The Most Influential People Across History

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#11301

Øyvind Brandtsegg

#182134
Overall Influence
1971 - Present (55 years)
Øyvind Brandtsegg is a Norwegian musician , programmer and composer, known from a series of recordings, and collaborations with such bands as Motorpsycho and Krøyt. Career Brandtsegg studied music at the "Sund folkehøgskole" in Inderøy. He studied the vibraphone at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and created a music software program called ImproSculpt, which samples different tones from the environment at the same time the music is performed, processes them and generates ever-changing variations in real time. He plays an instrument called the Marimba Lumina, a MIDI-based...
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#11302

Abdolhossein Mokhtabad

Abdolhossein Mokhtabad
#106642
Overall Influence
1966 - Present (60 years)
Abdolhossein Mokhtabad is an Iranian singer and composer of Persian traditional music. He is a Gold Medal Winner of Global Music Awards in 2020 and Silver Medal Winner in 2022. Career Mokhtabad's works are in the classical Persian style of Radif. He is also a player of the santur, setar, tonbak, and piano. After performing several concerts in Iran, and in countries abroad such as Greece, France, Netherlands, Switzerland, the UK, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Austria, Malaysia, Algeria, Oman, Canada, and the United States, he produced a variety of albums. Mokhtabad left Iran in 1998 to study Western classical music.
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#11303

Charles Dodge

#151098
Overall Influence
1942 - Present (84 years)
Charles Malcolm Dodge is an American composer best known for his electronic music, specifically his computer music. He is a former student of Darius Milhaud and Gunther Schuller. Education and teaching career Dodge received his undergraduate education at the University of Iowa in 1964, and earned his MA and doctorate at Columbia University. He also studied at Princeton University in 1969-70. While at Columbia, Dodge was very active at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. Dodge was one of the leading innovators in the emerging field of computer music composition .
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#11304

Tom Kennedy

Tom Kennedy
#171409
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Tom Kennedy is an American double-bass and electric bass player. Tom Kennedy is the son of a professional trumpet player. He began playing acoustic bass at the age of nine on a double-bass brought home by his older brother, jazz pianist Ray Kennedy. Soon he began to perform with many nationally recognized artists passing through the Midwest.
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#11305

Peter G. Fletcher

#183133
Overall Influence
1936 - 1996 (60 years)
Peter G. Fletcher was a British orchestral and choral conductor, music educator and author. Early life and education Fletcher finished his early music training as an organ scholar at Jesus College, Cambridge under the tutelage of Thurston Dart and Geraint Jones. Subsequently, he was in the British army as a band master. Fletcher completed his National Service as conductor of the Royal Corps of Signals Band at Catterick Camp.
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#11306

Michael Dellaira

#167996
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
Michael Dellaira is an American composer. He is a citizen of the United States and Italy and resides in New York City with his wife, the writer Brenda Wineapple. Early life and career Dellaira was born Michael Dellario in Schenectady, New York. He legally changed his surname to Dellaira, the original family name, in 1982. He started to play the violin at the age of 8, the clarinet at 12, and in high school became a drummer and lead singer in local rock bands. He enrolled in Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service but graduated in 1971 with a B.A. in philosophy. During these years he learned to play acoustic guitar, performing often in coffee-houses.
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#11307

Elizabeth Kuti

#185242
Overall Influence
1969 - Present (57 years)
Elizabeth Kuti is an English actress and playwright. Life English-born Kuti graduated from Balliol College, Oxford with a degree in English, and completed her MA at King's College London. She is of partial Hungarian descent through her paternal grandfather, whose original surname Kipslinger was adapted to 'Kuti' to disguise its Germanic origins. In 1993 she moved to Ireland to study at Trinity College Dublin, where she wrote her doctoral thesis on eighteenth-century women playwrights. In October 2004, she joined the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, University of Essex.
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#11308

