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Joy Nwosu Lo-Bamijoko
1940 - Present (86 years)
Joy Ifeoma Nroli Nwosu Lo-Bamijoko is a Nigerian ethnomusicologist, choral conductor, music critic and soprano. A music teacher at the University of Lagos, she promoted Bel canto performances in Nigeria to develop interest in the opera and Italian style of singing. She has performed over 50 solo or group concerts in Nigeria and a few other countries.
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Peter Jarvis
1959 - Present (67 years)
Peter Jarvis is an American percussionist, drummer, conductor, composer, music copyist, print music editor and college professor. Career Peter Jarvis is a percussionist, drummer, conductor, composer, music copyist, print music editor and college professor. He is an associate director of the Composer Concordance and co-director of Composers Concordance Records. He teaches music at Bergen Community College.
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Wolfgang Schulz
1946 - 2013 (67 years)
Wolfgang Schulz was an Austrian concert flutist and university lecturer. He was principal flutist of the Vienna Philharmonic and professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Life Born in Linz, Schulz, violinist Gerhard Schulz' older brother, received his first flute lessons from 1956 with Christiane Schwamberger and Willi Bauer at the Music School in Linz, followed by training with Rudolf Leitner at the Anton Bruckner Private University. From 1960 to 1964 Schulz studied flute with Hans Reznicek at the then Wiener Musikakademie. In 1964 he won the audition at the Volksoper Wien, was principal flutist of the Vienna Volksoper Orchestra until 1970.
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Ellen Frank
1904 - 1999 (95 years)
Ellen Frank was a German film and television actress. Selected filmography The Racokzi March Such a Rascal Peer Gynt A Night of Change The Girl from the Marsh Croft The Blonde Carmen The Old and the Young King Family Parade Under Blazing Heavens Gold in New Frisco Little Red Riding Hood Hansel and Gretel The Angel with the Flaming Sword The Royal Waltz Lina Braake
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Alberte Brun
2000 - 2000 (0 years)
Alberte Brun, also Alberte Brun-Michelis, was a French classical pianist. Life Born in Paris, Brun studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Marguerite Long. She received further instruction from Maurice Ravel, with whom she studied his Piano Concerto for the Left Hand. Commissioned by the Ministère des Beaux-Arts, she performed the complete piano works of Albert Roussel. She later lived in Germany, where she taught at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf in Düsseldorf. Her interpretations were documented by radio recordings. She was a member, from 1980 to 1986 chairperson of the Deutsch...
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Michael Schönheit
1961 - Present (65 years)
Michael Schönheit is a German organist and conductor. Life Born in Saalfeld in Communist East Germany, Schönheit received his first musical education in piano and organ playing from his father, the organist and choirmaster Walter Schönheit, and was a member of the Thüringer Sängerknaben in Saalfeld, which his father had newly founded, until 1978.
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Dan Zerfaß
1968 - Present (58 years)
Dan Zerfaß is a German classical organist, the cantor at the Worms Cathedral and academic teacher. Career Born in Simmern, Zerfaß was a student of Regional cantor Franz Leinhäuser in Oberwesel. He studied at the Hochschule für Musik Frankfurt, finishing in 1992 with top honors as a church musician and graduating in 1993 as a recital organist. Influential teachers were Edgar Krapp , Wolfgang Schäfer and Godehard Joppich . He took master classes with Daniel Roth, Wolfgang Rübsam and Guy Bovet , Egidius Doll, Peter Planyavsky and Theo Brandmüller and Günther Ludwig .
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Boris Willis
1967 - Present (59 years)
Boris Willis is Chief Artistic Officer of Boris Willis Moves and Associate Professor of Computer Game Design at George Mason University. Willis' work has been presented both nationally and internationally. He is the recipient of the 2003 Kennedy Center Local Dance Commission and 2004 Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowship in Choreography. He founded the dance troupe "Boris Willis Moves" in 2003. Willis is most commonly known for his work, Dance-A-Day, in which he creates a piece every day by dancing in public places and posting video to his Dance-A-Day blog.
