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List of the most influential people in Communications,

#11551

Caroline Smith

#119563

Overall Influence

Caroline L. Smith is an American linguist and Professor at the Department of Linguistics at the University of New Mexico. She is known for her works on phonology and is a founding member of the Association for Laboratory Phonology.

#11552

Nikolay Peyko

#177170

Overall Influence

1916 - 1995 (79 years)

Nikolay Ivanovich Peyko or Peiko was a Russian and Soviet composer and professor of composition. Early life Peyko began his music education at the Academic Music College from 1933 through 1937 where his teachers included Igor Vladimirovich Sposobin and Genrik Litinsky . This was followed by three years of training at the Moscow Conservatory where his teachers included Nikolay Myaskovsky , Nikolai Rakov , and Zukkerman . He graduated in 1940.

#11553

Michael Radulescu

Michael Radulescu

#179450

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Michael Radulescu is a Romanian-German composer, organist, and professor. He was born to a Romanian father and a German mother. He studied with Anton Heiller and Hans Swarowsky at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria.

#11554

Ruth Nye

#187404

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

Ruth Nye MBE is an Australian pianist and teacher, based in the United Kingdom. Ruth Nye, born Ruth Farren-Price, sister of fellow pianist Ronald Farren-Price, grew up in Australia where she attended Methodist Ladies' College in Melbourne.

#11555

Bern Herbolsheimer

#181778

Overall Influence

1948 - 2016 (68 years)

Bern Herbolsheimer was an American composer. Biography Bern Herbolsheimer received recognition throughout the United States and Europe for over 500 works ranging from ballet to symphonic, operatic, chamber and choral works. His numerous major commissions and premieres included ballets for the Frankfurt Ballet, the Atlanta Ballet, the Pacific Northwest Ballet, and the Eugene Ballet. His first opera, Aria da Capo, won first prize in the National Opera Association's New Opera Competition. Mark Me Twain, his second opera, was commissioned and premiered in 1993 by the Nevada Opera for its Silver Anniversary season.

#11556

Mantas Kvedaravičius

#184537

Overall Influence

1976 - 2022 (46 years)

Mantas Kvedaravičius was a Lithuanian filmmaker, anthropologist, and archaeologist known for war reporting in hostile areas. He was killed during the Siege of Mariupol. Life and career Kvedaravičius held a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Cambridge, and was an associate professor at Vilnius University. His doctoral thesis concerned "Knots of absence: death, dreams, and disappearances at the limits of law in the counter-terrorism zone of Chechnya" . War-torn Chechnya, one of the republics of the Russian Federation, is also the setting of his 2011 documentary film, Barzakh .

#11557

Natalia Shakhovskaya

#170535

Overall Influence

1935 - 2017 (82 years)

Natalia Shakhovskaya , PAU, was a Soviet and Russian cellist. She studied cello at the Gnessin School of Music and later at the Moscow Conservatory under the tutorship of Semyon Kozolupov. She finished her education at the aforementioned music conservatory with Mstislav Rostropovich.

#11558

Peggy Hubicki

#188021

Overall Influence

1915 - 2006 (91 years)

Margaret Olive Hubicki MBE was an English composer and teacher of musical harmony, who invented the Colour-Staff method to help people with dyslexia to read music. Life Hubicki was born Margaret Mullins in Hampstead, London on 2 July 1915. Her mother was Scottish and her father English. She studied piano and composition at the Royal Academy of Music with Benjamin Dale, winning the gold medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians, and at her graduation recital in 1934 performed a sonata of her own composition.

#11559

Apostol Trpeski

#188486

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Apostol Trpeski is a Macedonian cinematographer. Biography Trpeski was born on September 6, 1948, in Tetovo, SFR Yugoslavia . He graduated from the Academy for theater, film and television art – Cinematography Department at the University of Zagreb, Croatia.

#11560

Vladimir Krainev

#177279

Overall Influence

1944 - 2011 (67 years)

Vladimir Krainev was a Russian pianist and professor of piano, People's Artist of the USSR. Biography Krainev was born in Krasnoyarsk, the son of musician Vsevolod Krainev and pediatrician Rachil Gerschoig.

