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#12351

Clifford Leaman

#186508

Overall Influence

Clifford Leaman is an American classical saxophonist and is an associate dean and professor of saxophone at the School of Music of the University of South Carolina In January 2008, Leaman performed upon invitation at the 31st International Saxophone Symposium with the United States Navy Band. Dr. Leaman hosted the North American Saxophone Alliance in April 2008; the conference was held at the University of South Carolina's School of Music. Dr. Leaman was the Music Division co-chair for the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and served as editor of reviews for the Saxophone Symposiu...

#12352

Brad Goode

#181391

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Bradley Mitchell Goode is an American jazz trumpeter, bassist, drummer, composer and music educator. Career Goode worked as a sideman with Eddie Harris, Ira Sullivan, Barrett Deems, Ernie Krivda, Jack DeJohnette, Von Freeman, Curtis Fuller, Sheila Jordan, and Paa Kow. He has led his own groups since 1982. He has been a member of the faculties of the American Conservatory of Music, The University of Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Cuyahoga Community College, New Trier High School and the University of Colorado, where he has been Associate Professor of Jazz Studies. Goode has recorded for Ste...

#12353

Cassidy

#182457

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (47 years)

#12354

Cornelius Schwehr

#188436

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Cornelius Schwehr in Freiburg im Breisgau is a German composer. Career From 1971 to 1975 he took composition lessons with Walter Heck in Freiburg. This was followed by studies from 1975 to 1981 in music theory with Peter Förtig, composition with Klaus Huber and guitar at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. From 1981 to 1983 he studied composition with Helmut Lachenmann at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. From 1981 to 1995 he was a lecturer in Freiburg, Karlsruhe and at the Zurich University of the Arts. He was a scholarship holder of the Heinrich Strobel Foundation and the .

#12355

Mary Hammond

#190268

Overall Influence

Mary Hammond is an English singer, actress, voice coach and founding Head of Musical Theatre at the Royal Academy of Music. She has also published a book titled Thank you that's all we need for today a practical guide to musical theatre auditions for actors.

#12356

Leszek Bednarczuk

#186947

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Leszek Bednarczuk is a Polish linguist, Indo-Europeanist, professor of the Pedagogical University of Cracow since 1987, and member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Bednarczuk is an author of a 2010 book Językowy obraz Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego .

#12357

Judith Ingolfsson

#188473

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Judith Ingolfsson is a violinist. She plays a violin by Lorenzo Guadagnini made in 1750. Early life She began to play violin at age three, and debuted as a soloist in Germany already at age eight. She moved to the US and in her early teens she studied with Jascha Brodsky at the Curtis Institute of Music. She then studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music under David Cerone and Donald Weilerstein.

#12358

Richard Cameron-Wolfe

#189742

Overall Influence

Richard Cameron-Wolfe is an American composer and pianist. Early life and education Cameron-Wolfe was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He studied at Oberlin College and Indiana University with Joseph Battista and Menahem Pressler and Bernard Heiden, Iannis Xenakis, Juan Orrego-Salas, and John Eaton .

#12359

Marco Di Meco

#190377

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (44 years)

Marco Di Meco is an Italian flute player, composer, music producer writer and teacher. Biography His interest in music began with a traditional musical instrument handed down to him by his paternal grandmother. He then decided to study the transverse flute and after a year of private study, he was admitted to the "L. D'Annunzio" Academy of Music in Pescara where he studied the instrument with Sandro Carbone and obtained a diploma. In the same year he began his career as a solo artist playing W.A. Mozart's KV313 concert.

#12360

Vladimír Dlouhý

#190201

Overall Influence

1958 - 2010 (52 years)

Vladimír Dlouhý was a Czech actor. Selected filmography Kajínek Guard No. 47 The Conception of My Younger Brother Buttoners Give the Devil His Due Arabela Awards Czech Lion for best supporting actor Czech Lion for best supporting actor

#12361

Thomas Christian David

#134874

Overall Influence

1925 - 2006 (81 years)

Thomas Christian David was an Austrian composer, conductor, choral conductor, and flutist. David was born in Wels, Upper Austria in 1925. He moved to Germany in 1934 at the age of nine with his father, composer Johann Nepomuk David, and mother. Thomas's younger brother, Lukas David, later became a violinist. In 1967, at the age of forty-two, he married , a Persian Opera singer and they moved to Iran. David was the chief conductor of the orchestra of the National Iranian Television NITV, and also taught at the University of Tehran for seven years until 1973. He had an enormous and invaluable role in the growth and development of the Classical music in Iran.

#12362

Peter Planyavsky

#181899

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Peter Planyavsky is an Austrian organist and composer. He attended the Schottengymnasium. After graduating from the Vienna Academy of Music in 1966 he spent a year in an organ workshop, and has been instrumental in organ-building projects, notably the construction of the Rieger organ in the Great Hall of the Wiener Musikverein. In 1968 he was appointed organist in the Upper Austrian Stift Schlägl, and the following year organist at Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral. From 1983 until 1990 Planyavsky was their director of music, with overall responsibility for church music at the cathedral.

