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Patrick Nunn
1969 - Present (57 years)
Patrick Nunn , is a British composer and educator. Biography Nunn read music at Dartington College of Arts studying under Frank Denyer between 1988 and 1991 taking additional tuition with Louis Andriessen at Dartington International Summer School and with Gary Carpenter at the Welsh College of Music and Drama. In 2004, he took his doctorate under Professor Simon Bainbridge at the Royal Academy of Music. He also received tuition under Jonathan Harvey, Tod Machover and Simon Emmerson.
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Albert Grenier
1939 - Present (87 years)
Joseph Jacques Albert Grenier is a Canadian pianist, academic, and university administrator. From 1979–1998 he was director of the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal . Life and career Grenier studied piano with Georges Savaria both privately and at the CMM from 1952–1957. After earning a bachelor's degree from the Université de Montréal in 1957, he pursued further studies with Jean Doyen and Vlado Perlemuter at the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1960 he was given honourable mention at the Maria Canals International Music Competition in Spain. From 1962–1964 he was a pupil in the gradua...
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Michael Hext
1961 - Present (65 years)
Michael Hext is a trombonist in the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. In 1978 he was the inaugural winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition. Career Michael Hext was educated at Bedford Modern School. In 1978, at the age of 17, he became the inaugural winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition. Following study at the Royal College of Music with John Iveson, Hext has become a successful orchestral trombonist but performs on occasions as a soloist, including a tour with the European Union Youth Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado. He has performed recitals an...
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Warwick Murray
1972 - Present (54 years)
Warwick Murray PhD, FNZGS, DNZG is a New Zealand and British academic and musician. Academic career Murray graduated from the University of Birmingham in 1993, where he also gained a PhD 1997. He has held academic posts at the University of the South Pacific, and Brunel University . He was appointed professor of human geography and development studies in 2010 at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, which he joined in 2001. He has held sabbatical posts as visiting professor in geography at Cambridge University and Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile as well as in Latin American studies at Oxford University .
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Oddvar Nes
1938 - 2016 (78 years)
Oddvar Nes was a Norwegian linguist. He became a research assistant at the University of Bergen in 1964, and was promoted to associate professor in 1973 and professor in 1987. His speciality is onomastics. He was a visiting scholar at University of Vienna from 1988 to 1989, and a member of Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy.
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Jay E. Welch
1925 - 2008 (83 years)
Jay Evard Welch was an American musician who was a music director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir , a longtime University of Utah professor, founder of the Mormon Youth Symphony and Chorus , Jay Welch Chorale and the Salt Lake Repertory Orchestra. He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Ronnie Barker
1929 - 2005 (76 years)
Ronald William George Barker was an English actor, comedian and writer. He was known for roles in British comedy television series such as Porridge, The Two Ronnies, and Open All Hours. Barker began acting in Oxford amateur dramatics while working as a bank clerk, having dropped out of higher education. He moved into repertory theatre with the Manchester Repertory Company at Aylesbury and decided he was best suited to comic roles. He had his first success at the Oxford Playhouse and in roles in the West End including Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound. During this period, he was in the cast of BBC radio and television comedies such as The Navy Lark.
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Ben Wendel
1976 - Present (50 years)
Ben Wendel is a grammy nominated jazz saxophonist, bassoonist, and pianist who is a founding member of the band Kneebody. He has worked with Ignacio Berroa, Tigran Hamasyan, Bill Frisell,Terence Blanchard, Antonio Sanchez, Gerald Clayton, Taylor Eigsti, Linda May Han Oh, Eric Harland, Moonchild, Louis Cole, Daedelus, Snoop Dogg and the artist formerly known as Prince
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Charles "Buddy" Rogers
1904 - 1999 (95 years)
Charles Edward "Buddy" Rogers was an American film actor and musician. During the peak of his popularity in the late 1920s and early 1930s, he was publicized as "America's Boyfriend". Life and career
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Chris Freeman
1961 - Present (65 years)
Chris Freeman is an American bassist and vocalist, best known as a member of the band Pansy Division. Early life Freeman was born in Seattle and attended Weatherwax High School in Aberdeen, Washington. At school, he got beaten up routinely and tried to hide his homosexuality. At age nineteen, Freeman was going to marry a girl that he played in a band with, before breaking it off and admitting he was gay.