#11561

Caroline Phillips

#171300

Overall Influence

Caroline Phillips is an Australian visual artist who has exhibited works in Australia and internationally in the areas of sculpture, and photography. Phillips' works deploy industrial and textile based materials to critique contemporary feminist aesthetics, through modes of abstraction and materiality.

#11562

Marta Lambertini

#169262

Overall Influence

1937 - 2019 (82 years)

Marta Lambertini was an Argentine composer. She was born in San Isidro, Buenos Aires, and studied at the Universidad Catolica Argentina with Roberto Caamano, Luis Gianneo and Gerardo Gandini, graduating in 1972. She continued her studies in electroacoustic music in Buenos Aires, at the Centro de Investigationes de la Ciudad with Francisco Kröpfl, Gerardo Gandini, José Maranzano and Gabriel Brncic.

#11563

Susan Addison

#189084

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Susan "Sue" Addison is an English performer and professor of the sackbut, tenor trombone, and other early trombones. She specializes in playing historical music using authentic instruments of the age. She was a founding member and performed as the principal trombone player for the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

#11564

Cheryl Thompson

#187800

Overall Influence

Cheryl Thompson is a Canadian academic known for studying the Black beauty industry and blackface in Canada. She is an assistant professor at Toronto Metropolitan University in the school of performance.

#11565

Frederick C. Tillis

#171221

Overall Influence

1930 - 2020 (90 years)

Frederick Charles Tillis was an American composer, jazz saxophonist, poet, and music educator at the collegiate level. Early life Growing up Born in Galveston, Texas on January 5, 1930, Frederick Tillis was raised by his mother, Zelma Bernice Gardner, Tillis , his stepfather, General Gardner, and his maternal grandparents, Willie Tillis and Jessie Tillis-Hubbard .

#11566

Sara Davis Buechner

#177642

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Sara Davis Buechner is an American concert pianist and educator currently based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Career Buechner was born in Baltimore, Maryland, where she studied with Veronika Wolf Cohen, Reynaldo Reyes, and Mieczyslaw Münz. She graduated high school from Friends School of Baltimore in 1976 one year early. She attended the Juilliard School as a pupil of Czech pianist Rudolf Firkusny and later worked with both Byron Janis and Paul Badura-Skoda. In her twenties, she won major prizes at the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium International Piano Competition , the Leeds International Piano...

#11567

Klaus Ager

#178431

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Klaus Ager is an Austrian composer and conductor. Born in Salzburg, Ager studied piano, composition, and conducting at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and musicology at Salzburg University. He continued his studies in composition with Pierre Schaeffer and Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatoire. From 1975 to 1986 he directed the Österreichische Ensemble für Neue Musik . From 1995 to 2000 he was rector of the Mozarteum Hochschule in Salzburg Beginning in 2000, Ager dedicated himself primarily to working as a guest composer and lecturer in South and North America, and to campaigning throughout Europe for an improved standing for composers.

#11568

András Mihály

#184587

Overall Influence

1917 - 1993 (76 years)

András Mihály [ˈɒndraːʃ ˈmihaːj] was a Hungarian cellist, composer and academic teacher. Life Mihály was born in Budapest. He studied there at the Franz Liszt Academy: cello with Adolf Schiffer, chamber music with Leó Weiner and Imre Waldbauer, and composition in private lessons with Pál Kadosa and . In 1946, he was the principal cellist of the Budapest Opera and in 1950 a professor of chamber music at the Franz Liszt Academy. He then became a musical advisor for the radio . In 1967, he founded the Budapest Chamber Ensemble, dedicated to the repertoire of contemporary music, and from 1978 to 1987 he was the director of the Budapest Opera.

#11569

Olle Engstrand

#187663

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Karl Erik Olof Engstrand is Professor Emeritus of Phonetics at Stockholm University. See also History of PhoneticsBibliography : "Fonetikens grunder", Lund: Studentlitteratur, 2004 "Fonetik light", Lund: Studentlitteratur, 2007 "Hur låter svenskan, ejengklien?" Stockholm: Norstedts, 2012 "Kan du säga Schweiz?" En bok om uttal på svenska och utländska. Stockholm: Morfem, 2016 "Hundra nyanser av indoeuropeiska – om moderspråket och hennes döttrar", Stockholm: Morfem, 2019 "Skriften – vår bästa uppfinning", Stockholm: Morfem, 2022 "Operation Spion – Mutti kommer bort", Stockholm: Lava, 20...

