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#12001

Hans-Peter Lehmann

Hans-Peter Lehmann

#163236

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Hans-Peter Lehmann is a German opera and artistic director. Life Born in Kassel, Lehmann was born son of the sculptor and an art historian. In 1955 he passed his Abitur at the in Hanover. Afterwards he studied music at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold from 1955 to 1957 and completed from 1957 to 1958 a study of art history and theatre studies at the Free University of Berlin.

#12002

Mike McKenna

#178373

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Mike McKenna is a professional Canadian rock / blues guitarist noted primarily for his electric slide playing. History Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, McKenna began playing professionally in the early 1960s in Yorkville where he formed the group Mike's Trio. Luke Gibson saw them and asked to sit in as a singer and Luke and The Apostles were later formed. McKenna got a particularly rich guitar sound by playing through 200 watt Marshall Plexi stacks and using banjo strings on the high end to make note bending easier .

#12003

Eran Preis

#174381

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Eran Preis is an Israeli–American director, screenwriter, playwright, and producer. Beyond the Walls, a film he co-wrote in 1984, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He has taught screenwriting and International Cinema for decades.

#12004

Regina Werner-Dietrich

#190075

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Regina Werner-Dietrich as Regina Werner Life Born in Zwickau, Werner grew up in a musical family, her father was Kapellmeister. She attended the Thomasschule zu Leipzig from 1964 to 1968 and then studied at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig with Eva Fleischer until 1973. She won 2nd prize at the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in 1972. From 1974 to 1987, Werner was a soloist with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, which was conducted by Kurt Masur during this time. She performed regularly at the Gewandhaus, both as part of the Grand Concerts and on . At St. Thomas Chu...

#12005

Helmut Degen

#185205

Overall Influence

1911 - 1995 (84 years)

Helmut Degen was a German composer. Degen studied composition with Wilhelm Maler and Philipp Jarnach; and score and instrumentation with Ernst Gernot Klussmann at the Rheinische Musikschule in Cologne and the University of Bonn, writing his dissertation on Baroque librettist Friedrich Christian Bressand. He later taught theory at the Duisburg Conservatory and later at the Hochschule für Musikerziehung in Trossingen, becoming a professor in 1954.

#12006

Kelsey Jones

#186036

Overall Influence

1922 - 2004 (82 years)

Herbert Kelsey Jones was a Canadian composer, pianist, harpsichordist, and music teacher. Early life Jones was born in South Norwalk, Norwalk, Connecticut; he grew up in Portland, Maine and moved to New Brunswick in 1945.

#12007

Jim Bob Floyd

#168194

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (97 years)

JB Floyd is an American concert pianist , composer, and music pedagogue at the collegiate level. Before retiring in 2013, Floyd spent 64 years as a music educator in higher education, including as chairman of keyboard performance at Northern Illinois University from 1962 to 1981 and chairman of keyboard performance at the University of Miami's Frost School of Music from 1982 to 2013. Floyd is a Yamaha Artist.

#12008

Ilya Kaler

#171782

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Ilya Kaler is a Russian-born violinist. Born and educated in Moscow, Kaler is the only person to have won Gold Medals at all three of the International Tchaikovsky Competition ; the Sibelius ; and the Paganini .

#12009

Mark Gross

#177939

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Mark Gross is an American jazz alto saxophonist of the hard bop tradition. He studied at the Berklee College of Music, graduating in 1988, then worked in the band of Lionel Hampton and performed in Five Guys Named Moe on Broadway. He has since worked with a variety of other artists, including the bands of Delfeayo Marsalis, Nat Adderley and the Dave Holland Big Band. Gross first recorded as a solo act with 1997's Preach Daddy, followed in 2000 by The Riddle of the Sphinx, in 2013 with "Blackside", Mark Gross + Strings and The Gospel According to Mark: A Jazz Suite .

#12010

Gerhard Müller-Hornbach

#184659

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Gerhard Müller-Hornbach is a German composer, conductor and music teacher. Life Müller-Hornbach was born in Hornbach. From 1981 to 2016, as a professor for composition and music theory, he taught at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts where he headed the composition department and co-founded the Institute for Contemporary Music in 2005 of which he was director.

