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#12301

Justinian Tamusuza

#189366

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Justinian Tamusuza is a Ugandan composer of contemporary classical music. His music combines elements of traditional Ugandan music and Western music. He is best known for his first string quartet, which was included by the Kronos Quartet on their 1992 CD Pieces of Africa, which contains music by seven African composers. His music has also been performed by the Imani Winds.

#12302

Elmar Lampson

#162205

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Elmar Lampson is a German composer. He wrote two symphonies, solo- and chamber music, music for choir and an opera. His music is published by Peermusic Hamburg, New York and is available on various CDs, published by col legno, Vienna.

#12303

Sylvia Meyer

#178807

Overall Influence

1907 - 2005 (98 years)

Sylvia Meyer was an American harpist who became the first female member of the National Symphony Orchestra. She was a founding member of the World Harp Congress. Early life Sylvia Meyer was born in Madison, Wisconsin, the child of Balthasar H. Meyer, an interstate commerce commissioner. She started playing the harp at age seven, choosing the instrument because her mother had bought a harp at an estate sale. She studied music at the Academy of the Holy Cross near Washington, D.C., and graduated from the Western High School in 1924. She attended the University of Wisconsin from where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa in geology.

#12304

Matt Mitchell

#185650

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Matthew Mitchell is an American jazz pianist and composer. He is also part of the faculty of the New York-based Center for Improvisational Music. Early life Mitchell was born on July 19, 1975. He grew up in Exton, Pennsylvania. He first played the piano aged six, and composed from the age of 10. He had lessons in jazz and theory at a university from the age of 12. At this stage he was influenced by pianists Keith Jarrett and Herbie Hancock.

#12305

Werner Genuit

#187732

Overall Influence

1937 - 1997 (60 years)

Werner Genuit was a German classical pianist, composer and teacher. Career Born in Wuppertal, Genuit was first trained to be a baker. He then studied the piano at the Nordwestdeutsche Musikakademie, now the Hochschule für Musik Detmold, with Hans Richter-Haaser, and in Geneva with Louis Hiltbrand, where he graduated with a "Premier Prix à L'Unanimité".

#12306

Jeanne Deroubaix

#190483

Overall Influence

1927 - Present (99 years)

Jeanne Deroubaix is a Belgian mezzo-soprano, focused on concert performances of early music and contemporary music. She premiered music by Igor Stravinsky and collaborated with Pierre Boulez, first performing and recording his Le marteau sans maître.

#12307

Ilya Scheps

#191023

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Ilja Scheps is a Russian pianist living in Germany and professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, Department Aachen. Life and career Scheps studied piano at the Moscow Conservatory, where he was later taken on as a teacher. Between 1982 and 1992, he performed mainly as a soloist with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra. In the meantime, he has been invited to give guest performances in the US, Australia, China, Israel, Italy, Malta, New Zealand, Spain, Hungary and Turkey.

#12308

Terreon Gully

#180078

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (44 years)

Terreon Deautri Gully is an American drummer from East St. Louis, Illinois. Career Gully has performed with various musicians and genres, including the Christian McBride Band, saxophonist Ron Blake, vibraphonist Stefon Harris and Latin band Yerba Buena.

#12309

Lorenzo Malfatti

#187506

Overall Influence

1923 - 2007 (84 years)

Lorenzo Malfatti was a baritone opera singer and professor of music at Chatham College, where he taught voice, diction, and opera, and conducted the Chatham College Choir. Later in his career he was a voice coach for the Lyric Opera of Chicago. He later joined the faculty of the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music. He was an alumnus of the Juilliard School, the Cherubini Conservatory in Florence, Italy, and the St. Cecilia Conservatory and Academy in Rome, Italy. He held an honorary doctorate from Chatham College.

#12310

Guido Mancusi

#188379

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Guido Mancusi is an Austrian-Italian conductor and composer. Life Born in Portici near Naples, Mancusi was the son of the Neapolitan conductor Enrico Mancusi and the Viennese singing teacher Ines Mancusi and grew up in Naples and Padova. He received his first piano lessons from his father, who was a close friend of the composer Nino Rota. After his father's early death, his mother decided to return to her hometown of Vienna with her two children.

