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#11751

Steven Ansell

#188744

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Steven A. Ansell is an American violist whose versatile career involves work as a chamber musician, solo artist, and orchestral musician. Ansell is currently principal violist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a position he has held since September 1996. Prior to his appointment, Ansell had already appeared with the orchestra as a guest soloist. Ansell also currently teaches at the Boston University College of Fine Arts and is a member of the Boston Symphony Chamber Players. Ansell is also a founding member of the Muir String Quartet.

#11752

Kristi Allik

#179170

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Kristi Allik is a Canadian music educator and composer. Biography Born Kristi Anne Allik on 6 February 1952 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and received a Bachelor of Music from the University of Toronto, a Master of Fine Arts degree from Princeton University and doctorate from the University of Southern California. She studied composition under John Weinzweig, Oskar Morawetz, Lothar Klein, Gustav Ciamaga, James Hopkins, Frederick Leseman and Milton Babbitt.

#11753

Roger Copeland

#174511

Overall Influence

Roger Copeland is emeritus professor of theater and dance at Oberlin College where he taught History of Western Theatre among other classes. He enjoyed lecturing on the Choric Dithyramb. Publications His essays about theater, film, and dance have appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, The Village Voice, Film Comment, Partisan Review, and American Theatre. His books include What Is Dance? and Merce Cunningham: The Modernizing of Modern Dance.

#11754

Betty Olivero

#174133

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Betty Olivero is an Israeli music educator and composer. Biography Olivero was born in Tel Aviv, Israel to parents Dora Kapon and Eli Olivero. She graduated with a Bachelor in Music from the Rubin Academy of Music at Tel Aviv University in 1978, where she studied with Ilona Vincze-Kraus for piano and Yizhak Sadai and Leon Schidlowsky for composition. She continued her studies at Yale University where she studied under Jacob Druckman, Bernard Rands and Gilbert Amy, and graduated with a Masters in Music in 1981.

#11755

Karl Gottfried Brunotte

Karl Gottfried Brunotte

#180082

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Karl Gottfried Brunotte is a German composer and music philosopher, particularly noted for his contributions to church music. Life Brunotte finished school in Bad Homburg . He studied music sociology, music psychology, ancient languages, aesthetics, piano, organ, harpsichord, violin, viola, recorder, singing, conducting, and musical composition, as well as electronic music, with Heinz Werner Zimmermann, Lothar Hoffmann-Erbrecht, Hans Peter Haller, Gottfried Michael Koenig, and Karlheinz Stockhausen.

#11756

Uroš Lajovic

#168980

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Uroš Lajovic is a Slovenian conductor. He has served as guest conductor, permanent conductor, artistic director and artistic advisor at numerous prominent European orchestras. Career Uroš Lajovic, born on July 4, 1944, in Slovenia studied composition and conducting in his home town Ljubljana. In the years 1975 to 1979 he was the chief conductor of the RTV Chamber Orchestra. After having studied with Prof. Bruno Maderna at Mozarteum in Salzburg he continued at Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna, Austria with Prof. Hans Swarowsky in whose class Lajovic received a master's degree with honors.

#11757

Benjamin F. Logan

#110864

Overall Influence

1927 - 2015 (88 years)

Benjamin Franklin "Tex" Logan, Jr. was an American electrical engineer and bluegrass music fiddler. Born in Coahoma, Texas, Logan earned a B.Sc. in electrical engineering at Texas Tech University, then Texas Technological College, in Lubbock, Texas, studied for a B.Sc. in engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology , and completed a M.Sc. . He then moved to New Jersey where he joined Bell Labs and started his doctoral studies at Columbia University. There he earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering with his dissertation "Properties of High-Pass Signals" . Logan joined the communic...