#12011

William R. Jordan III

William R. Jordan III

#168900

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Bill Jordan , more formally William R. Jordan III, is an American botanist and journalist who has played a leading role in the development and critique of ecological restoration as a means of developing an environmentalism that is philosophically more coherent, psychologically more productive, politically more robust, and ecologically more effective. His critique has had a significant influence on environmentalism in the United States and abroad.

#12012

Algirdas Budrys

#178685

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Professor Algirdas Budrys is a Lithuanian musician and head of the wind department of the Lithuanian Music Academy. Primarily a clarinetist, Budrys has recorded more than 50 LPs and has made over a hundred radio recordings with a repertoire that included all the principal classical and chamber ensemble works for clarinet from Mozart to contemporary composers.

#12013

Howard Van Hyning

#183416

Overall Influence

1936 - 2010 (74 years)

Howard Martin Van Hyning was an American percussionist who was best known for his work with the New York City Opera. He built a collection of more than 1,000 percussion instruments that he would make available to orchestras for performances and which included an array of gongs that were specifically constructed for use in performances of Turandot by Giacomo Puccini. Van Hyning taught at Mannes College The New School for Music.

#12014

Irina Odagescu

#190383

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Irina Odăgescu-Țuțuianu is a Romanian music educator and composer. Biography Irina Odăgescu was born on 23 May 1937 in Bucharest, and studied at the Bucharest Music Conservatoire with Tudor Ciortea and . She also took summer courses with Iannis Xenakis, György Ligeti, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. After completing her studies, she became a professor at the Bucharest Conservatoire.

#12015

Barry Miles

#148973

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Barry Miles is an American pianist, record producer, and author. Life and career Miles was born Barry Miles Silverlight to Arthur and Hermine in Newark, New Jersey and grew up in North Plainfield, New Jersey.

#12016

Michelle Ellsworth

#60086

Overall Influence

Michelle Ellsworth is an American dancer and performance artist, as well as a professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at University of Colorado Boulder. Her "smart, singular" work spans live performance, video, performable websites, and drawing, employing absurdist humor, carpentry, technology, monologue, and dance. Ellsworth has received, among other awards, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Doris Duke Impact Award, a Creative Capital Grant and a United States Artists Knight Fellowship. ArtForum has described her work as "some of the most engrossing explorations of how the body and tech...

#12017

Helen Stadelbauer

Helen Stadelbauer

#171758

Overall Influence

1910 - 2006 (96 years)

Helen Stadelbauer was a Canadian painter and educator known for her establishment of the Art Department at the University of Calgary. Biography Helen Barbara Stadelbauer was born in Calgary, Alberta, on December 20, 1910. She grew up in Calgary and attended Crescent Heights Collegiate High School, now known as Crescent Heights High School. She later attended Calgary Normal School with her sister Isabel and graduated in 1933. Both sisters later went on to be artists and art educators, and their love of drawing and painting was fostered through early family holidays in the Rockies.

#12018

Minoru Yamamoto

#187213

Overall Influence

1913 - 1996 (83 years)

Minoru Yamamoto was a Japanese composer. He is known principally for writing the tune for the Hiroshima Peace Song. Biography After graduating from Tokyo Music School's teacher training course in 1936, Yamamoto went to work as teacher in Maebashi Girls' High School

#12019

Vladimir Ovchinnikov

Vladimir Ovchinnikov

#182217

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Vladimir Pavlovich Ovchinnikov is a Russian pianist from Belebey, Bashkir ASSR. He is the only pianist ever to win the top prizes at both the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition . Artistic Director of the Association of Tchaikovsky Competition Stars since 2000.

#12020

Tolis Voskopoulos

#182747

Overall Influence

1940 - 2021 (81 years)

Apostolos "Tolis" Voskopoulos was one of the legends of modern Greek music. He also starred in many films and played in the theatre in Athens. One of Voskopoulos' greatest theatrical hits was Oi Erastes tou Oneirou , which he performed opposite Zoe Laskari.

#12021

Yonghoon Lee

#184828

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Yonghoon Lee is a South Korean operatic tenor. He has performed at many of the most prestigious theaters in the world, including the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Metropolitan Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Vienna State Opera, Rome Opera, Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Semperoper Dresden, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Opera Australia, amongst others.

