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#11501

Herbert Belyea

#185605

Overall Influence

1917 - 2001 (84 years)

Warren Herbert Belyea was a Canadian composer, choir conductor, poet, and music educator. As a composer he was commissioned to write works by the Manitoba Arts Council, the city of Winnipeg, and several choirs. Several of his compositions have been published by Frederick Harris Music. As a poet, he has published works using the pseudonym A.C. Darke.

#11502

Craig Morris

#168814

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Craig Morris is an orchestral trumpeter known for serving as the Principal Trumpet of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He is also known as a soloist and chamber musician. He is an endorsing artist for Yamaha Instruments, and is currently Professor of Trumpet for the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami.

#11503

Martin Canin

#174685

Overall Influence

1930 - 2019 (89 years)

Martin Canin was an American pianist and prominent piano pedagogue who was on the faculty of The Juilliard School from 1976 to 2016 and of Stony Brook University from 1965 to 1993. Canin was born in New York City and was a graduate of Juilliard, where he studied under the eminent piano pedagogue Rosina Lhévinne, who along with her husband Josef Lhévinne was part of a long lineage of Russian pianists and teachers. Canin began piano studies at age 7 as a scholarship student at the Henry Street Settlement, on New York's Lower East Side, studying first with Aurelio Giorni and later for a decade w...

#11504

Peter Allen

#183577

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Peter Allen is a Canadian composer, organist, and keyboard player. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre and a member of the Canadian League of Composers, his compositions encompass a broad repertoire from film scores and commercial jingles to sacred music and avant-garde electroacoustic music. He has composed numerous works for CBC Radio and CBC Television.

#11505

J. P. E. Harper-Scott

#141734

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

J. P. E. Harper-Scott is a British musicologist and formerly Professor of Music History and Theory at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is a General Editor of the Cambridge University Press series 'Music in Context'.

#11506

Scott Pingel

#180643

Overall Influence

Scott Pingel is an American bassist who is the principal bassist in the San Francisco Symphony. He had been the principal bassist with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra. In 2011 Pingel had the privilege of performing on the acclaimed Karr-Koussevitzky bass for his solo debut with Andrei Gorbatenko and the San Francisco Academy Orchestra.

#11507

Robert W. Jones

#185506

Overall Influence

1932 - 1997 (65 years)

Robert William Jones was a 20th-century American composer. Life Robert W. Jones was born in Oak Park, Illinois. He studied at University of Redlands, University of Minnesota and at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago. He was a student of Wayne Bohrnstedt.

#11508

John Sheridan

#184035

Overall Influence

1946 - 2021 (75 years)

John Sheridan was an American jazz pianist and arranger born in Columbus, Ohio, perhaps best known for his work with the Jim Cullum Jazz Band. Biography John showed interest in piano at an early age, i.e. three or four, and regularly watched and enjoyed a pianist on television in Columbus. Later he enjoyed watching Peter Nero, Victor Borge, and Liberace

#11509

Scott Hull

#125279

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Scott Hull is an American grindcore musician, and the current guitarist and producer for Pig Destroyer, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, and Japanese Torture Comedy Hour. He has been part of many other projects including the controversial band Anal Cunt . Aside from his music works, he currently works as a government computer specialist. Hull is noted for his experimental style of guitar playing that incorporates various influences, as well as for his use of eight string and seven string guitars.

#11510

Jacob S. D. Blakesley

#188525

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Jacob Still Deutsch Blakesley is an American translator of fiction and poetry who teaches at the University of Leeds, where he co-directs the Leeds Centre for Dante Studies. He won a 2018 NEA Literature Translation Fellowship for a project on translating the modern experimental Italian poet Edoardo Sanguineti.

#11511

Igor Yasulovich

Igor Yasulovich

#168097

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Igor Nikolayevich Yasulovich was a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, film director and pedagogue. Biography Yasulovich was born in the village of Reinsfeld in Koshkinsky District of Kuybyshev Oblast. In 1962 he graduated from the cast, and then, in 1974, Directing Department Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography.

