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#11101

Ruth-Margret Pütz

#183438

Overall Influence

1931 - 2019 (88 years)

Ruth-Margret Pütz was a German operatic coloratura soprano and an academic voice teacher. She was a member of the Staatsoper Stuttgart for many decades, a frequent guest at the Vienna State Opera, and appeared at other major international opera houses and festivals. One of her signature roles was Konstanze in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail. She is regarded as one of the leading coloratura sopranos of the 1960s.

#11102

Anna Bofill Leví

Anna Bofill Leví

#148200

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Anna Bofill Leví is a Catalan Spanish pianist, architect and composer. Life Anna Bofill Leví was born on 25 April 1944 in Barcelona, Spain, daughter of Catalan Emilio Bofill y Benessat, and Maria Levi, a Venetian of Jewish origin. Her brother is the also architect Ricardo Bofill. She has two daughters and is married to María Cinta Montagut, a Spanish female writer.

#11103

Günther Leib

#177365

Overall Influence

1927 - Present (99 years)

Günther Leib is a German operatic baritone and professor of voice. A Kammersänger of the Dresden State Opera, he sang leading baritone roles both in his native Germany and internationally during the course of his stage career. In 1971 he was awarded the Robert Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau and in 2017 on the occasion of his 90th birthday the "Gotha-Medaille" , honoring him for his international career as "Gotha's most famous voice". He appears in a number of complete opera and oratorio recordings on the Eterna, Supraphon, and Deutsche Grammophon labels.

#11104

David Deveau

#187193

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

David Deveau is an American classical pianist. Born in Concord, Massachusetts, he has appeared as soloist with the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops Orchestras, the San Francisco, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Minnesota, Houston, Miami, Pacific and Portland Symphony Orchestras.

#11105

Peter Behrens

#185594

Overall Influence

1947 - 2016 (69 years)

Peter Behrens was a German musician and actor, best known as the drummer of the 1980s pop group Trio. Life Peter Behrens was the illegitimate son of an American GI, and was put up for adoption by his biological mother. He was adopted by the Behrens family, where he grew up in northern Germany. After graduating from high school in Jaderberg, he studied at a college nearby, but quit a short while later.

#11106

Raymond Warren

#181849

Overall Influence

1928 - Present (98 years)

Raymond Henry Charles Warren is a British composer and university teacher. He studied at Cambridge, and taught at Queen's University Belfast, where he was the first person in the UK to be given a personal chair in composition in 1966, before becoming Hamilton Harty Professor of Music in 1969. He was Stanley Hugh Badock Professor of Music at the University of Bristol from 1972 until his retirement in 1994.

#11107

Walt Weiskopf

#140483

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Walt Weiskopf is an American jazz saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, author and educator. He has released sixteen albums as a leader, and performed on countless other albums as a sideman. He has collaborated with artists such as Buddy Rich, Frank Sinatra and Steely Dan.

#11108

András Cser

#186880

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

András Cser is a Hungarian linguist and Professor of Theoretical Linguistics at Pázmány Péter Catholic University. He is the editor-in-chief of Acta Linguistica Academica. Cser is known for his works on phonology.

#11109

Elio Villafranca

#187431

Overall Influence

Elio Villafranca is a Cuban jazz pianist and composer. He was born in the Cuban province of Pinar del Río, and studied in the faculty of music of the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana. He worked on Things I Wanted to do by Chembo Corniel, which was nominated for Best Latin Jazz Album at the 2010 Grammy Awards; his album Cinque was nominated in 2020. In 2014 he received the first JALC Millennium Swing Award. He teaches at the Manhattan School of Music, at Temple University, and at the Juilliard School of Music, where he specializes in jazz ensemble.

#11110

Diane Whitehouse

#138915

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Diane Whitehouse is a Canadian painter, professor and art activist. Education In 1962, Whitehouse earned her NDD at the Birmingham College of Art, and in the 1980s did post-graduate work at Bergen Kunsthåndverkskole, Norway. She became a Canadian citizen in 1972.

#11111

Gerhild Romberger

#174718

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Gerhild Romberger is a German mezzo-soprano and contralto concert singer. Career Born in Sögel, Germany, Romberger studied music pedagogy at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold, and then voice with Heiner Eckels. She graduated in 1990 with the artistic diploma and took the concert exam in 1992. She took master classes with Hartmut Höll, Annie Schoonus, and Mitsuko Shirai.