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Maria Carbone
1908 - 2002 (94 years)
Maria Carbone was an Italian operatic soprano. She created the lead female roles in two of Gian Francesco Malipiero's operas: the title role in Ecuba and Cleopatra in Antonio e Cleopatra . Life and career Born in Castellammare di Stabia, Carbone studied medicine for four years. She then studied music at the Conservatorio di San Pietro a Majella in Naples, receiving a diploma in piano and studying voice with Agostino Roche. She made her debut on the opera stage in 1930 at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples as Margherita in Boito's Mefistofele. She also performed there as Micaëla in Bizet's Carmen...
Go to ProfilePaul Posnak is an American pianist and music academic. He is noted for playing repertoires mixing twentieth-century American music with European romantic classics, ranging from George Gershwin to Frédéric Chopin, from classical to jazz. His transcriptions and performances of the original improvisations of Gershwin, Fats Waller and Jelly Roll Morton have gained him international attention.
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Harald Feller
1951 - Present (75 years)
Harald Feller is a German organist, choral conductor and composer teaching at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München. He was awarded the 1983 Grand Prix du Disque Liszt. Career Feller studied organ at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich with Franz Lehrndorfer and church music and deepened his studies with Marie-Claire Alain in Paris. In 1978 he took over a teaching position at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Munich and in 1980 became a lecturer at the . Since 1983 he has been professor for organ at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Munich.
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J. T. Corenflos
1963 - 2020 (57 years)
Jerry Troy "J. T." Corenflos , was an American session musician and country guitarist, who played on an estimated 75 Number One hit records as well as hundreds of other recordings and hits. He received 14 nominations for "Guitarist of the Year" from the Academy of Country Music , winning in 2012 and 2020.
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Franz Lukasovsky
1940 - Present (86 years)
Franz Lukasovsky is an Austrian operatic tenor and music educator. Life and career Lukasovsky was born in Vienna. From the age of 6, Lukasovsky, who was a member of the Vienna Boys' Choir from 1948 to 1954, began his musical education. In 1958 he graduated from the gymnasium in Vienna, and began studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and at the University of Vienna in the fields of German studies, history and musicology.
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Nathan Currier
1960 - Present (66 years)
Nathan Currier is an American composer. Biography Coming from a musical family, Currier is son of composer Marilyn Currier and brother of composer Sebastian Currier . His principal teachers were David Diamond, Joseph Schwantner, Bernard Rands, Stephen Albert and Frederic Rzewski. He studied at the Juilliard School, where he received the Doctorate in 1989, and also served on their Evening Division faculty over a ten-year period. Starting in 2007 he served for two years as a visiting faculty member at the McIntire Department of Music at the University of Virginia. In 2016 he initiated a concer...
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John Serry Jr.
1954 - Present (72 years)
John Serry Jr. is an American jazz pianist and composer, as well as a composer of contemporary classical music works that feature percussion, on which he also doubles. He is a son of the accordionist and composer John Serry. His debut solo album was 'Exhibition' , for which he received a Grammy Nomination for his composition, 'Sabotage'.
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Mary Ruth Ray
1956 - 2013 (57 years)
Mary Ruth Ray was an internationally known classical musician who received critical acclaim throughout the United States, Europe and Russia. Career Ray was a faculty member at Brandeis University where she taught viola and chamber music from 1980 to 2013. She was appointed Chair of the Music Department at Brandeis in 2005 and held that position for eight years.
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Mathew Rosenblum
1954 - Present (72 years)
Mathew Rosenblum is an American composer whose works have been commissioned, recorded and performed by musical groups such as the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, the American Composers Orchestra, Opera Theater of Pittsburgh, FLUX Quartet, the New York New Music Ensemble, the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, and Newband among other ensembles, in venues throughout North America, Europe and Asia including the Andy Warhol Museum, Leipzig's Gewandhaus, the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, Thailand's Prince Ma...
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Patrick Scales
1965 - Present (61 years)
Patrick Scales in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany is a German electric bass guitar player and teacher. Biography Patrick Scales was born in a small town in the Bavarian Alps. As the town was a recreation area for the American army, there were many clubs with live music around. Patrick could often listen to a big variety of music. From bluegrass to rock, soul music and jazz everything was present. At the age of 12 he was taking up classical guitar lessons with his teacher Jeffrey Ashton.