Doug Williams

#184428
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Douglas LeAllen Williams is an American music artist. He started his solo music career, in 1995, with the release of gospel album, Heartsongs, that was released by Blackberry Records. The album got him a Grammy Award nomination at the 38th Annual Grammy Awards for the Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album. His second album, When Mercy Found Me, was released in 2003, with the backing of Blackberry Records releasing the project. His third album, Good Graces, was released in 2005 by Orchard Records. The first two of these album charted on the Billboard Gospel Albums chart.
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#11309

Janetta McStay

Janetta McStay
#185276
Overall Influence
1917 - 2012 (95 years)
Janetta Mary McStay was a New Zealand concert pianist and music professor who performed with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and other orchestras, as a solo artist and as an accompanist and chamber music associate with leading artists from around the world.
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#11310

Harvey Brough

#183456
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
Harvey Brough is an English tenor, instrumentalist, composer, producer and arranger. Starting at the age of six as a chorister at Coventry Cathedral, and achieving greatest prominence as founder, leader, musical director and producer of Harvey and the Wallbangers, he has worked in a wide range of musical genres including classical, early music, pop and soul, jazz, folk and world music.
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#11311

Marian Robertson Wilson

#186683
Overall Influence
1926 - 2013 (87 years)
Alice Marian Robertson Wilson was an American cellist, linguist and teacher most notable role as music editor of the eight-volume Coptic Encyclopedia. She was a daughter of Leroy Robertson and has written scholarly analyses of his works.
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#11312

Jutta Brückner

#177635
Overall Influence
1941 - Present (85 years)
Jutta Brückner is a German film director, screenwriter and film producer. She directed nine films between 1975 and 2005. Furthermore, she has written essays in film theory, film reviews and radio plays. She lives in Berlin and was Professor for narrative film at Berlin University of the Arts. She was the head of the jury at the 31st Berlin International Film Festival and is a member of multiple Film Juries and advisory committees.
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#11313

Ruth Mottram

#187531
Overall Influence
1978 - Present (48 years)
Ruth Mottram is a British climate scientist who is a researcher at the Danish Meteorological Institute. Her research considers the development of climate models and the dynamics of glaciers and ice sheets in the climate system.
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#11314

Vladimir Kirsanov

#186457
Overall Influence
1947 - 2021 (74 years)
Vladimir Kirsanov was a Russian choreographer and dancer. Biography He was awarded the title of Merited Artist of the Russian Federation. He studied at the State School of Circus and Variety Arts. Kirsanov died on 20 March 2021 in Moscow, after suffering from COVID-19.
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#11315

Eri Watanabe

#162923
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
Eri Watanabe, who was previously known as Eriko Watanabe, is a Japanese actress. She won the award for Best Supporting Actress at the 21st Hochi Film Awards for Shall We Dance?. Filmography Films Comic Magazine Crest of Betrayal Shall We Dance? Swing Girls - Sanae SuzukiMemories of Tomorrow Ichi Lady Maiko My Dad and Mr. Ito Survival Family Mary and the Witch's Flower - Banks Talking the Pictures Tezuka's Barbara Romance Doll Labyrinth of Cinema
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#11316

Mallory Walker

#187459
Overall Influence
1935 - 2014 (79 years)
Mallory Elton Walker was an American operatic tenor and music educator who had an active international singing career in operas and concerts from the late 1950s until his death in 2014. His career was at its height during the 1960s and 1970s when he was busy with many important opera companies in the United States and had engagements in European opera houses. His career hit a slump in the early 1980s due to vocal difficulties, and afterwards his major engagements became less frequent. He taught on the voice faculty at the Boston Conservatory of Music and out of a private voice studio in Los ...
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#11317

Ron Blake

#155018
Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
Ron Blake is an American saxophonist, band leader, composer, and music educator. Born in the Virgin Islands, he attended Northwestern University, and now lives in New York City. Blake began studying guitar at 8 and turned to the saxophone at 10. He taught at the University of South Florida before moving to New York, where he spent five years in trumpeter Roy Hargrove's quintet, and seven years in flugelhornist Art Farmer's group. He attended the Interlochen Arts Academy. He completed a master's degree at NYU in 2010. Blake co-founded the 21st Century Band and the Tahmun record label with Dion Parson in 1998.
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#11318