#11112

Rita Kuczynski

#88971

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Rita Kuczynski is a German author, philosopher and editorialist. Life Rita Kuczynski was born in Neidenburg, Masuren. She grew up in East and West Berlin and studied music from 1956 to 1962. She undertook a master's in piano at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. From 1965 to 1970, she studied philosophy at the University of Leipzig and the University of Berlin. In 1971, she became an assistant at the Institute for Philosophy in the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin. In the following year, she married Thomas Kuczynski. She received the Promotion A from the Academy in 1975, with a doctorate on Hegel.

#11113

Eric W. Sawyer

#186020

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Eric W. Sawyer is an American orchestral composer, pianist and professor of music at Amherst College. He has studied as an undergraduate at Harvard College, where he was selected as a Harvard Junior Fellow. He undertook graduate studies at both Columbia University and the University of California, Davis . Before taking up the position at Amherst, Sawyer spent four years as Chair of Composition and Theory at the Longy School of Music.

#11114

Felix Chen

#173728

Overall Influence

1942 - 2018 (76 years)

Felix Chen or Chen Chiu-sen was a Taiwanese conductor and violinist. He was resident conductor and music director of the Taipei Symphony Orchestra from 1986 until his dismissal in 2003. He taught both Chien Wen-pin, musical director of the Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra from 2001 to 2007; and the same orchestra's current maestro, Lü Shao-chia.

#11115

Henry Woronicz

#158459

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Henry Woronicz is an American actor, director, and producer who served as the artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival from 1991 to 1995. He was an actor and resident director there starting in 1984. In addition to his work at OSF, he has acted and directed in many other theaters, and has extensive film and TV credits.

#11116

Don Smithers

#168520

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Don LeRoy Smithers is an American music historian and performer on natural trumpet and cornetto. He is a pioneer for the revival of the authentic, uncompromised natural trumpet. Biography After studying at Hofstra University, New York University, Columbia University and Merton College, Oxford, where he was awarded a D. Phil. in the history of music in 1967, Smithers became associate professor at Syracuse University and, thereafter, Docent for the History of Music and Musical Performance at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague in 1975.

#11117

Kathleen McGuire

#181929

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Dr. Kathleen Alison McGuire is a choral and orchestral conductor, arranger, composer, music educator, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist. Known also for her work with social justice and human rights organizations, from 2000 to 2010 she served as the first female artistic director and conductor of the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus – the world's first openly gay choral organization – and in 2010 she established Singers of the Street: a choir of people affected by homelessness in San Francisco. She became a US citizen in 2011 and, in 2013, returned to Australia to serve as director of music at Queen's College and co-artistic director of the School of Hard Knocks.

#11118

Detlef Kraus

#170963

Overall Influence

1919 - 2008 (89 years)

Detlef Kraus was a German pianist. He was an internationally known interpreter of the music of Johannes Brahms. Born in Hamburg, Kraus gave his first concert at the age of 16, playing The Well-Tempered Clavier of Johann Sebastian Bach. His later emphasis was on Brahms, together with conductors like Ferenc Fricsay, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Eugen Jochum, Hans Knappertsbusch, Joseph Keilberth, Kurt Masur, Wolfgang Sawallisch, and Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, performing in New York City, Tokyo, London, and Berlin.

#11119

David Daniels

#183323

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

David Daniels is an American countertenor. He was one of the most prominent classical stars to face criminal charges during the MeToo movement and plead guilty to sexual assault in 2023. Youth Daniels was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, the son of two singing teachers. He began to sing as a boy soprano, moving to tenor as his voice matured. His father, baritone Perry Daniels, was one of the pre-eminent members of the performing faculty during each summer at Brevard Music Center, linked to the School of Music at Converse College in Spartanburg; his mother was an operatic soprano. Daniels studied music at the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music.

#11120

Ioseb Bardanashvili

#171642

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Ioseb Bardanashvili is an Israeli and Georgian composer. His works span classical to contemporary composition for film. Biographical information A graduate [1975] with a DMus in composition. from the Music Academy of Tbilisi having studied from the tutelage of Alexander Shaverzashvili and Head of the Musical Academy at Batovei. Bardanashvili held office as Deputy Culture Minister of the autonomous region Adjaria in Georgia in 1993-94 Since 1995 he has lived in Israel and there became also active as a painter of art having exhibited in his country of birth and also Israel.