#12311

Steven Sametz

#185074

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Steven Sametz is active as both conductor and composer. He has been hailed as "one of the most respected choral composers in America." Since 1979, he has been on the faculty of Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he holds the Ronald J. Ulrich Chair in Music and is Director of Choral Activities and is founding director of the Lehigh University Choral Union. Since 1998, he has served as Artistic Director of the professional a cappella ensemble, The Princeton Singers. He is also the founding director of the Lehigh University Summer Choral Composers’ Forum. In 2012, he was name...

#12312

Christopher Taylor

Christopher Taylor

#189868

Overall Influence

Christopher Taylor is a prominent American pianist. Taylor graduated from Harvard College, and has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Buffalo Philharmonic, among others. He has received an Avery Fisher Career Grant, the Classical Fellowship of the American Pianists Association and the Gilmore Young Artist Award and earned a bronze medal at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 1993.

#12313

Shmuel Ashkenasi

#182347

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Shmuel Ashkenasi is an Israeli violinist and teacher. Biography Born in Tel Aviv on January 11, 1941, he began his musical training at the Musical Academy of Tel-Aviv studying with legendary pedagogue Ilona Feher, the teacher of such violinists as Pinchas Zukerman and Shlomo Mintz. He arrived in the United States while still young and studied with Efrem Zimbalist at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

#12314

Rotraud Hansmann

#187458

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Rotraud Hansmann is an Austrian soprano in opera and concert. She was a singer in the recordings by Nikolaus Harnoncourt which began historically informed performances, such as Monteverdi's operas and works by Johann Sebastian Bach. She was a teacher at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna.

#12315

Igor Gruppman

#127252

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Igor Gruppman is a Ukrainian violinist and conductor. He is the Principal Conductor of the Orchestra at Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah, a position he has held since 2003. In May 2009, Igor Gruppman was appointed by Valery Gergiev to the position of music director of the newly formed Mariinsky Stradivary Orchestra. He currently also is Concertmaster of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.

#12316

Elisabeth Kelan

Elisabeth Kelan

#120786

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (47 years)

Elisabeth Kelan is a Professor of Leadership and Organisation at Essex Business School and Director of the Cranfield International Centre for Women Leaders at Cranfield School of Management. Prior to that she was an Associate Professor in the Department of Management at King's College London and Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Women in Business at London Business School, founded by Laura D’Andrea Tyson. She also worked at the Gender Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science where she received her PhD.

#12317

Allen Sapp

#184029

Overall Influence

1922 - 1999 (77 years)

Allen Sapp was a composer of music for piano, voice, chamber, and orchestral music. Education and family A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Sapp was a United States Army veteran who had served as a cryptanalyst in England, France, Belgium, and Germany during World War II. During the 1940s, Sapp earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Harvard University, having studied primarily with Walter Piston and Irving Fine, and privately with Nadia Boulanger and Aaron Copland.

#12318

Eberhard Metternich

#186241

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Eberhard Metternich is a German catholic church musician, school musician, singer, cathedral kapellmeister and professor for choral conducting in Cologne. Metternich sang with the Limburger Domsingknaben as a youth. After his schooling, which ended in 1979 with the Abitur at the in Hadamar, he studied school music, German studies and singing in Cologne and later continued his studies in choral conducting at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main with Uwe Gronostay. He also studied in Vienna and with Eric Ericson in Stockholm.

#12319

Sumarsam

#135281

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Sumarsam is a Javanese musician and scholar of the gamelan. Life Sumarsam was born in Dander, Bojonegoro, East Java, Indonesia. He first performed gamelan at the age of seven. He began his formal gamelan education in 1961 at the Konservatori Karawitan Indonesia in Surakarta. He graduated in 1964 and began to teach, and in 1965 began to study at the newly opened Akademi Seni Karawitan Indonesia . He graduated in 1968 and did some co-teaching with Martopangrawit. ASKI participated in government programs to promote Indonesian culture abroad, and in 1970 Sumarsam was invited to Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan, where he worked seven months.

#12320

Carlos Torres

#186997

Overall Influence

1986 - Present (40 years)

Carlos Andres Torres Rivera is a Colombian actor. The beginning of his debut on television in the Colombian drama series Padres e Hijos. His most notable roles in television have been in telenovelas such as Francisco el matemático: Clase 2017, The Queen of Flow, and All For Love.