#11758

Jack Reilly

#188185

Overall Influence

1932 - 2018 (86 years)

Jack Aloysius Reilly was an American jazz pianist. Career Reilly was born in Staten Island, New York. At age 7, he began classical piano and gave his first recital while still in grammar school. During his teens, he formed a jazz band in high school. This proved to be pivotal in his choice of Jazz as the major musical force in his life. He played in a U.S. Navy band while stationed in Puerto Rico from 1951 to 1953 and it was there that he met Bill Evans. After military duty, Jack received a four year scholarship to the Manhattan School of Music majoring in piano and composition. At school he...

#11759

Alex Mullen

#130434

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (44 years)

Alex Mullen is an ancient historian, sociolinguist and Roman archaeologist. She is currently Professor of Ancient History and Sociolinguistics at the University of Nottingham and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

#11760

Walter Klingner

#187967

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Walter Klingner is a German oboist and cor anglais player. Life Born in Gotha, Klingner studied oboe with Axel Schmidt at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar. He now works there as a lecturer.

#11761

Katherine Stenholm

#175933

Overall Influence

1917 - 2015 (98 years)

Katherine Corne Stenholm was an American film director and the founding director of Unusual Films, the production company of Bob Jones University. Biography Katherine Corne was born and reared in Hendersonville, North Carolina. As a high school student during the Depression, she supplemented her family's income by writing movie reviews for a local newspaper. Rejecting a college scholarship to Wellesley, Corne attended the fledgling Bob Jones College in Cleveland, Tennessee, after an evangelist convinced her that a Christian young person should attend a Christian college. At BJC, she majore...

#11762

Edwin Semzaba

#178706

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Edwin Semzaba was a Tanzanian novelist, playwright, actor and director. He wrote his works mainly in Swahili. He taught in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where he taught, among other courses, creative writing and acting. He won the first award of East African Writers awarded by the Institute of Swahili Research for his novel Funke Bugebuge and the "grandchildren's adventure book writing competition" awarded by the Swedish Embassy in Tanzania .

#11763

Dennis Tirpak

#187330

Overall Influence

Dennis Tirpak is a climate change scientist. Tirpak was the director of the Global Climate Change Policy Division at the United States Environmental Protection Agency from 1984–1992. He was the coordinator of science and technology at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change for nine years. He was the head of the climate change unit at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development for three years.

#11764

Marques Houston

Marques Houston

#176746

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

Marques Barrett Houston is an American R&B singer, songwriter, dancer, model and actor. A member of the R&B group Immature/IMx from 1990 until 2002, Houston went solo in 2003. As an actor, he is known for his role as Roger Evans in the television comedy Sister, Sister. As a solo artist, Houston has released a number of successful studio albums that went platinum in the United States.

#11765

Jim Ward

#125204

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

James David Ward is an American musician. A self-taught guitarist and pianist, he is the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the band Sparta; he is also a co-founder of the post-hardcore band At the Drive-In, which he formed in 1994.

#11766

Gertrude Pitzinger

#184312

Overall Influence

1904 - 1997 (93 years)

Gertrude Pitzinger was a German contralto appearing in concert, especially singing Lieder. She taught at the music universities of Hannover and Frankfurt. Career Born in Mährisch-Schönberg, then in Austria-Hungary, Pitzinger studied in Vienna at the Musikakademie. She graduated in 1926 as music teacher. She studied singing Lieder with Julia Culp, and then moved to Reichenberg , where she performed in oratorios and in concerts. A first recital of Lieder at the Berliner Singakademie brought her wider recognition. She performed in Hans Pfitzners Von deutscher Seele. Wilhelm Furtwängler performed...

#11767

Sumi Tonooka

#182628

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Sumi Tonooka is an American jazz pianist and composer. Life She had an African-American father and a Japanese-American mother. She earned her B.A, in music from the Philadelphia College of Performing Arts.

#11768

Alexander Kelly

#184102

Overall Influence

1929 - 1996 (67 years)

Alexander Kelly was a British pianist, composer and former head of keyboard studies at the Royal Academy of Music. Kelly studied piano with Harold Craxton and composition with Sir Lennox Berkeley on a James Caird scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music.