#11121

Michal Aviad

#178780

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Michal Aviad is an Israeli director, script writer, producer and senior lecturer at the Department of Cinema and Television, Tel Aviv University. Biography Michal Aviad was born in Jerusalem in 1955. Her mother was an immigrant from Italy and her father an immigrant from Hungary. She graduated in literature and philosophy from Tel Aviv University. In 1984, she received a Master of Film from San Francisco State University. Between 1981 and 1990 she lived and worked in San Francisco where she made her first film. She is a senior lecturer at the department of Cinema and Television at Tel Aviv University.

#11122

David Atkinson

#184633

Overall Influence

1921 - 2012 (91 years)

David Anthony Stuart Atkinson was a Canadian baritone and New York Broadway actor/singer. Most of his career was spent performing in musicalss and operettas in New York City from the late 1940s through the early 1970s, although he did appear in some operas and made a few television appearances. In 1952 he created the role of Sam in the world premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti. From 1956-1962 he was a leading performer at the New York City Opera where he starred in several musicals and appeared in the world premieres of several English language operas. His greatest success on th...

#11123

Valeriy Syutkin

Valeriy Syutkin

#139155

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Valeriy Miladovich Syutkin is a Russian singer and musician, best known as the vocalist and songwriter for the rock-n-roll band "Bravo". Syutkin is an Honored Artist of Russia , and a professor of vocals and artistic director of the Pop Music Department of M.A. Sholokhov MGGU. He is also a board member of the Russian Authors Society.

#11124

Maxim Fedotov

#181435

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Maxim Viktorovich Fedotov is a Russian violinist and conductor, People's Artist of Russia, son of the conductor Viktor Fedotov. Fedotov studied at the Special Music School in Leningrad and then at the Moscow Conservatory. As well as his career as a soloist, he has also been chief conductor of the Russian Symphony Orchestra , artistic director and chief conductor of the Moscow City Symphony Orchestra – Russian Philharmonic Orchestra from 2006 until December 2010, professor of the Moscow Conservatory since 1987, and professor and head of Department of Violin and Viola of the Gnessin-Academia of...

#11125

David Hickman

#181615

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

David Hickman is an American trumpeter, author, academic, and is widely considered one of the preeminent trumpet virtuosi of the 20th century. He is a Regents' Professor of trumpet at Arizona State University and past President of the International Trumpet Guild.

#11126

Khodzhakuli Narliev

#158152

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Hojaguly Narliyev , also known as Khodzhakuli Narliev, is a Turkmen film director, actor, screenwriter, and producer, and the first secretary of the Film Union of Turkmenistan. Narliev graduated from Moscow's Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in 1960. His first film of note was working with director Bulat Mansurov on The Competition in 1963, a notable film in the development of Turkmen national cinema. He garnered critical acclaim for his 1972 film Nevestka which is considered to be "the film that put Turkmen film on the map" and the most important film in Turkmen cinema. Narliyev's mov...

#11127

Carl Henry

#172940

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Carl Henry is a Canadian R&B singer born in Jamaica and raised in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His 2002 debut album RNB, earned him his first Juno nomination in 2003 for Best R&B/Soul recording of the Year. He released a French-language version of the album titled Solution RNB. After touring and promoting the French version the album, he released three singles: "Homie's Girl", dancehall hit "Bare As She Dare" , and "Hot Gal" . The three singles also received Juno nominations.

#11128

Ada Gentile

#179115

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Ada Gentile is an Italian pianist and composer. Life Ada Gentile was born in Avezzano and attended the Conservatorio di St. Cecilia in Rome, graduating in piano and composition. She then completed a graduate degree at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia with Goffredo Petrassi. She has lectured at Northwestern University, Juilliard School, Wayne State University, Columbia University, the University of Chicago and the University of California, Berkeley in the United States and also widely in Europe and Asia. She was Deputy Director of St. Cecilia Conservatory from 1999 to 2005, and has been instrumental in organizing a number of music festivals.

#11129

John Young

#121095

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

John Young is an electroacoustic music composer born March 4, 1962, in Christchurch, New Zealand, and currently living in Leicester, UK. He studied at the University of Canterbury, completing a doctorate on the manipulation of environmental sound sources in electroacoustic music. In 1989, with the assistance of the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council of New Zealand , he travelled to the UK to further his studies of electroacoustic music composition working privately in the studios of the University of East Anglia with Denis Smalley.

#11130

Gleb Axelrod

#185008

Overall Influence

1923 - 2003 (80 years)

Gleb Borisovich Axelrod was a Russian pianist. He was a disciple of Grigory Ginzburg. Axelrod won, ex-aequo with Marina Slesaryeva, the II piano edition of the Prague Spring Festival Competition . In 1955, he obtained a 4th prize at the Concours Long-Thibaud, and two years later he placed second at the inaugural Vianna da Motta Competition. He subsequently held a professorship at the Moscow Conservatory.