#12022

Denis Azabagić

#180444

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Denis Azabagić is a Bosnian classical guitarist. Denis Azabagić married to Eugenia Moliner . Musical background In 1993, at the age of 20, he became the youngest winner of one of the most prestigious international guitar competitions Jacinto Guerrero and Inocencio Guerrero, in Madrid, Spain .

#12023

Dimitrije Bužarovski

#184015

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Dimitrije Bužarovski Ph.D. is a Macedonian composer, versatile artist and a scholar with interests in different fields: composition, musicology, computer and electronic music, performance, teaching and research.

#12024

Merrill Bradshaw

Merrill Bradshaw

#186571

Overall Influence

1929 - 2000 (71 years)

Merrill Bradshaw was an American composer and professor at Brigham Young University , where he was composer-in-residence from 1967 to 1994. Bradshaw grew up in Lyman, Wyoming; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Portland, Oregon. He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . He studied music theory at BYU with John R. Halliday and others, after which he continued his studies in composition at the University of Illinois. He became a faculty member at BYU in 1957. He was chairman of composition and theory from 1973 to 1983, and the executive director of the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition from 1983 to 1999.

#12025

Felix Skowronek

#167153

Overall Influence

1935 - 2006 (71 years)

Felix Skowronek was an American flutist and professor of music. Education Skowronek studied in Seattle with Fred H. Wing and Frank Horsfall, and for a few summers with Donald Peck. He later studied with William Kincaid at the Curtis Institute of Music.

#12026

Elinor Armer

#164326

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Elinor Armer is an American pianist, music educator and composer. Biography Elinor Armer was born in Oakland, California but at the age of 2 months moved to Davis, California with her family where she would spend most of her childhood. Armer’s father worked as an engineer and worked for the Agricultural Engineering Department for the University in Davis, which prompted the family’s move. Her father was an acoustical engineer and used to set up speakers in the family’s living room, exposing Elinor to acoustics at a young age. Elinor first began sight-reading music and enjoying four-part harmo...

#12027

Bill Elgart

#189670

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Bill Elgart or Billy Elgart is an expatriate American jazz drummer. He is related to Les and Larry Elgart. Elgart was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts. He studied at the Berklee College of Music and was a student of Alan Dawson. In the 1960s he played with Carla Bley, Paul Bley, Marion Brown, Sam Rivers, Lowell Davidson, Mark Levinson, Roswell Rudd, John Tchicai, Jack Walrath and Glenn Ferris. In 1968 he made his recording debut on Mr. Joy, with Paul Bley and Gary Peacock.

#12028

David Campbell

#182922

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

David Campbell is a British clarinettist. Campbell is internationally recognised as one of Britain's finest musicians and was described by the doyen of British clarinettists, Jack Brymer, as 'the finest player of his generation'.

#12029

Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini

Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini

#183913

Overall Influence

1929 - 2017 (88 years)

Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini , was an Italian organist, harpsichordist, musicologist and composer. Biography Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini studied organ, piano and composition with Riccardo Nielsen at the Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini in Bologna and at the Conservatory in Paris with Marcel Dupré. He graduated at the University of Padua in 1951 with a dissertation on the texts of the sacred cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach; he taught organ at Bologna Conservatory where he also held the post of librarian; he became lecturer and later professor of organ at the Monteverdi Conservatory in Bolzano.

#12030

Sofya Gulyak

#170292

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (47 years)

Sofya Gulyak is a Russian classical pianist. She was the first woman to win the Leeds Piano Competition. Gulyak was born in Kazan. She studied at the Kazan State Conservatoire, Piano Academy Incontri col Maestro, and the Royal College of Music. In 2006, she won first prize in the Sigismund Thalberg International Piano Competition. In 2007, she won the William Kapell Competition and shared the Concorso F. Busoni second prize with Dinara Nadzhafova. Gulyak was the winner of the 2008 Washington International Competition of the Friday Morning Music Club, and also won ISANGYUN Competition 2008. In 2009, she won the 1st prize in the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition.

#12031

Justin Paul

#175825

Overall Influence

1985 - Present (41 years)

Justin Paul is an American theater and television composer and lyricist best known for his works The Greatest Showman, La La Land and Dear Evan Hansen, all of which he co-wrote with his songwriting partner, Benj Pasek.