#12321

Dejan Bogdanović

#187977

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Dejan Bogdanovic is a Serbian and Italian violinist. Early life Bogdanovic comes from an artistic family. His grandfather, a famous sculptor from Belgrade, graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris and there met Pablo Picasso with whom a he was a friend.

#12322

Jorge Preloran

#184927

Overall Influence

1933 - 2009 (76 years)

Jorge Ricardo Preloran was an Argentine filmmaker and a pioneer in ethnobiographic film making. Life and career Preloran was born in Buenos Aires to an Argentine father and an Irish American mother. He made a short film, Venganza, in 1954, and left Argentina to enroll at UCLA, graduating with a film studies major in 1961. Holding dual citizenship, he served with the U.S. military in West Germany. He began a career as a filmmaker in 1961, when the Tinker Foundation offered him a grant to make several films on the gauchos of Argentina. Preloran sought to redefine the genre of ethnographic fil...

#12323

Dominique Benicheti

#188783

Overall Influence

1943 - 2011 (68 years)

Dominique Benichetti was a French film director and producer known for documentaries, pioneering work on 3D film, animation, and special projects. Early life Dominique was born in Paris in 1943. He studied at the National School for Applied Arts, the National Superior School of Fine Arts, and the Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies in Animation.

#12324

Frans Brouw

#189709

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (97 years)

Florent Robert Frans Brouw is a Belgian pianist. He became a Canadian citizen in 1975. Brouw finished his studies in Brussels' Royal Conservatory in 1952, taking part immediately after in the resumed Queen Elisabeth Music Competition, where he was awarded the 4th prize. An intense concert career ensued throughout the 1950s. Brouw taught in the Ghent Conservatory for a few years before settling in Quebec City in 1964. He is an Honoured Citizen of Veurne.

#12325

William Murphy

#178432

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

William Henry Murphy III is an American gospel recording artist and pastor. He started his music career in 2005, with the release of All Day on Epic Records. This album was listed on the Billboard Gospel Albums chart. His second album, The Sound, was released in 2007 on Central South, and was listed on the Top Gospel Albums chart as well. He self-released We Are One in 2011. This album was listed on the Top Gospel Albums chart, along with the Heatseekers Albums chart. His fourth album, God Chaser, was released in 2013 on Verity. The album reached the Gospel Albums chart, as well as the Billboard 200.

#12326

Giuseppe Liberto

#186213

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Giuseppe Liberto is an Italian priest, choral director and composer. He was director of the Choir of the Sistine Chapel 1997–2010. Life In 1997 Pope John Paul II called upon Liberto to serve as the Director of the Choir of the Sistine Chapel. He held this position until October 2021.

#12327

Edith Picht-Axenfeld

#178357

Overall Influence

1914 - 2001 (87 years)

Edith Picht-Axenfeld was a German pianist and harpsichordist. Career She started her concert career in 1935, and took part two years later in the III International Chopin Piano Competition, when she was awarded the sixth prize; this launched her career. After the Second World War, Picht-Axenfeld performed at an intercontinental level, was active as a chamber musician and recorded for labels such as Deutsche Grammophon, Philips and Erato. RCA released an LP with Chopin's Études op. 10 and op. 25 with Picht-Axenfeld.

#12328

Robert Cutietta

#103127

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Robert Alan Cutietta is best known as an educator, author, researcher, composer, and arts leader. He is the author or co-author of five books and over fifty referereed research articles in the area of music psychology and education. He is also a composer, having written for television shows and movies.

#12329

Judith Bettina

#173209

Overall Influence

Judith Bettina is an American soprano and music educator, particularly noted for her performances and recordings of contemporary classical music. Life and career Bettina was born in Manhattan to a violinist mother, Lilo Kantorowicz Glick, and a violist father, Jacob Glick, who was noted for his championship of new music. She earned her bachelor's and master's degrees from New York's Manhattan School of Music. While there she performed in the school's 1975 premiere of Wuorinen's The W. of Babylon. After graduation from the Manhattan School of Music, she sang in New York City but moved to Stanfo...

#12330

Michael Champion

#189033

Overall Influence

1946 - 2021 (75 years)

Michael Edward Campbell Champion was an American singer, songwriter and musician who started his public career in Detroit. In 1967, with a short-lived band called 'The Abstract Reality', he released a 45 rpm single called Love Burns Like A Fire Inside. With Bob 'Babbitt' Kreinar, Ray Monette and Andrew Smith he formed Scorpion. His name appears as Mike Campbell on the album Scorpion and Meat Loaf's debut album Stoney & Meatloaf . For this recording, apart from having co-written four songs, he played the harmonica on Lady Be Mine.

