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#11651

Wolfgang Schweickard

#103394

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Wolfgang Schweickard is a German Romance studies scholar and lexicographer. His main research areas are history of Romance languages and lexicography. He is co-editor of the Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie and the yearbook Lexicographica. Current projects are the Deonomasticon Italicum , the Lessico etimologico italiano and the Dictionnaire étymologique des langues romanes .

#11652

Lewis A. Friedland

#189445

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

#11653

Winfried Bönig

#183104

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Winfried Bönig is a German organist. Bönig studied organ and church music at the Musikhochschule München with Franz Lehrndorfer from 1978 to 1984. He passed his A exam in 1982 with distinction. Afterwards he studied musicology in Augsburg . Between 1984 and 1998 he was organist of St. Josef in Memmingen. In 1998 he was appointed professor of organ at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne. Among his students is Ulrich Cordes. In 2001 he became organist of Cologne Cathedral.

#11654

Yu Min

#187428

Overall Influence

1916 - 1995 (79 years)

Yu Min was an influential Chinese linguist, a 1940 graduate of the Fu Jen Catholic University, Chinese Department, a former professor of Yenching University, and professor of Beijing Normal University. His primary research areas were Chinese historical linguistics, Sino-Tibetan comparison, the study of Sanskrit in Chinese transcription. His collected writings were published posthumously in 1999.

#11655

Dominic Alldis

#183954

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Dominic Alldis is a jazz pianist, orchestral conductor, and arranger. He is also a business speaker and founder of Music & Management. Early life Alldis was born into a family of classical musicians. His mother was a violinist and his father was choral conductor John Alldis. He was exposed early to classical repertoire, studying classical cello, piano, and organ, then conducting and composition.

#11656

László Sáry

#182403

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

László Sáry is a Hungarian composer and pianist. In the 1970s he began composing in a minimal style. He received recognition in 2002 for having created the scores for numerous animated works and was awarded a prize by the Kecskemét Animation Film Festival Jury for Best Music.

#11657

Luis Silva

#180761

Overall Influence

1943 - 2008 (65 years)

Luis Silva was a Tejano music songwriter, considered by music critics to have been one of the "most well-known and prolific songwriters in the history of Tejano music" and "one of the most influential and prolific songwriters and record label promoters in Tejano music history". Silva wrote two winning Tejano Music Awards for Song of the Year, won three consecutive times for Songwriter of the Year, and remains the most awarded songwriter for the Tejano Music Award for Single of the Year category. He is part of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers , and his songwriting care...

#11658

Michael Murphy

#185144

Overall Influence

1986 - Present (40 years)

Michael Sean D'Arcy Murphy is a New Zealand singer. He was runner-up of New Zealand Idol in 2004, behind Ben Lummis, who became his friend over the course of the contest. After NZ Idol, Michael Murphy had signed to BMG records. Murphy's first single debuted at No. 1 and stayed a while at the top of radio charts. He gained a gold status for No Place to Land, his debut album. He then toured New Zealand, singing to sold-out audiences. With 5star Fallout, Michael toured New Zealand, the U.S. and English pubs. He is now working on his solo project, with multi national management by ACTS Agency.

#11659

Phillip Crosby

#179788

Overall Influence

1934 - 2004 (70 years)

Phillip Lang Crosby was an American actor and singer. He was one of the four sons of Bing Crosby and Dixie Lee; the others were his older brother Gary, his twin brother Dennis, and his younger brother Lindsay. Phillip began his career singing alongside his three brothers and his father.

#11660

Angelina Danilova

Angelina Danilova

#184800

Overall Influence

1996 - Present (30 years)

Angelina Sergeyevna Danilova is a Russian singer, model, actress and TV personality based in South Korea. She made her solo singing debut with the digital single "As You Are" on January 17, 2020. She was the 2018 recipient of the Korea Image Flower Stone Award for her work on promoting Korea to the world.

#11661

Peter Wiley

#180864

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Peter Wiley is a cellist and cello teacher. He entered the Curtis Institute of Music at 13 years of age, where he studied with David Soyer. He was then appointed principal cellist of the Cincinnati Symphony at age 20, after one year in the Pittsburgh Symphony.

