The Most Influential People Across History
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Sinéad Lohan
#178207
Overall Influence
1971 - Present (55 years)
Sinéad Lohan is an Irish singer and songwriter. Background A native of Cork, her song "Sailing By" appeared on the compilation A Woman's Heart 2. Music career In 1991 Lohan began playing regular gigs at The Lobby, a music venue in Cork, and soon thereafter began recording her first album, Who Do You Think I Am, produced by Declan Sinnott. She has released two albums, Who Do You Think I Am in 1995, which scored several radio hits in Ireland, and No Mermaid in 1998, which has been rated 4/5 stars at AllMusic. No Mermaid was released by Interscope Records after a bidding war between several major labels.
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Tanel Veenre
#110124
Overall Influence
1977 - Present (49 years)
Tanel Veenre is Estonian jewellery artist and designer of brand Tanel Veenre. Life Tanel Veenre was born in Tallinn and grew up in a family of artists and musicians. He studied under Kadri Mälk at the Estonian Academy of Arts where he graduated in 2005 after having taken part in an exchange program in Gerrit Rietveld Academy.
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Lisbet Holtedahl
#186128
Overall Influence
1946 - Present (80 years)
Lisbet Holtedahl is a Danish-born Norwegian social anthropologist and film producer. Biography Holtedahl was born in Copenhagen to dentist Stig Oscar Therkelsen and Lizzie Jacobsen. In 1967 she married professor of medicine, Knut Arne Holtedahl. She graduated as cand.mag. from the University of Tromsø in 1973, and as dr. philos. in 1987. She also received film education at the Ateliers Varan in Paris. She was appointed professor at the University of Tromsø from 1992, and has also collaborated with the French institutions, and . Her research objects have been villages in Northern Norway and societies in Cameroon, often with focus on women's role in the society.
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Christian Howes
#187112
Overall Influence
1972 - Present (54 years)
Christian Howes is an American violinist, teacher, and composer. He is an associate professor at the Berklee College of Music. He has worked with Les Paul and Greg Osby. In 2011 the DownBeat magazine Critics' Poll ranked him the No. 1 Rising Star in violin.
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Henry Panion
#176546
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (67 years)
Henry Panion, III is an American composer, arranger, conductor, educator, and Professor in the Department of Music at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Panion has produced, arranged and conducted for a number of noted artists, such as Stevie Wonder, The Winans, Chet Atkins, Ellis Marsalis, Jr. with the SuperJazz Big Band, Eugenia Zukerman, Aretha Franklin, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Chaka Khan, the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, and American Idol winners Carrie Underwood and Ruben Studdard.
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Yehonatan Berick
#185272
Overall Influence
1968 - 2020 (52 years)
Yehonatan Berick was a violin and viola virtuoso and pedagogue. Born in Holon, Israel, he started his musical education at the age of six. His principal violin teachers were Ilona Feher, Henry Meyer, Kurt Sassmannshaus, and Dorothy DeLay. He had theory teachings with composer Sergiu Natra, and attended masterclasses with such artists as Isaac Stern, Henryk Szeryng, Max Rostal and Josef Gingold. In 1993 he was prizewinner at the Walter W. Naumburg International Violin Competition, and in 1997 he was awarded Quebec's Prix Opus.
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Martha Callison Horst
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Overall Influence
1967 - Present (59 years)
Martha Callison Horst is an American composer. Her music has been performed by Earplay, Alea III, the Empyrean Ensemble, the Fromm Players, Left Coast Ensemble, Dal Niente, Composers, Inc., members of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Chicago Composers Consortium, and Music Beyond Performance: SoundImageSound V. Horst studied composition at Stanford University and the University of California, Davis. She is currently Professor of Composition and Music Theory in the Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts at Illinois State University. Furthermore, she serves as an Academic Senator representing the College of Fine Arts.
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Carola Grindea
#181557
Overall Influence
1914 - 2009 (95 years)
Carola Grindea was a Romanian-born British pianist and piano teacher who established the European Piano Teachers Association and the International Society for Study of Tension in Performance . She taught at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle and later the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and developed the Grindea Technique to encourage a balance though not relaxed body posture to eliminate muscular tension and better the performer's technique.