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Allan M. Ramsay
1953 - Present (73 years)
Allan M. Ramsay is a Professor of Formal Linguistics in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. Education Ramsay's undergraduate degree was in Logic and Mathematics from the University of Sussex. After completing a Master of Science degree in Logic from the University of London, he returned to Sussex to complete a PhD in Artificial Intelligence. Prior to working at UMIST and the University of Manchester, he was Professor of Artificial Intelligence at University College Dublin.
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Bill Coon
1959 - Present (67 years)
Bill Coon is a Canadian jazz and composer. He is a Juno nominated artist and the winner of the 2009 National Jazz Awards, ‘Guitarist of the Year’. He is known for performing artists such as Miles Black and Jodi Proznick , Lonnie Smith, Brad Turner, Peter Bernstein, Bucky Pizzarelli, Ian McDougall, P. J. Perry, Sheila Jordan, Phil Dwyer, Peter Washington, and Oliver Gannon. His compositions and arrangements have been commissioned by large ensembles such as the CBC Radio Orchestra, John Korsrud's Hard Rubber Orchestra, and the Dal Richards Orchestra. He graduated from Concordia University with a...
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Kazuo Yamada
1912 - 1991 (79 years)
Kazuo Yamada was a Japanese conductor and composer. Birthday Born in Tokyo in 1912. Began studies at Gakushuin and then Tokyo University of the Arts . Studied piano with Leo Sirota and Paul Weingarten, and composition with Klaus Pringsheim, and graduated at the top of his class. Formed the orchestra 'Promethée' as a composer. In 1937 was awarded first prize from the Japan Broadcasting Corporation for his symphonic music works, and in 1938 was also awarded by the New Symphony Orchestra for his symphonic poem 'Songs that youth can sing' as well as the Weingarten Award for the symphonic 'Kiso'. S...
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Jim Walker
1944 - Present (82 years)
James Walker is an American flutist and educator. He is the former Principal Flute of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the founder of the jazz quartet Free Flight. Since 1984, he has focused most of his attention on jazz performance and flute pedagogy.
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Bradley Ellingboe
1958 - Present (68 years)
Bradley Ellingboe is an American composer, conductor, and bass-baritone singer. Biography Born in Lakeville, Minnesota, Ellingboe is a 1980 graduate of Saint Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, where he received a degree in Music Theory and Composition, studying with Kenneth and Carolyn Jennings. He then attended the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, graduating with degrees in Vocal Performance and Choral Conducting, where he studied with Jan DeGaetani and was a classmate of Renee Fleming and Gene Scheer. He has done additional study at the University of Oslo, the Aspen Music...
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Clyde Otis
1924 - 2008 (84 years)
Clyde Lovern Otis was an American songwriter and record producer, best known for his collaboration with singer Brook Benton, and for being one of the first African-American A&R executives at a major label.
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Kaori Iida
1981 - Present (45 years)
Kaori Iida is a Japanese pop singer and actress, associated with Hello! Project and best known as a founding member of the girl band Morning Musume. She has also recorded with the Morning Musume side project band Tanpopo and is currently a solo artist. During her time in the group, she was the tallest member , earning her the nickname "Kaorin" & "Kao-tan". She is currently a member of Dream Morning Musume.
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Billy Martin
1981 - Present (45 years)
Billy Martin is an American musician best known as the guitarist and keyboardist of the pop punk band Good Charlotte. Early life and career Martin joined Good Charlotte in 1999 after his disbanding his high school nu metal/grunge band, Overflow. From 2000-2009 Billy ran a clothing line called Level 27. The line featured Martin's gothic themed artwork and served as a stepping stone to his art career. Billy is an accomplished illustrator working for Disney, Marvel, Nickelodeon, Hasbro and many others. He wrote and Illustrated his own children's book titled Damious McDreary: A Boy and his Bat. H...
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Simona Bordoni
1972 - Present (54 years)
Simona Bordoni is an Italian climatologist and professor of environmental science and engineering who runs the Simona Bordoni Research Group at California Institute of Technology. She studies atmospheric dynamics, with a special emphasis on understanding the coupling between larger-scale circulations and the hydrological cycle.
Go to ProfileJos Boys is an architect, activist, educator, and writer. She was a founder member of Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative and co-author of their 1984 book Making Space: Women and the Man-Made Environment . Since 2008 she has been co-director of The DisOrdinary Architecture Project with disabled artist Zoe Partington, a disability-led platform that works with disabled artists to explore new ways to think about disability in architectural and design discourse and practice.
