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#11451

Ethel G. Hofman

Ethel G. Hofman

#145642

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Ethel Greenwald Hofman is a widely syndicated Jewish American food and travel columnist, author and culinary consultant. She is a recognized authority on international Jewish foods and culture, with special emphasis on Israel and the United Kingdom.

#11452

Matt Lucas

#177069

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Matt Lucas is an American rock and roll, soul, and blues singer, drummer and songwriter. He is best known for his "rocked-up" version of the Hank Snow country classic "I'm Movin' On". He was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame in 1999, the International Rockabilly Hall of Fame in 2004 and the Southern Legends Entertainment & Performing Arts Hall of Fame in 2005.

#11453

Kenneth Fulton

#187623

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Kenneth Fulton is the Professor Emeritus of Choral Studies and former Sanders Alumni Professor of Choral Studies and Chair of the Division of Ensembles and Conducting at Louisiana State University 's College of Music and Dramatic Arts. He was conductor of the LSU A Cappella Choir and taught choral music. Internationally recognized as a conductor and clinician, Fulton has appeared professionally in 32 different states. Dr. Fulton's choirs have given 18 invitational performances for national audiences of the American Choral Directors Association and the Music Educators National Conference, the C...

#11454

Uwe Grodd

#188025

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Uwe Grodd is a German conductor and flautist, currently living in Auckland . He has performed and recorded internationally for over 25 years. Grodd conducted the gala opening night of the Handel Festival in Halle, Germany, of 2003 with "Le Choeur des Musiciens du Louvre" from Grenoble followed by a highly successful season of Händel's rediscovered opera, Imeneo in the Halle Opera House. His appointment to conduct the Auckland Choral Society was confirmed at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland, on 28 September 2008, in a concert that concluded with Anton Bruckner's Locus iste, Handel's Coronatio...

#11455

Blagoy Shklifov

#143364

Overall Influence

1935 - 2003 (68 years)

Blagoy Stefanov Shklifov was a Bulgarian dialectologist and phonologist. Shklifov was born in Polykeraso , Vitsi municipality , Kastoria regional unit, Greece in 1935. In 1948, at the end of the Greek Civil War, he left his burned village and after a short stay in Socialist Republic of Macedonia went to Hungary, with many refugees from Greek Macedonia. In 1964, he went to Bulgaria and studied at Sofia University "St. Clement of Ohrid". He was a lecturer at the University of Szeged, Hungary and at Sofia University, Bulgaria.

#11456

Masahiro Mori

#168003

Overall Influence

1927 - 2005 (78 years)

was a Japanese ceramic designer born in Saga Prefecture, Japan. The well known "G-type Soy Sauce Bottle" he designed in 1958 won the 1st Good Design Award in 1960 and its production and sales have continued until today . He won the Good Design Award more than 110 times in his life. In describing his design philosophy, he stated, "My pleasure as a designer is to conceive of forms for daily use, and to create pieces for production in the factory, so that many people can appreciate and enjoy using them". He worked to design ceramic dishes suitable for the Japanese lifestyle in post-World War II.

#11457

Jadwiga Rappé

#138036

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Jadwiga Rappé is a Polish operatic contralto, born in Toruń. Rappé studied Slavic philology at the University of Warsaw and voice at the Wroclaw Music Academy. In 1980 she was awarded first prize at the International Bach Competition in Leipzig. She made her professional opera debut at the Grand Theatre, Warsaw, in 1983 and has since remained a regular artist at that theatre. She has sung leading roles with other opera houses internationally, including the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Royal Opera House in London.

#11458

Sabine Chaouche

#178276

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Sabine Chaouche is a scholar expert in the history of theatre, intellectual history and also social and economic history. Biography She studied at the University of Oxford , where she completed a DPhil in Social and Economic History and at the Université de Paris-Sorbonne where she completed a PhD in Literature and Theatre and an Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches . She taught French literature and theatre in Oxford and Kuala Lumpur.

#11459

David M. Markowitz

#184512

Overall Influence

David M. Markowitz is a communication professor at the University of Oregon who specializes in the study of language and deception. Much of his work focuses on how technological channels impact the encoding and decoding of messages. His work has captured the attention of magazines and outlets in popular culture; he writes articles for Forbes magazine about deception. Much of his research has utilized analyses of linguistic and analytic styles of writing, for example, Markowitz's work on pet adoption ads was referenced in a website featuring tips on how to write better pet adoption ads.