#11769

Stuart Hamilton

#184066

Overall Influence

1929 - 2017 (88 years)

Robert Stuart Hamilton, CM, Hon. LL.D, A.R.C.T. was an award-winning Canadian accompanist, vocal coach, and opera producer based in Toronto. He was a well-known advocate of post-Baroque French opera. He was recognized nationally for his work as the longtime quiz master for CBC Radio’s Saturday Afternoon at the Opera, he taught opera repertoire and diction at the University of Toronto.

#11770

Jan Müller-Wieland

Jan Müller-Wieland

#183018

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Jan Müller-Wieland is a German composer and conductor of classical music and an academic teacher. He is known for his operas. Career Müller-Wieland studied at the Musikhochschule Lübeck, composition with Friedhelm Döhl, double bass with Willi Beyer and conducting with Günther Behrens. He studied composition with Hans Werner Henze in Cologne and Rome, and Oliver Knussen in the Tanglewood Music Center.

#11771

Dieter Acker

#188039

Overall Influence

1940 - 2006 (66 years)

Dieter Acker was a German composer born in Sibiu, Romania. Career Dieter Acker studied composition with Sigismund Toduță. In 1969, Acker moved from Transylvania to Germany for political and artistic reasons. He later attended the Munich conservatory where in 1976 he received a professorship in composition. Acker taught a number of students that later became prominent composers, such as Wolfram Buchenberg, Ferran Cruixent, Oriol Cruixent, Marius Ruhlan, Florian Heigenhauser, Peter Wittrich and others. In 2000, the University of Cluj-Napoca awarded him an honorary doctorate. Dieter Acker wrote...

#11772

Craig Timberlake

#176014

Overall Influence

1920 - 2006 (86 years)

Craig Timberlake was an American stage actor, singer, author, and educator. A talented bass, Timberlake performed in operas and musicalss in theatres throughout North America in addition to acting in plays from the 1940s through the 1980s.

#11773

Dušan Radić

#181957

Overall Influence

1929 - 2010 (81 years)

Dušan Radić was a Serbian composer, university professor, and a full member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts . Biography Radić was born in Sombor. He completed elementary and high school sophomore year in his birthplace Sombor. He concurrently attended the music school of the Serbian Church Singing Society. He relocated to Belgrade in 1941 where he continued education at the Second men's gymnasium and the “Stanković” music school. He matriculated at the Belgrade Academy of music in 1946 in the composition class of Milenko Živković, who acted as his mentor until 1954. Since 1957 Ra...

#11774

Steve Gilmore

#188338

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Steven Dirk Gilmore is an American jazz double-bassist raised in the Philadelphia area. Career Steve picked up bass when he was 12 years old and played locally in Philadelphia as a teenager. At age 17 he enrolled at the Advanced School of Contemporary Music, run by Oscar Peterson, and later in the 1960s played with Ira Sullivan and the Baker's Dozen Big Band. He joined Flip Phillips's group in 1967 and remained with Phillips until 1971, after which he worked with Al Cohn and Zoot Sims, Mose Allison, The Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra, Phil Woods, Richie Cole, and the National Jazz Ensembl...

#11775

Yoriaki Matsudaira

#157029

Overall Influence

1931 - 2023 (92 years)

Yoriaki Matsudaira was a Japanese composer and academic. Life and career Born in Tokyo, the son of composer Yoritsune, Matsudaira graduated in biology at Tokyo Metropolitan University and served as professor of physics and biology at the Rikkyo University.

#11776

Jeanne Baxtresser

#177999

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Jeanne Baxtresser is an American flutist and teacher. She is most notable for her position as principal flutist of the New York Philharmonic for over 15 years, she decided to play the flute when she was only nine years old, as an author , and as a professor and master teacher. Previous positions include professor of flute at the University of Montréal, The University of Toronto, Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, New England conservatory and Carnegie Mellon University. She received the National Flute Association's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006. She has been credited with "uphol...

