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#11201

Raymond Daveluy

#180872

Overall Influence

1926 - 2016 (90 years)

Joseph Eugène Raymond-Marie Daveluy was a Canadian composer, organist, music educator, and arts administrator. An associate composer of the Canadian Music Centre, his compositional output consisted mainly of works for solo organ. He had an active international career as a recitalist and concert performer from 1946 through the 1990s. He held a number of church posts in Montreal, including serving as organist of St-Jean-Baptiste Church , Immaculée-Conception Church , and St-Sixte Church . In 1980, he was named a Member of the Order of Canada. He was married to pianist Hilda Metcalfe.

#11202

Margaret Brouwer

#183414

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Margaret Brouwer is an American composer and composition teacher. She founded the Blue Streak Ensemble chamber music group. Biography Brouwer studied at Oberlin College, graduating in 1962, and received her master's degree from Michigan State University. Having started her musical career as a professional violinist with the Fort Worth Symphony and Dallas Symphony, she went on to earn her DMA in composition from Indiana University. Her teachers have included Donald Erb, Harvey Sollberger, Frederick A. Fox, and George Crumb. From 1996 to 2008 Brouwer served as head of the composition department and holder of the Vincent K.

#11203

Carmen Bradford

#187291

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Carmen Bradford is an American jazz singer. She sang with the Count Basie Orchestra from 1983 to 1991. Bradford grew up in a musical family; her grandfather is Melvin Moore, her father Bobby Bradford, and her mother Melba Joyce. She studied music formally at Huston-Tillotson College, and sang as a popular singer and for television commercials before scoring a slot opening for the Count Basie Orchestra in 1982. In 1983 Basie asked her to sing with the band, and she remained a singer with the group after Basie's death, under the direction of Thad Jones and Frank Foster. In 1991 she left the gro...

#11204

Jeff Williams

#168725

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Jeffrey Lawrence Williams is an American jazz drummer, composer, and educator. Early life Williams was born in Mount Vernon, Ohio, on July 6, 1950. He grew up in Oberlin, Ohio. His mother was a singer in the 1960s. Williams began playing the drums, self-taught, at the age of seven and played professionally from his mid-teens. From 1968, "he studied arranging and composition at the Berklee School of Music".

#11205

Steve Cardenas

#185961

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Steve Cardenas is a guitarist who began his career in Kansas City, Missouri and has been part of the New York City jazz community since 1995. Career Cardenas was a member of the Paul Motian Electric Bebop Band, Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra, Steve Swallow Quintet, and Joey Baron's band, Killer Joey. He is currently a member of the Ben Allison Band, John Patitucci Electric Guitar Quartet, Jon Cowherd Mercy Project and Adam Nussbaum Lead Belly Project. Cardenas has also worked with Claude "Fiddler" Williams, Paul McCandless, Madeleine Peyroux, Norah Jones, Eliane Elias and Marc Johnson.

#11206

John Burke

#181572

Overall Influence

1951 - 2020 (69 years)

John Joseph Burke was a Canadian composer and music educator. As a composer he wrote mainly works for chamber ensembles, and his music displays an acute sensitivity to instrumental balance and timbre. In his early career he won the CBC National Radio Competition for Young Composers several times, including in 1978 for both Six Regions for piano and Spectre for tenor instruments , and in 1980 for Firewind for two pianos and Diffusa est gratia for a cappella choir . In 1995 he won the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music for his String Quartet. Many of his compositions have been recorded, ...

#11207

Petra Morath-Pusinelli

#176000

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Petra Morath-Pusinelli is a German organist. She studied Catholic Church Music at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. Since 1984 she has been an organist at the church St. Kilian, Wiesbaden, and accompanied various choirs, including the Reger-Chor from the late 1980s and the Bachchor Mainz, conducted by Ralf Otto. She has been a lecturer at the University of Mainz since May 2006.

#11208

Ray Santisi

#170131

Overall Influence

1933 - 2014 (81 years)

Ray Santisi was an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, recording artist and educator. Santisi has played as a featured soloist with Charlie Parker, Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon, Mel Torme, Irene Kral, Herb Pomeroy and Natalie Cole. He has also performed with Buddy DeFranco, Joe Williams, Gabor Szabo, Milt Jackson, Zoot Sims & Al Cohn, Carole Sloane, Clark Terry and Bob Brookmeyer.