#11131

Rocco Filippini

Rocco Filippini

#182114

Overall Influence

1943 - 2021 (78 years)

Rocco Filippini was a Swiss classical cellist. Biography and musical career The son of Felice Filippini, a painter, writer and broadcaster, and Dafne Salati, a pianist, Rocco Filippini began his musical training at an early age. Of decisive importance was his meeting with Pierre Fournier who became his teacher along with Professor Franz Walter of the Geneva Conservatory. It was from the Geneva Conservatory that Rocco Filippini received his diploma at the age of 17, being awarded the Premier Prix de Virtuosité, an accolade not given for the previous 36 years. He continued to perfect his playing with his teachers, who came to include the violinist Corrado Romano.

#11132

Marzette Watts

#182123

Overall Influence

1938 - 1998 (60 years)

Marzette Watts was an American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist. He performed and recorded on bass clarinet as well. He had a brief career in music and is revered for his 1966 self-titled free jazz release. He was known also as a sound engineer.

#11133

Sonja L. Lanehart

#184999

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Sonja L. Lanehart is an American linguist and professor of linguistics in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Arizona who has advanced the study of language use in the African American community. Her work as a researcher, author, and editor includes African American English, education, literacy, identity, language variation, women's languages, intersectionality, and inclusivity within the African American community. Lanehart's sociolinguistic orientation prioritizes language as a phenomenon influenced by sociocultural and historical factors. She also utilizes the perspectives of Critical Race Theory and Black feminism in her work.

#11134

Lindsay Shilling

#186249

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Lindsay Shilling is Principal Trombone at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden alongside Eric Crees. Prior to his appointment in 2005 he was Principal Trombone at the London Philharmonic Orchestra for seven years and Sub-Principal Trombone of the London Symphony Orchestra for the 1994/5 season. He is also Principal Trombone for London Brass.

#11135

Jon Kimura Parker

#148863

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Jon Kimura Parker is a Canadian pianist. Early life and education Jon Kimura Parker was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the son of Keiko Parker and John Parker. He began his studies with his uncle, Edward Parker, at the age of 4.

#11136

Brooke Medicine Eagle

#142279

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Brooke "Medicine Eagle" Edwards is an American author, singer/songwriter and teacher, specializing in her interpretations of Native American religions. She frequently teaches workshops at New Age and other events.

#11137

Thomas Carey

#179246

Overall Influence

1931 - 2002 (71 years)

Thomas Carey was an American operatic baritone. Born in Bennettsville, South Carolina, he served in the United States military during the Korean War. After leaving the service, he studied singing at the Henry Street Settlement and at City College of New York. In 1970, he performed the role of Mel in the world premiere of Michael Tippett's The Knot Garden at the Royal Opera House in London. He appeared in the second London West End revival of Show Boat in the role of Joe, which premiered in 1971. From 1969 until his death of pancreatic cancer in Norman, Oklahoma, he taught on the voice faculty...

#11138

Stanislav Heller

#177105

Overall Influence

1924 - 2000 (76 years)

Stanislav Heller was a harpsichordist and musicologist of Czech origin. Born in Brno, he studied piano with Vilém Kurz and organ with Bedřich Wiederman at the Prague Conservatoire. His family emigrated to South America after World War II and Stanislav Heller moved then to London in 1947 and later became a British subject. He started a career as a concert harpsichordist there and also toured with Rafael Kubelík. In 1968 he moved to Freiburg as Professor of harpsichord and early chamber music at the Hochschule für Musik.

#11139

Lorenz Duftschmid

#186750

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Lorenz Duftschmid is an Austrian viol player and conductor. Biography Born to a musical family, Duftschmid began studying music in an early age, and enjoyed the opportunity to learn from the great masters of the viol, such as Jordi Savall. He studied at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland.

#11140

Mar Elepano

#177351

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Mariano "Mar" Elepaño is a Filipino American independent filmmaker, teacher, and has been the production supervisor of the John C. Hench Division of Animation and Digital Arts, USC School of Cinematic Arts since 1993.

#11141

Eric Chasalow

#124262

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Eric David Chasalow is an American composer of acoustic and electronic music. He is currently chair of the Brandeis University Department of Music, and the Director of BEAMS, the Brandeis Electro-Acoustic Music Studio.