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Jeff Ward
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Overall Influence
1962 - 1993 (31 years)
Jeff Ward was an American musician, serving as a drummer for various rock bands including Skafish, Hammeron, Nine Inch Nails, Revolting Cocks, Ministry, Lard , and Low Pop Suicide. He committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning in 1993. Revolting Cocks' 1993 album Linger Ficken' Good, Nine Inch Nails' 1994 album The Downward Spiral, Ministry's 1996 album Filth Pig, and Lard's 1997 release Pure Chewing Satisfaction all featured dedications to him, while Ward's friend Richard Patrick dealt with his death in the Filter track "It's Over." He provided vocals and drums for 1000 Homo DJs, most n...
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Casey Rae
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Overall Influence
1974 - Present (52 years)
Casey Rae is an author, musician, and former music business executive, as well as a music policy and media professor. Rae's commentary on the impact of technology on creators can be found in various media, including NPR, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Politico, Billboard, Los Angeles Times, Gizmodo, The Hill, Ars Technica, Sirius XM Radio and other outlets.
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Marco Pereira
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Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Marco Pereira is a Brazilian classical guitarist. He was born in São Paulo and took lessons from Isaias Savio, an important Uruguayan guitarist and teacher who brought Miguel Llobet's technique to Brazil. Pereira obtained his master's degree at the University of Paris-Sorbonne; his thesis was titled Heitor Villa-Lobos and His Work for Guitar. He teaches harmony, composition arranging, and improvisation at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro . Pereira has released several solo CDs, including Dança dos Quatro Ventos , Elegia ,Brasil Musical , Valsas Brasileiras , Luz das Cordas , O Samba da Minha Terra , Camerístico , and Cristal , Original , "Stella del Matino" and "Essence" .
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Hlynur Atlason
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Overall Influence
1974 - Present (52 years)
Hlynur Atlason is an Icelandic industrial designer based in New York City. Career Atlason’s career as a designer started at ten years old winning an essay competition for the Icelandic Ministry of Welfare, which resulted in an ad campaign and a slogan “Your teeth, Your choice”. This ad campaign which was featured on buses all over Reykjavik and was used as an example in parliamentary discussions about healthcare in Iceland.
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Bernd Franke
#187395
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (67 years)
Bernd Franke is a German composer. Career Franke was born in Weißenfels/Saale. From 1975 to 1981, he studied musical composition in Leipzig at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig with Siegfried Thiele and conducting with Wolf-Dieter Hauschild. As a founder, he presided over the "Junge Musik" group in Leipzig from 1980 to 1983. From 1981 to 1985 he was a master student at the Akademie der Künste der DDR in Berlin and in 1988 a participant in the "Composer Workshop of the Gaudeamus Foundation Amsterdam", where he worked with Ton de Leeuw and Chu Wen Chung, among others. Later, in 1989, ...
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Sulamita Aronovsky
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Overall Influence
1929 - Present (97 years)
Sulamita Aronovsky was a Lithuanian-born British classical pianist and piano teacher who spent her formative years in Moscow and Soviet-occupied Lithuania, moving to London in 1971. Aronovsky was born in Kaunas, Lithuania on 5 May 1929. Her teachers included Lev Barenboim, Abram Schatzkes, Grigory Ginsburg and Alexander Goldenweiser. An experienced Juror of International Competitions, she founded the London International Piano Competition in 1991.
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Eva Tessler
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Overall Influence
Eva Tessler, aka Eva Zorrilla Tessler, is a Mexican-American dancer, director, choreographer, and writer who co-founded the Latina Dance Project in Tucson, Arizona. Her work with LDP and the Borderlands Theater have served to create centers of creative expression for Latina/o artists in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
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Eric Jacobsen
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Overall Influence
1982 - Present (44 years)
Eric Jacobsen is an American conductor and cellist. He is currently a member of The Knights, and the Silk Road Project, and is the Music Director of the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra and Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Principal Conductor of the Greater Bridgeport Symphony, and when was an artistic partner of the Northwest Sinfonietta from 2015-2018
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Simin Tander
#177949
Overall Influence
1980 - Present (46 years)
Simin Tander is a German jazz musician and composer. Biography Born in Cologne, Tander is the daughter of an Afghan journalist father, who died when she was a child, and a German teacher mother. She was raised in Cologne and her older sister Mina Tander became an actress. As Tander finished high school, she was very close to getting a board contract as pop singer. During her vocal training with an opera singer, she realized that she was more into vocal improvisation than the Classical singing. She attended piano lessons and founded her own band. From 2002, she studied jazz singing at the Conservatory ArtEZ in the Netherlands.
