatic and a microtonal model featuring 'fluid tuning', i.e. such that individual notes may be tuned at precise microtonal intervals.

#10505

Peter Boyer

#159828

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Peter Boyer is an American composer, conductor, orchestrator, and professor of music. He is known primarily for his orchestral works, which have received over 600 performances, by more than 250 orchestras.

#10506

Wei Huangnu

#173513

Overall Influence

1918 - 2006 (88 years)

Wei Shaozhen better known by his pen name Wei Huangnu , was a Chinese translator and professor. He was among the first few in China who translated the works of Nikolay Nekrasov's into Chinese language.

#10507

Michael Bach

#171044

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Michael Bach , also known as Michael Bach Bachtischa, is a German cellist, composer, and visual artist. Biography He studied cello with Gerhard Mantel, Boris Pergamenschikow, Pierre Fournier, and János Starker, then embarked on a career of international concert activity as well as performances on radio, recordings, and television.

#10508

John Kirkpatrick

#162599

Overall Influence

1905 - 1991 (86 years)

John Kirkpatrick was an American classical pianist and music scholar, best known for championing the works of Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, Carl Ruggles, and Roy Harris. He gave the first complete public performance of Ives's Concord Sonata in 1939, which became a turning point in the composer's public recognition. Kirkpatrick played an important role in Ives scholarship, and he was leader in the Charles Ives Society. One important example is his role in the editing of Memos, which is a collection of Ives's autobiographical writings. At the time of his death Kirkpatrick was a professor emeritu...

#10509

Zhao Zhenjiang

#159179

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Zhao Zhenjiang is a Chinese translator. For his contributions to the introduction of Spanish literature to foreign readers, he was honored with Queen Isabel Medal by the Spanish government in 1998, Order of May by Argentina in 1999, and Neruda Centennial Medal by Chile in 2004.

#10510

Marcelo Moraes Caetano

Marcelo Moraes Caetano

#171759

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Marcelo Caetano Moraes is a writer, professor and pianist from Brazil., critic, journalist. He received degrees in Portuguese and Greek from the State University of Rio de Janeiro in the Portuguese language and corresponding literature by the UNESA; specialist in education by Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University , specialist in planning, implementation and management of distance education by the Universidade Federal Fluminense, Professor of Language Studies and master's degree by the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, a researcher with dedication by the CNPq, Marcelo is also a literary crit...

#10511

Derek Holman

#182181

Overall Influence

1931 - 2019 (88 years)

Derek Holman, was a choral conductor, organist and composer. Life and work Born at Illogan, Cornwall, UK, Holman attended the Royal Academy of Music from 1948 to 1952 and studied with Sir William McKie, Eric Thiman and York Bowen. He held the degree of Doctor of Music from the University of London and was a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal School of Church Music and the Royal College of Organists. He was an instructor in the Royal Army Educational Corps with the British Army of the Rhine from 1952 to 1954, master at Westminster Abbey Choir School from 1954 to 1956, assistant o...

#10512

Ana María Fernández Planas

#186198

Overall Influence

1968 - 2021 (53 years)

Ana María Fernández Planas was a Spanish philologist and phonetician from Catalonia. Biography Ana Maria Fernández Planas was born in Blanes on 16 October 1968. After earning a doctorate in linguistics from the University of Barcelona , she began her research in the field of articulatory phonetics in Spanish and Catalan. In 1984, she became coordinator of the journal . She was a professor of linguistics at UB, and in 1998 she became the technical manager of its Phonetics Laboratory. In 2018, she received the Antoni Caparrós Award from the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation and UB for best knowledge t...

#10513

Kristin Merscher

#136247

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Kristin Merscher is a German classical pianist and professor at the Hochschule für Musik Saar in Saarbrücken, Germany. Life Born in Frankfurt, Merscher began her studies at age eight with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hannover. From 1977, she continued her studies at the Conservatoire de Paris with Pierre Sancan and with György Sebők at the Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana. She has performed with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and the Munich Philharmonic, and gave solo performances throughout Europe, North America, and in the Far East.

#10514

Henry Mollicone

Henry Mollicone

#175026

Overall Influence

1946 - 2022 (76 years)

Henry Mollicone was an American composer and musical instructor. He died on May 12, 2022, following a lengthy illness. At the time of his death, his home was in Saratoga, California. The Washington Post called him "one of the most distinctive American opera composers".

#10515

Leslie Grace

#177160

Overall Influence

1995 - Present (31 years)

Leslie Grace Martínez is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. For her work as a singer, she has received three Latin Grammy Award nominations. She starred as Nina Rosario in Jon M. Chu's film adaptation In the Heights .