Martin Brauß

#173998
Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
Martin Brauß is a German pianist, conductor and music theorist and university professor at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover. Biography Brauß was born in Mannheim. He studied music education, philosophy and Germanic studies, first in Heidelberg and Mannheim, in Hanover and then conducting in Berlin. He was an artistic assistant of Heinz Hennig with the Knabenchor Hannover while he was still a student, From 1985 to 1991 he was conductor of the Youth Symphony Orchestra in Hanover. In addition, he worked from 1987 to 1992 as concert artistic director at the Staatsoper Hannover and from 1989 to 1998 and led the Hanover oratorio choir.
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#11319

Krysia Osostowicz

#168678
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Krysia Osostowicz FGS is a violin player who teaches at the Guildhall School of Music. She is the leader of the Dante String Quartet and principal violinist with the Endymion Ensemble. She previously played for 15 years with the Domus Piano Quartet. In 2021 she joined the Brodsky Quartet.
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#11320

Rob Brown

Rob Brown
#175041
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
Rob Brown is an American free jazz saxophonist and composer. Life and career Brown was born in Hampton, Virginia, United States. He started playing saxophone at the age of 12. His first gigs were with a local Virginia swing band. He eventually studied at Berklee College for two years, and worked privately with both Joe Viola and John LaPorta. After a year on the west coast, Brown relocated to Boston, Massachusetts, where he met pianist Matthew Shipp. He moved to New York in 1985, where he enrolled at New York University, earned a music degree, and studied with saxophone masters such as Lee Konitz, but the teacher who had more influence on Brown conceptually was Philadelphian Dennis Sandole.
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#11321

Günter Kochan

Günter Kochan
#169172
Overall Influence
1930 - 2009 (79 years)
Günter Kochan was a German composer. He studied with Boris Blacher and was a master student for composition with Hanns Eisler. From 1967 until his retirement in 1991, he worked as professor for musical composition at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler". He taught master classes in composition at the Academy of Music and the Academy of Arts, Berlin. He was also secretary of the Music Section of the Academy of Arts from 1972 to 1974 and vice-president of the from 1977 to 1982. Kochan is one of eleven laureates to have been awarded the National Prize of the GDR four times. In addition, he received composition prizes in the US and Eastern Europe.
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#11322

Jeremy Monteiro

Jeremy Monteiro
#179155
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Jeremy Ian Monteiro is a Singaporean jazz pianist, singer, composer, and music educator. In Singapore he was mentioned by the local press as Singapore's "King of Swing". Monteiro was awarded the Cultural Medallion by the National Arts Council, Singaporein 2002.
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#11323

Eric Revis

#171417
Overall Influence
1967 - Present (59 years)
Eric Revis is a jazz bassist and composer. Revis came to prominence as a bassist with singer Betty Carter in the mid-1990s. Since 1997 he has been a member of Branford Marsalis's ensemble. His debut album, Tales of the Stuttering Mime, was released in 2004 on his own 11:11 Records.
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#11324

Debra Richtmeyer

#180369
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
Debra Richtmeyer is an American classical saxophonist born June 19, 1957, in Lansing, Michigan. Richtmeyer earned her B.M.E. and M.M. at Northwestern University, where she studied with Frederick L. Hemke. She is Professor of Saxophone at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she has served since 1991. Prior to her appointment at the University of Illinois, she served as saxophone professor at the University of North Texas College of Music from 1981 to 1991 and at the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music from 1980 to 1981.
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#11325

Mariam McGlone

#184906
Overall Influence
1916 - 2008 (92 years)
Mariam McGlone was an American dancer, dance critic, and educator. Biography Born January 20, 1916, in New York City, daughter of Russian emigrant parents Abraham and Bertha Gessler Siwek, Mariam McGlone trained in classical ballet, entered Barnard College for a semester but left to join The Humphrey Wideman Company, led by Doris Humphrey and Charles Wideman and subsequently became an early member of the Martha Graham company in Manhattan. During the years leading up to World War II, she worked in Hollywood performing in various films, among them Winged Victory, and training actors and dancers.
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#11326