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Dito Godwin
1955 - Present (71 years)
Dito Godwin was an American record producer and executive, best known for his production works with Mötley Crüe, Peter Criss and Ace Frehley of Kiss, Great White, and more recently No Doubt, Kevin Carlberg, The Stick People and Kristy Lee Cook of American Idol.
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Lutz Mommartz
1934 - Present (92 years)
Lutz Mommartz is a German film director . Biography Lutz Mommartz moved with his parents to Düsseldorf in 1937. From 1952 to 1975 he worked at local government administration of Düsseldorf as an inspector. Since 1967, when he gave up painting, Lutz Mommartz began shooting 16mm films. In the same year, he won a world-famous filmpreis with his film "Selbstschüsse" at the international experimental film festival in Knokke-le-Zoute, Belgium. On 1 October 1975 he founded a film class at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Department of Kunsterzieher Münster. In 1977, he received the Federal Film Prize in silver for Beckett and 1978 the same for The Garden of Eden.
Go to ProfileArthur Grossman is an American bassoonist and professor of music. Education His primary teacher was Sol Schoenbach of the Curtis Institute of Music and he took chamber music classes with Marcel Tabuteau.
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Vincent McDermott
1933 - 2016 (83 years)
Vincent McDermott was a classically trained American composer and ethnomusicologist. His works show particular influence from the musics of South and Southeast Asia, particularly the gamelan music of Java. He was among the second generation of American composers to create and promote new compositions for gamelan.
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Craig Hella Johnson
1962 - Present (64 years)
Craig Hella Johnson is an American choral conductor, composer, and arranger. Life and career Craig Morris Johnson was born on June 15, 1962, in Crow Wing County, Minnesota to Morris Melvin Johnson and Marjorie Kathryn Johnson . He and one of his sisters adopted the middle name Hella, after the village in Norway that their family came from.
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Larry Franklin
1953 - Present (73 years)
Larry Franklin is an American Fiddler, mandolin and guitar player, session musician, and composer. His style embraces country, blues, rock and roll, jazz, and Western swing. Biography Early years Growing up in Whitewright, Texas, Franklin took up the fiddle at age 7. He was inspired by his father Louis Franklin and his great uncle Major Franklin, well-known Texas-style fiddlers. Franklin's first fiddler's contest, at age 7, was in Hale Center, Texas, on July 4, 1960, where he met famed fiddler Uncle Eck Robertson. He continued competing and winning championships through his teens and won th...
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Arthur Frackenpohl
1924 - 2019 (95 years)
Arthur Roland Frackenpohl was an American composer and Professor Emeritus at the Crane School of Music at the State University of New York at Potsdam. Frackenpohl was born in New Jersey. He held degrees from the Eastman School of Music and McGill University . In 1942, he was initiated into the Alpha Zeta Chapter of Theta Chi Fraternity at the University of Rochester. He studied composition at Tanglewood in 1948 with Darius Milhaud and with Nadia Boulanger at Fontainebleau in 1950, where he was awarded the First Prize in Composition. In 1949, Frackenpohl joined the faculty of the Crane School of Music at the State University of New York at Potsdam.
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Helmut Heinze
1932 - Present (94 years)
Helmut Heinze is a German sculptor. From 1979 to 1997 Heinze was professor for plastic arts at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. Life Heinze, son to a railwayman, was born in Mulda and raised in Dresden where he attended Volksschule and Oberschule. During his school time Heinze took drawing courses from Etha Richter.
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Alex Wilson
1971 - Present (55 years)
Alex Wilson is a British pianist, composer, producer, arranger, and educator. Biography Alex Wilson was born in the UK and was brought up in Sierra Leone, UK, Austria and Switzerland. In 1993, after gaining a degree in electronics from the University of York, he embarked on a professional career as a pianist, performing and recording with Courtney Pine, Jazz Jamaica, Sandra Cross, Adalberto Santiago and Jocelyn Brown, Wynton Marsalis, Hugh Masakela & Ernest Ranglin quickly being signed to the Candid label. He won the Rising Star award at the 2001 BBC Jazz Awards.
Go to ProfileVelvet Brown is an American tubist and euphonium player. She is currently a Distinguished Professor of Music at Pennsylvania State University, prior to which she taught at Bowling Green State University and Ball State University.