#12032

Walter van Hauwe

Walter van Hauwe

#178129

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Walter van Hauwe is a Dutch recorder player. Biography and career After lessons at the music school of Delft, where his father was director Pierre van Hauwe, Hauwe studied recorder with Frans Brüggen at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. Working with Kees Boeke he developed a controversial education system called the BLOK system. He has been a professor of recorder at the Sweelinck Conservatory since 1971, and also teaches historical performance at the Royal College of Music in London.

#12033

Benny Kim

#186476

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Benny Kim is an American violinist of Korean ancestry. One of three sons of Hei Chu Kim and Hyung Ja Kim, his brother Eric Kim is a cellist. Kim's early teachers included Doris Preucil and Almita Vamos. He studied at the Juilliard School under Dorothy DeLay, and graduated in 1986 with bachelor's and master's degrees. In 1981, he was a prize-winner in the Saint Louis Symphony Young Artist Competition. In 1983, he won the Young Concert Artists competition.

#12034

Barbara Harbach

#139751

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Barbara Harbach is a composer, harpsichordist, organist and teacher. Since 2004, she taught music at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She founded Women in the Arts-St. Louis to highlight women's work and gain more performances for musicians and composers.

#12035

Dave Ballou

#185267

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Dave Ballou is an American jazz trumpeter and professor of music at Towson University, in Maryland. Early life and education Ballou was born in Peace Dale, Rhode Island. He started playing the trumpet at age 11.

#12036

Liu Jiayin

#180983

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

Liu Jiayin is a Chinese independent filmmaker and educator, born in Beijing in 1981. She has made two experimental features combining documentary and narrative elements, Oxhide and Oxhide II , both of which received international awards.

#12037

Howard Boatwright

Howard Boatwright

#185965

Overall Influence

1918 - 1999 (81 years)

Howard Leake Boatwright Jr. was an American composer, violinist and musicologist. Biography Born in Newport News, Virginia, Boatwright studied the violin with Israel Feldman in Norfolk, Virginia, and made his début at New York Town Hall in 1942. He was assistant professor of violin at the University of Texas, Austin from 1943 to 1945. He then studied music theory and composition at Yale University , where he met Paul Hindemith, with whom he studied the viola d'amore. Hindemith urged him to stay at Yale to teach as assistant professor in music theory.

#12038

Roberto Paci Dalò

Roberto Paci Dalò

#185899

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Roberto Paci Dalò is an Italian author, composer and musician, film maker and theatre director, sound and visual artist, radio-maker. He is the co-founder and director of the performing arts ensemble Giardini Pensili and he has been the artistic director of Wikimania 2016 Esino Lario. He won the Premio Napoli per la lingua e la cultura italiana in 2015.

#12039

Roger Viry-Babel

#189229

Overall Influence

1945 - 2006 (61 years)

Roger Viry-Babel , saw himself as an entertainer, academic and French filmmaker. Pioneer of audiovisual teaching at the University of Nancy II and at its European film institute , he spent his life bringing together his love of teaching, cinema and the history of his region .

#12040

Frankie Miller

#169306

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (95 years)

Frankie Miller is an American former country music singer and songwriter. Biography Miller landed time singing on local station KNAL and recorded for Gilt Edge a subsidiary of 4 Star Records at the beginning of the 1950s, but served from 1951-53 in the United States Military during the Korean War. In 1954 he signed with Columbia Records, releasing several singles, none of which sold well. Through the latter portion of the decade, Miller performed and recorded locally, sporadically releasing singles.

#12041

Max Harris

#189343

Overall Influence

1918 - 2004 (86 years)

Max Harris was a British film and television composer and arranger. He played the piano and piano accordion. Biography and career Harris was born in Bournemouth, Hampshire, England, into a Jewish family; his father was a tailor from Poland, and his mother had emigrated from Latvia. Harris was raised in London. He originally embarked on a career in dance bands and as a jazz musician, working as a pianist for the bands of Stan Atkins and Teddy Foster in the late 1930s, although in his late teens he was a trumpeter with Lew Foster.