#11460

Christopher Ross

#183360

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (95 years)

Christopher Ross was an American artist, designer and collector of 19th century Imperial militaria. Ross has earned an international reputation for his 'animal' wearable fine art and portrait sculpture in the tradition of the French animalier. His work resists easy classification as he carved out a territory of his own that crosses categories—drawing on fine art, sculpture and design.

#11461

John Dwyer

#137247

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

John Dwyer is an American multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, songwriter, visual artist and record label owner. He is best known as the founding member and primary songwriter of the garage rock band Osees, with whom he has released 23 studio albums. In addition to his work with Osees, Dwyer records solo material under the name "Damaged Bug". From 2020-2021, Dwyer released several improvisation-based records with a rotating collective of different artists, including "Bent Arcana", "Witch Egg", "Endless Garbage", "Moon Drenched" and "Gong Splat". He is also a former member of the garage rock acts C...

#11462

Marc Lifschey

#187677

Overall Influence

1926 - 2000 (74 years)

Marc Lifschey was an American oboist who played principal oboe for the Cleveland Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra over the course of his life.

#11463

Michael Pollock

#185214

Overall Influence

1921 - 2003 (82 years)

Michael Pollock was an American operatic tenor, opera director, and voice teacher. He notably worked as both a performer and director at the New York City Opera during the 1940s and 1950s. Biography Born in New York City, Pollock began his career appearing in Off-Broadway productions in the mid-1940s. In 1947–1948 he was a member of the chorus in the Broadway revival of Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock. In 1949 he became a member of the New York City Opera at the invitation of Laszlo Halasz, making his debut with the company as the animal vendor in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier. ...

#11464

Hubert Klyne Headley

#188159

Overall Influence

1906 - 1996 (90 years)

Hubert Klyne Headley was an American composer, pianist and organist. Early life and education Headley was born in West Virginia in 1906. When he was six his mother, an organist, moved the family to California. At ten years old he was introduced to Maurice Ravel, whose music had a strong effect on him. He studied music at the University of the Pacific, graduating in 1928, and then at the Eastman School of Music until 1937.

#11465

David M. Brugge

David M. Brugge

#166915

Overall Influence

1927 - 2013 (86 years)

David Martin Brugge was a cultural anthropologist, ethnohistorian, linguist, archaeologist and noted for his knowledge about the Navajo. Brugge publish many papers and is often cited in works about the Navajo, Athapaskan or early Southwestern history.

#11466

Oliver Drechsel

#184728

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Oliver Drechsel is a German concert pianist and composer. Life Drechsel was born in Langenfeld . After initial lessons with his mother, the concert pianist Ruth Drechsel-Püster, he studied at the Hochschule für Musik Köln with Roswitha Gediga-Glombitza and Pavel Gililov. Master classes with, among others, Peter Feuchtwanger, Karl-Heinz Kämmerling and the Alban Berg Quartet complemented this education, which he completed in 1998 with the Konzertexamen. In the same year he released his debut CD "Jürg Baur - Das Klavierwerk" and received the . For his compositions he received, among others, the...

#11467

Keith Hamel

#169870

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Keith Hamel is a composer, software designer, and professor of music. His music consists of orchestral, chamber, solo, and vocal music, often focussing on live electronics and interactivity between acoustic instruments and the computer.

#11468

Pouya Saraei

#188196

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (43 years)

Pouya Saraei is an Iranian composer, arranger, conductor, lecturer, music critic, researcher, and musician. Career Saraei began playing the santur at age seven, taking lessons from Javad Bathaie, Faramarz Payvar, Hossein Alizadeh, Pashang Kamkar, Dariush Talai, Mostafa Kamal Pourtorab, Hassan Riahi, Sharif Lotfi, Farid Omran, Majid Derakhshani, and Mohammad-Reza Lotfi.

#11469

Reid N. Nibley

#184603

Overall Influence

1923 - 2008 (85 years)

Reid Neibaur Nibley was an American pianist, composer and music educator. He wrote the words and music to the Latter-day Saint hymn "I Know My Father Lives". Nibley was born to Alexander Nibley and his wife Agnes Sloan. He was the younger brother of Hugh Nibley. He had another brother, Richard Nibley, who was also a music educator. Nibley's ancestry was Scottish, English, French and Jewish. Nibley was raised mainly in the Los Angeles area, where he was friends with Ray Bradbury, also a youth at the time. They would jointly write the music and scripts of roadshow productions of area youth gro...