#11570

Lynn Seaton

#177310

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Lynn Seaton is a jazz bassist associated with bebop and swing. He has appeared on over 125 albums, including Nirvana by Bucky Pizzarelli, and the Grammy Award winning Diane Schuur & the Count Basie Orchestra. He has also recorded as a leader on releases such as Bassman's Basement and Zoom Blewz.

#11571

Robert Black

#179533

Overall Influence

1956 - 2023 (67 years)

Robert Alan Black was an American double bassist, electric bassist, improvisor, and educator. Life and career Black was born on March 16, 1956. A student of Gary Karr, Black performed with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, the Ciompi and Miami String Quartets and the orchestras of the Monadock and Moab Festivals. He was a founding member of the Bang on a Can All Stars. As a solo and chamber musician, Black collaborated with and commissioned artists as diverse as John Cage, Evan Ziporyn, Julia Wolfe, Michael Gordon, David Lang, Meredith Monk, and DJ Spooky, amidst a slew of others.

#11572

Anjali Monteiro

Anjali Monteiro

#187556

Overall Influence

Anjali Monteiro is a documentary filmmaker, media educator and researcher who lives in Mumbai. She is currently Professor and Dean at the School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Jointly with K.P. Jayasankar, she has made around thirty-five documentary films on various subjects.

#11573

David Froom

#177878

Overall Influence

1951 - 2022 (71 years)

David Froom was an American composer and college professor. Froom taught at the University of Utah, the Peabody Institute, and the University of Maryland, College Park, and he was on the faculty at St. Mary's College of Maryland from 1989 until his death in 2022. He has received awards and honors from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, , the Fromm Foundation at Harvard, the Koussevitzky Foundation of the Library of Congress, the Barlow Foundation, and was a five-time recipient of an Individual Artist Award from the State of Maryland.

#11574

Lawrence Dutton

#172866

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Lawrence Dutton is an American violist, and a member of the Emerson String Quartet. He earned a bachelor's and master's degree from the Juilliard School where he studied with Lillian Fuchs. He is on the faculty of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings, and at the Manhattan School of Music. Dutton has been the artistic advisor of the Hoch Chamber Music Series since 2001. He collaborated with the late Isaac Stern in the International Chamber Music Encounters both in Jerusalem, Israel and Carnegie Hall. In 2015 the State University of New York B...

#11575

Bogusław Linda

#177461

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Bogusław Linda is a Polish actor known from films such as Psy and Tato. He appeared in Andrzej Wajda's Man of Iron and Danton and in Krzysztof Kieślowski's Blind Chance and the seventh episode of Kieślowski's Dekalog. He is regarded as one of the most popular Polish film actors.

#11576

Isa Soares

#67820

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Isa Soares is a Brazilian-born Argentine dancer and activist involved in creating awareness of the African traditions of Argentina and fighting racism against Afro-Argentine peoples. She was one of the pioneers in developing African dance interpretation and instruction in Argentina.

#11577

Folayemi Wilson

#184529

Overall Influence

Folayemi "Fo" Debra Wilson is an American interdisciplinary artist, designer, and academic administrator. Her practice includes work as a furniture designer and maker, installation artist, muralist, and graphic designer. Wilson is the first associate dean for access and equity in the Penn State College of Arts and Architecture.

#11578

Mūza Rubackytė

#159882

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Mūza Rubackytė is a Lithuanian pianist, currently residing in Vilnius, Paris and Geneva. Rubackytė has been awarded the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas, Lithuanian Muzes, and has been named as the National Artist of Lithuania.

#11579

Bruce Hayes

#189256

Overall Influence

#11580

Kevin Max

#169603

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Kevin Max Smith is an American singer, songwriter, and poet. He is best known for being a member of the Christian pop group dc Talk. As a solo artist following the band going on hiatus, he has recorded 12 full-length studio albums, including a Christmas album. From 2012 until 2014, he was the lead singer of the band Audio Adrenaline.