Anne Rogers

#184313
Overall Influence
1933 - Present (93 years)
Anne Rogers is an English actress, dancer, and singer. Career Anne Rogers was born in Liverpool and began her stage career at the age of 15. She was in the original London production of The Boy Friend, playing the female lead of Polly Browne for nearly four years.
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#11327

Calvin Hicks

#70806
Overall Influence
1933 - 2013 (80 years)
Calvin L. Hicks was an African-American journalist, activist, editor, and music educator. He died in New York. Life Born in Boston, United States, Hicks wrote for the Boston Chronicle while still in high school. He graduated from Drake University. After writing for the Baltimore Afro-American newspaper, he moved to New York City where in 1960, he founded and chaired the On Guard Committee for Freedom, a Black nationalist literary organization in the Lower East Side. Its members included Nannie and Walter Bowe, Harold Cruse, Amiri Baraka, Tom Dent, Rosa Guy, Joe Johnson, Archie Shepp, and Sarah Wright, among others.
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#11328

John Hawkins

#185409
Overall Influence
1944 - 2007 (63 years)
John Hawkins was a Canadian composer, conductor, music educator, and pianist. He notably won the 2nd-century Week Composition Competition in 1967 for his Eight Movements for Flute and Clarinet and received the Jules Léger Prize in 1983 for Breaking Through which was commissioned by ARRAYMUSIC. In 1971, he helped found the New Music Concerts in Toronto and was frequent performer there during his lifetime. He also frequently performed in concerts presented by the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec, notably appearing as a soloist on the organization's recording of Jacques Hétu's Cycle.
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#11329

Donald Loach

#107316
Overall Influence
Donald Loach is Associate Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of Virginia where he taught courses in music history and theory, and conducted numerous student choral ensembles including the of Virginia Glee Club, University Singers, and Coro Virginia. In the Charlottesville community, he was for many years music director of the Charlottesville/Albemarle Oratorio Society now called the Oratorio Society of Virginia and of the senior choir of St. Paul's Memorial Church. In retirement he continued to teach general music courses, primarily for older students, through the UVa School of Continuing and Professional Studies and Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.
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#11330

Yoheved Kaplinsky

#172666
Overall Influence
1947 - Present (79 years)
Yoheved "Veda" Kaplinsky is a lecturer and professor of music at the Juilliard School. She heads the Pre-College department at Juilliard. Education She studied piano under Ilona Vincze-Kraus at the Israel Academy of Music and earned her bachelor, master, and doctoral degrees from the Juilliard School as a student of Irwin Freundlich. She continued her studies with Dorothy Taubman.
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#11331

Oskar Gottlieb Blarr

Oskar Gottlieb Blarr
#173508
Overall Influence
1934 - Present (92 years)
Oskar Gottlieb Blarr is a German composer, organist, church musician and academic teacher. Career Blarr was born in Sandlack near Bartenstein . The Gothic church with its Baroque organ fascinated him early on; he began to form a lifelong love for organs. Blarr and his family fled to West Germany in 1945. He wrote his first compositions at the age of 12. He studied church music from 1952 at the Kirchenmusikschule in Hannover, percussion at the Musikhochschule Hannover, and composition with Heinrich Spitta. He continued his studies, conducting with Dean Dixon and Herbert von Karajan in Salzburg...
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#11332

Katalin Nemes

#183951
Overall Influence
1915 - 1991 (76 years)
Katalin Nemes was a pianist and teacher. She was the wife of the writer and journalist György Nemes and the mother of the literary translator Anna Nemes. From the age of 10 she attended the conservatory of Debrecen as a student of Margit Halácsy. From 1932 to 1937 she attended Franz Liszt Academy of Music and was taught by Imre Stefániai, Béla Bartók and Imre Keéri-Szántó. During this period she had to play on piano in a band. After getting degree, she married György Nemes.
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#11333

