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#12151

Alessandro Solbiati

#172234

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Alessandro Solbiati is an Italian composer of classical music, who has composed instrumental music for chamber ensembles and orchestra, art songs and operas. He received international commissions and awards, and many of his works are recorded. He is also an academic, teaching in Italy and France.

#12152

Phil Markowitz

#177344

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Phil Markowitz is a jazz pianist and educator. External links Official site[ All Music]

#12153

Ellis Kohs

#185598

Overall Influence

1916 - 2000 (84 years)

Ellis Bonoff Kohs was an American composer, theory textbook author, and Professor at the University of Southern California. Life and career Born in Chicago to Pauline Bonoff, a school teacher of Russian Jewish extraction, and Samuel C. Kohs, Kohs grew up in San Francisco, where he undertook his early musical studies at the San Francisco Conservatory. In 1928 his family moved to New York where he entered the Institute of Musical Art. He continued his studies at the University of Chicago, studying composition with Carl Bricken. After he completed his master's degree there in 1938, he returned...

#12154

Noam Meiri

#188493

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Noam Meiri is an Israeli theater artist, actor, director and acting teacher. Meiri is a co-founder of the Tel Aviv Haguf Theater School and Stage for Physical theatre, inspired by the method of Jacques Lecoq. Since 1999 he has served as a professor of Physical Theater at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany.

#12155

Alexandra Billings

Alexandra Billings

#176223

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Alexandra Scott Billings is an American actress, singer, and teacher. Billings, a trans woman, played one of TV's first openly transgender characters in 2005 made-for-TV movie Romy and Michele: In the Beginning. She is also known for portraying the recurring character Davina in the Amazon series Transparent and has played transgender characters in ER, Eli Stone, How to Get Away with Murder, Grey's Anatomy and The Conners.

#12156

Daniel Lessner

#188524

Overall Influence

Daniel Lessner is an American composer and virtuoso pianist currently based in Los Angeles. Biography Daniel Lessner began his piano studies at the age of four in Miami, Florida. He played his first recital at eleven, and by the age of eighteen he had won over a hundred local and national performance competitions. He entered the Juilliard School of Music in New York city on scholarship to study with the renowned teacher Adele Marcus, and while there won the Tchaikovsky Concerto Competition which he performed at Lincoln Center under the baton of Massimo Freccia. After receiving his bachelor's and master's degrees in music from Juilliard, Mr.

#12157

Donna Uchizono

#167881

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Donna Uchizono is an American choreographer. Life and career Donna Uchizono is an American choreographer and is the Artistic Director of Donna Uchizono Company based in New York City. A Guggenheim Fellow and United States Artist awardee, Donna Uchizono has received many awards and grants for her work including both National Endowment for the Arts Company Project Grants and Fellowships , MAP Fund , Alpert Award, "Bessie" New York Dance and Performance Award, Jerome Foundation , National Performance Network Commission and Touring support Creative Capital, both National Dance Project Commission...

#12158

Somlata Acharyya Chowdhury

#173222

Overall Influence

1989 - Present (37 years)

Somlata Acharyya Chowdhury is an Indian Bengali singer. She rose to fame with the release of 'Tumi Asbe Bole' & 'Jagarane Jay Bibhabaree' from the Bengali film Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbona in 2011. She has been a prominent singer in Bengali films since 2007. Besides films, she also worked for several solo albums with her band Somlata & the Aces. Apart from being a singer, she works as a guest lecturer of Psychology in Asutosh College, Kolkata.

#12159

Brazeal Dennard

#181267

Overall Influence

1929 - 2010 (81 years)

Brazeal Dennard was an American singer, educator, Choral director, and musical arranger. He has been a significant contributor in the preservation and revitalization of the spiritual musical form. His efforts helped moved the African-American spiritual beyond the confines of the church, exposing not only the beauty of this music, but also its historical importance to a wider audience.

#12160

Douglas Geers

#189327

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Douglas Geers is an American composer, and the founder of the Spark Festival. Career Geers is an associate professor of music composition and director of the Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music at the City University of New York, Brooklyn College . He had been a professor of music at the University of Minnesota , where he founded the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts and was its Director from 2003-2009. Geers also is a member of the Electric Music Collective and the electroacoustic band, Sønreel.