#11512

Natalia O'Shea

#178289

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Natalia Andreyevna O'Shea is a Russian harpist, singer-songwriter, linguist, lead singer and leader of Melnitsa , and Romanesque . Earlier she took part in the Till Eulenspiegel project , for which she was a vocalist, author and co-author of many songs.

#11513

Mario Bertoncini

Mario Bertoncini

#180687

Overall Influence

1932 - 2019 (87 years)

Mario Bertoncini was an Italian composer, pianist, and music educator. In 1962 he was awarded the Nicola d'Atri Prize by the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia for his Sei Pezzi per orchestra and in 1965 he was awarded both the Gaudeamus International Composers Award and the Fondation européenne de la Culture prize for Quodlibet. He has performed as a concert pianist with symphony orchestras throughout Europe and North America and in Israel and Korea.

#11514

Amy Lee

#156135

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Amy Lee is an American saxophonist, composer and arranger. She has played with a variety of musicians and singers, and is best known for being a member of Jimmy Buffett's Coral Reefer Band. Early life and education Lee was born in North Adams, Massachusetts and studied music at the University of Miami. After graduating, she moved to Atlanta.

#11515

Ashley Fure

#185667

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (44 years)

Ashley Fure is an American composer. She has received the Rome Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship , and her composition Bound to the Bow was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Music. Early life Fure grew up in Marquette, Michigan, attended the Oberlin Conservatory of Music as an undergraduate, received her PhD from Harvard University and was a post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University. Since 2015, Fure has been an assistant professor of music at Dartmouth College.

#11516

Nathaniel Stookey

#180232

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Nathaniel Stookey is an American composer and musician. Education Stookey is the son of Richard Phelps Stookey, an attorney and novelist, and Martha Milton Stookey, an actor, stage director, and teacher. Both parents came from musical families: Martha's father was an Army bugler and cornet player, and Richard's grandparents were church and barn-dance musicians whose descendants include Noel Paul Stookey of the folk trio Peter, Paul & Mary. Stookey spent his early childhood in the Basque village of Banca. He attended French American International School and Lowell High School in San Francisco and Lycée Hoche in Versailles, France.

#11517

Jeronimas Kačinskas

#182627

Overall Influence

1907 - 2005 (98 years)

Jeronimas Kačinskas was a Lithuanian-born American composer. Kačinskas was born in Viduklė, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire, to the family of a church organist. He studied music at the National Conservatory of Lithuania in Klaipėda and at the Prague Conservatory. He later taught at the State Conservatory in Vilnius. His Nonet was premiered in London in 1938, and he married Elena Šlevaitė in 1941. In 1944, they escaped from Lithuania and travelled through Poland into Germany, where they were finally rescued by American troops.

#11518

Art Porter Sr.

#182216

Overall Influence

1934 - 1993 (59 years)

Art Porter Sr. was an American jazz pianist from Little Rock, Arkansas. During his musical career, he performed with the Art Porter Trio, founded in 1962, and the Art Porter Singers, founded in 1976. Although primarily playing locally, Porter played FESTAC 77, the World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture held in Nigeria in 1977, and with saxophonist son Art Porter Jr. did a European tour in 1991 that included festivals in Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands.

#11519

Alyson Stoner

#172263

Overall Influence

1993 - Present (33 years)

Alyson Rae Stoner is an American actor, singer, and dancer. Their film roles include Cheaper by the Dozen , Cheaper by the Dozen 2 , and the Step Up franchise . Their television roles include serving as the host of Disney Channel's Mike's Super Short Show , playing Max in The Suite Life of Zack & Cody , voicing Isabella Garcia-Shapiro in Phineas and Ferb , and portraying Caitlyn in Camp Rock and Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam .

#11520

Ed Foster

#185879

Overall Influence

1949 - 2008 (59 years)

Edward Sanders Foster was an American columnist for InfoWorld, best remembered for his Gripelog column in InfoWorld, and his work opposing UCITA. Foster worked at InfoWorld as a reporter, writer, editor, and publication executive for over 20 years. In 1993 he launched his popular column, "The Gripe Line", which later became an ongoing blog.