#11662

Mark Levin

#130737

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Mark Levin is an American film director and screenwriter. He has been a screenwriter, producer, and director in both television and film for over twenty years. He is mostly known for directing the films Little Manhattan and Nim's Island. He is married to his collaborator, the screenwriter and director Jennifer Flackett. They are the creators of The Man's Guide To Love, which began as a successful video blog offering man to man advice on the subject of love. The Man's Guide To Love book will be published by Simon & Schuster, and a feature film they are directing and producing alongside Lauren...

#11663

E. Wayne Abercrombie

#168376

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Everett Wayne Abercrombie is an American conductor and a Professor Emeritus of Music and Director of Choral Programs at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Abercrombie studied at Emory University and Westminster Choir College, earning the B.M. and M.M. degrees at the latter, as a student of Julius Herford, Nicholas Harsanyi, and Warren Martin. In 1974 he received the D. Mus. degree in Choral Conducting with Highest Honors from Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music, studying there with Julius Herford, Fiora Contino and Don Moses.

#11664

Stephanie Sant'Ambrogio

#186390

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Stephanie Sant'Ambrogio is an American violinist. She is assistant professor of violin and viola at the University of Nevada, Reno and served as concertmaster of the San Antonio Symphony from 1994 until 2007, during which time she appeared annually as soloist with the orchestra. Her father is cellist John Sant'Ambrogio.

#11665

Berj Zamkochian

#185603

Overall Influence

1930 - 2004 (74 years)

Berj Zamkochian was an Armenian-American organist. Biography He studied at the New England Conservatory of Music and eventually joined the faculty. In 1957, at the age of 27, he was appointed organist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Pops Orchestra. His recordings of Saint-Saëns' Organ Symphony and Poulenc's Organ Concerto with Charles Münch and the Boston Symphony Orchestra are regarded as classics. He performed for six American presidents, the Pope, the British Royal Family and the Imperial Family of Japan. Zamkochian also founded the Gomidas Organ fund, which donates organs to Armenia and Armenian churches in various parts of the world.

#11666

Steffi Scherzer

#189475

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Steffi Scherzer is a German ballet dancer, at the Berlin State Opera from 1975 to 2003, prima ballerina there from 1987, and director and instructor at the Tanz Akademie Zürich of the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste.

#11667

Eric Nelson

#131451

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Eric Nelson is an American choral conductor, clinician and composer. Education Nelson received his training in voice and choral conducting at Houghton College, Westminster Choir College and Indiana University.

#11668

Jon Finn

#173389

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Jonathan M. Finn is an American rock musician and guitarist. He is the founder and leader of the Jon Finn Group, and is a professor at the Berklee College of Music; he joined the guitar faculty there in 1988. He is also the author of several books on the guitar, and was an instructional columnist for Guitar magazine for three years.

#11669

Kenneth Tse

#164043

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Kenneth Tse 謝德驥 is a Chinese American classical saxophonist. Tse was mainly self-taught as a youth until he met world-renowned saxophone artist and pedagogue Eugene Rousseau in 1989. He then studied at the Indiana University School of Music with Rousseau from 1993 to 1998, where he received his BM, MM, and Artist Diploma. Rousseau has called him "a brilliant saxophonist, worthy of any stage in the world." Tse earned a doctorate degree at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign studying under saxophonist Debra Richtmeyer.

#11670

Karlheinz Essl Jr.

Karlheinz Essl Jr.

#180149

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Karlheinz Essl is an Austrian composer, performer, sound artist, improviser, and composition teacher. Biography Essl was born in Vienna. His studies at the University of Music in Vienna included: composition , electro-acoustic music and double bass. At the University of Vienna he studied musicology . In 1990-94 he was "composer in residence" at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, while in 1992-93 he worked on a commission at IRCAM in Paris. From 1992 to 2016, he was the music curator of the Essl Collection in Klosterneuburg/Vienna. Between 1995–2006 he taught Algorithmic compositio...

#11671

Nancy Galbraith

#183549

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Nancy Galbraith is an American postmodern/postminimalist composer. She is professor of composition at Carnegie Mellon University Biography Galbraith began playing piano at the age of four. She studied music at Ohio University , West Virginia University , and Carnegie Mellon University. She now teaches composition and music theory at Carnegie Mellon. She has had six works premiered with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and has a close relationship with the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, who premiered her choral works Missa Mysteriorum and Requiem. She has had works commissioned from several Latin American ensembles.