#12161

Patricia Bishop

Patricia Bishop

#172932

Overall Influence

1940 - 2011 (71 years)

Patricia Alison "Pat" Bishop TC was a Trinidadian educator, music director, artist and cultural icon. She was one of the first women to arrange for steelbands and was the recipient of the Trinity Cross, the highest of the National Awards of Trinidad and Tobago.

#12162

Taranath Rao

#181436

Overall Influence

1915 - 1991 (76 years)

Pandit Taranath Ram Rao Hattiangadi was a performer and teacher of Indian classical percussion, known for his knowledge of rare talas and old compositions. He represented the Farukhabad, Delhi, and Ajrada gharanas of tabla, and the Nana Panse tradition of pakhavaj. He studied formally for 47 years—an exceptional amount of time, even in the Indian master-disciple system—under many pandits and ustads, most notably Shamsuddin Khan. He had numerous disciples and students of special training.

#12163

JoAnn Kuchera-Morin

#179239

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

JoAnn Kuchera-Morin is a professor of Media Arts & Technology and of Music. A composer and researcher specializing in multimodal interaction, she is the Creator and Director of the AlloSphere at the California NanoSystems Institute and the Creator and Director of the Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Kuchera-Morin initiated and was Chief Scientist of the University of California Digital Media Innovation Program from 1998 to 2003.

#12164

Curt Cacioppo

#179704

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Curtis Cacioppo is an American composer of contemporary classical music and pianist. He is of Sicilian ancestry on his father's side, and Anglo-Saxon ancestry on his mother's side. He is distantly related to the avant-garde composer George Cacioppo and the Dixieland trumpeter and bandleader Tony Almerico.

#12165

Martin Christoph Redel

#186000

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Martin Christoph Redel is a German composer, music theorist, percussionist and university teacher. Life Martin Christoph Redel was born in Detmold on 30 January 1947 as the son of the flutist Kurt Redel and the pianist Erika Redel-Seidler. He studied percussion with Friedrich Scherz and composition with Rudolf Kelterborn, Giselher Klebe and Johannes Driessler at the Nordwestdeutsche Musikakademie . He then continued his studies at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover with Isang Yun. In 1971 he became a lecturer in music theory and ear training at the Detmold Academy of Music....

#12166

Wolfgang Stockmeier

#151030

Overall Influence

1931 - 2015 (84 years)

Wolfgang Stockmeier was a German composer, church musician, concert organist and academic. From 1962, he was professor of music theory, organ playing and organ improvisation at the Musikhochschule Köln, and also lectured in Düsseldorf and Herford. He made more than 150 recordings of organ music.

#12167

Martin Rummel

#186646

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Martin Rummel is an Austrian cellist. Biography The son of Peter Rummel, professor of law, grew up in Linz, where he went to primary school and graduated from Akademisches Gymnasium, where he received a Classical education, with highest marks in 1992. After early harpsichord and piano lessons from Helga Schiff-Riemann, he started to learn the cello in 1982 from Wilfried Tachezi at what is today the Anton Bruckner Private University for Music, Drama, and Dance. Simultaneously, he studied the harpsichord with August Humer, but did not finish this course. In March 1991, he got his diploma as a ...

#12168

Gordon Shi-Wen Chin

#189235

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Gordon Chin or Chin Shi-wen is a Taiwanese composer and conductor. He is a member of the faculty of National Taiwan Normal University. He earned his doctoral degree at the Eastman School of Music under Christopher Rouse and Samuel Adler. As one of Taiwan's most prolific composers, his works have been performed by the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, San Diego Symphony Orchestra, and Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, as well as by ensembles in Tokyo , France , the International Sejong Soloists , and many others. The Los Angeles Times has called him a "confident master of the Western modernistic large o...

#12169

Mary Kim Joh

#167779

Overall Influence

1904 - 2005 (101 years)

Mary C. Kim Joh , also known as Che Sik Cho, was a Korean-American music composer, academic and medical research scientist. Joh is best known for writing "School Bell" in 1945. This children's song is taught to pre-school students in South Korea.

#12170

Richard Moyle

#190761

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Richard Michael Moyle is a retired New Zealand academic specialising in ethnomusicology of the Pacific and Australia. He splits his time between several Australasian universities. Career Moyle earned a PhD from the University of Auckland and his 1971 doctoral thesis was titled Samoan traditional music. Moyle spent many years in and around the Pacific recording songs and oral histories from indigenous peoples. He held teaching positions at Indiana University, the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies before returning to Auc...