#12331

Carla Scaletti

#148881

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Carla Scaletti is an American harpist, composer, music technologist and the inventor of the Kyma Sound Design Environment as well as president of Symbolic Sound. Biography Carla Scaletti was born in Ithaca, New York. She graduated from the public schools in Albuquerque, New Mexico, then completed a Bachelor of Music from the University of New Mexico, a Master of Music from Texas Tech University, a master's in computer science from the University of Illinois and a doctorate in music composition from the same school. In the 1970s, she worked as principal harpist in the New Mexico Symphony Orche...

#12332

Chris Collins

#181661

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Chris Collins is an American musician, recording engineer/producer and technologist. Collins' work in the New Jersey/NYC music scene has spanned three decades. Collins gained his start in NYC area pop-punk/garage band Mod Fun - which was formed late in 1982 with his childhood friends Mick Hale and Bob Strete, with whom he had been playing music since 1979. Although he had experimented with songwriting from early on, Chris' primary contribution to Mod Fun was as drummer and backing vocalist. The band released two full-length albums, a 3-song EP and two singles between 1984 and 1987. In addi...

#12333

Bystrík Režucha

#184888

Overall Influence

1935 - 2012 (77 years)

Bystrík Režucha was a Slovak conductor. He was a chief conductor of the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra. External links Biography

#12334

Günther Wich

#186169

Overall Influence

1928 - Present (98 years)

Günther Wich is a German conductor who was Generalmusikdirektor of the Staatsoper Hannover, and for 17 years of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. He was professor of conducting at the Musikhochschule Würzburg.

#12335

Irina Dubkova

#190861

Overall Influence

Irina Dubkova is a Russian composer, music teacher and an associate professor at the Moscow Conservatory. Life Irina Dubkova was born in Sverdlovsk . She began composing at the age of five. After finishing music college as a pianist in 1982, she completed the undergraduate course as a composer. She continued the same way her post-graduate studies with professor Roman Ledenyov and in musicology with Yuri Kholopov until 1987.

#12336

Oleh Kozerod

#142991

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Oleh Joshua Kozerod is a political scientist and history researcher. He came from a Polish aristocratic family Kosyrod de Pyser coat of arms. Biography Kozerod was born in Ukraine, and has become a political scientist and history researcher. For many years he worked as a European reporter for several news agencies, including the World Jewish News Agency. Kozerod graduated from Kharkiv University in 1993, M.A. , Dnipropetrovsk University in 1996, Ph.D. and Donetsk University in 2009, D.Litt. He is Fellow at the Institute of Political and Ethno-national Studies of the National Academy of Scien...

#12337

Éric Morin

#189549

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Éric Morin is a Canadian composer. He has been awarded several prizes for his compositions, including the 2003 Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music for his D'un Château l'autre and the CBC Radio National Competition for Young Composers which he won twice. His works have been performed by several notable musical ensembles, including the Esprit Orchestra, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Quebec Contemporary Music Society, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra among others. He has been commissioned to write works by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres d...

#12338

Debbie Reynolds

Debbie Reynolds

#188441

Overall Influence

1932 - 2016 (84 years)

Mary Frances "Debbie" Reynolds was an American actress, singer, and businesswoman. Her career spanned almost 70 years. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer with her portrayal of Helen Kane in the 1950 film Three Little Words. Her breakout role was her first leading role, as Kathy Selden in Singin' in the Rain . Her other successes include The Affairs of Dobie Gillis , Susan Slept Here , Bundle of Joy , The Catered Affair , and Tammy and the Bachelor , in which her performance of the song "Tammy" topped the Billboard music charts. In 1959, she starred in The M...

#12339

Daniel Wohl

#188006

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (46 years)

Daniel Wohl is a Paris, France born composer based in Los Angeles, California, known for his use of both electronic and acoustic instruments. Education Wohl holds degrees in composition from Bard College, University of Michigan and the Yale School of Music. His teachers include composers David Lang, Martin Bresnick, Joan Tower, Bright Sheng, Ingram Marshall, William Bolcom and Aaron Jay Kernis.