Go to ProfileJon Murray is the current head coach of the Texas Tech Red Raiders and Lady Raiders cross country teams. He was named Big 12 Women's Cross Country Coach of the Year in 2008, 2009, and 2010. External links Profile at Texas Tech AthleticsTexas Tech Cross Country
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Milada Blekastad
1917 - 2003 (86 years)
Milada Blekastad was a Norwegian literary historian. Personal life She was born in Prague. Her grandfather František Topič was one of the most prominent publishers in that town and often published Nordic literature; her father Jaroslav Topič was a publisher as well and her mother Milada Topičová was a translator. As a fifteen-year old, Milada Blekastad received an invitation from Gunnvor Krokann, wife of the writer Inge Krokann, to travel to Norway. There she met the artist Hallvard Blekastad whom she married in 1934. She was quick to learn nynorsk and spoke fluent Gausdal dialect, but she ...
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Karola Obermueller
1977 - Present (49 years)
Karola Obermueller is a German composer and teacher. Life Obermueller began her training at the Akademie für Tonkunst in Darmstadt. She studied composition with of the Meistersinger-Konservatorium and the Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg, Theo Brandmüller of the Hochschule für Musik Saar, and Adriana Hölszky of the Mozarteum Salzburg. In 2010, she completed a doctorate at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she studied with Mario Davidovsky, Bernard Rands, Julian Anderson, Chaya Czernowin, Magnus Lindberg, and Harrison Birtwistle. She has taught at Wellesley College and the Young Composers Program at the Cleveland Institute of Music.
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Toula Limnaios
1963 - Present (63 years)
Toula Limnaios is a Greek choreographer, performer and, alongside a composer Ralf R. Ollertz, artistic director of cie. toula limnaios, a dance company based in HALLE TANZBÜHNE BERLIN. Biography After completing her studies in classical and modern dance, M. Alexander and Laban technique, music and dance education, she worked as a dancer with Claudio Bernardo and Régine Chopinot, and as an assistant with Pierre Droulers. Limnaios received further education at the Folkwang University of the Arts , where she studied together with Susanne Linke, Malou Airaudo, Jean Cébron, Lutz Förster and Dominique Mercy.
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Adam Schoenberg
1980 - Present (46 years)
Adam Schoenberg is an American composer. A member of the Atlanta School of Composers, his works have been performed by numerous orchestras and ensembles in the U.S. Schoenberg was the 2010-2012 guest composer for the Aspen Music Festival, the 2012-2013 composer-in-residence for the Kansas City Symphony, the 2013-2014 composer-in-residence for the Lexington Philharmonic, and the 2015-2017 composer-in-residence for the Fort Worth Symphony. Schoenberg's honors include a 2009 and 2010 MacDowell Colony fellowship, the 2007 Morton Gould Young Composer Award from ASCAP, and the 2006 Charles Ives Pri...
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B.J. Sullivan
1953 - Present (73 years)
Elizabeth Johnson Sullivan, known professionally as B.J. Sullivan, is an American dancer and choreographer and the founder of safety release technique in postmodern dance. Early life and education Elizabeth Johnson Sullivan began her dance training in classical ballet and modern dance with Sandy Stramonine in Walworth, New York. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from The Juilliard School and her Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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Noel Burton-Roberts
1948 - Present (78 years)
Noel Burton-Roberts is a British linguist and Emeritus Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University. He is known for work ranging over general and English linguistics: architecture of language, semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, and English grammar.
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Jorge Liderman
1957 - 2008 (51 years)
Jorge Mario Liderman was an Argentine-born American composer. He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003 to partially fund a new work for Duo46 titled Aires de Sefarad: 46 Spanish Songs for Violin and Guitar. Jorge went on to compose a second set of 46 songs for Duo46 titled Aires de Sefarad II shortly before his untimely death in 2008. He taught composition at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Giedrius Kuprevičius
1944 - Present (82 years)
Giedrius Antanas Kuprevičius is a Lithuanian composer and music educator. Life Giedrius Kuprevičius graduated from Prof. Eduardas Balsys' composition class at the Lithuanian Academy of Music in 1968. From 1966 to 1975 he taught at the Juozas Gruodis Higher School of Music; he was also head of music faculties at both the Lithuanian Agricultural, and Kaunas Technology University, taught acting courses at the Vilnius University, and organized a music improvisation course at the Kaunas Faculty of the Lithuanian Academy of Music. He taught at the Art Faculty of Vytautas Magnus University during 19...