#12171

Aljur Abrenica

#179189

Overall Influence

1990 - Present (36 years)

Aljur Mikael Guiang Abrenica is a Filipino actor, dancer, model and singer. He appeared on the fourth season of StarStruck. Early and personal life His father, Alfonso Abrenica Jr., was a musician, and his mother, Amor Guiang, was a member of a band. Abrenica attended Don Bosco Academy, Pampanga in high school and has said that he aspired to become a pilot by pursuing aeronautics.

#12172

Kate Fagan

#183155

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Kate Fagan is an Australian poet, musician and academic. Education Fagan attended James Ruse Agricultural High School. She came second in the state in the 1990 New South Wales Higher School Certificate, distinguishing herself in mathematics, modern history, agriculture and English. Initially studying arts/law at university, her academic interests began to focus on literary culture.

#12173

James Shomate

#172080

Overall Influence

1943 - 2001 (58 years)

James Shomate was an American pianist and voice teacher. He was particularly known for his work as an accompanist; notably playing in concerts and recitals for famous singers like Pierre Bernac, Richard Bonelli, Brenda Lewis, Anna Moffo, Lily Pons, Yvonne Printemps, Elisabeth Söderström, Gérard Souzay, Risë Stevens, and Jennie Tourel among others. For many years he served as a member of the voice faculty at the University of Bridgeport.

#12174

Rumbi Katedza

#185065

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Rumbi Katedza is a Zimbabwean Film Producer and Director who was born on 17 January 1974. Early life and education She did her Primary and Secondary Education in Harare, Zimbabwe. Katedza graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English from McGill University, Canada in 1995. In 2008 Katedza received the Chevening Scholarship that enabled her to further her studies in film. She also holds a MA in Filmmaking from Goldsmiths College, London University.

#12175

Elisabeth Chojnacka

Elisabeth Chojnacka

#183536

Overall Influence

1939 - 2017 (78 years)

Elisabeth Chojnacka was a Polish harpsichordist living in France. She was one of the world's foremost harpsichordists specializing in the performance of contemporary harpsichord music. Biography Chojnacka earned a degree from the Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw in 1962, after which she moved to Paris, where she studied with Aimee Wiele. She presented the premiere performances of many works for harpsichord, both solo as well as with ensemble and/or electronics. Over 80 composers dedicated works to her. While she was known particularly for her performance of new music, she also played early music in her concerts, as well as in some of her recordings.

#12176

Michael Best

#182919

Overall Influence

Michael Best is an American operatic tenor and voice teacher. A native of North Carolina, he was a solo artist at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, singing 297 performances in 17 seasons. He currently teaches voice at Roosevelt University's Chicago College of Performing Arts.

#12177

Gerhard Mantel

#181532

Overall Influence

1930 - 2012 (82 years)

Gerhard Friedrich Mantel was a German cellist, University lecturer and writer instrumental-pedagogical and music-psychological publications. Life Born in Karlsruhe, Mantel was the second child of Georg Mantel, professor of piano and composition at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe, and his wife Margarethe. At the age of nine he turned to playing the cello. Already as a pupil he studied in Heidelberg with August Eichhorn. Cello. After Abitur, a Fulbright Program took him to Athens, Ohio. He then refined his skills in Paris with Pierre Fournier, Paul Tortelier and André Navarra, as well as wit...

#12178

Marcus Maeder

#184202

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Marcus Maeder is a sound artist, acoustic ecologist and composer of electronic music. Education Maeder studied Fine Arts at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences, Philosophy at the FernUniversität in Hagen and completed his PhD in Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zürich.

#12179

Jinsang Lee

#177612

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

Jinsang Lee is a South Korean classical pianist and a professor at Korea National University of Arts. He came to international recognition by winning the Concours Géza Anda in Zurich in 2009 where he also became the first participant in the history of the competition winning all special prizes; the Audience Prize, the Mozart Prize and the Schumann Prize.

#12180

Max Beckschäfer

#183922

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Max Beckschäfer is a German organist, composer and academic. Professional career Beckschäfer took classes at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich in organ, piano, violin and choral conducting. He studied church music at the Musikhochschule München and continued studying composition with Wilhelm Killmayer. He was a Kantor in Munich from 1976 to 1987.