#11209

Kōmei Abe

#186777

Overall Influence

1911 - 2006 (95 years)

Kōmei Abe was a neo-classical Japanese composer who specialized in string quartets. He performed both as cellist and clarinetist. Biography He was born in Hiroshima in a military family, and became interested in the violin during a stay in Tokyo. From 1929 he attended Tokyo Music School, where he studied cello under Heinrich Werkmeister , who had moved to Japan in 1907, and studied composition under the conductor Klaus Pringsheim Sr. who had been invited to Tokyo in 1931 to become a professor of music at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. From 1937 he studied with Joseph Rosenstock.

#11210

Herbert Deutsch

Herbert Deutsch

#97042

Overall Influence

1932 - 2022 (90 years)

Herbert Arnold "Herb" Deutsch was an American composer, inventor, and educator. Until his death in 2022, he was professor emeritus of electronic music and composition at Hofstra University. He was best known for co-inventing the Moog synthesizer with Bob Moog in 1964.

#11211

Jonathan Berger

#174676

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Jonathan Berger is an American composer. His works include opera, orchestral, chamber, vocal, choral and electro-acoustic music. He has been commissioned by major ensembles including the Kronos Quartet, the St. Lawrence String Quartet, Chamber Music Society Lincoln Center, and the Scharoun Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic. Commissions include the National Endowment for the Arts, Spoleto Festival USA, Harris Theatre, the Bourges Festival, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Chamber Music America, among others.

#11212

Isao Hosoe

#49435

Overall Influence

1942 - 2015 (73 years)

Isao Hosoe was a Japanese engineer and designer. Biography Born in Tokyo, Hosoe studied there at Nihon University where he graduated in 1965 with a major in aerospace engineering with a thesis on a human-powered aircraft, followed by a Master in Sciences in 1967. From the same year he moved to Milan where he still lived until his death, mainly collaborating with Alberto Rosselli and Gio Ponti of the Studio Ponti-Fornaroli-Rosselli from 1967 to 1974. In 1985 he founded his own studio Isao Hosoe Design.

#11213

Han Kuo-Huang

#136877

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Han Kuo-Huang is a Chinese-born American ethnomusicologist and musician. Early life and education Han was born in Xiamen , China in 1936 and grew up in Taiwan. He obtained his bachelor's degree in Taiwan. In 1960 he assisted Elizabeth Hovhaness, the wife of the American composer Alan Hovhaness, in obtaining recordings of Chinese and Taiwanese music during her trip to Taiwan, and in 1962 served as translator for composer Lou Harrison.

#11214

Karl Ottomar Treibmann

#179163

Overall Influence

1936 - 2017 (81 years)

Karl Ottomar Treibmann was a German composer and music educator. From 1981 until his retirement in 2001, he was professor of music theory and at the Leipzig University. He was one of the representatives of modernity in the German Democratic Republic, whose great major works can be found in the areas of opera, symphony and chamber music.

#11215

Chihiro Yamanaka

#177275

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Chihiro Yamanaka is a Japanese jazz pianist and composer, born in Kiryū, Gunma Prefecture. As of 2012, she was based in New York City. She has had more than a dozen albums as a leader, most of them being released by Verve Records.

#11216

Jared Hauser

#183357

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Jared Hauser , is an American oboist, recording artist, and educator. He is associate professor of oboe at Vanderbilt University Blair School of Music in Nashville, Tennessee, and also teaches at the National Music Festival in Chestertown, Maryland. Hauser plays with the Blair Woodwind Quintet, the contemporary music group Intersection, and as principal oboe with the Nashville Opera Orchestra. He also performs on period oboes with Early Music City, and Music City Baroque.

#11217

Piotr Paleczny

#133317

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Piotr Paleczny is a Polish classical pianist, winner of the 3rd prize of the VIII International Chopin Piano Competition in 1970. In 1990 he served on the jury of the Paloma O'Shea Santander International Piano Competition; in 2010 on The Sendai International Music Competition in Japan; and in 2011 on the jury of the Prix AmadèO de Piano 2011.