#11521

Andy Middleton

#189132

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Andy Middleton is an American tenor and soprano jazz saxophonist. He has recorded with Ralph Towner, Dave Holland, Kenny Wheeler, Renee Rosnes, Jamey Haddad, Joey Calderazzo, and Alan Jones. Life and career

#11522

Marius Flothuis

Marius Flothuis

#180979

Overall Influence

1914 - 2001 (87 years)

Marius Flothuis, born and died in Amsterdam, was a Dutch composer, musicologist and music critic. Biography Flothuis first took courses at Vossius Gymnasium in Amsterdam. There he studied piano and music theory with . His musicology studies continued at the University of Amsterdam under the direction of Albert Smijers and . Flothuis graduated in 1969 with a thesis on the arrangements of the works of Mozart.

#11523

Robert Barry

#165850

Overall Influence

1932 - 2018 (86 years)

Robert Barry was an American jazz musician. He was a percussionist who played with Miles Davis, Gene Ammons, Fred Anderson and Johnny Griffin but was best known for his work with Sun Ra and The Sun Ra Arkestra.

#11524

Ted Puffer

#186567

Overall Influence

1928 - 2003 (75 years)

Merle "Ted" Puffer was an American singer, voice teacher and translator. He taught the mezzo-soprano Dolora Zajick when she was launching her career. With his wife Deena Puffer, he translated The Merry Widow into English, producing a libretto favored by some singers.

#11525

Andy McGhee

#183561

Overall Influence

1927 - 2017 (90 years)

Andy McGhee was a tenor saxophonist and educator. Career McGhee graduated from New England Conservatory in 1949 and worked for a short time with trumpeter Roy Eldridge and local Boston musician Fat Man Robinson. After marrying in 1950, he served in the Army in Korea and at Fort Dix, New Jersey where he played in an Army band and gave lessons to other musicians. From 1957–1963 he worked in Lionel Hampton's band, touring the United States, Europe, and the Far East. His composition "McGhee" can be found on The Many Sides of Lionel Hampton. McGhee worked with Woody Herman from 1963 to 1966.

#11526

Sumati Mutatkar

#153074

Overall Influence

1916 - 2007 (91 years)

Sumati Mutatkar was an Indian classical music vocalist and musicologist from the Agra gharana of Hindustani classical music, and a Professor of Department of Music in University of Delhi. She was awarded the highest award of the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama, for lifetime achievement, the 1979 Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship and the Padma Shri in 1999, by Government of India. She was also awarded the Kalidas Samman by the Government of Madhya Pradesh in 2001-2002.

#11527

Milan Turković

#179732

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Milan Turković is an Austrian classical bassoonist and conductor. He originates from an Austro-Croatian family, grew up in Vienna and became internationally known as one of the few bassoon soloists. Over the past two decades, he has become a successful conductor, making appearances all over the world.

#11528

Richard Johnston

#177773

Overall Influence

1917 - 1997 (80 years)

Richard Johnston was a Canadian composer, conductor, editor, folklorist, music critic, music educator, music producer, and university administrator of American birth. He became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 1957. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre, he was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in February 1997. The library at the University of Calgary holds a substantial amount of his papers, manuscripts, and transcripts in its "Richard Johnston Canadian Music Archives Collection". His original fieldwork tapes and transcripts made during his research as a folklorist are part of ...

#11529

Edin Velez

#114949

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Edin Velez is a Puerto Rican video artist, director and professor. He is best known for his work on the documentary films State of Rest and Motion and Dance of Darkness. Life and career Edin was born and raised in Puerto Rico and is currently based in New York. He studied painting at the University of Puerto Rico and the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture. He moved to the US in the early 1970s and became part of the first generation of video artists working in SoHo, Manhattan. His directorial debut documentary film on Japanese Butoh, Dance of Darkness, was broadcast nationally in the US by PBS....

#11530

Cynthia Phelps

#174684

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Cynthia Phelps is an American violist whose versatile career involves work as a chamber musician, solo artist, and orchestral musician. Phelps is currently the Principal Violist of the New York Philharmonic, a position to which she was appointed in 1992.

#11531

Luis Perdomo

#179750

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Luis Perdomo is an American jazz pianist and composer. Career His style is influenced by Bud Powell, Oscar Peterson, McCoy Tyner, Paul Bley and Herbie Hancock. From the age of 12, was playing on Venezuelan TV and radio stations. His first teacher was the Austrian-born jazz pianist Gerry Weil.