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Alicia Henry
1966 - Present (60 years)
Alicia Henry is a contemporary artist living, working and teaching in Nashville. Henry is an associate professor in the Language and Arts Department at Fisk University. Henry creates multi-media artwork that focuses on themes of the body and identity. She uses materials such as wood, fabric, paper and pigment for her creations. Henry has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Master of Fine Arts from the School of Art at Yale University.
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Robert Breault
1963 - Present (63 years)
Robert Breault is an American operatic tenor. Born in Michigan, he holds a B.M. degree from St. Norbert College from which he received a distinguished alumni award in 1997. In addition, he holds a M.M. , and a D.M.A. from the University of Michigan where he studied voice with soprano Lorna Haywood. His early training also included two years of study at the San Francisco Merola Opera Program, and an internship with Michigan Opera Theatre. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he teaches voice and serves as director of opera at the University of Utah School of Music.
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Brandon Lake
1990 - Present (36 years)
Michael Brandon Lake is an American Christian worship singer, songwriter, guitarist, and worship pastor. Lake is a member of the Maverick City Music collective and serves as a worship pastor at Seacoast Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Lake began his recording career with a successful crowdfunding campaign to produce an album in 2015, which resulted in the independent release of his debut studio album, Closer, in 2016.
Go to ProfileJoe Hicks is an American R&B and soul blues singer and songwriter. He hailed from San Francisco, California, United States, and found limited success in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Hicks recorded an album for a subsidiary label of Stax Records.
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Edward Elwyn Jones
1977 - Present (49 years)
Edward Elwyn Jones is a Welsh conductor and organist. Life and work Edward Elwyn Jones is a conductor, organist and choirmaster. As the Gund University Organist and Choirmaster at Harvard University, a post he has held since 2003, Mr. Jones directs the music program in Memorial Church, located in the midst of Harvard Yard, and leads the 180-year-old Harvard University Choir in its daily choral services, broadcasts, tours, commissions, and recordings. Recently appointed music director of Lowell House Opera, New England's longest-running opera company, Mr. Jones also serves as artistic director of the Harvard Radcliffe Chorus, and is a frequent collaborator with Yale's Schola Cantorum.
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János Gonda
1932 - 2021 (89 years)
János Gonda was a Hungarian jazz pianist. Born in Budapest, he studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music and earned his diploma first at the musicological and then in the piano department. His activities include composition, concert performances, teaching, and musicological research.
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André Singer
1945 - Present (81 years)
André Felix Vitus Singer is a British documentary film-maker and an anthropologist. He is currently Chief Creative Officer of Spring Films Ltd of London, a Professorial Research Associate at the London School of Oriental and African Studies, and emeritus president of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland where he was president from 2014 to 2018.
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Martin Christian Vogel
1951 - Present (75 years)
Martin Christian Vogel is a German operatic tenor, singing teacher, Hochschulrektor and theologian. Life Born in Chemnitz, Vogel's musical career began as a member of the Leipzig Thomanerchor. After his Abitur at the Thomasschule, he studied Protestant theology at the Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig, which he completed with a diploma. He then studied singing at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig He also graduated with a diploma in singing from the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. Vogel learnt voice projection with the Thomanerchor while still a student and was engaged as a lyri...
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Christian Pollack
1946 - Present (80 years)
Christian Pollack is an Austrian classical conductor. Biography and career Pollack was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1946, where he studied violon, viola, piano and composition at the Conservatory and Musikhochschule. He trained as a conductor with Hans Swarowsky in Vienna, and, later, with Sergiu Celibidache in Munich. He worked as assistant to Christoph von Dohnanyi at the , and in 1984 also at the Bregenzer Festspiele. He has conducted with the Vienna Volksoper, since 1984, and was guest conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra in 1986.
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Volfango De Biasi
1972 - Present (54 years)
Volfango De Biasi is an Italian director and screenwriter. He specializes in comedy films. Life and career Born in Rome, De Biasi studied acting in Paris and Los Angeles, and in 1994 he made his professional acting debut in the indie drama film Movimenti. He then focused on directing, and directed a number of commercials, music videos, shorts and documentaries.
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Norman Granz
1918 - 2001 (83 years)
Norman Granz was an American jazz record producer and concert promoter. He founded the record labels Clef, Norgran, Down Home, Verve, and Pablo. Granz was acknowledged as "the most successful impresario in the history of jazz". He was also a champion of racial equality, insisting, for example, on integrating audiences at concerts he promoted.