#11777

Raimo Kangro

#181420

Overall Influence

1949 - 2001 (52 years)

Raimo Kangro was an Estonian composer. He composed mainly instrumental works and operas. In 1968 he graduated from Tallinn State Conservatory in composition speciality. 1989–2001 he taught at Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.

#11778

Ngataiharuru Taepa

#184333

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Ngataiharuru Taepa is a New Zealand artist of Māori and Pakeha descent. Education Bachelor of Māori Visual Arts, Massey University, 2000Masters in Māori Visual Arts, Massey University, 2003Taepa is currently the Kaihautu Toi Māori – Director of Māori Arts at the College of Creative Arts at Massey University.

#11779

Neely Bruce

#182404

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Neely Bruce is an American composer, conductor, pianist, and scholar of American music. He is the composer of over 800 works including three full-length operas. Currently, he is John Spencer Camp Professor of Music and American Studies at Wesleyan University, where he has taught since 1974.

#11780

Hanne Varming

#173283

Overall Influence

1939 - 2022 (83 years)

Hanne Varming née Larsen was a Danish sculptor and medallist. Her works include statues of celebrities such as Victor Borge but generally depict ordinary people or even her own children. Her portraits of Queen Margrethe II can be seen on the Danish 10 and 20 crown pieces. Her representation of an old couple sitting on a bench in Copenhagen's Kultorvet is inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's Hyldemoer or The Little Elder-Tree Mother.

#11781

Manos Tsangaris

#175348

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Manos Tsangaris is a German composer, musician, sound art installation and performance artist, and a poet. Life Born in Düsseldorf, Tsangaris studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln from 1976 to 1983 composition with Mauricio Kagel and percussion with Christoph Caskel, and at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Alfonso Hüppi. Since 1980, he has participated several times in the Darmstädter Ferienkurse for Neue Musik and worked for the Münchner Kammerspiele. In 1991, he was invited by the Soviet composers' association as artist-in-residence in Moscow, in the same year he received the B...

#11782

Joseph Ahrens

#183538

Overall Influence

1904 - 1997 (93 years)

Joseph Johannes Clemens Ahrens was a German composer and organist. Ahrens received early training in organ and choral music with Wilhelm Schnippering in Büren and Fritz Volbach in Munich. He read choral studies at Gerleve Abbey and Beuron Abbey. From 1925-1928 he studied at the State Academy for Church and School Music under Alfred Sittard, Max Seiffert, and Wilhelm Middelschulte. In 1928 he began teaching organ playing and improvisation at the same academy. Between 1931 and 1940 Ahrens was the organist for the Berliner Philharmoniker, simultaneously serving as the organist for the Cathedral of St.

#11783

Gesine Schröder

#180507

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Gesine Catharina Magdalene Schröder is a German musicologist and music theorist. She taught music theory at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig from 1992 and has taught at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna since 2012. She has lectured as a guest at universities in Europe, South America and China.

#11784

Charles Rochester Young

#182981

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Charles Rochester Young is an American composer, music educator, conductor and saxophonist. Life Young graduated from Baylor University in Waco , where in 1988 he earned his Bachelor of Music. He then studied at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and earned his Master of Music in 1990. In 1993 he completed his studies with a promotion to Doctor of Musical Arts. His teachers have included Leslie Bassett, Donald Sinta, Keith Hill and Marianne Ploger. He soon became a teacher at the Interlochen Center for the Arts. Subsequently, he became Professor of Composition and Music Theory at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point.

#11785

Ko Fan-long

#189357

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Ko Fan-long is a Taiwanese composer. He is a professor of composition at the National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei. Life and career Ko, a native of Taichung, is himself a graduate of NTNU. In 1980 he enrolled at the Berlin University of the Arts where he studied composition with F. M. Beyer. He joined the NTNU faculty upon his return to Taiwan in 1985. In 2002 he received Taiwan's prestigious Wan San-Lien Music Award. From 2004 to 2008 he served as chair of the NTNU Department of Music.