#11532

Larry Novak

#180220

Overall Influence

1933 - 2020 (87 years)

Lawrence R. Novak was an American jazz pianist. He was the father of drummer Gary Novak. Larry Novak was born in Chicago. He learned piano from age five and began playing jazz at 14. He studied at Loyola University Chicago and the University of Minnesota, followed by a stint playing in a military band in 1959-60. Novak led a trio ensemble at the London House in Chicago from 1961 to 1963 and then at Mr. Kelly's from 1963 to 1975, a gig he inherited from Marty Rubenstein. He was the musical director there for 12 years. During this time, he released the album Larry Novak Plays! on Dot Records, issued in 1964 with Count Basie bassist, Cleveland Eaton.

#11533

Sharon Sweet

#178413

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Sharon Sweet is an American dramatic soprano. Sharon Sweet has appeared in leading roles in several major venues in Europe and the United States and has made notable contributions to several recordings, in particular Lohengrin, Der Freischütz, Don Giovanni, and Il Trovatore. In 1999, she accepted a full-time teaching position at Westminster Choir College of Rider University. In a column in Opera News, Sweet stated that she made the move out of frustration with the current operatic scene which emphasized physical appearance over voice. She cited her struggles with Hashimoto's syndrome, a thyr...

#11534

John Reed

#185853

Overall Influence

1916 - 2010 (94 years)

John Lamb Reed, OBE was an English actor, dancer and singer, known for his nimble performances in the principal comic roles of the Savoy Operas, particularly with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. Reed has been called "the last great exponent" of the Gilbert and Sullivan comedy roles.

#11535

Yehuda Hanani

#172439

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Yehuda Hanani is an international soloist, recording artist, Israeli-American cellist and Professor of Violoncello at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Biography Hanani studied with Leonard Rose at Juilliard and with Pablo Casals. He has performed with orchestras such as the Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, BBC Welsh Symphony, Irish National Symphony, Buenos Aires Philharmonic, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony, Belgrade Philharmonic, Honolulu Symphony, Seoul Symphony, and I Solisti Zagreb among many others.

#11536

Donald Steven

#171746

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Donald Steven is a Canadian-American composer, music educator, and academic administrator. An associate composer of the Canadian Music Centre, he won a BMI Student Composer Award in 1970, the Canadian Federation of University Women's Golden Jubilee Creative Arts Award in 1972, the 1987 Juno Award for Classical Composition of the Year and the 1991 Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music . His musical compositions are characterized by their emphasis on instrumental colour and atmosphere. Perhaps his most well known piece is his Illusions for solo cello, which has been widely performed in conce...

#11537

Jim Jones

#173250

Overall Influence

1950 - 2008 (58 years)

James E. Jones was an experimental music artist, producer, and guitarist in the rock band Pere Ubu. Jones was a member of many experimental rock bands of the 1970s and 1980s including: Easter Monkeys, Foreign Bodies, Mirrors, The Styrenes, Electric Eels, Home And Garden, and Terminal Lovers. He later recorded and performed with local bands Speaker\Cranker, Noble Rot, and KNG NXN. Jones died of a heart attack on February 18, 2008 at the age of 57.

#11538

Jerry Bilik

#183000

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Jerry H. Bilik is an American composer, arranger, songwriter, conductor, and director of stage productions. Bilik studied with Tibor Serly who had been a student of Béla Bartók. He received a B.M.E. degree and a M.M. degree from the University of Michigan, which counts Bilik among its notable alumni.

#11539

Pablo Frasconi

#189168

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Pablo Frasconi is an independent filmmaker who has received numerous grants and fellowships regionally and nationally for film production, including from the National Endowment for the Arts, The National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Film Institute, and The Park Foundation. He teaches Editing; Creating Poetic Cinema; Nature, Design & Media; and, The Embedded Story: Designing Digital Landscapes and Languages, at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts [SCA], in Los Angeles.