#11581

Fujita Haruko

#183183

Overall Influence

1918 - 2001 (83 years)

Fujita Haruko was a Japanese pianist, teacher, music critic, and jurist. Born to a family of jurists, she became one of the leading Japanese pianists of the 1930s. After the Pacific War she turned from music to jurisprudence, becoming one of the first female students enrolled at University of Tokyo. In later life she primarily worked as an academic, music critic, and constitutional scholar.

#11582

David Sanford

#180348

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

David William Sanford is an American composer who is also a jazz bandleader. Biography Sanford was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1963, into a musical family. His parents and one of his grandfathers were choir leaders, his other grandfather was a jazz trumpeter, and his great-grandmother Mozie Bass had composed songs, and music for church pageants; he also has a brother who is a music teacher and singer in Colorado, where the family moved.

#11583

Harald Specht

#178543

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Harald Specht is a German scientist and author. He published the first German monograph on issues of cold shortening and electrical stimulation, but he became mainly known for his books about Jesus of Nazareth and early Christianity in which he doubts the historicity of Jesus of Nazareth. He also argues that the development of Christianity is a result of religious and political disputes on the basis of ancient pagan sources.

#11584

Ewa Kupiec

#179306

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Ewa Kupiec is a Polish classical pianist. In 1992 she won the ARD Music Competition in the piano/cello category. In 2005 she performed Schnittke’s First Piano Concerto with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra at the Berlin Konzerthaus, the first performance of the concerto since 1964. Since 2011 she has been a professor at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover.

#11585

Timothy Mahr

#170574

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Timothy Mahr is a professor of music at St. Olaf College, and an American composer and conductor. Early life Mahr was born in Reedsburg, Wisconsin. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree in Theory and Composition in 1977 and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Education in 1978, both from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. In 1983 he completed a Master's degree at the University of Iowa in Trombone Performance. He completed his doctorate Musical Arts in Instrumental Conducting in 1995, also at the University of Iowa. Currently, he is a professor of music at St. Olaf College and conductor of the St.

#11586

Umberto Riva

#172258

Overall Influence

1928 - 2021 (93 years)

Umberto Riva was an Italian architect, designer and painter. Further reading

#11587

Nicholas Milton

#83020

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Nicholas Christopher Milton is an Australian conductor and violinist. Career Milton studied violin with Gillian McIntyre, Robert Pikler and Harry Curby, graduating from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. He accepted a scholarship at Michigan State University, where he studied violin, conducting, music theory, and Eastern philosophy. He lectured at Boston University and the Juilliard School, and was artist-in-residence at the City University of New York.

#11588

David Hickman

#169341

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

David Hickman has been writing, producing and directing single documentaries and series for broadcast television in the United Kingdom and internationally for the last twenty years. He is also a cinematographer, having worked on 16- and 35-mm film, as well as a variety of video and HD formats – shooting drama and non-fiction.

#11589

Earl MacDonald

#174473

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Earl MacDonald is a Canadian pianist, composer, arranger, conductor, recording artist, and educator specializing in jazz. Described as "a magical, musical alchemist of hip hybrids", MacDonald's compositional work frequently draws upon other musical styles, fusing them with jazz. The Winnipeg native has been employed as director of jazz studies at the University of Connecticut since the fall of 2000.

#11590

Michael Schnitzler

#163539

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Michael Schnitzler is an Austrian American ecologist and musician. Concert violinist and professor Michael Schnitzler was born to Austrian parents, Heinrich and Lilly Schnitzler , née Strakosch-Feldringen, the daughter of the sugar industrialist Siegfried Strakosch, who fled from the country after the Anschluss in 1938. He is also the grandson of the Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler. In 1959 the family moved back to Vienna, where he studied violin at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. At the age of 15 he played in the Vienna State Opera and the Vienna Philharmonic as a substitute, and from 1967 to 1983 he was first concertmaster of the Vienna Symphony.