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Zenobia Powell Perry
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Overall Influence
1908 - 2004 (96 years)
Zenobia Powell Perry was an American composer, professor and civil rights activist. She taught in a number of historically black colleges and universities and composed in a style that writer Jeannie Gayle Pool called "music with clear, classic melodies." Her work has been performed by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the Detroit Symphony and West Virginia University Band and Orchestra.
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John Saeed
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Overall Influence
John Ibrahim Saeed is a British linguist and professor of linguistics at Trinity College Dublin. He is best known for his works on Somali language and semantics. He is a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin.
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Jean-Claude Haelewyck
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Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
Jean-Claude Haelewyck is a professor emeritus, semiticist, researcher in the fields of the Old Latin Versions of the Bible and Syriac Studies at Centre d’Études Orientales in Institut Orientaliste de Louvain, Université catholique de Louvain and director of FNRS .
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Gerd Nienstedt
#186866
Overall Influence
1932 - 1993 (61 years)
Gerd Nienstedt was a German and Austrian opera singer, bass and bass-baritone. After an international career at major opera houses and the Bayreuth Festival, he was also a theatre director, stage director and academic voice teacher.
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Cheryl Phillips
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Overall Influence
Cheryl Phillips is a data journalist and professor. Career Between 2002 and 2014, she worked for the Seattle Times. In 2004, Phillips was part of a team that won the Sigma Delta Chi Award for their reporting on the TSA. Phillips was on the team that gathered and organized the data for the Seattle Times when they were awarded two Pulitzer Prizes for Breaking News Reporting, one in 2010, for a story that covered the shooting deaths of four police officers, and the other in 2015 for their detailed coverage of the Steelhead Haven neighborhood landslide. While working at the Seattle Times, Phillip...
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Lena Neudauer
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Overall Influence
1984 - Present (42 years)
Lena Neudauer is a German violinist. Life Born in Munich, Neudauer started playing the violin at the age of 3. She first took lessons with Helge Thelen and later with Sonja Korkeala. At the age of 11, she attended the Mozarteum University Salzburg and studied with Thomas Zehetmair and finally with Christoph Poppen. Already at the age of 15, Neudauer won the 4th International Violin Competition Leopold Mozart in Augsburg in 1999 . In 2013 she was a member of the jury at the 8th edition of the same competition.
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Christine Schornsheim
#174184
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (67 years)
Christine Schornsheim, married name Christine Engelmayr , is a German harpsichordist and pianist. Life and career Schornsheim attended the from 1969 to 1976 and studied piano at the local Berlin University of the Arts until 1982. From 1982 to 1983 she was solo répétiteur at the Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam. She participated in master classes given by Gustav Leonhardt, Ton Koopman, Johann Sonnleitner and Andreas Staier. She made her debut in 1994 as a song accompanist to Peter Schreier also on the fortepiano.
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Matt Glaser
#174149
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Matt Glaser is an American jazz and bluegrass violinist. He served as the chair of the string department at the Berklee College of Music for more than twenty-five years. He is now the founder and artistic director of Berklee's American Roots Music Program.
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Boris Kozlov
#188811
Overall Influence
1967 - Present (59 years)
Boris Kozlov is a Russian-born jazz bassist. Biography Born in Moscow, USSR on December 5, 1967, Kozlov studied piano at Children's Music School before switching to bass. Kozlov won the Gnesin Music Academy Competition which enabled him to enter college at age 15 and study electric bass guitar.
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Helmut Branny
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Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
Helmut Branny is a German conductor, double bassist and professor of chamber music at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden. He is a member of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, musical director of the Dresdner Kapellsolisten and the Cappella Musica Dresden. With the Kapellsolisten, he has made many recordings, and toured internationally.
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Ronald L. Troxel
#183198
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
Ronald Lewis Troxel is a retired professor emeritus and Chair of the Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Life From May 27, 1973, Troxel holds a B.A. from Bethel University . On May 28, 1977, Troxel earned a M.Div., from Bethel Theological Seminary, St. Paul, MN. On December 22, 1985, he earned a M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison. On August 27, 1989, Troxel successfully defended his dissertation, earning a Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin-Madison. The title of his doctoral dissertation was Eschatology in the Septuagint of Isaiah.
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Julian Knowles
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Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
Julian Knowles is an Australian composer and performer, specialising in new and emerging technologies. His creative work spans the fields of composition for theatre, dance, film and television, electronic music, sound and new media arts, popular music and record production. Since the mid-1980s, he has established himself as a prominent artist in the area of electronic and new music, achieving significant critical recognition for his performances and recordings.