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Steve Rucker
1949 - Present (77 years)
Stephen Donald Rucker is an American composer. Rucker studied piano with M. Mendelsohn of the Paris Conservatory. He has composed and conducted for the London Symphony Orchestra in the animated film, Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland, with Thomas Chase. He has worked on film scores for animated series including Dexter's Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls, and Jonny Quest. He also composed the score for another Cartoon Network series, Codename: Kids Next Door, with Thomas Chase. Rucker and Chase also provided musical score for Alvin and the Chipmunks.
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Susan Fernandez
1956 - 2009 (53 years)
Susan Fernandez Magno was a Filipina singer, activist and academic. She was known for her protest music, especially at the height of the authoritarian regime of Ferdinand Marcos. Biography An alumna of the University of the Philippines, where she earned a degree in A.B. Sociology and Master of Arts in Philippine Studies, Susan Fernandez first gained prominence as a performer during anti-Marcos rallies in the first half of the 1980s. She would come to be hailed as "the voice of a protest generation". She also became known for her rendition of the feminist anthem Babae Ka, which was released a...
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Maximilian C. Jehuda Ewert
1974 - Present (52 years)
Maximilian C. Jehuda Ewert is a composer and violinist. He studied both in Augsburg with John van Buren, and later on at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg with Heinz Winbeck. His music was performed in countries like Argentina, Canada, France, Israel, Austria, Norway, Switzerland and the United States. His compositions have been awarded in 1999 by the International Brahms-Competition of the ZEIT-Foundation and in 2006 by the Oslo Grieg Society. From 2001 until 2002 he was in residence of the Cité internationale des arts in Paris, by a scholarship of the Bavarian government. At the meantime he...
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Pietro Scarpini
1911 - 1997 (86 years)
Pietro Scarpini was an Italian classical pianist, harpsichordist, composer and conductor, who had an international performing career as a pianist from the late 1930s to the late 1960s. He was particularly known for interpreting 20th-century repertoire, including Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire and Busoni's "vast and fiendishly difficult" Piano Concerto.
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Grace Kelly
1992 - Present (34 years)
Grace Kelly is an American jazz musician, composer, and arranger. Kelly has produced and released recordings of her own, scored soundtracks, and tours with her band. She was named one of Glamour magazine's Top 10 College Women in 2011; and she has been featured on CNN.com and on the NPR radio shows Piano Jazz with both Marian McPartland and Jon Weber, as well as on WBGO's JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater. Working professionally since she was a preteen, Kelly was dubbed a prodigy in the jazz world. In 2014, Kelly worked with the producer Stewart Levine on her EP, Working for the Dreamers, whi...
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Kaveri Kaul
1952 - Present (74 years)
Kavery Kaul, formerly known as Kavery Dutta, is an American filmmaker, born in India. Her directing and producing credits include Back Walking Forward, Long Way from Home, Cuban Canvas, One Hand Don’t Clap, and First Look.
Go to ProfileElizabeth Willis was a British stage actress. She originally began appearing at Drury Lane in 1696, before joining Thomas Betterton's company at Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre the following year. For the remainder of her career she switched between the two patent theatres and the new Queen's Theatre in the Haymarket. She also appeared at the summer fairs in London. Her daughter Mary Willis also became an actress, and the two appeared together, being billed as Mrs Willis and Miss Willis respectively.
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Dick Williams
1926 - 2018 (92 years)
Richard Blaine Williams was an American singer. He and his brothers, Bob, Don, and Andy Williams, performed as a quartet, The Williams Brothers. Biography Richard Blaine Williams was born in Wall Lake, Iowa, the son of Jay Emerson and Florence Williams. While living in Cheviot, Ohio, he attended Western Hills High School in Cincinnati, Ohio. He finished high school at University High School, in West Los Angeles, because of his family's move to California. Williams had three brothers: Bob, Don, and Andy. One of his first performances was in a children's choir at the local Presbyterian church....
Go to ProfileJohn Black Haberlen has served as the Director of the Georgia State University School of Music since 1996. Dr. Haberlen is a past national President of the American Choral Directors Association. Education Haberlan has a Bachelor of Science and Master of Music degrees from Pennsylvania State University.