#11218

Larry Davis

#151587

Overall Influence

1936 - 1994 (58 years)

Larry Davis was an American electric Texas blues and soul blues musician. He is best known for co-writing the song "Texas Flood", later recorded to greater commercial success by Stevie Ray Vaughan. Biography Davis was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and was raised in England, Arkansas, and Little Rock, Arkansas. He swapped playing the drums to learn to play the bass guitar. In the mid-1950s, he had a working partnership with Fenton Robinson, and following the recommendation of Bobby Bland was given a recording contract by Duke Records. Davis had three singles released, which included "Texas Flood" and "Angels in Houston".

#11219

Mark Trayle

#182629

Overall Influence

1955 - 2015 (60 years)

Mark Trayle, born Mark Evan Garrabrant was a California-based musician and sound artist working in a variety of media including live electronic music, improvisation, installations, and compositions for chamber ensembles. His work has been noted for its use of re-engineered consumer products and cultural artifacts as interfaces for electronic music performances and networked media installations.

#11220

Jere Osgood

#82272

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Jere Osgood is an American studio furniture maker, and teacher of furniture and woodworking. He taught for many years in the . Early life and education Jere Osgood was born in 1936 and raised in Staten Island, New York. He studied architecture at the University of Illinois but left after two years to pursue furniture design and fabrication. Thereafter, he enrolled at the School of American Craftsmen at Rochester Institute of Technology and learned furniture making under Tage Frid. Osgood was also influenced by the work of Wharton Esherick. He completed the four-year program in about two years, receiving his B.F.A.

#11221

Kim Plainfield

#172620

Overall Influence

1954 - 2017 (63 years)

Kim Plainfield was an American jazz fusion drummer and author who has performed with Bill Connors and Pointer Sisters, among others. Biography Born in the San Francisco Bay area, Kim moved from there to New York City in 1977, where he started his musical career with numerous show and studio recordings.

#11222

Atsushi Sakahara

#172151

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

is a film director, writer, and producer. He now teaches at Kyoto Seika University and graduate program at Osaka City University. He is a former advertising executive at Dentsu inc who survived the 1995 sarin gas attacks in Tokyo, which led to his later film work. He produced the 2001 Short Film Palme d'Or winning Bean Cake, directed by David Greenspan. He directed a short film, Don't Call Me Father. in 2012. One of producers for the film was Paul Milgrom, who won Nobel Prize in Economics in 2020. In 2015 he began to work on what would become Me and the Cult Leader, a film following his pursuit of truth and justice by talking and travelling with current Aleph executive Araki Hiroshi.

#11223

Hank Green

#136400

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (46 years)

William Henry Green II is an American vlogger, science communicator, entrepreneur, author, internet producer, and musician. He is known for producing the YouTube channel Vlogbrothers with his older brother, author John Green, as well as for creating and hosting the educational YouTube channels Crash Course and SciShow. He has also advocated for and organized social activism, created and hosted a number of other YouTube channels and podcasts, released music albums, and amassed a large following on TikTok.

#11224

Mathias Spahlinger

#174412

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Mathias Spahlinger is a German composer. His work takes place in a field of tension between the most diverse musical influences and styles: between Renaissance music and Jazz, between musique concrète and Webernian minimalism, between noise, improvisation and notation, between aesthetic autonomy and political consciousness, Spahlinger's works carry out conflicts for which there are no fixed models.

#11225

Craig Sheppard

#175399

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Craig Douglass Sheppard is an American concert pianist and educator of Scots-Irish, English and German descent. Early life and education The son of Jeanne Linton and George Edgar Sheppard, Sheppard was raised in Jenkintown, PA, and graduated Abington High School in 1965. He studied with Eleanor Sokoloff at the Curtis Institute from 1965–68 and Sasha Gorodnitzki at the Juilliard School from 1968–71, graduating from the latter with Bachelor of Music and Master of Science degrees. In 1968, he won the Bronze Medal in the Busoni Competition. In 1972, he won the Silver Medal at the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition, which started his international career.