#11672

Lisa Moore

#168560

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Lisa Moore is an Australian/American internationally renowned pianist. Moore was born in Canberra, Australia, one of three children to an art historian and a prominent economist. Her early life included overseas travel, and by the age of 16, she had visited more than a dozen countries and lived in Sydney and London. Moore's development as an artist can be traced to her formative years in Canberra during the 1970s. A succession of "strange and interesting people" through her childhood included the Australian painter Charles Blackman. Moore was raised in both Australia and London . She studied ...

#11673

Lorraine Vaillancourt

Lorraine Vaillancourt

#185035

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Lorraine Vaillancourt, is a Canadian pianist and conductor living in Quebec. She was born in Arvida, Quebec and studied with Hélène Landry at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Québec and with Pierre Dervaux at the École Normale de Musique de Paris. Vaillancourt studied piano with Yvonne Loriod and Anne-Marie de Lavilléon-Verdier; she studied ondes Martenot with Jeanne Loriod. In 1970 she returned to the University of Montreal with the intention to learn from Serge Garant.

#11674

Michael Dussek

#186691

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Michael Dussek is an English pianist specialising in chamber music and song accompaniment. Education Dussek was educated at St John's College School, Cambridge and Radley College, where his piano teacher was Hugo Langrish. He studied at London's Royal Academy of Music with Alexander Kelly, Rex Stephens and John Streets. Dussek subsequently received private tuition from Greville Rothon and Geoffrey Parsons.

#11675

Rafael Minaskanian

#177216

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Rafael Minaskanian is an Iranian musician and pianist. He is the first artist whose classical piano recital has been broadcast on Iranian Television. Biography Rafael Minaskanian was born in Tehran to Armenian and music-loving families. His mother played the piano and his father the violin, and Rafael began playing music at the age of six. His first piano teacher was Ms. Hagh Nazarian and then he became a student of Emanuel Melik-Aslanian. He took the stage for the first time at the age of ten, and as a teenager performed the first classical piano recital live on the newly launched Iranian National Television.

#11676

Margaret Moncrieff

#179607

Overall Influence

1921 - 2008 (87 years)

Margaret Moncrieff was a Scottish cellist and author writing under the pseudonym Helen McClelland and writing novels in the Chalet School series. Early life In 1921, Moncrieff was born as Helen Margaret Moncrieff in Edinburgh, Scotland. Moncrieff's father was Alexander Moncrieff, Lord Moncrieff, and her mother was Helen Moncrieff .

#11677

Frank Speller

#187454

Overall Influence

Frank Newman Speller III, was an Associate Professor Emeritus of Organ at the University of Texas at Austin. He has appeared in recitals in Europe, the US, on National Public Radio, and in one national and three regional conventions of the American Guild of Organists.

#11678

Charles Ardai

#159038

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Charles Ardai is an American businessman, and writer of crime fiction and mysteries. He is founder and editor of Hard Case Crime, a line of pulp-style paperback crime novels. He is also an early employee of D. E. Shaw & Co. and remains a managing director of the firm. He was the former chairman of Schrödinger, Inc.

#11679

Laida Lertxundi

#188139

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

Laida Lertxundi is a Spanish artist, filmmaker and professor of fine arts based in the United States and the Basque Country. Biography Born in Bilbao, Spain, in 1981, she moved to study in the United States. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Bard College in New York and an MA from the California Institute of the Arts .

#11680

Roger Craig Vogel

#186919

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Roger Craig Vogel is an American composer of contemporary classical music and a music educator. Life The oldest of two children, Vogel was born in Cleveland, Ohio and graduated in 1965 from Lincoln High School in Cleveland Ohio. He studied music theory and composition at the Ohio State University in Columbus and earned the degrees of Bachelor of Music in composition in 1971, Master of Music in music theory in 1973, and in 1975 he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in music theory. His teachers included Marshall Barnes, Jay Huff, Norman Phelps, and Wolf Rosenberg. Although his graduate major ...