#11786

Harold Aks

#168526

Overall Influence

1921 - 2000 (79 years)

Harold Aks was an American conductor and music educator. He founded the Dorian Chorale, a professional chorus based in Manhattan, and also conducted several notable community choruses in New York City like the Interracial Fellowship Chorus. Harold Aks was married to Patricia Aks, a writer of young adult books. His brothers-in-law were humorist Sam Levenson and artist Michael Lenson. Harold's sister, Esther Ray was an award winning painter herself.

#11787

Frank Harris

#183466

Overall Influence

1943 - 2020 (77 years)

Frank Harris was an American film director, producer, and cinematographer who has been working in films since the late 1970s. His work as a director includes Killpoint in 1984, Low Blow and The Patriot in 1986, If We Knew Then in 1987 and Lockdown in 1990. He originally worked as a television reporter.

#11788

Ulf Bästlein

#180772

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Ulf Bästlein is a German bass-baritone and doctor of philology . Bästlein attended lessons for singing at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. Recordings 1990: Lieder nach Gedichten von Heinrich Heine , piano: Stefan Laux, audite 97.4231994: Rimbaud-Lieder , Ensemble Aventure, Ars Musici AM 1104-21994: Fauré Requiem und Missa sacra , conductor: Winfried Toll, Camerata und Camerata Vocale Freiburg, Ars Musici AM 2321771995: Winterreise, songcycle by Schubert, piano: Stefan Laux, Ars Musici AM 1126-21996: Sollst sanft in meinen Armen schlafen Lieder zu den Themen ‚Nacht’ und ‚Tod’ ...

#11789

Wolfgang Suppan

#180834

Overall Influence

1933 - 2015 (82 years)

Wolfgang Suppan was an Austrian musicologist. He is the father of the wind musician and composer Armin Suppan. Career Born in Irdning, Suppan studied music at the and musicology , folklore with and philosophy at the University of Graz. In 1959, he was awarded a Dr. phil. In 1961, he went to Freiburg im Breisgau as a scholarship holder of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, first to the Institute for East German Folklore, and since 1963 to the Deutsches Volksliedarchiv as a musicological consultant. In 1971, he received his habilitation for musicology at the University of Mainz. In 1974, h...

#11790

Sheryl Bailey

#185694

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Sheryl Bailey is an American jazz guitarist and educator. She teaches guitar at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Biography Bailey grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and started playing guitar at 13. At first she was primarily interested in rock music, but she discovered jazz after hearing guitarist Wes Montgomery on the radio. She attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, and after college she taught music at Towson State University in Baltimore. In 1998, she moved to New York City to pursue a career as a performer. She released her first album, Little Misunderstood, in 1995 with George Colligan, Vince Loving, and Chris Battistone.

#11791

Édith Lejet

#183920

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Édith Lejet is a French composer and music educator. Biography Born in Paris, Lejet studied with Marcel Beaufils , Henri Challan , Marcel Bitsch , Jean Rivier and Andre Jolivet at the Paris Conservatory. She lived at the Casa Velasquez in Madrid from 1968 to 1970. She began teaching harmony at the Sorbonne and then became professor at the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Paris. In 2004, she was appointed professor of composition at the École Normale de Musique de Paris Alfred Cortot.

#11792

Richard Myers

#165360

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Richard L. Myers is an American experimental filmmaker based in northeast Ohio. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and a Master of Arts degree , both from Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. Myers taught at Kent State University in the art department beginning in 1964 and is particularly known for his 1970 film Confrontation at Kent State, which he filmed in Kent during the week following the Kent State shootings of May 4, 1970; it is an important document of the period.