John Young

#187817
Overall Influence
John Young was an English stage actor of the seventeenth century. He was active as a member of the Duke's Company during the Restoration Era, appearing at Lincoln's Inn Fields and then at the Dorset Garden Theatre when the company relocated. While not much is known about his background, he was repeatedly in debt during his acting career. In 1667 he stood in for Thomas Betterton after he fell ill during the run of Macbeth appearing as the title role. Samuel Pepys described him as "a bad actor at best".
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#11334

Charles Rogers

#178370
Overall Influence
1987 - Present (39 years)
Charles Rogers is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and actor best known for his movie Fort Tilden and the TV series Search Party. Career Rogers is a graduate of the New York University Tisch School of the Arts MFA film directing program. He was one of the filmmakers behind the multi-director feature film Black Dog, Red Dog, produced by James Franco and Rabbit Bandini Productions, starring Logan Marshall-Green, Chloe Sevigny, and Whoopi Goldberg, which premiered at the 2015 International Film Festival of Guanajuato. The film was a class project at the NYU graduate film program...
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#11335

Pat Mills

#179082
Overall Influence
Kevin Patrick Mills is a Canadian film director, screenwriter and actor, whose feature film debut Guidance was released in 2015. Early life and education A former child actor who appeared on the television series You Can't Do That on Television, Mills later studied filmmaking at Ryerson University and studied at the Canadian Film Centre.
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#11336

Miroslav Tadić

#151066
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (67 years)
Miroslav Tadić is a Serbian guitarist, composer, improviser and music educator. Career He performs regularly in Europe, Japan and the United States and made over 30 CDs for numerous labels including CMP Records, MA Recordings, Croatia Records, Enja Records, Leo Records, and Sony Classical.
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#11337

Igor Ozim

Igor Ozim
#178449
Overall Influence
1931 - Present (95 years)
Igor Ozim is a Slovenian classical violinist and pedagogue, based in Salzburg, Austria. Career Igor Ozim was born in 1931 in Ljubljana. He came from a musical family: both parents played the piano and his brother the violin. At age 5, he started private lessons with , a former student of Otakar Ševčík, at the Academy of Music, Ljubljana. He entered Pfeifer's class at the Academy when he was 8.
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#11338

Denyse Thomasos

#162806
Overall Influence
1964 - 2012 (48 years)
Denyse Thomasos was a Trinidadian-Canadian painter known for her abstract-style wall murals that conveyed themes of slavery, confinement and the story of African and Asian Diaspora. "Hybrid Nations" is one of her most notable pieces that features Thomasos' signature use of dense thatchwork patterning and architectonic images to portray images of American superjails and traditional African weavework.
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#11339

Matthew Bourne

#179162
Overall Influence
1977 - Present (49 years)
Matthew Bourne is an English multi-instrumentalist, primarily working with piano and keyboards. Childhood and education Bourne was born in Avebury, England, and grew up in a small village situated in the Cotswolds, where he took up the trombone aged nine. In 1989, Bourne attended Kingham Hill School and began playing cello the following year. After seeing Frank Sinatra play on television in 1993, Bourne began to teach himself the piano.
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#11340

Matti Raekallio

#174157
Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
Matti Juhani Raekallio is a Finnish pianist. Raekallio studied in Helsinki, Vienna with history of piano fingering1994–19952005–2010, 2014–1998–2008 Since 2015, he has been back in New York City, teaching at the Juilliard School. Since the 2020–2021 season, Raekallio has been again Pro­fes­sor of Pi­ano at the Sibelius Academy.
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#11341

Deanna C. C. Peluso

#146120
Overall Influence
1982 - Present (44 years)
Deanna C. C. Peluso is an American-Canadian musician, composer, music educator, author and researcher currently residing in Honolulu, Hawaii and Vancouver, British Columbia. Peluso combines her academic and experiential background in music, psychology, performance art, technology and education to fuel what is called a unique style of research that focuses on how youth engage in Participatory cultures, social media and artistic and musical learning.
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#11342