#11681

Salvador Carrasco

Salvador Carrasco

#163073

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Salvador Carrasco is a Mexican film director and professor, best known for his 1999 feature film The Other Conquest. He is a professor and head of the film program at Santa Monica College. Career Carrasco wrote and directed the film The Other Conquest, which was released in 1999 in Mexico and then rereleased for the United States in 2008. In 2002, Carrasco received the 2002-2003 Moseley Fellowship in Creative Writing at Pomona College. Carrasco was attached to direct a sequel to the film Dances with Wolves, but the project was not realized.

#11682

C. Curtis-Smith

#188354

Overall Influence

1941 - 2014 (73 years)

Curtis Curtis-Smith , better known as C. Curtis-Smith or C.C. Smith, was a modernist American composer and pianist. Education Curtis-Smith was born in Walla Walla, Washington, and received a bachelor's degree from Whitman College, where he studied with John Ringgold and David Burge. He received a Master of Music degree in piano at Northwestern University where he studied with Alan Stout and Guy Mombaerts. He pursued further studies at the University of Illinois with Kenneth Gaburo, the Tanglewood Music Center with Bruno Maderna, and in master classes at the Blossom Music Festival with Pierre Boulez.

#11683

Michael P. Hammond

#119703

Overall Influence

1932 - 2002 (70 years)

Michael P. Hammond was an American musician, educator, and eighth chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. Early life Hammond was a native of Kenosha, Wisconsin, and spent much of his childhood in Appleton, Wisconsin. He attended Appleton High School, where he graduated in 1950. He was selected to attend to the American Legion's Badger Boys State program and then went on to represent Wisconsin as one of three senators Boys Nation program in 1949 where he was elected president. Upon returning to Appleton, he was welcomed back by a parade from the train station to city hall.

#11684

Greg Landau

#86314

Overall Influence

Greg Landau is an American, San Francisco-based record and video producer, and an instructor of music and Latin American Studies focused on the social movements that produced revolutionary music and art. He has produced eight Grammy nominated records and has produced over 80 CDs and numerous film scores including serving as Music Supervisor of the film La Mission . He also produced the album "Songs from La Mission."

#11685

Paul Lee

#178136

Overall Influence

Paul Lee is a British director, producer and executive. He is currently the CEO of the television and movie studio . He founded the BBC's U.S. cable network BBC America and ran ABC Family, ABC Entertainment and ABC Studios for the Walt Disney Company. During his tenure, Lee is credited with championing racial diversity and changing the face of American television with hit shows including Black-ish, Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder, American Crime, The Goldbergs, Quantico and Fresh Off the Boat.

#11686

Daniel Epstein

#179752

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Daniel Epstein is an American pianist. Life A graduate of the Juilliard School, Epstein received international recognition when the conductor, Eugene Ormandy, invited him to perform with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1973. Later that year, in the wake of President Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China, and at the insistence of the American government, Ormandy and the Philadelphia became the first American orchestra to tour China. Ormandy chose Epstein to accompany him on this cultural mission. Before their departure, in an appearance at Saratoga Springs, Epstein gave the American...

#11687

Ray Ciarrocchi

#187309

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Ray Ciarrocchi is a New York-based figurative painter. Ciarrocchi has presented numerous solo exhibitions in New York, additional US cities and Italy as well as dozens of group exhibitions in varied locations and venues. His paintings, watercolors, drawings and monotypes are in many museum and private collections both nationally and abroad.

#11688

Satoko Inoue

#174810

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Satoko Inoue is a Japanese musician. Inoue is a concert pianist whose performance repertoire is mainly contemporary music. Inoue is also associate professor at the Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo.

#11689

Joyce Solomon Moorman

#189495

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Joyce Solomon Moorman is an American composer and educator. Biography Moorman was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on May 11, 1946, and grew up in Columbia, South Carolina. She attended segregated public schools through high school. Moorman earned a bachelor's degree from Vassar College in 1968 and in 1971, a masters of arts from Rutgers University. She earned a masters of fine arts from Sarah Lawrence College in 1975. In 1982, she earned her doctorate from Columbia University.

#11690

Martin Beaver

#170189

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Martin Beaver is a Canadian violinist. He was the first violinist of the Tokyo String Quartet from 2002 until its final season in 2013. As a part of the Tokyo String Quartet, he played the Paganini-Comte Cozio di Salabue violin on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation, part of the Paganini Quartet collection of instruments made by Antonio Stradivari. He currently performs on a violin made by Nicolò Bergonzi.