#11591

Richard Grayson

#169391

Overall Influence

1941 - 2016 (75 years)

Richard Grayson was an American composer and pianist. Biography Richard Grayson was born in New York on March 25, 1941. He received his PhD in composition from UCLA in 1969—only the third person to receive a UCLA music Ph.D., after Michael Zearott and Edward Applebaum—and in the same year joined the music faculty of Occidental College, where he taught until his retirement in 2001. His 32 years of annual keyboard improvisation concerts, in which he improvised based on audience requests, were a highlight of that college's concert season. He is also a composer of instrumental and vocal music as well as of live electronic music.

#11592

Ken'ichiro Kobayashi

Ken'ichiro Kobayashi

#156102

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Ken'ichiro Kobayashi is a Japanese conductor and composer. In Japan he is known among his fans as “Kobaken.” Biography Born in Iwaki, Fukushima, Kobayashi's father was a high school music teacher, and mother was a primary school teacher. Kobayashi started composing music at the age of 11, studied composition and conducting under Mareo Ishiketa , Kazuo Yamada , and Akeo Watanabe at Tokyo University of the Arts.

#11593

Carlin Glynn

#182191

Overall Influence

1940 - 2023 (83 years)

Carlin Elizabeth Glynn was an American singer and actress. Most notable for her work as a theater performer, she is best known for her Tony Award-winning performance, as Mona Stangley, in the original 1978 production of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. She is also known for her roles in John Hughes' Sixteen Candles and Peter Masterson's The Trip to Bountiful , which is based on the play if the same name, by Horton Foote. Glynn was the mother of actress Mary Stuart Masterson.

#11594

Joris Teepe

#183791

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Joris Teepe is a Dutch jazz bassist, composer, arranger, and big-band leader. He plays contemporary jazz, bebop, and free jazz. Biography Teepe studied at the Conservatory of Amsterdam. In 1992 the left-handed bassist moved to New York City, where he recorded his first album as a leader in 1993, with the American tenor saxophone player Don Braden as co-leader, with sidemen trumpeter Tom Harrell, pianist, Cyrus Chestnut and Carl Allen on drums. A second album of a very similar group was released in 1996. After this he played and recorded with several groups: a trio and groups that almost always included Don Braden.

#11595

Charles Wilson

#181567

Overall Influence

2000 - 2022 (22 years)

Charles Martin Wilson was a Scottish journalist and newspaper executive. Early life and education Charles Martin Wilson was born in Glasgow on 18 August 1935, and educated at Eastbank Academy in the east end of the city.

#11596

Karl E. H. Seigfried

#172465

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Karl E. H. Seigfried is a German–American jazz, rock, and classical bassist, guitarist, composer, bandleader, writer and educator based in Chicago. Seigfried has performed and taught on the double bass "in virtually all musical styles – from classical to avant garde jazz." His projects in Chicago and his wide-ranging collaborations have largely been centered on an effort to promote multiculturalism in music. Critics have compared his double bass approach to those of Malachi Favors, Henry Grimes, Charlie Haden, Charles Mingus, and Sirone.

#11597

Temple Painter

#185791

Overall Influence

1933 - 2016 (83 years)

Temple Painter was an American harpsichordist and organist. He was born in 1933 in Pulaski, Virginia. Temple Painter performed as solo organist with members of the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center under Hermann Scherchen, as harpsichord soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy, and as solo harpsichordist for the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. He performed as solo pianist, harpsichordist and organist with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, and concertized extensively in the United States, Europe and Israel.

#11598

Tom Lopez

#182011

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Tom Lopez is an American composer of electronic music. He serves as Director of the Computer Music Program at The Walden School. Lopez is best known for his extensive history with the TIMARA Labs at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.

#11599

Suzanne Baker

#177783

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Suzanne Dale Baker is an Australian film producer, print and television journalist, writer, historian and feminist. In 1977, she became the first Australian woman to win an Academy Award, winning for the animated short film Leisure in the category Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

#11600

Nigel Linge

#146597

Overall Influence

Nigel Linge is Professor of Telecommunications at the University of Salford. He is a specialist in computer networking and telecommunications heritage. Early life Linge was educated at Wolsingham Comprehensive School and then at the University of Salford where he obtained a degree in Electronics in 1983. He subsequently completed his PhD there in 1987 for a thesis on the subject of "The interconnection of local area networks using bridges".

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