#11470

Claudette Sorel

#183712

Overall Influence

1932 - 1999 (67 years)

Claudette Sorel was a French-American pianist and educator. She was an advocate of equal rights for women in the arts, and especially equal rights for women whose aspirations were to become pianists.

#11471

John Fiorito

#179248

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

John Fiorito is a baritone opera singer. Career Fiorito began his classical training in 1952, with Rita Kittain and her associate, Lydia Chaliapin. He made his professional debut in 1957, with the Toledo Choral Society and Symphony in the title role of Mendelssohn's "Elijah".

#11472

Tobias Koch

#178453

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Tobias Koch is a German pianist. Biography Tobias Koch was born in Kempen. He attended the Robert Schumann Music College in Düsseldorf, and conservatories Vienna, Graz and Brussels. His chamber music partners include Andreas Staier, Joshua Bell, and Steven Isserlis. He collaborates closely with instrument makers, is on the faculty of the Robert Schumann Hochschule and the Hochschule für Musik Mainz at the Gutenberg University in Mainz, and at the Summer Academy in Montepulciano. He is also a Schumann specialist, in particular within the field of Romantic performance practice.

#11473

Kiera Duffy

#179864

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (47 years)

Kiera Duffy is an American opera singer born in Philadelphia. A soprano, Duffy is also an accomplished pianist. She has earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Westminster Choir College. Education When Duffy learned that Westminster Choir College's program in choral conducting was not available to undergraduates, she began to study vocal performance under professor Laura Brooks Rice, who became her mentor and continued as her voice coach after college. Duffy graduated in 2003 with a Master of Music degree in voice performance and pedagogy. She now studies with Edith Bers.

#11474

Robert Bernat

#182429

Overall Influence

1931 - 1994 (63 years)

Robert Bernat was an American composer and the founder, artistic director, and conductorofof the River City Brass Band in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His musical influences included his mentor, Aaron Copland, as well as other American composers including Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin, and John Philip Sousa.

#11475

Wolfgang Brendel

#181909

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Wolfgang Brendel is a German opera singer , and a professor of voice at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. He has performed throughout Europe, Asia, and North America. Biography Wolfgang Brendel grew up in Wiesbaden, where he took singing lessons with Rolff Sartorius during his time at the conservatory. In 1971, he debuted at the Pfalztheater in Kaiserslautern as Guglielmo in Così fan tutte. His artistic home for the greater part of his career was the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, where in 1977 he became the youngest Kammersänger in the company's history.

#11476

Sudha Chandran

#96076

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Sudha Chandran is an Indian Bharatanatyam dancer and actress who appears in Indian television and films.In 1981, she hurt her leg in a road accident near Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu while coming back from Madras with her parents and after some years she started performing with a prosthetic leg. She was awarded National Film Award – Special Jury Award for the Telugu film Mayuri which is based on her life at 33rd National Film Awards in 1985.

#11477

Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy

#189031

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy is a linguist and Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury . He is known for his expertise on morphology and word formation. Books Allomorphy in Inflexion. London: Croom Helm. 271pp. 1987. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2013. , . Current Morphology. London: Routledge. 289pp. 1992. , . 2002. .The Origins of Complex Language: An inquiry into the evolutionary beginnings of sentences, syllables and truth. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 260pp. 1999. .An Introduction to English Morphology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 151pp. 2002.2nd edition, 2018.The Evolution of Morphology.

#11478

Katharine Elizabeth O'Brien

#171196

Overall Influence

1901 - 1998 (97 years)

Katharine Elizabeth O'Brien was an American mathematician, musician and poet. Early life Born in Amesbury, Massachusetts to parents who had emigrated from Ireland, O'Brien's family moved to Maine while at the age of three. She was class valedictorian when she graduated from Deering High School in Portland, Maine in 1917. She then attended nearby Bates College from which she graduated in 1922 with honors in both mathematics and science. Despite her science-focused majors, she also was drawn to and pursued both poetry and music.

#11479

Suman Ghosh

#119857

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Pandit Suman Ghosh is an internationally acclaimed Hindustani Classical Vocalist of the Mewati Gharana of Hindustani Classical Music and a torch-bearing disciple of Sangeet Martand Pandit Jasraj. He is the founder and President of the Center for Indian Classical Music of Houston .