#12042

Mark Hall

#129390

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

John Mark Hall is an American musician. He is the lead vocalist for the Georgia-based contemporary Christian music group Casting Crowns, a seven-member group composed of worship leaders. He is also youth pastor at Eagle's Landing First Baptist Church in McDonough.

#12043

Pavlo Zibrov

#184424

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Pavlo Mikolajovich Zibrov is a Ukrainian pop singer , song writer. People's Artist of Ukraine . He became notable for his song Khreshchatyk. Pavlo Zibrov was born on 21 June 1957 in a village of Chervone, Nemyriv Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast in a family of Russian Nikolai Ivanovich and Ukrainian Hanna Kyrilivna. His mother worked as a teacher, and his father was a master of all trades. After a couple of years at school, Pavlo moved with his family to Kyiv. He graduated from the Kyiv Lysenko special music boarding school which he started sometime in 1965, while his brother attended a military-music college in Moscow.

#12044

Harald Neuwirth

#181129

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Harald 'Harry' Neuwirth was an Austrian jazz pianist and composer. Life and career Born in Vienna, Neuwirth came from a musical family; the composer Gösta Neuwirth is his brother, the composer Olga Neuwirth his daughter. At the age of twelve he was already performing piano concertos by Mozart; he remained faithful to classical music until the age of 18, when he turned to jazz and became a jazz pianist. He initially studied law . He also studied classical piano at the Salzburg Mozarteum and the Graz Conservatory.

#12045

Jeff Zinn

#183462

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Jeff Zinn is an American director and actor who has appeared in several films by Jay Craven, and in theatre, Zinn played Danny in the off-Broadway production of Sexual Perversity in Chicago by David Mamet, and Trety in the Broadway production of The Suicide by Nikolai Erdman.

#12046

Kurt von Fischer

#171508

Overall Influence

1913 - 2003 (90 years)

Kurt von Fischer was a Swiss musicologist and classical pianist. Life Fischer wurde was born on 25 April 1913 in Bern as the son of the mycologist Eduard Fischer. Fischer studied piano at the University of the Arts Bern, which he completed in 1935 with a diploma under Franz Josef Hirt. Later he was trained by Czesław Marek. In addition, he studied musicology at the University of Bern and received his doctorate in 1938. From 1939 to 1957 he worked as a teacher at the Bern Conservatory. From 1948 to 1957 he was appointed Privatdozent at the University of Bern. From 1957 to 1979 he taught musicology as Ordinarius at the University of Zurich, from 1974 to 1976 as Dean.

#12047

Robert Black

#186421

Overall Influence

1950 - 1993 (43 years)

Robert Carlisle Black was an American conductor, pianist and composer. He was most particularly associated with the promotion, performance and recording of contemporary classical music, but he also played and conducted the standard repertoire.

#12048

Rolando Valdés-Blain

Rolando Valdés-Blain

#184479

Overall Influence

1922 - 2011 (89 years)

Rolando Valdés-Blain was a Cuban classical guitarist, born in Havana, and immigrated to New York as a child. In the 1930s he and his brother Alberto had a weekly music show on WNYC radio. He served in Burma from 1942 to 1946 during World War II and afterwards studied at the Madrid Royal Conservatory, where he was awarded the Grand Prize for concert guitar playing by Joaquín Rodrigo. He toured worldwide under the management of impresario Sol Hurok and his United States tours as guitar soloist included Yale University, Carnegie Recital Hall, and the Spanish Ballet. He was one of the pioneering ...

#12049

Shannon Barnett

#187773

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (44 years)

Shannon Barnett is an Australian trombonist and composer who was named Young Australian Jazz Artist of the Year at the 2007 Australian Jazz Bell Awards. Background Barnett was born in Traralgon. Since completing studies at the Victorian College of the Arts, she has performed in ensembles including Vada, The Bamboos, The Black Arm Band, The Vampires, the Bennetts Lane Big Band and as a guest with the Andrea Keller Quartet, on the 2004 ABC Jazz release Angels and Rascals.

#12050

Warren Benfield

#182796

Overall Influence

1913 - 2001 (88 years)

Warren A. Benfield was a classical double bass player. He enjoyed a long career in the bass section of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and was professor at Northwestern University. Studies and orchestral career Warren Benfield was a student of Anton Torello at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia.

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