#11226

Dariush Talai

#179305

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Dariush Talai plays both the Tar and Setar. Born in 1953 in Iran, he studied Persian music with masters of the Radif. His teachers include Tar player Ali Akbar Shahnazi, Nur Ali Borumand with whom he studied radio and old compositions, as well as Youssef Forutan and Abdollah Davami, with whom he studied Setar and vocal techniques and repertories.

#11227

Pran Nath

#152900

Overall Influence

1918 - 1996 (78 years)

Pandit Pran Nath was an Indian classical singer and master of the Kirana gharana singing style. Promoting traditional raga principles, Nath exerted an influence on notable American minimalist and jazz musicians, including La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Don Cherry. He began performing in the United States in the 1970s, and established the Kirana Center for Indian Classical Music in 1972; he subsequently taught in various universities across the US and Europe.

#11228

Kartik Seshadri

#171526

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Kartik Seshadri is an Indian sitar player and teacher of Indian classical music. He is the director of the Indian Classical Music Ensemble at the University of California, San Diego. Career Seshadri was born in Madras, India in 1957. At age 6 he began playing the sitar. When he was 18 he began studying with sitarist Pandit Ravi Shankar, and later toured and performed with his guru. In 2005 and 2010, Seshadri collaborated with prominent composer Philip Glass on the critically acclaimed Orion project. Seshadri performs extensively ranging from international venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Ken...

#11229

Jorgjia Filçe-Truja

Jorgjia Filçe-Truja

#180669

Overall Influence

1907 - 1994 (87 years)

Jorgjia Filçe-Truja was an Albanian soprano. She was one of the icons of the Albanian urban lyrical music, and one of the main contributors for the establishment of the Academy of Arts of Albania. Life She was born in Korçë, today's eastern Albania, back then still part of the Ottoman Empire on 20 January 1907. She studied in the Santa Сеcilia Conservatory in Rome during 1927–1932. She gave many concerts during the 1930s to the 1950s, becoming an icon of the urban lyrical music in Albania. Together with Tefta Tashko-Koço and Marie Kraja, she represented the avant-garde of the lyrical music in the country.

#11230

Konstanze Eickhorst

#187933

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Konstanze Eickhorst is a German pianist. Eickhorst won the IX Clara Haskil and IV Géza Anda competitions. A member of the Linos Ensemble, she has been active at an international level as a soloist and a chamber musician, and has recorded for CPO. She teaches at the Musikhochschule Lübeck.

#11231

Guila Bustabo

#179274

Overall Influence

1916 - 2002 (86 years)

Guila Bustabo was a prominent American concert and recital violinist. Early life Guila Bustabo was born in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, in 1916 as Teressina Bustabo. She began playing the violin at age two. At age three, she played privately for Frederick Stock, the conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. At age three, her family moved to Chicago so that she could study with Ray Huntington at the Chicago Musical College. Before she was five, she was studying in Chicago with Leon Samétini, a former pupil of the 19th-early 20th century virtuoso and composer Eugène Ysaÿe. By age nine, she perform...

#11232

Scotty Barnhart

#172726

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

William "Scotty" Barnhart is an American jazz trumpeter. A two-time Grammy winner, he has played since 1993 as a featured soloist with Count Basie Orchestra. In September 2013, Barnhart was announced as the new director of the Basie Orchestra. He has multiple recordings with pianist Marcus Roberts, as well as recordings with Tony Bennett, Diana Krall, Ray Charles, and Tito Puente. A solo CD, released with Unity Music, is titled Say It Plain and features Clark Terry, Ellis and Wynton Marsalis, Marcus Roberts, Jamie Davis and Etienne Charles; it achieved number 3 in the Jazz Charts. Also act...

#11233

Heinz Wunderlich

Heinz Wunderlich

#178132

Overall Influence

1919 - 2012 (93 years)

Heinz Wunderlich was a German organist, academic, and composer. He was known for playing the organ works of Max Reger. He studied in Leipzig with Karl Straube, a friend of Reger. Wunderlich worked as both a church musician and academic in Halle until 1957 when he fled to West Germany and became a church musician and academic in Hamburg. He toured internationally and attracted students from many countries to study with him in Hamburg. After retiring from teaching, he went on to more compositions.