#12363

Florence Millet

#189103

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Florence Millet is a Franco-German classical pianist who serves as Professor of Piano and Chair of the Piano Department at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. Biography Florence Millet was born in Brussels, Belgium. She has performed across the globe in venues and festivals including Salle Pleyel, Théâtre du Châtelet, Carnegie Hall, Kölner Philharmonie, Washington Kennedy Center, Poly Theaters across China in Shanghai, Nanjing, Suzhou, Weihan, Kuhmo Festival, Kneisel Hall, Tanglewood Festival and Festival International de Piano de la Roque d'Anthéron. Millet is a founding member of the Lions Gate Trio.

#12364

Sławomir Tryc

#189543

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Sławomir Tryc is a Dr. phil.,scientist, literary translator, diplomat, cultural manager, and sailor. Following his A-levels in 1971 at the Gebrüder-Śniadecki Grammar School in Zgorzelec, he graduated from the Institute for German Studies at the University of Wrocław; in 1976 Tryc then graduated with the MA thesis "Thomas Mann in Poland".

#12365

John Andrews

#190046

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

John Malcolm Andrews is an English author on antiques, journalist and crime writer, engineering businessman and author – as John Malcolm – of the Tim Simpson series of art crime novels, author as John Andrews of the first Price Guide to Antique Furniture and Managing Editor of Antique Collecting magazine.

#12366

Orm Finnendahl

#189909

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Orm Finnendahl is a German composer. Life Born in Düsseldorf, von 1983 bis 1990 Finnendahl studied music composition and musicology with Frank Michael Beyer, Carl Dahlhaus and Gösta Neuwirth in Berlin. He then studied from 1995 to 1998 with Helmut Lachenmann at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. From 1988 to 1989 he studied at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles.

#12367

Ernst Ottensamer

#190553

Overall Influence

1955 - 2017 (62 years)

Ernst Ottensamer was an Austrian classical clarinetist. Early life Born in Wallern an der Trattnach in Upper Austria, Ottensamer's father, also named Ernst Ottensamer, was a former mayor of Wallern. Ottensamer studied the clarinet at the Bruckner-Konservatorium in Linz. He continued his studies in Vienna at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna , where he completed his studies in 1979. His teachers included Peter Schmidl.

#12368

Carl Albert

#180297

Overall Influence

1962 - 1995 (33 years)

Carl Spencer Albert was an American singer, the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Vicious Rumors from late 1986 until 1995. He was a 1975 graduate of Columbia Elementary School in Columbia, Tuolumne County, California, and a 1979 graduate of Sonora High School, Sonora, California, also in Tuolumne County. He played lead guitar in local bands in Tuolumne County for several years, notably in Crossfire, a hard-rock band, Chaser, another hard-rock band, and Uncle Fester , a hard-rock band.

#12369

Rocky Kramer

#188938

Overall Influence

1990 - Present (36 years)

Sindre Langhelle , known professionally as Rocky Kramer , is a Norwegian-American guitarist, singer, songwriter, composer and bandleader from Trondheim who is now based in Los Angeles. In 2018, Kramer became more widely known when he headlined the Seattle Hempfest. The next year, he released the single "Rock Star" from his debut album Firestorm, together with a well-received animation over live-action music video, exceeding a million views on Facebook. "Rock Star" reached number 1 on the Global DRT Chart and was nominated for a Hollywood Music in Media Award. Following release of Firestorm, Kr...

#12370

Bobby Orr

#180920

Overall Influence

1928 - 2020 (92 years)

Robert Orr was a Scottish jazz drummer and session musician. Early life Orr was born in Cambuslang, Scotland on 15 August 1928. His father's name was John Orr. Orr began playing drums at the age of three, encouraged by his father, a drum major. From the age of 16 Orr also played the trumpet, as a member of Basil Kirchin's band; however, he had difficulties with his embouchure and returned to the drums.

#12371

Russell Howland

#188101

Overall Influence

1908 - 1995 (87 years)

Russell Howland was an American music educator, one of the most highly regarded woodwind teachers in the US of his time. He studied at the University of Illinois and was professor of woodwinds at the University of Michigan until 1948.

#12372

Rose Lowder

#190332

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Rose Lowder is a French-Peruvian avant-garde filmmaker. Early life Lowder was born in the Miraflores District of Lima, Peru. She attended the San Silvestre School. Lowder studied painting and sculpture in Lima at The Art Center and the School of Fine Arts. She moved to the United States for a brief period and then to London. There, Lowder studied at the Regent Street Polytechnic, which closed before she had finished her studies, and then at the Chelsea School of Art.

#12373

Bennett Friedman

#186882

Overall Influence

Bennett Friedman is an American jazz tenor saxophonist. He attended Berkeley High School, Boston's Berklee College of Music, and San Francisco State University, where he was awarded a Master's Degree in Music .

#12374

Guy Jansen

#188343

Overall Influence

1935 - 2019 (84 years)

Guy Elwyn Jansen was a New Zealand music educator and choral musician. Early life and family Born in Carterton on 27 May 1935, Jansen was educated at Horowhenua College. In 1960, he married Judy Mary Rolls, and the couple went on to have three children.