#12181

Dasari Narayana Rao

#166986

Overall Influence

1942 - 2017 (75 years)

Dasari Narayana Rao was an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, lyricist, and politician known for his works predominantly in Telugu cinema, in addition to Hindi cinema. He has directed more than 150 feature films in a variety of genres. He holds the Limca World Record for directing the most number of films in the world. He is known by the moniker Darsaka Ratna . His works emphasize social injustice, corruption and gender discrimination. Narayana Rao has received two National Film Awards, nine state Nandi Awards including the Raghupathi Venkaiah Award, and four Filmfare Awards South including the Lifetime Achievement.

#12182

Erni Mangold

#174806

Overall Influence

1927 - Present (99 years)

Erni Mangold is an Austrian actress and stage director. Since 1948, she had appeared in more than 75 films and TV productions. Life Goldmann was born into a family of artists. The father was a painter, and her mother, who was likely to become a successful concert pianist, resigned to her career in favour of her family. She had piano lessons from age 4 to 14.

#12183

Caspar René Hirschfeld

#182802

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Caspar René Hirschfeld is a German composer and violinist. Life Born in Wernigerode, Hirschfeld received his first violin lessons at the music school from the age of 5. At the age of 9 he began composing. From 1982 to 1987 he studied composition with Udo Zimmermann and Wilfried Krätzschmar and violin with Christian Redder at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden. Until 1989 he was master student of Udo Zimmermann. Other important mentors were Paul-Heinz Dittrich, Gret Palucca, the dancer and the painter Günter Firit.

#12184

William L. Johnson

#189827

Overall Influence

William L. Johnson is an American actor and musician who has held starring and prominent roles in many theatrically released projects, including Blue Hill Avenue, Motives 1, Motives 2, Mannsfield 12, Crossover, Doing Hard Time and Tears of a Clown.

#12185

Carole Terry

#177181

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Carole Ruth Terry is an American organist, harpsichordist, and pedagogue. Biography Carole Terry received her musical training at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas , Eastman School of Music , and Stanford University, where she obtained in 1977 a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in early music performance practice. Her teachers in Stanford were Herbert Nanney , Margaret Fabrizio , and Joan Benson . In 1979, she was appointed professor of organ and harpsichord at the University of Washington in Seattle. From 2000–2003, she was Resident Organist and curator of the C. B. Fisk organ at B...

#12186

Hans Michael Beuerle

#185670

Overall Influence

1941 - 2015 (74 years)

Hans Michael Beuerle was a German choir- and orchestra director. Life Born in Berlin, Beuerle was the son of the church musician and Lotte Beuerle, née Engelmann. In his parental home he received his musical imprint through vocal and instrumental ensemble music, especially from the time of the Baroque. While still a student at a high school in Frankfurt, he studied violin and chamber music at the Hoch Conservatory followed by school music at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, then violin and postgraduate conducting studies , as well as musicology, German studies and philosophy at the Goethe University Frankfurt.

#12187

Brian Carpenter

Brian Carpenter

#177509

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Brian Carpenter is an American musician, songwriter, composer, and arranger. He is the lead singer and songwriter for the Boston, Massachusetts band Beat Circus. In 2011, he formed Brian Carpenter & The Confessions and released its debut album in 2015. He is also a founder and lead arranger of Ghost Train Orchestra in Brooklyn.

#12188

Alice Garner

#187154

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Alice Miriam Olivia Garner is an Australian actor, author, musician, teacher and historian. She is the daughter of Australian novelist and screenwriter Helen Garner and playwright, historian and actor Bill Garner.

#12189

Paul Schneider

#162245

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Paul Schneider is an American film and television director. Some of his directorial credits include Baywatch, Beverly Hills, 90210, L.A. Law and JAG. He has also directed a number of television films, including You Lucky Dog and Can of Worms for Disney Channel.

#12190

Samuel Robles

#187994

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Samuel Robles is a Panamanian conductor, composer, and writer. His compositions are often influenced by Panamanian folklore and traditions, as evidenced from his earliest works to his most recent ones . His works have been performed by orchestras and soloists throughout the Americas, Europe and South Africa, most notably the OSJEV, the National Symphony of Panama, clarinetists Ana Catalina Ramírez, Carmen Borregales, Marco Antonio Mazzino, Alexis Fong and Matthew Jansen Giraldo, violinist Eddy Marcano, Eighth Blackbird's Michael Maccaferri, soprano Melissa Gerber, percussionists Stuart Gerber, Carlos Camacho and Jon Bisesi, mezzo Paulina Villarreal, among others.