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Elaine Barkin
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Overall Influence
1932 - 2023 (91 years)
Elaine "Ray" Barkin née Radoff was an American composer, writer, and educator. Early life Elaine Radoff was born in The Bronx, New York City, lived in the Amalgamated Houses, attended Bronx High School of Science, Third Street Music School Settlement, and Queens College , where she studied composition and theory with Karol Rathaus, Sol Berkowitz, Leo Kraft, and Saul Novack. At Brandeis University , her mentors in composition and theory were Irving Fine, Harold Shapero, Arthur Berger, and Seymour Shifrin. In the Summer of 1955 she worked with Boris Blacher at Tanglewood and then in 1956 and 19...
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Dana Hall
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Overall Influence
1969 - Present (57 years)
Dana Hall is an American jazz drummer, percussionist, composer, bandleader, and ethnomusicologist. After spending the first few years of his life in Brooklyn, New York , he relocated with his family to his mother's hometown of Philadelphia. There, Hall was exposed to jazz and soul music at an early age through the recordings of his mother Diane, his uncle Earl Harris, and his large extended family. His family's interest in creative music, and their “open door” policy toward Philadelphia jazz musicians of the era sparked Hall's curiosity, passion and ultimately career in music.
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Enrique Iturriaga
#183870
Overall Influence
1918 - 2019 (101 years)
Enrique Iturriaga Romero was a Peruvian composer and educator. Biography Enrique Iturriaga Romero was born in Lima, Peru, in 1918 and spent most of his childhood in Huacho, a small port city north of the Peruvian capital. As a child, Iturriaga did not receive any formal musical training, but music was always present in the Iturriaga family house. His grandmother and older cousins often played the piano during family gatherings, arousing Enrique's interest in music from an early age, and was also encouraged by his father to play the piano. The young Iturriaga was naturally involved in music an...
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Julian Pölsler
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Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
Julian Roman Pölsler is an Austrian film director, theatre director, and screenwriter. Pölsler was born on the Kreuzberg mountain above the village of Sankt Lorenzen im Paltental in Styria, Austria. He studied film directing and production at the University of Music and Performing in Vienna. He also studied directing and dramaturgy at the Institute for Cultural Management in the Max Reinhardt Seminar, after which he worked as an assistant director to Axel Corti.
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Michael Bakan
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Overall Influence
Michael Bakan is a professor of ethnomusicology at Florida State University and director of the Balinese gamelan ensemble Sekaa Gong Hanuman Agung . He wrote Music of Death and New Creation: Experiences in the World of Balinese Gamelan Beleganjur, a book said to have "elevated gamelan beleganjur to the level of the much better known gong kebyar".
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Monte Hill Davis
#181666
Overall Influence
1932 - 2018 (86 years)
Monte Hill Davis was an American classical pianist. Concert career Davis toured and performed in Europe, Brazil, Peru, Balzano, Italy , Geneva, Switzerland, and Munich, Germany. Davis won first prize in the International Piano Competition in Munich in 1955. She won second place in the 1953 Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition. Davis also performed with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Dallas Pops Orchestra directed by Arthur Fiedler, the National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Howard Mitchell, and the Boston Pops.
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Norman Shetler
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Overall Influence
1931 - Present (95 years)
Norman Shetler is a pianist, puppeteer and puppet constructor, and piano professor. Originally from America, he now lives in Austria. Life and career Norman Shetler was born in Dubuque, Iowa in 1931. He planned to attend Juilliard, but before he could attend he was drafted into the army. During WWII, he served mostly as a typist.
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Vasily Shcherbakov
#186464
Overall Influence
1969 - Present (57 years)
Vasily Shcherbakov is a Russian pianist, professor and composer. Vasily Shcherbakov is a Candidate of Pedagogic Sciences , a professor of the Moscow Conservatory, a professor of the faculty of culture of Russian State Social University.
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John Moran
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Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
John Moran is an American musician and musicologist. He specializes in historically informed performance of music from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries on the cello and viola da gamba. He studied cello and baroque cello at the Oberlin Conservatory, baroque cello at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, and musicology at King's College London. He has performed and recorded with numerous groups in Europe, including Les Musiciens du Louvre, The Consort of Musicke, English Baroque Soloists. Since 1994 he has lived in the Washington, D.C., area. He is a regular member of REBEL, a New...