#12340

Walter Buczynski

#179699

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Walter Joseph Buczynski is a Canadian composer, music educator, and pianist. Born in Toronto, Ontario, Buczynski earned an associate degree from The Royal Conservatory of Music in 1951 and a Licentiate in 1953. While there he studied music composition with Godfrey Ridout and piano with Earle Moss. He studied under Darius Milhaud and Charles Jones at the Aspen Music Festival and School in 1955. He pursued further studies in piano with Rosina Lhévinne in New York City in 1958–1959. He won a number of grants from the Government of Poland which enabled him to study music composition with Zbigniew Drzewiecki in Warsaw in 1959 and 1961.

#12341

Clara Dent

#189411

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Clara Dent-Bogányi is an Austrian oboist and teacher. She has been a soloist with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and a teacher at the Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg, in addition to winning international competitions.

#12342

Jack Murdock

#165791

Overall Influence

1922 - 2001 (79 years)

Jack Murdock was an American actor. He was born in Urbana, Ohio to performer parents. His father had a vaudeville group called Teck Murdock and Company; his mother and her sister had an act called The Kennedy Sisters. The two acts combined as Teck Murdock and the Kennedy sisters. He lived with an aunt and uncle in Put-in-Bay in South Bass Island.

#12343

Jacobus Kloppers

#171855

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Jacobus Kloppers is a Canadian composer, musicologist and organist. He has composed many notable pieces, especially for organ, and has been the subject of substantial scholarship. Biography Born in South Africa, Kloppers completed his Doctorate in Frankfurt, Germany. In 1966, Kloppers returned to South Africa to teach, compose and perform. He immigrated to Canada with his family in the mid-1970s in protest to the Apartheid policy.

#12344

Elizabeth Farr

#187375

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Elizabeth Farr is an American classical harpsichordist. Biography and career Farr has degrees in harpsichord and organ performance from Stetson University, the Juilliard School and the University of Michigan. Farr has studied with Paul Jenkins, Vernon de Tar, and Edward Parmentier.

#12345

Anthony Branker

Anthony Branker

#181817

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Anthony Branker is an American musician and educator of Caribbean descent. He was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey and raised in Piscataway and Plainfield, New Jersey. He attended public schools in Piscataway and graduated from Piscataway Township High School in 1976. where he was involved in the music program under the direction of R. Bruce Bradshaw and Joseph T. Mundi. Following high school, he attended Princeton University where he received his B.A. in music and a Certificate in African American Studies. He attended graduate school at the University of Miami for a Master of Music in Jazz Peda...

#12346

Keith E. House

#184008

Overall Influence

1926 - 2005 (79 years)

Keith E. House was an American music educator and director of bands. Early life Born, raised, and educated in Sweet Springs, Missouri. House received his B.M.E. from Central Methodist University in trumpet. His graduate studies were pursued at the University of Kansas.

#12347

Günther Weißenborn

#183572

Overall Influence

1911 - 2001 (90 years)

Günther Weißenborn was a German classical pianist, accompanist, conductor and academic teacher. Awards 1976: Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany External links

#12348

Leah Meyerhoff

#187399

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (47 years)

Leah Meyerhoff is an American Student Academy Award-nominated director, producer and screenwriter. She has received attention as the writer and director of the feature film I Believe in Unicorns starring Natalia Dyer and Peter Vack. Her films have screened in over 200 film festivals worldwide and won over a dozen international awards.

#12349

Mohan

#135753

Overall Influence

M. Mohan is an Indian director of Malayalam films. Mohan has done several notable acclaimed films including Pakshe, Isabella, Oru Katha Oru Nunnakkatha, Idavela, Vida Parayum Munpe, Randu Penkuttikal and Shalini Ente Koottukari. He has scripted five films, Angene Oru Avadhikkalathu, Mukham, Sruthi, Alolam and Vida Parayum Munpe, and wrote the story of two films, Ithile Iniyum Varu and Kathayariyathe.

#12350

Freddy Cadena

#187861

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Freddy Cadena is an Ecuadorian orchestra conductor, who is currently resides in Russia. From 2000 to 2006 he taught at Moscow Conservatory. He is a founder and a chief conductor of Amadeus Chamber Orchestra of Moscow Composers' Union.

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