Dalit Warshaw

#125041
Overall Influence
1974 - Present (52 years)
Dalit Hadass Warshaw is a New York-based composer, pianist, thereminist. Previously on the composition and music theory faculty of Boston Conservatory, she currently serves on the composition faculty at Juilliard and CUNY-Brooklyn College. Her works have been performed by dozens of orchestral ensembles, including the New York Philharmonic and Israel Philharmonic Orchestras , the Boston Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Houston Symphony, the Y Chamber Orchestra, the Colorado Symphony and the Albany Symphony Orchestra. In April 2006, her piece After the Victory for orchestra and chorus, was premiered by the Grand Rapids Symphony and the North American Choral Company.
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#11343

Joe Gallardo

Joe Gallardo
#180982
Overall Influence
1939 - Present (87 years)
Jose "Joe" Gallardo is an American jazz musician and composer. Awards and honors 2008: South Texas Music Walk of Fame
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#11344

Kurt Hübenthal

#185254
Overall Influence
1918 - 2007 (89 years)
Kurt Hübenthal was a German operatic bass baritone, director and music teacher. He was professor for singing at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar. Life Hübenthal was born in 1918 as one of two sons in Halle . He and his brother were members of the and, with the financial support of the choir, attended the elitist Latina. After their parents separated, the brothers moved to the orphanage of the Francke Foundations. They left school without a degree. Kurt Hübenthal completed a locksmith apprenticeship at the Reichsbahnausbesserungswerk in Halle.
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#11345

Andy Hill

#185782
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
Andy Hill is an American music supervisor, record producer, and music educator. Under the name A.W. Hill, Hill has written three novels, Nowhere-Land, The Last Days of Madame Rey, and Enoch's Portal, and a screenplay based on the life of Nikola Tesla.
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#11346

Johannes Schöllhorn

#183617
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
Johannes Schöllhorn is a contemporary German composer. Born in Murnau am Staffelsee, Schöllhorn grew up in Marktoberdorf. He studied musical composition with Klaus Huber, Emmanuel Nunes and Mathias Spahlinger and music theory with Peter Förtig at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. He also attended conducting courses with Péter Eötvös.
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#11347

Timothy McAllister

#183469
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
Timothy McAllister is an American classical saxophonist and music educator, who, as of 2014, is Professor of Saxophone at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance. Career Born in 1972, he gave his solo debut at age 16 with the Houston Civic Symphony. As a teenager he attended the Interlochen Center for the Arts, where he studied with John Sampen. McAllister studied saxophone with Donald Sinta and conducting with H. Robert Reynolds at the University of Michigan. He holds a Bachelor of Music , the Albert A. Stanley Medal , Masters of Music , and a Doctor of Musical Arts . As...
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#11348

Mary Lou Fallis

#182955
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Mary Lou Fallis is a Canadian opera singer. She performs both serious opera roles and comedic shows as the character Primadonna, a satirical take on popular stereotypes of opera divas. Her recordings are listed on her personal web site.
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#11349

Lloyd Blackman

#180606
Overall Influence
1928 - 2014 (86 years)
Lloyd Edgar Blackman was a Canadian violinist, conductor, composer, and music educator. Life and career Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Blackman studied violin with John Waterhouse and George Bornoff and music theory with W.H. Anderson. He earned a Licentiate from The Royal Conservatory of Music in 1944 at the age of 16. He later studied violin privately in New York City with Theodor Pashkus and with Ottokar Čadek at the University of Michigan from 1948 to 1949 and 1959–1960. He also studied conducting with Allard de Ridder.
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#11350

Ichikawa Danjūrō XII

#186313
Overall Influence
1946 - 2013 (67 years)
Ichikawa Danjūrō XII was a Japanese actor. He was the twelfth kabuki actor to hold the illustrious name Ichikawa Danjūrō. Career He was the eldest son of Ichikawa Danjūrō XI. He first appeared on stage in 1953 under his birth name Natsuo Horikoshi, and in 1958 took the name Ichikawa Shinnosuke. In 1969, he graduated from Nihon University, and took the name Ichikawa Ebizō X, acting in major roles such as the title character in Sukeroku and Togashi in Kanjinchō. He assumed his present name in 1985, appearing as Benkei . Though he underwent the formal shūmei naming ceremony at the Kabuki-za in To...
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