#10516

Kaizo Hayashi

#129333

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Kaizo Hayashi is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He made his directorial debut with To Sleep so as to Dream . He is best known for his neo-noir Maiku Hama trilogy, The Most Terrible Time in My Life , Stairway to the Distant Past and The Trap . In addition to film, Hayashi served as creative director on the 2000 Konami video game 7 Blades for the PlayStation 2, and was director for two episodes of Power Rangers: Time Force.

#10517

Arthur Kreutz

#182512

Overall Influence

1906 - 1991 (85 years)

Arthur R. Kreutz was an American composer. Life and career Kreutz was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin. His paternal grandparents Frank R. Kreutz and Paulina Zahradníková were born in the Czech village Pístina. Arthur's second cousin was the composer Robert E. Kreutz.

#10518

Patrick Williams

#172621

Overall Influence

1939 - 2018 (79 years)

Patrick Moody Williams was an American composer, arranger, and conductor who worked in many genres of music, and in film and television. Biography Born in Missouri, Williams grew up in Connecticut and received a degree in history from Duke University, where he directed the student-run jazz big band, known as the Duke Ambassadors, from 1959 to 1961. Since music was always his first love, he went on to Columbia University to study music composition and conducting, where his passion became his profession. He quickly became busy as an arranger in New York; he moved to California in 1968 to pursue...

#10519

Sami Rintala

#68392

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Sami Rintala is a Finnish architect and artist. He studied architecture at Helsinki University of Technology, completing his studies in 1999. Rintala’s own work is based on narrative and conceptualism. The resulting work is a layered interpretation of the physical, mental and poetic resources of the site.

#10520

Renée Mauborgne

#186225

Overall Influence

#10521

Renato D'Aiello

Renato D'Aiello

#184061

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Renato D'Aiello is an Italian saxophonist who lives in the United Kingdom. Albums Like Someone in Love was recorded with Damon Brown and features seven songs, among them well-known titles like Like Someone in Love and I Remember You.

#10522

James Coe

#124184

Overall Influence

1917 - 2003 (86 years)

Herbert James Bowkett Coe was a New Zealand artist, art teacher, industrial designer and early champion of ergonomic design. Biography Coe was born in Timaru in 1917. He attended the Canterbury College of Fine Art until his art studies were interrupted by World War II and war service in the Pacific.

#10523

Abel Ehrlich

#169025

Overall Influence

1915 - 2003 (88 years)

Abel Ehrlich was an Israeli composer. In 1997, Ehrlich won the Israel Prize for Music. Biography Erlich was born in 1915 in Cranz, East Prussia. In 1934 he and his family fled from Nazi Germany to Yugoslavia and pursued music studies in Zagreb. He left Yugoslavia in 1939 and, after a short stay in Albania, immigrated to Mandatory Palestine.

#10524

Joyce Castle

#175718

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Joyce Castle is an American mezzo-soprano who has had an active opera career for the last four decades. She earned degrees in music from The University of Kansas and the Eastman School of Music. She made her professional opera debut in 1970 at the San Francisco Opera as Siebel in Charles Gounod's Faust. In 1984 she became the first woman to portray Mrs. Lovett in an operatic staged production of Sweeney Todd at the Houston Grand Opera. She spent seven years performing with opera companies in France during the 1970s, after which her career has mainly been spent performing with opera companies throughout the United States.

#10525

Jason Richardson

Jason Richardson

#125481

Overall Influence

1991 - Present (35 years)

Jason Richardson is an American guitarist. He is known for his work as a guitarist in both Born of Osiris and Chelsea Grin. He currently works as both a solo artist and as an official member of All That Remains.

#10526

Oscar Ravina

#185942

Overall Influence

1930 - 2010 (80 years)

Oscar Ravina , born in Warsaw, Poland, was a violinist, violin teacher and concertmaster based in New York, who has had a prolific career as a performer as well as being a current professor emeritus at Montclair State University, where a talent grant in his name is regularly given to outstanding full-time freshmen studying string instruments.

#10527

Dary John Mizelle

#182598

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Dary John Mizelle is an American composer of avant-garde classical and jazz music. Life and career Mizelle studied trombone as well as composition and while at U.C. Davis participated in the New Music Ensemble . He was an original member of the group that founded Source: Music of the Avant Garde magazine. His mentors include: Larry Austin, Richard Swift, Jerome Rosen, Karlheinz Stockhausen, David Tudor, Roger Reynolds, Robert Erickson, Pauline Oliveros, and Kenneth Gaburo.

#10528

Itamar Golan

#174362

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Itamar Golan , born 3 August 1970 in Vilnius, Lithuania, is an Israeli pianist. He emigrated to Israel with his parents at the age of one. He studied piano with Lara Vodovoz and Emmanuel Krazovsky and gave his first recital at the age of seven.

#10529

John Blake Jr.

#179813

Overall Influence

1947 - 2014 (67 years)

John Edward Blake Jr. was an American jazz violinist from South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. He performed most prominently as a sideman in groups led by Grover Washington Jr. and McCoy Tyner , as well as led his own groups.