#12191

Kambiz Roshanravan

#180929

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Kambiz Roshanravan is an Iranian performing musician, composer, conductor and music teacher. As one of the famous composers in Iranian classical and traditional music, he has composed or arranged various works in these styles using well-known Western and Iranian forms such as: symphony, sonata, symphonic poem, concerto, row music forms and local music. His professional life is divided into three parts: composing, teaching and professional activity in the music community. During his career he has created many works for film music, vocal music, symphony orchestra and chamber, and for many years...

#12192

Philip Bračanin

#179741

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Philip Bračanin is an Australian composer and musicologist. Life Bračanin was born in Kalgoorlie, the son of Croatian immigrants. His early musical studies were with Miss Olive Ruane, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia in 1962 with bachelor's degrees in mathematics and music. He pursued graduate studies at the same school in musicology specialising in analysis of 20th-century music, earning an MA in 1968 and a PhD in 1970. His master's thesis was on the music of Mátyás Seiber and his doctorate thesis was on the music of Anton Webern. From 1970 to 2008 he served on the staff of the University of Queensland.

#12193

Jim Cotter

#184009

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Clive James Cotter is an Australian composer currently based in Canberra, Australia. His career has largely been in music for theater, film, and radio. Cotter began his career as Music Director and resident composer for the Canberra Repertory Theatre and has collaborated extensively with Australian playwright Dorothy Hewett, most notably writing the music for the musical theater piece The Man From Mukinupin and for the children's play Golden Valley. Cotter also wrote the music for Merlinda Bobis' radio play "Rita's Lullaby", which won the Prix Italia in 1998.

#12194

Edwin van der Heide

#174774

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Edwin van der Heide is a Dutch sound artist and composer known for his immersive installations and performances, currently living in Rotterdam. Biography Van der Heide was born in Hilversum, Netherlands, and studied Music Technology in Utrecht and Sonology at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.

#12195

Rich Krueger

#184328

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Richard Charles Krueger, Jr. is an American rock singer-songwriter and neonatologist, as of 2017-2022 based in the Chicago, Illinois, area. Early life Krueger was born in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York. He grew up listening to and translating songs by Jacques Brel, which later inspired him to start writing his own songs.

#12196

Igor Khudolei

#189926

Overall Influence

1940 - 2001 (61 years)

Igor Leonidovich Khudolei was a Russian pianist, composer and Honored Artist of Russia. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory and post-graduate courses under Professor Yakov Flier . Igor Khudolei attended the classes of Professor S. Balasanyan . Khudolei was a laureate of several competitions - International Pianists , All-Union Pianists Competition , and All-Union Composers Competition .

#12197

Marijan Lipovšek

#190381

Overall Influence

1910 - 1995 (85 years)

Marijan Lipovšek was a Slovenian composer, pianist, and teacher. A native of Ljubljana, he studied music in that city before heading to Prague in 1932; among his teachers were Pavel Šivic, Josef Suk, and Alois Hába. He later taught at the Ljubljana Academy of Music. He was father of the mezzo-soprano Marjana Lipovšek.

#12198

Euronymous

#186352

Overall Influence

1968 - 1993 (25 years)

Øystein Aarseth , better known by his stage name Euronymous, was a Norwegian musician and a founder of and central figure in the early Norwegian black metal scene. He was a co-founder and guitarist of the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem and was the only constant member from the band's formation in 1984 until his death in 1993. He was also founder and owner of the extreme metal record label Deathlike Silence Productions and record shop Helvete.

#12199

Quynh Nguyen

#183333

Overall Influence

Quynh Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American classical pianist based in New York City. She has performed extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, to wide critical acclaim. For her Carnegie Recital Hall debut, the New York Concert Review commented: “Ms. Nguyen’s pianism and music making are graced with beauty and exuberance. She is a real artist; a wonderfully communicative performer. What a compendium of intellect, sophistication and taste!” Dr. Quynh Nguyen currently serves on the piano faculty of Hunter College and the International Keyboard Institute and Festival in New York...

#12200

Christine Correa

#189321

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Christine Isobel Correa is an American jazz singer of Indian origin. Life and work Correa is from a musical family; her father Micky Correa led big bands in India. As a child she sang and played piano. In 1979, she moved to the U.S. and attended the New England Conservatory of Music, where her teachers included Jaki Byard, Ran Blake, and Joe Maneri. She worked with the quintet of Frank Carlberg, in ballet music for the Battery Dance Company. She teaches at Columbia University and is the director the Maine Jazz Camp.

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