#11480

Ville Vänni

#185591

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (47 years)

Ville Vänni is a Finnish musician. He was one of the guitarists of the melodic death metal band Insomnium. On October 31, 2011, Insomnium announced that Ville was leaving the band due to personal and career commitments. His final performance with the band was in Helsinki, Finland, after which his position was filled by Markus Vanhala, lead guitarist from Omnium Gatherum.

#11481

Michael Gottlieb

#178448

Overall Influence

1945 - 2014 (69 years)

Michael Bernard Gottlieb was an American film director and screenwriter. He is best known for directing the films Mannequin and A Kid in King Arthur's Court . Following the release of A Kid in King Arthur's Court, Gottlieb transitioned into video game industry, working as a producer for the remainder of his entertainment career.

#11482

Michael Trimble

#168999

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Michael Trimble is an American operatic tenor, voice teacher, and writer on music. He had an active international career singing leading roles with opera houses during the 1960s and 1970s. His singing career was cut short due to health concerns, and he has since had an active career as a voice teacher both privately and at the Cleveland Institute of Music, the University of Texas at Austin, and the Aspen Music Festival and School. Several of his students have had successful international opera careers, including Metropolitan Opera star Tonio di Paolo and soprano Beverly Hoch.

#11483

Gerd Domhardt

#184224

Overall Influence

1945 - 1997 (52 years)

Gerd Domhardt was a German composer. Domhardt grew up in Schleusingerneundorf. He studied music education, German studies and musicology at the University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1963 to 1968. From 1973 to 1976 he was a master student for composition with Ruth Zechlin at the Academy of the Arts, Berlin.

#11484

Vic Hoyland

#188038

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Vic Hoyland is a British composer. He was born in Wombwell, Yorkshire, England. Educated at Hull and York universities , Hoyland was Haywood Fellow at the University of Birmingham where he became Professor in Composition until his retirement in 2011. He now lives in the North Yorkshire moors.

#11485

Hankus Netsky

#178776

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Hankus Netsky is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and ethnomusicologist. He chairs the Contemporary Improvisation Department at the New England Conservatory. Netsky is founder and director of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, an internationally renowned Yiddish music ensemble, and serves as research director of the Klezmer Conservatory Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and perpetuation of traditional Eastern European Jewish music. He plays the piano, accordion, and saxophone.

#11486

Joshua Uzoigwe

#138431

Overall Influence

1946 - 2005 (59 years)

Joshua Uzoigwe was a Nigerian composer and ethnomusicologist. A member of the Igbo ethnic group, many of his works draw on the traditional music of that people. Early life and education Uzoigwe was born in Umuahia, Abia State , Nigeria. He began his education at the village primary school in Umuagu. Most of his early life was spent with his older brother, Sunday Uzoigwe, who was then employed at the University of Ibadan. For his secondary education, Joshua attended King's College, Lagos before going on to International School Ibadan to study for his Advanced Level Certificate.

#11487

John Thow

#185215

Overall Influence

1949 - 2007 (58 years)

John Holland Thow was an American music composer. Thow produced an extensive and diverse body of work comprising solo, chamber, vocal, choral, operatic and orchestral repertoire. Born in Los Angeles in 1949, Thow grew up in Ventura, California. As a child he studied flute and piano, and later studied composition with Adolph Weiss, a pupil of Schoenberg's, and conductor Frank Salazar. At University of Southern California he pursued his Bachelor of Music, studying composition with Ingolf Dahl. He continued his studies at Harvard with Earl Kim and Leon Kirchner, where he received his Ph.D. in ...

#11488

Solenn Heussaff

#178802

Overall Influence

1985 - Present (41 years)

Solenn Marie Adea Heussaff-Bolzico is a Filipino actress, model and singer. She was one of the official castaways of Survivor Philippines: Celebrity Showdown. She made it to the Final Three. In December 2010, she signed a recording contract with MCA Music, a movie contract with Regal Entertainment, and a television contract with GMA Network and GMA Artist Center.

#11489

David Cantine

#175815

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

David Cantine is a Canadian painter, best known for consistently painting pictures using the same composition for the last forty years of his career. Cantine was born in Jackson, Michigan, and went to school at the University of Iowa, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1962, and a Master of Arts degree in 1964. In 1965 he began teaching drawing and painting at the University of Alberta, until retiring from his position in 1996.