#10530

Heidi Thomson

#180305

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Heidi Thomson is a New Zealand academic, a full professor of English at the Victoria University of Wellington. Academic career After an undergraduate at the University of Ghent and a 1990 PhD titled 'The poetic self in the English ode, 1740–1820' at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Thomson moved to Victoria University of Wellington, rising to full professor.

#10531

Robert Kelly

#181973

Overall Influence

1916 - 2007 (91 years)

J. Robert Kelly was an American composer, composition teacher, and violinist. Kelly began studying violin at six with Albert Kember and later majored in violin at the Juilliard School of Music under Samuel Gardner. Kelly earned his Bachelor of Music Degree from the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied composition with Rosario Scalero. After earning his Bachelor's degree and some time teaching junior college, Kelly begin teaching at the University of Illinois . Later on Kelly continued his studies at the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Herbert Elwell and earned his Maste...

#10532

Rudy Ray Moore

#160597

Overall Influence

1927 - 2008 (81 years)

Rudolph Frank Moore , known as Rudy Ray Moore, was an American comedian, singer, actor, and film producer. He created the character Dolemite, the pimp from the 1975 film Dolemite and its sequels, The Human Tornado and The Dolemite Explosion . The persona was developed during his early comedy records. The recordings often featured Moore delivering profanity-filled rhyming poetry, which later earned Moore the nickname "the Godfather of Rap." Actor and comedian Eddie Murphy portrayed Moore in the 2019 film Dolemite Is My Name.

#10533

Rob Schneiderman

#169346

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Robert Roland "Rob" Schneiderman is an American jazz pianist who also works as a professor of mathematics at Lehman College of the City University of New York, where he specializes in geometric topology.

#10534

Michael Capobianco

#111031

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Michael Victor Capobianco is an American science fiction writer. Capobianco wrote four novels jointly with William Barton. The books were published during the 1990s. The books address themes such as the Cold War, space travel, and space opera.

#10535

Luke Laird

#88324

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Luke Robert Laird is an American country music songwriter and producer. He has written over 20 number one Billboard singles, including Carrie Underwood's "So Small", "Temporary Home", and "Undo It"; Blake Shelton's "Gonna"; Sara Evans' "A Little Bit Stronger"; Rodney Atkins's "Take a Back Road"; Eric Church's "Drink in My Hand", "Give Me Back My Hometown", and "Talladega"; Little Big Town's "Pontoon"; Luke Bryan's "I See You" and "Fast"; Thomas Rhett's "T-Shirt"; Kenny Chesney's "American Kids"; Lady Antebellum's "Downtown"; and Jon Pardi's "Head Over Boots." He has also written and produced ...

#10536

David Ward-Steinman

#163417

Overall Influence

1936 - 2015 (79 years)

David Ward-Steinman was an American composer and professor. He was the author of Toward a Comparative Structural Theory of the Arts, and co-authored Comparative Anthology of Musical Forms. Ward-Steinman spent his remaining days dividing his time between San Diego State University and Indiana University in Bloomington. He was formerly Composer-in-Residence and Professor of Music at San Diego State, and then became Distinguished Professor of Music Emeritus there, and also an Adjunct Professor of Music at Indiana, where he taught in the spring.

#10537

Tom Simpson

#135593

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Tom Simpson is a Scottish DJ and musician, best known as the former keyboardist of the alternative rock band Snow Patrol. Having been with Snow Patrol as a touring member since 1996, he became a permanent member in 2005, before leaving in August 2013.

#10538

Olga Scheps

#169217

Overall Influence

1986 - Present (40 years)

Olga Scheps is a German pianist, who currently resides in Cologne, Germany. Biography 1986–2001: Early life and career beginnings Scheps was born on 4 January 1986, in Moscow and came to Germany at the age of six. Influenced by the musical surroundings of her family, especially of her father Ilja Scheps she began piano lessons at the age of four.

#10539

Dennis Hayslett

#133174

Overall Influence

Dennis Hayslett is an American music educator, conductor, and performer, with a particular focus upon the Concert Band and Jazz idioms. Career Dennis Hayslett was formerly Director of Bands at Eastern Illinois University where he taught conducting, instrumental music education, and guided the Graduate Degree Program in Wind Conducting. Dr. Hayslett held similar positions on the faculties of The University of Toledo, Kent State University, and Western New Mexico University, and has directed both concert and marching bands at the college level, as well as teaching numerous graduate and undergraduate music courses.

#10540

David Johnson

#180579

Overall Influence

1942 - 2009 (67 years)

Dr David Charles Johnson was a Scottish composer and a scholar of 18th century Scottish music. Johnson was "an internationally recognised scholar", whose work did much to rediscover and reinvent 18th century Scottish music, and set it in its historical context. Johnson’s work concentrated on the music and wider social life of 18th century lowland Scotland, its influences and tastes, and the key musical figures within it.