#11540

Matt Scannell

#87713

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Matthew Bennett Scannell is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist. Scannell is the lead vocalist, lead guitarist, primary songwriter, and founding member of the alternative rock band Vertical Horizon.

#11541

Tom Brantley

#185282

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Tom Brantley is an American trombonist and academic. Early life and education Brantley was born in 1970 in Louisiana. He is a third-generation trombonist. Brantley earned music degrees from the University of Southern Mississippi and the University of North Texas . He majored in trombone performance at both schools. Brantley was taught by Neil Slater.

#11542

Chihchun Chi-sun Lee

#163345

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Chihchun Chi-sun Lee is a composer of contemporary classical music. Dr. Lee is originally from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and is currently an invited professor of composition at Ewha Womans University, in Seoul, Korea, She received a doctoral degree from the University of Michigan, two master's degrees from Ohio University, and a bachelor’s degree from Soochow University in Taiwan. Her teachers included William Albright, William Bolcom, Bright Sheng, and Loong-Hsing Wen. She has previously taught music at Johnson County Community College, Washburn University, Rhodes College, and the University of Mi...

#11543

Kiwan Sung

#184640

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Kiwan Sung is a Korean poet and musician. He is noted for his avant-garde, experimental poems in the literary world. He aims to write poetry that is completely different from any preexisting poems and has tried many experimental attempts, such as putting music and poetry together. Sung's major work is the poetry collection Rieul . He is currently working as a professor of sound art.

#11544

Horace Alexander Young

#176827

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Horace Alexander Young is an American saxophonist and flute player. He currently teaches woodwind instruments and jazz studies at Washington State University since 1998; in 2015, he was appointed to serve as chair of the Contemporary Music Program at Santa Fe University of Art and Design . He has performed alongside acts such as B.B. King, Bill Withers, Freddy Fender, Jonathan Butler, The Manhattans, McCoy Tyner, Nancy Wilson, Norman Brown, Regina Belle, Sam Hopkins and Toots Thielemans.

#11545

Alan Feinberg

#171846

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Alan Feinberg is an American classical pianist. He has premiered over 300 works by such composers as John Adams, Milton Babbitt, John Harbison, Charles Ives, Steve Reich, and Charles Wuorinen, as well as the premiere of Mel Powell's Pulitzer Prize winning Duplicates. He is an experienced performer of both classical and contemporary music and is well known for recitals that pair old and new music.

#11546

Leon Lee Dorsey

#186110

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Leon Lee Dorsey is an American jazz bassist, composer, arranger, producer, and educator known for his well-received debut for Landmark Records. He teaches at the Berklee School of Music in Boston. Raised by a family plugged into Pittsburgh’s jazz lineage, Dorsey began playing instruments at an early age. He picked up the piano and cello first, soon after joining the Pittsburgh Symphony at the famed Center for the Musically Talented.

#11547

David Haberly

#59287

Overall Influence

David T. Haberly is Professor of Portuguese at the University of Virginia. He holds an AB, MA, and PhD from Harvard University. He is a specialist on Brazilian literature and culture, but also has wide-ranging comparative interests in the nineteenth-century literatures of Latin America, the United States, and Spain.

#11548

Pamela Dellal

#179809

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Pamela Dellal is an American mezzo-soprano in opera and concert, a musicologist and academic teacher. She has performed classical music from the medieval Hildegard von Bingen to contemporary. She is on the faculty of the Boston Conservatory, Brandeis University, and the Longy School of Music of Bard College. She is known for having translated all texts that Johann Sebastian Bach set to music.

#11549

John Campbell

#185739

Overall Influence

1952 - 1993 (41 years)

John Allen Campbell was an American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Biography Campbell was born and grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States. His first group was the Texas-based electric power trio, Junction. Formed in 1973 in Corpus Christi, Texas, the band consisted of John on guitar and vocals, Tim Delaney on bass and vocals, and Jack "Satch" Haupt on drums and vocals. The trio disbanded two years later. Campbell cut his first album titled Street Suite around this same time.

#11550

Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir

#186276

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir is an Icelandic linguist. She is Professor of Second Language Studies at the University of Iceland, Director of the Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute of Foreign Languages and Dean of the Faculty of Languages and Cultures.

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