#11142

Ellen Thomas

#148325

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Ellen Thomas is a Sierra Leonean-British actress, known for her roles as Liz Webbe in the Channel 4 sitcom Teachers and Claudette Hubbard in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. Career In Teachers, Thomas played Liz Webbe, a school secretary, and appeared in all four series, from 2001 to 2004. She was a regular cast member in BBC Radio 4's Clare in the Community and in BBC Three's Coming of Age, in which she portrayed the principal. For her role in Rev, she was nominated for "Best TV Comedy Performance" at the Black International Film Festival and Music Video & Screen Awards.

#11143

Paul Phillips

#149351

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Paul James Phillips is an American guitar player and songwriter, most famous for being a member of the band Puddle of Mudd from 2001 to 2005 and again from 2009 to 2011. He has also played in the bands Happy Hour, Operator, Society Red and Rev Theory.

#11144

H. S. Krishnaswamy Iyengar

H. S. Krishnaswamy Iyengar

#89511

Overall Influence

1920 - 2008 (88 years)

Haleyuru Srinivasa Krishnaswamy Iyengar was a Kannada columnist, essayist, novelist, critic and teacher of Economics and Commerce studies in Mysore. He is remembered for his character sketches and short essays on personalities and issues of national & international import, in his weekly column "Varada Vyakthi" . These appeared in the Kannada magazine "Sudha" continuously for nearly two decades. His literary critique "Kannadadalli Vidambana Sahitya" won him the Kannada Sahitya Akademi Award in 1981. His perspective on elements of Vishistadvaita in the works of Kuvempu were brought forth in his book "Kuvempu Sahityadalli Vishistadvaita – Darshana".

#11145

Gabor Carelli

#181176

Overall Influence

1915 - 1999 (84 years)

Gabor Carelli was a Hungarian classical tenor who had an important career in operas and concerts in North America during the mid-20th century. He was notably committed to the Metropolitan Opera in New York City from 1951 to 1974 where he gave a total of 1,079 performances. Music critic Elizabeth Forbes stated that he had "a lyrical voice, a stylish technique and an aptitude for comedy." In 1964 he joined the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music, where he taught singing and worked as an ensemble instructor until his death in Manhattan at the age of 83.

#11146

Jörg Hofmann

#88897

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Jörg Hofmann is a German trade union leader. Born in Oppelsbohm, Hofmann studied agriculture, then went to university to study economics. He found work as a researcher at the Institute for Industrial Management at the University of Hohenheim. In 1982, he moved to work for the trade union IG Metall as an expert on new technologies.

#11147

Gwyneth Van Anden Walker

#179299

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Gwyneth Van Anden Walker is an American music educator and composer. Biography Walker was born in New York to a Quaker family and grew up in New Canaan, Connecticut. She began her first efforts at composition at an early age and went on to receive BA, MM and DMA degrees in Music Composition from Brown University and the Hartt School of Music, where she studied under Arnold Franchetti. She married composer David Burton on September 12, 1969; they divorced in 1974. She taught music for fourteen years at Hartt School of Music, the Hartford Conservatory and the Oberlin College Conservatory, and then moved to a dairy farm in Vermont and went to work as a full-time composer.

#11148

Lee Hyla

#177528

Overall Influence

1952 - 2014 (62 years)

Lee Hyla was an American classical music composer from Niagara Falls, New York. He received the Stoeger Prize from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the Goddard Lieberson Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the St. Botolph Club Award, and the Rome Prize. He taught at New England Conservatory from 1992 to 2007, serving as co-chair of the composition department for most of that time. In 2007, he was appointed the chair of music composition at Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music. Hi...

#11149

Kōsei Ono

#174134

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

is a Japanese film critic, cartoon critic, comic translator and overseas comic / animation researcher. Ono is the leading authority on the publication, research and introduction of overseas comics in Japan. From 1963 to 1974 he worked for NHK. He is a visiting professor in the Asia Department of Kokushikan University, a board member of the Japan Society for Studies in Manga and Comic Art, and a member of ASIFA JAPAN, the Japan Cartoonists Association, and the Japan Science Fiction Writer's Club.

#11150

Hiroshi Sato

#170749

Overall Influence

1947 - 2012 (65 years)

Hiroshi Sato was a Japanese singer-songwriter, born in Chiran, Kagoshima and raised in Kyoto. He was an influential keyboardist in the Japanese jazz fusion and soft rock scenes during the late 1970s and 1980s, later dubbed "city pop".

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