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Steve Yeager
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Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Steve Yeager is an independent filmmaker from Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. He is best known for his film on the indie filmmaking of fellow director John Waters, titled Divine Trash, which won the Filmmakers Trophy for Best Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998.
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Iosif Boyarsky
#181407
Overall Influence
1917 - 2008 (91 years)
Iosif Yakovlevich Boyarsky was a Russian animator and director, the longtime Director of the Model Animation Association of Soyuzmultfilm Studio, an award-winning Russian animation studio based in Moscow.
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Vitaly Margulis
#188692
Overall Influence
1928 - 2011 (83 years)
Vitaly Iosifovich Margulis was a Ukrainian-born classical pianist, musicologist and teacher. Biography Vitaly Margulis was born in the city of Kharkov in the USSR . He took his first piano lessons from his father, whose teacher studied with the composer Alexander Scriabin. Margulis continued studies at the Leningrad Conservatory, where from 1958 until his emigration to the west in 1974, he taught piano. In 1975, Margulis became a full Professor at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, Germany. In 1994, he became Professor of Piano at the University of California in Los Angeles. In addition, he ...
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Svitlana Krakovska
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Overall Influence
Svitlana Krakovska is a Ukrainian climate scientist and head of the Ukrainian delegation to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change . She is an applied climatologist who introduced climate models to Ukraine.
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Christopher Jackson
#189128
Overall Influence
1948 - 2015 (67 years)
Christopher Donald Jackson was a Canadian organist, harpsichordist and choral conductor. He is best known as a specialist in the performance of Renaissance music, and as the co-founder and long time conductor of the Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal.
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Tom Drummond
#172192
Overall Influence
1969 - Present (57 years)
Tom Melville Drummond is an American musician. He is currently the bassist and background vocalist for the band, Better Than Ezra. Drummond is one of the four original founding members who formed Better Than Ezra in 1988. He had graduated from Caddo Magnet High School and was attending Louisiana State University at the time. Drummond, along with lead vocalist Kevin Griffin, are the only two original members of Better Than Ezra currently active with the band.
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Vít Zouhar
#189029
Overall Influence
1966 - Present (60 years)
Vít Zouhar is a Czech composer, pedagog, and musicologist. He is the son of Zdeněk Zouhar, who was also a composer, educator and musicologist, and close friend of Martinů.
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Edmund Battersby
#187438
Overall Influence
1949 - 2016 (67 years)
Edmund Battersby was a classical pianist and professor at the Jacobs School of Music of Indiana University. Life and career Edmund Battersby was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1949. His teachers included Barbara Holmquest, Artur Balsam, at Kneisel Hall, in Blue Hill, Maine, followed by Sascha Gorodnitski at the Juilliard School where he earned his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees. Professor Battersby taught at Montclair State College, now Montclair State University, and Kneisel Hall before joining the faculty of the Jacobs School of Music of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.
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Andre-Michel Schub
#178948
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
Andre-Michel Schub is a classical pianist. Biography Schub came to New York City with his family, when he was eight months old. He began his piano studies with his mother when he was four, and later continued his work with Jascha Zayde. He graduated from Midwood High School in Brooklyn, New York, and attended Princeton University, and then transferred to the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Rudolf Serkin, from 1970 to 1973. He judged the 1997 Hilton Head Competition.
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Gopal Shankar Misra
#176890
Overall Influence
1957 - 1999 (42 years)
Gopal Shankar Mishra was an Indian musician and music teacher, who played the vichitra veena. Early career Mishra was invited to join the 1998 UK touring and Real World recording project made by State of Bengal and Ananda Shankar, Uday Shankar's son.
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James Ledger
#184849
Overall Influence
1966 - Present (60 years)
James Ledger is an Australian composer of contemporary classical music, and senior lecturer in composition at the Conservatorium of Music at the University of Western Australia, where he is chair of orchestral composition.
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Ursula Cheer
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Overall Influence
Ursula Jan Cheer is a New Zealand law academic. As of 2018, she is a full professor at the University of Canterbury. Academic career After growing up in Christchurch, New Zealand and doing an undergraduate at University of Canterbury and practising privately, Cheer worked in government in Wellington, first at the Justice Department and then the Office of the Prime Minister. She then moved to London to work at the Law Commission, before returning to the University of Canterbury as a full professor, and later Dean.
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