#11691

David Weber

#177594

Overall Influence

1913 - 2006 (93 years)

David Weber was an American classical clarinetist known for the beauty of his tone, his inspired playing, and his influential teaching of the clarinet. Early life David Weber was born in Vilna in present-day Lithuania and came to the United States in 1921. His family settled in Detroit. His parents were not musical, but he liked the sound of clarinet and took it up at the age of 11. While in high school, he studied under Roy Schmidt and Alberto Luconi, principal clarinetists of the Detroit Symphony. In 1933 Ossip Gabrilowitsch, then conductor of the Detroit Symphony, was impressed by Weber's playing and helped him get a New York Philharmonic Scholarship.

#11692

Volker Wangenheim

#177726

Overall Influence

1928 - 2014 (86 years)

Volker Wangenheim was a German conductor, composer and academic teacher. He was conductor of the orchestra in Bonn from 1957, shaping the orchestra and opening the new concert hall Beethovenhalle in 1959 after which the orchestra was named from 1963. He was also co-founder and conductor of the Bundesjugendorchester, and professor at the Musikhochschule Köln.

#11693

José L. Domingo

#108698

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

José Luis Domingo is a Spanish toxicologist and distinguished professor of toxicology at Rovira i Virgili University. Education and career Domingo attended the University of Barcelona, from which he received two chemistry degrees: an undergraduate degree in 1972 and a doctorate in 1982. In 1991, he became a full professor of toxicology at the University of Barcelona; two years later, he assumed the same position at Rovira i Virgili University. In 2006, he was named a distinguished professor by Rovira i Virgili University.

#11694

John Campbell

#188308

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

John Campbell is an American jazz pianist. Campbell was born in Bloomington, Illinois. He studied piano privately as a youth, then attended University High School . He briefly attended Illinois State University where he was known nearly as well for his vibes work as for his piano playing. In the 1970s, he moved to Chicago, then to New York City in the 1980s. He has worked with Buddy DeFranco, Terry Gibbs, Stan Getz, Eddie Harris, James Moody, Charles McPherson, Clark Terry, and Mel Tormé. Campbell has recorded as a soloist on John Campbell at Maybeck and in various trios, such as After Hour...

#11695

Georg Ruby

#189329

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Georg Ruby is a German jazz pianist, composer and arranger. He is also the founder of the record label . Ruby has recorded several albums with Michel Pilz. The New York City Jazz Record ranked their Deuxième Bureau "The Album of the Year 2011".

#11696

Mart Kangur

#115281

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Mart Kangur is an Estonian poet, translator and philosopher. From 1991 to 2005, he attended at Estonian Institute of Humanities, studying languages, literary theory, philosophy and Oriental studies.

#11697

Ed Osborn

#188654

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Ed Osborn is an American sound artist and visual artist. Life Osborn was born in 1964 in Helsinki, Finland. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University in 1987, where he studied with Alvin Lucier, and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Mills College in 1993. Osborn lives in Providence, Rhode Island and is an associate professor of art at Brown University.

#11698

Joseph Fitzmartin

#173273

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Joseph P. Fitzmartin is an American composer and arranger. He is one of the founders and the Music Director of the Keystone State Boychoir as well as Choral Director at the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia.

#11699

Reinbert Evers

#187124

Overall Influence

1949 - 2022 (73 years)

Reinbert Evers is a German classical guitarist, specialising in contemporary music. Career Evers was born in Dortmund. He first studied in Düsseldorf with Maritta Kersting, then in Vienna with Karl Scheit. In 1976, he was appointed Professor of Guitar at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold, Dep. Münster, and in 1980 he received the Young Artists Award from the City of Dortmund. In 1998 and 2000 he was lecturer in guitar at the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music. He has served since 1995 as Dean of the Hochschule für Musik Detmold. He is founder and artistic director of the "Eu...

#11700

Matthew Washington Kennedy

#180820

Overall Influence

1921 - 2014 (93 years)

Matthew Washington Kennedy was an American classical pianist, professor, choral director, composer, and arranger of Negro Spirituals. He is widely known as the director of the historic Fisk Jubilee Singers of Nashville, Tennessee from 1957 to 1986.

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