#11490

Judith Gordon

#176757

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Judith Gordon is a concert pianist and educator. Education Gordon studied at Oberlin Conservatory and at New England Conservatory where she studied with Patricia Zander. New York debut Gordon gave her New York recital debut on May 27, 1990 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of the museum’s Introductions series. Bernard Holland, reviewing for The New York Times, wrote, "… Ms. Gordon does not have the dominating technique associated with major virtuosos, but she has character and she thinks."

#11491

Aloys Kontarsky

#171522

Overall Influence

1931 - 2017 (86 years)

#11492

Joseph R. Wood

#177842

Overall Influence

1915 - 2000 (85 years)

Joseph Wood was an American composer and music educator. He was a faculty member at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music where he taught music theory and composition from 1950 until his retirement in 1985. He performed and conducted widely, and his compositions for piano, chamber groups, and orchestra were performed around the world.

#11493

Jack Winerock

#185774

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Jack Winerock is an American classical pianist and piano professor in the Department of Music and Dance in the School of Fine Arts at the University of Kansas, United States. Biography A native of New York City, Winerock attended The High School of Music & Art and received his undergraduate and master's degrees from the Juilliard School and his doctorate from the University of Michigan. His teachers included Sascha Gorodnitzki, György Sándor, and Leon Fleisher. Following his graduation from Michigan, he accepted an appointment at the University of Kansas.

#11494

Scott Lindroth

#179877

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Scott Allen Lindroth is an American composer and teacher based near Durham, North Carolina. Lindroth joined the faculty of Duke University in 1990, where he is the Vice-Provost for the Arts and the Kevin D. Gorter Associate Professor of Music; his colleagues at Duke include composers Stephen Jaffe, John Supko, and Anthony Kelley. Lindroth teaches undergraduate courses in music theory, composition, and electronic music, as well as graduate seminars on composition-related topics. In the spring of 1995, Lindroth served as Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Princeton University.

#11495

Martin Lücker

#181765

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Martin Lücker is a German classical organist, and professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main. Career Born in Preußisch Oldendorf, Lücker studied organ in Hannover and in Vienna with Anton Heiller, and conducting in Detmold with Martin Stephani. He first worked there at the Landestheater Detmold as repetiteur, then as assistant of the choir director at the Oper Frankfurt.

#11496

Ernst Gutstein

#184497

Overall Influence

1924 - 1998 (74 years)

Ernst Gutstein was an Austrian operatic baritone. He made an international career and also performed regularly at the Vienna State Opera. His repertoire included both tragic and comic characters, one of his signature roles being Faninal in Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss. Gutstein created several roles in world premieres, such as Fortner's Perlimplin at the 1962 Schwetzingen Festival.

#11497

László Vidovszky

#174345

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

The native form of this personal name is Vidovszky László. This article uses the Western name order. László Vidovszky is a Hungarian composer and pianist. During the 1970s he began composing works in a minimal style.

#11498

Yakov Kasman

#175830

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Yakov Kasman is a Russian American classical pianist, professor of piano, and artist-in-residence at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Since his American debut as the silver medalist at the Tenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 1997, Yakov Kasman has performed concerts in the United States, Russia, and Asia, and appeared as a soloist with more than fifty orchestras.

#11499

Gregor Widholm

#182771

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Gregor Widholm is an Austrian academic and musician, and from 2007 to 2012 Vice-Rector of the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna . Education and career Gregor Widholm studied horn with Prof. Friedrich Gabler at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna , communication technology at the Vienna University of Technology and in 1968–1970 completed a special course in sound technology.

#11500

Lynn Klock

#186828

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Lynn Klock is an American classical saxophonist and educator. He is Principal Saxophone of the Springfield Symphony Orchestra in Springfield, Massachusetts. Teaching career From 1980 until his retirement in 2014, Lynn Klock was Professor of Saxophone at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He had previously taught saxophone at the Interlochen National Music camp, The Hartt School, University of Toledo, and Olivet College. Since 1992, he has been a clinician for the Bands of America National Concert Band Festival and Summer Camp. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the Interlochen Arts Academy, and was a student of Larry Teal, Donald Sinta, Jack Kripl, and William D.

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