#11793

Gjert Kristoffersen

#187681

Overall Influence

1949 - 2021 (72 years)

Gjert Kristoffersen was a Norwegian linguist, a phonetician and a professor at the University of Bergen. His native dialect of Norwegian was Arendalsk. He was married to librarian and biographer Jan Olav Gatland.

#11794

James Price Dillard

#136894

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

James Price Dillard is a distinguished professor of Communication Arts and Sciences Department at Penn State University. He has authored and co-authored over 50 manuscripts primarily on the role of emotion and persuasive influence. Dillard graduated in 1976 from the University of Kansas with a Bachelor's degree in Speech Communication and Psychology. In 1978, he earned his Master's degree in Communication from Arizona State University and in 1983, he received a Ph.D. in Communication from Michigan State University. Dillard is currently teaching Measurement in Communication Science and Persuasive Message Processing classes at Penn State University.

#11795

Anfinn Øien

#180489

Overall Influence

1922 - 2018 (96 years)

Anfinn Hans August Øien was a Norwegian organist and music teacher. Øien was born in Aurskog, and grew up on the Øien farm until he moved to Oslo in 1939 for upper secondary education. He studied at the Oslo Conservatory of Music and under the organist Finn Viderø in Copenhagen. He started working as a church organist in 1946, including at Lilleborg Church in Oslo. He started teaching at the Oslo Conservatory of Music in 1966 and served as its head from 1969 to 1973. After the Norwegian Academy of Music was established in 1973, he served as a senior instructor of harmony and counterpoint from 1973 to 1984, and then held the position of full professor from 1985 to 1990.

#11796

Jinny Yu

#174107

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Jinny Yu is a Canadian artist working primarily in the fields of painting and installation art. Life and work Jinny Yu was born in Seoul, South Korea. She immigrated to Canada in 1988, settling in Montreal. Yu studied fine arts at Dawson College, earning a degree in fine arts in 1995, followed by a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Concordia University three years later. During the mid- and late-1990s, Yu taught art at various schools in Quebec and at the American School of Paris in France. She studied at York University, earning her Master of Business Administration degree in Arts and Media Administration and Master of Fine Arts degree in Visual Arts in 2002.

#11797

Tony Romano

#181396

Overall Influence

1915 - 2005 (90 years)

Tony Romano was an American jazz guitarist and singer. He performed on radio programs and in Hollywood musicals in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. He became most noted as the sideman and musical accompanist to Bob Hope, Patty Thomas and Frances Langford during their USO tours in World War II, Korean, and Vietnam wars.

#11798

Chris Weitz

#184377

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Christopher John Weitz is an American filmmaker. He is best known for his work with his brother Paul on the comedy films American Pie and About a Boy; the latter earned the Weitz brothers a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Among his other main works, Weitz directed the film adaptation of the novel The Golden Compass and the film adaptation of New Moon from the series of Twilight books, wrote the screenplay for Disney's 2015 live-action adaptation of Cinderella, and co-wrote Rogue One: A Star Wars Story with Tony Gilroy.

#11799

Geraldine Decker

#182019

Overall Influence

1931 - 2013 (82 years)

Geraldine Decker was an American mezzo-soprano and voice teacher who had active singing career in operas and concerts from 1971 through 2010. She was particularly active with the Metropolitan Opera and the Seattle Opera, and is best remembered for her annual performances in Seattle of Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle from 1974 to 1987. She taught on the voice faculty of Pepperdine University.

#11800

Daniel Pollack

#167835

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Daniel Pollack is an American pianist. Biography Early life and education Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Pollack began his studies at the age of four and made his debut with the New York Philharmonic at the age of nine, performing the Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School from the class of the legendary Rosina Lhévinne. He also studied with Ethel Leginska and Lillian Steuber in Los Angeles. Pollack continued his graduate studies at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna under a Fulbright scholarship with Bruno Seidlhofer, at the Accademia Musicale Chi...

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