#11234

Brad Davis

#174605

Overall Influence

Brad Davis GTR is an American country/bluegrass/rock guitar virtuoso and singer-songwriter. Guitar World Magazine named Brad as one of the greatest Texas guitarist of all time in 2022. Initially, a member of country singer Marty Stuart's road band, Davis has also performed with David Lee Roth, Bela Fleck, Roger Miller, David Lee Roth, Earl Scruggs, Sam Bush, Billy Bob Thornton, ZZ TOP and many others, in addition to writing songs for artists like Tim McGraw, Jo-El Sonnier, Tony Trischka, Tommy Shaw, and Thornton.

#11235

Bill Cunliffe

#168396

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

William Henry Cunliffe Jr. , is an American jazz pianist and composer. Early life Cunliffe was born in Andover, Massachusetts. He discovered music at an early age, with particular emphasis on classical music as well as jazz-oriented music from the 1960s and 1970s: "My mother was a good pianist...I started just copying little things that I would hear my mom play and I would sit next to her and listen.

#11236

Stephen Jaffe

#184052

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Stephen Jaffe is an American composer of contemporary classical music. He lives in Durham, North Carolina, United States, and serves on the music faculty of Duke University, where he holds the post of Mary and James H. Semans Professor of Music Composition; his colleagues there include composers Scott Lindroth, John Supko, and Anthony Kelley. Jaffe graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 1977; he received a master's degree the following year from the same institution. During his time in Pennsylvania, he studied with George Crumb, George Rochberg, and Richard Wernick.

#11237

John L. Jackson Jr.

#177730

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

John L. Jackson Jr. is an American anthropologist, filmmaker, author, and university administrator. He is currently the Provost and Richard Perry University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Jackson is the author of Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America ; Real Black: Adventures in Racial Sincerity ; Racial Paranoia: The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness ; Thin Description: Ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem . He has also directed films that explore questions of race, diaspora, migration, and media.

#11238

Adria Dawn

#183570

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Adria Dawn is an American actress, filmmaker and educator. She is most known for her work on Ryan Murphy's cult hit Popular . She was nominated by Jane Magazine as "one of the gustiest women on television" for her portrayal of April Tuna. She continued working with Murphy in Nip/Tuck as Parker the Scientologist expert appearing in three episodes. Dawn's other notable television appearances include recurring roles in 7th Heaven , Felicity and NCIS as well as a supporting role in the made-for-TV movie Running Mates and appearances on Judging Amy , Boston Public , Medium , My Name Is Earl ,...

#11239

Robert Bergt

#117191

Overall Influence

1930 - 2011 (81 years)

Robert Bergt was Artist-in-Residence and Bach scholar at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, a position he held since 1995. Bergt is known as a symphonic and chorale conductor with a specialization in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and other masters of the Baroque, Renaissance, Classical, and Neoclassical periods.

#11240

Stephen Totter

#181995

Overall Influence

1963 - 2019 (56 years)

Stephen Totter was an American operatic baritone. He was known for his formidable stage presence combined with excellent diction and interpretation. Born on May 3, 1963, Totter earned both a Bachelors and master's degree in French horn performance from West Virginia University and Duquesne University respectively. While studying the horn he was dually active as a singer, earning the title role in Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" at the age of nineteen.

#11241

Claudio Elórtegui Gómez

#182878

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Claudio Domingo Elórtegui Gómez is a Chilean journalist. His speciality is political communication and mass media. Biography He is son of the Chilean economist Claudio Elórtegui Raffo, current Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso rector , institution which Elórtegui Gómez studied journalism in its Institute . Previous to reach his charge as professor at PUCV, he realized both a MA and a PhD in Communication Sciences at Spain's Autonomous University of Barcelona.

#11242

Vlado Kristl

#171785

Overall Influence

1923 - 2004 (81 years)

Vladislav "Vlado" Kristl was a filmmaker and artist, best known for his animations and short films. Biography Vladislav "Vlado" Kristl was born 24 January 1923 in Zagreb, Croatia. Kristl first came to international prominence for his formally challenging and rigorous animations, particularly Don Kihot . The film is a "graphical and abstract masterpiece which went beyond all existing conventions" and was awarded the main prize at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival. Kristl regarded this film, which was not his first, as the one where he "was finally given a free rein".