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Guy Braunstein
1971 - Present (55 years)
Guy Braunstein is an Israeli-American conductor and classical violinist. Born in Tel Aviv, Israel, he began to study the violin at age seven. In Israel he studied under the guidance of Valeria Blotner and Haim Taub. In the United States under the guidance of Glenn Dicterow and Pinchas Zukerman.
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Trevor Barnard
1938 - Present (88 years)
Trevor John Barnard is a British-born Australian pianist and teacher. Life and career Trevor John Barnard was born in London in 1938. He entered the Royal Academy of Music at a young age, followed by private study with Herbert Fryer, a student of Tobias Matthay and Ferruccio Busoni. He later won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music and then studied intensively with Harold Craxton.
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Andrew Lawrence
1988 - Present (38 years)
Andrew James Lawrence is an American actor, singer, podcaster and filmmaker. He is known for his roles as Andy Roman in Brotherly Love and T.J. Detweiler in Recess. Outside of his acting and music career, Lawrence made his directorial debut with the 2020 film The Office Mix-Up.
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Yvonne Andersen
1932 - Present (94 years)
Yvonne Andersen is an American animated filmmaker, author, and teacher. She is most well known for co-creating the Yellow Ball Workshop with her husband, Dominic Falcone. The Yellow Ball Workshop was a school for both children and adults to learn about animation.
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Eli Kassner
1924 - 2018 (94 years)
Eli Kassner, was a Canadian classical guitar teacher and musician. Eli Kassner studied guitar in Vienna and Israel before moving to Canada in 1951. He also studied in the United States, Israel, and in Spain, under the great virtuoso classical guitarist, Andrés Segovia. He performed until 1967.
Go to ProfileWendy Loretto is the Dean and Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the University of Edinburgh Business School and an expert in later-life employment. Education Loretto holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Edinburgh. After graduation, she worked as a commercial manager at Marks & Spencer. For three years she worked at the Alcohol Research Group at the University of Edinburgh, where she received her PhD in research on the social and cultural aspects of illicit and legal drug use by young people.
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Eddie Miller
1911 - 1991 (80 years)
Edward Raymond Müller known professionally as Eddie Miller, was an American jazz musician who played tenor saxophone and clarinet. Early life Miller was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. In his early teens, Miller got a job selling newspapers, so he would be eligible for a newsboys' band.
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Phillip Barham
1957 - Present (69 years)
Phillip Wayne Barham is a classical and jazz saxophonist was the professor of saxophone at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee until October 2018. Biography Barham was born in Dowagiac, Michigan. He received a bachelor of music degree in woodwinds from the University of North Texas in 1982 and a master of music in woodwinds from the University of Michigan in 1983. He has previously served on the faculties of the California State University, Northridge, Andrews University, and Lake Michigan College. He has performed throughout the United States and Europe, and has concertized in Japan, as well.
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Miguel Grinberg
1937 - 2022 (85 years)
Miguel Grinberg was an Argentine writer, poet, and journalist. He died on 4 March 2022, at the age of 84.
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Xenia Jankovic
1958 - Present (68 years)
Xenia Jankovic is a Serbian-Russian cellist. Biography Jankovic was born in Niš Serbia into a Serbian–Russian family of musicians. The cello soon became her instrument of choice and she made her debut with the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of nine. A government scholarship allowed her to study at the Central Music School of the Moscow Conservatory with Stefan Kalianov and Mstislav Rostropovich. She then went on to study with Pierre Fournier and Guy Fallot in Geneva and with André Navarra in Detmold. Later on, intensive work with Sandor Végh and György Sebők led to a deepening of ...
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Christos Hatzis
1953 - Present (73 years)
Christos Hatzis is a Juno Award-winning Greek-Canadian composer. Many of his compositions are performed internationally, and he is a professor at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto. Early life and education Hatzis was born in Volos, Greece and received his early music instruction at the Volos branch of the Hellenic Conservatory. He continued his musical studies in the United States, first at the Eastman School of Music and later at the State University of New York at Buffalo . His composition teachers include Morton Feldman, Lejaren Hiller, Wlodzimierz Kotonski, Samuel Adler, Russe...
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