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Amnon Wolman
1955 - Present (71 years)
Amnon Wolman an Israeli-American musician. He holds a doctorate degree in music composition. His catalogue of compositions includes works involving computer generated and processed sounds, symphonic works, vocal and chamber pieces for different ensembles, film music, and music for theater and dance. His recently premiered pieces include "Picnic Site" used for a choreography by Trisha Brown and Steve Paxton for the Lyon Biannale; "End Divided Road" for Flute and electronics for Mario Carolli at the TRAIETTORIE Festival in Parma, Italy; "Cruising Prohibited when Lights Flashing" for the Gay Got...
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Huck Hodge
1977 - Present (49 years)
Huck Hodge is an American composer of contemporary classical music. Hodge's first musical training took place in Oregon. In 1999, he began a course of study in Germany at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart with funding from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. Between 2002 and 2008, he was an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow at Columbia University where he studied composition under Tristan Murail and Fred Lerdahl. Hodge graduated with MA and DMA degrees from Columbia.
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Mykola Suk
1945 - Present (81 years)
Mykola Petrovich Suk is a Ukrainian American pianist and Merited Artist of Ukraine. Biography Born in Kiev, Ukraine , into a musical family, Mykola studied at Kiev Specialized Music School and made his first public appearance at the age of eight. He later studied at Moscow Conservatory.
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Michael Schopper
1942 - Present (84 years)
Michael Schopper is a German bass-baritone in opera and concert, and an academic teacher. Michael Schopper was educated with the Regensburger Domspatzen and studied on a scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes church music and voice at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München. He won a first prize of the ARD International Music Competition in 1968, which resulted in an international career. His operatic parts have included Osmin in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Ochs in Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss, and the Wagner parts Sachs in Die Meistersinger von Nürnb...
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Ronald Tremain
1923 - 1998 (75 years)
Albert Ronald Tremain was a New Zealand composer and music teacher. Biography Born in Feilding, New Zealand in 1923, Tremain initially studied piano, gaining Trinity College diplomas before graduating with his first degree in music from Canterbury University College in 1946.
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Jani Golob
1948 - Present (78 years)
Jani Golob is a Slovenian composer, violinist, arranger and professor. His music opus is often on the thin line of classic, pop and jazz. Golob has composed operas, ballets, orchestral works, chamber and vocal music, as well as numerous Slovenian film scores, and music for television and for advertising purposes. His most important works are probably three operas: Krpan's mare , Medeja and Love Capital ; and others as Four Slovene Folk Songs , Concerto for violin and orchestra and ballet The Baptism at the Savica . He is most recognized by his contribution in Slovenian popular music.
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Natalie Draper
1985 - Present (41 years)
Natalie Draper is an American composer who teaches composition at Syracuse University's Setnor School of Music. Biography Draper completed her Doctor of Musical Arts at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University in 2017. Her teachers include Oscar Bettison and Joel Hoffman. In 2015, Draper was a Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center.
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Koh Gabriel Kameda
1975 - Present (51 years)
Koh Gabriel Kameda is a German and Japanese concert violinist and violin teacher. Early life Koh Gabriel Kameda was born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, the son of a German woman, Margarita and a Japanese father. He began playing the violin at the age of five and started participating in competitions from the age of eight, winning mostly first prizes. Shortly after that, he was taken under the wing of Josef Rissin in Karlsruhe.
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Robert Ehrlich
1965 - Present (61 years)
Robert Ehrlich is a Northern Irish recorder player and university professor. From October 2015 until 2019, he was rector of the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin. Previously, he was rector of the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig from 2006 to 2015.
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Samuel Boyle
1948 - 2008 (60 years)
Samuel J. Boyle IV , known as Sam Boyle, served for two decades as Chief of The Associated Press' New York City bureau. He oversaw AP's coverage of high-profile events, including the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
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Margaret Lazarus
1949 - Present (77 years)
Margaret Lazarus is an American film producer and director known for her work in documentary film. She and her partner, Renner Wunderlich, received an Oscar in 1993 for their documentary Defending Our Lives, about battered women who were in prison for killing their abusers.
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Dragan Espenschied
1975 - Present (51 years)
Dragan Espenschied is an 8-bit musician and media artist who lives and works in New York City. He studied communication design at the Merz Academy in Stuttgart, Germany. Dragan started to develop software for Atari Computers in 1991.
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