#11243

Dave Hill

#161275

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (42 years)

Dave Hill is an American television writer. He is known for writing four episodes of the HBO series Game of Thrones: in season 5, "Sons of the Harpy"; in season 6, "Home"; in season 7, "Eastwatch"; and in season 8, "Winterfell".

#11244

Victor Goines

#143978

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Victor Louis Goines is a jazz saxophonist and clarinetist who has served as president and chief executive officer of Jazz St. Louis since September 2022. From 2000 to 2007, he was director of the jazz program at Juilliard.

#11245

Peter Snell

#179760

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Peter Snell is a Canadian film producer. He is notable for the films he made with Alistair MacLean, Don Sharp and Charlton Heston as well as The Wicker Man . Select filmography The Winter's Tale Some May Live Subterfuge Julius Caesar - starring HestonGoodbye Gemini Antony and Cleopatra - starring and directed by HestonThe Wicker Man Hennessy - directed by SharpA Month in the County Bear Island - directed by Sharp, based on story by MacLeanThe Hostage Tower - based on story by MacLeanMother Lode - starring and directed by HestonSquaring the Circle Turtle Diary Lady Jane A Prayer for the D...

#11246

Wilfried Krätzschmar

#178507

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Wilfried Krätzschmar is a German composer. Life Born in Dresden, Krätzschmar received piano lessons from 1952. After his Abitur at the he studied composition with Johannes Paul Thilman from 1962 to 1968, piano with Wolfgang Plehn and conducting with Klaus Zoephel at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden. In 1963 he conducted a trombone choir in Dresden. From 1968 to 1969 he took over the direction of incidental music at Theater Meiningen. After this time he returned to the Dresden Academy of Music as an aspirant of Fritz Geißler. In 1975 he took over artistically the Centre for the Promotion of Young Composers of the District of Dresden.

#11247

Rinat Ibragimov

#174717

Overall Influence

1960 - 2020 (60 years)

Rinat Ibragimov was a Russian-Tatar classical double bass virtuoso, best known as the principal bass of the London Symphony Orchestra and for his solo performances and recordings. Education and competitions After studying cello for ten years, Rinat Ibragimov switched to playing the double bass at age 16. He studied at the Ippolitov-Ivanov State Musical Pedagogical Institute in Moscow with Georgy Favorsky and at the Moscow Conservatory with Professor Evgeny Kolosov, where he also studied conducting with Dmitri Kitaenko.

#11248

Vladimir Sokoloff

#183093

Overall Influence

1913 - 1997 (84 years)

Vladimir Sokoloff was an American pianist and accompanist on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music. In addition to his teaching work with the accompanying, piano and chamber music students, he was an active performer.

#11249

Gwendolyn Black

#188199

Overall Influence

1911 - 2005 (94 years)

Gwendolyn McDonald Black was a Canadian musician, educator and community activist. She was the first woman from New Brunswick to become an Officer in the Order of Canada. The daughter of Nathaniel McDonald, a Methodist pastor, and Statira Preble, she was born Gwendolyn McDonald in Medicine Hat, Alberta. Her father died when she was six and her mother found a job at Lasell Junior College for Girls in Auburndale, Massachusetts, where Black grew up. She became an American citizen as a result. In 1929, she returned to Canada, earning a BMus at Mount Allison's Ladies College in 1932. She returned to the College soon afterwards to teach music.

#11250

Sumio Kobayashi

#144447

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (44 years)

Sumio Kobayashi is a Japanese poet and composer of contemporary classical music. Biography He has received formal musical training, excelling with piano and solfège, since 1985. Having studied with Joji Yuasa and Hiroyuki Itoh, he won at the I.C.O.M.S. 29°Concorso Internazionale di Composizione, Gyeongsangnam-do Special Prize at Isang Yun Prize, was second place at the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award in 2013, was a finalist at Pablo Casals International Composition Competition in 2015 and won the International Composers' Competition of the European Capital of Culture Wrocław 2016. He has mad...

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