#10541

Jay Clayton

#178050

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Judith Colantone, known as Jay Clayton, is an American avant-garde jazz vocalist and educator. Early life and education Clayton, was born in Youngstown, Ohio, in 1941. From a young age, Clayton would pick up different jazz standards, and eventually learned to play the accordion. As she grew, she picked up piano and received lessons for a number of years. After graduating high school, Clayton spent the following summer at the St. Louis Institute of Music, a formerly accredited music college in Missouri. First in her family to enroll in college, Clayton attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

#10542

Beena Sarwar

#172754

Overall Influence

Beena Sarwar is a Pakistani journalist, artist and filmmaker focusing on human rights, gender, media and peace. She resides in Boston and is currently Editor of the Aman ki Asha initiative, that aims to develop peace between the countries of India and Pakistan. The initiative is jointly sponsored by the Jang group in Pakistan and the Times of India across the border. In March 2021, she founded the Southasia Peace Action Network or Sapan along with other peace activists from across South Asia. In August 2022, Sapan informally launched Sapan News Network, a news and features syndicated service in the making.

#10543

Easley Blackwood Jr.

#177220

Overall Influence

1933 - 2023 (90 years)

Easley R. Blackwood Jr. was an American professor of music, concert pianist, composer , and the author of books on music theory, including his research into the properties of microtonal tunings and traditional harmony.

#10544

Kirsten Zickfeld

#164672

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Kirsten Zickfeld is a German climate physicist who is now based in Canada. She is a member of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and was one of the authors on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C .Zickfeld completed a Master of Science degree in physics at the Free University of Berlin in 1998, followed by a doctorate in physics at the University of Potsdam in 2004.[7]

#10545

Anno Schreier

#182410

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (47 years)

Anno Schreier is a German composer. Works Der Herr Gevatter .Kein Ort. Nirgends . Opera after Christa Wolf.Wunderhorn . Song cycleHinter Masken Die Stadt der Blinden . Opera after the novel by José Saramago.Hamlet . Premiere at Theater an der WienSchade, dass sie eine Hure war . Opera after John Ford.Turing, two-act opera with libretto by Georg Holzer. Premiere 26 November 2022 at the Nürnberg Staatstheater, conducted by Guido Johannes Rumstadt with Martin Platz in the title role.

#10546

Joseph de Pasquale

#178345

Overall Influence

1919 - 2015 (96 years)

Joseph de Pasquale was an American violist. Career Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Joseph de Pasquale was a student of Louis Bailly, Max Aronoff and William Primrose at the Curtis Institute of Music. He was the principal violist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1947 to 1964, and then, at the request of Eugene Ormandy, principal violist of the Philadelphia Orchestra until 1995. At a certain point, three of his brothers played with him in the Philadelphia Orchestra, with three of the brothers boasting first desk seatings.

#10547

John Murphy

#155501

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

John Murphy is a British film composer. He is a self-taught multi-instrumental musician who began his career in the 1980s, working with The Lotus Eaters, Thomas Lang, and Claudia Brücken. He has collaborated with directors Danny Boyle, Guy Ritchie, Michael Mann, Matthew Vaughn, Stephen Frears, and James Gunn. His awards include the Silver Award at the Cannes Film Festival, a British D&AD Award, and a BMI Award.

#10548

Yuri Karash

#132607

Overall Influence

1963 - 2017 (54 years)

Yuri Yurevich Karash was a Russian space policy expert and journalist. Academic background In 1990, Karash was one of the finalists in the Soviet Journalist-in-Space project and a candidate for space flight. In 1992, while already having a Russian Candidate of Sciences degree, he graduated from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C., with Masters of International Public Policy degree. The same year he was accepted for PhD training at the School of International Service in the American University in Washington, D.C. Durin...

#10549

Françoise Barrière

#185735

Overall Influence

1944 - 2019 (75 years)

Françoise Barrière was a French editor, writer and composer. Life Françoise Barrière was born in Paris and studied at the Conservatoire de Versailles and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris. She continued her studies in ethnomusicology at the Ecole Pratique de Hautes Etudes. Barrière worked at the Service de la Recherche, ORTF, and in 1970 became co-founder and director of the International Institute of Electroacoustic Music of Bourges with Christian Clozier.

#10550

Kōji Ueno

#159390

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Kōji Ueno is a Japanese composer, musician, arranger and keyboardist. He is noted for his unique style of music. He graduated from Nihon University's department of music at its faculty of art, and in 1978, began his career in music with his first music ensemble, 8&1/2, after which he worked with the group Halmens between 1979 and 1981. In 1980, Ueno formed the musical group Guernica, noted for its unique form of avant garde music, along with vocalist Jun Togawa and lyricist Keichi Ohta.

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