#12375

Winfried Toll

#167237

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Winfried Toll is a German conductor, singer, composer and academic teacher. Career Born in Dorsten, Toll first studied theologie and philosophy at University of Münster and the University of Freiburg. He then studied composition, music theory and music pedagogy with Klaus Huber and Brian Ferneyhough at the Musikhochschule Freiburg. He took master classes in singing with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, and in conducting with Helmuth Rilling.

#12376

George Heussenstamm

George Heussenstamm

#181582

Overall Influence

1926 - Present (100 years)

George Heussenstamm is an American composer. His most well-known works include jazz-classical chamber styles, such as Etudes for oboe, clarinet & bassoon, Op. 77 , Alchemy for solo oboe and tape, Op. 60 , and Ensembles, for brass quintet . Recordings of his compositions include Woodwind Treasures by the West Wind Quintet and Alchemy: American Works for Oboe and English Horn CD by Mark Hill, and others.

#12377

Rauf Dhomi

#177098

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Rauf Dhomi is a Kosovan classical music composer and conductor and a teacher at the University of Pristina. Dhomi is the author of many operas, requiems, masses, cantatas, symphonic music, film scores and theater music.

#12378

Dirk Mommertz

#184543

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Dirk Mommertz is a German pianist and chamber musician. Life Education Born in Mainz, Mommertz, grew up in Michelstadt, where he began his musical education on the violin. He was a young student at the Akademie für Tonkunst , studying violin with Brigitte Fröhlich and piano with Grigory Gruzman. He began studies in 1994 at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe with André Boainain, continued at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts with Lev Natochenny, the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln with the Alban Berg Quartet, and the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris with Georges Pludermacher.

#12379

Seth Carlin

#188727

Overall Influence

1945 - 2016 (71 years)

Seth Carlin was an American pianist and fortepianist. A student of Morton Estrin, Jules Gentil, Wilhelm Kempff, and Rosina Lhévinne, Carlin was especially noted for his performances of the music of Schubert. He appeared on French, Swedish, Chinese and German national television and radio and performed as soloist with orchestras including the Boston Pops and St. Louis Symphony under such conductors as Leonard Slatkin and Nicholas McGegan. He was a prizewinner in the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition and the International Tchaikovsky Competition, and performed a complete cycle of...

#12380

Marco Oppedisano

#181229

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Marco Oppedisano is an American guitarist and composer whose compositions focus on the innovative use of electric guitar in the genre of electroacoustic music. His musique concrète/acousmatic music compositions have utilized multitrack recording and extended performance techniques for electric guitar, nylon string guitar and electric bass. In addition to musique concrète, compositions by Oppedisano also consist of "live" electric guitar in combination with a fixed playback of various electronic, acoustic and sampled sounds.

#12381

Al Simmons

#181070

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Albert William "Al" Simmons, is a Canadian children's performer from Anola, Manitoba. He began performing in the 1970s and later made guest appearances on Fred Penner's television show as well as Sesame Street. He tours regularly across Canada and the United States. He has recorded several albums for children and won a Juno Award in 1996.

#12382

Gary Williams

#190292

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Gary Williams is a British jazz singer, writer, and broadcaster whose performances include concerts, cabaret shows, and theatre. Williams has recorded ten solo albums and written Cabaret Secrets, a book on stagecraft.

#12383

Martin Kutnowski

#189124

Overall Influence

Martin Kutnowski is a composer and music theorist. His works are rooted in the tonal idiom, and references to the musical past are often embedded within folk materials. Disks and scores with Kutnowski's music are available on Contrapunctus, FJH Publications, Billaudot, Ricordi, and iTunes. His background music is also featured in shows such as MTV's Room Raiders.

#12384

Tannaz Farsi

#190427

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Tannaz Farsi is an Iranian-born American multidisciplinary visual artist and educator. Farsi is an Associate Professor of sculpture at the University of Oregon. She lives in Eugene, Oregon. Biography Tannaz Farsi was born in 1974 in Tehran, Pahlavi Iran. Farsi received her BFA degree from West Virginia University; and her MFA degree from Ohio University.

#12385

Paul Fetler

#186839

Overall Influence

1920 - 2018 (98 years)

Paul Fetler was an American composer. He received his bachelor's degree from Northwestern University and was taught composition by David Van Vactor. Following his bachelor's, Fetler earned a master's degrees from Yale, and then accepted a position at the University of Minnesota where he obtained his doctorate. In addition to Vactor, Fetler also studied with Paul Hindemith, Quincy Porter, and Boris Blacher, and taught many composers at Minnesota including Eric Stokes, Donald Keats, Marjorie Rusche, Michael Schelle, Stephen Paulus, Libby Larsen, and Carol Barnett.

#12386

Marc Seales

#188519

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Marc Seales is an American jazz pianist associated with post-bop. As a Professor of Jazz Piano at the University of Washington in Seattle, Seales has worked with Benny Carter, Howard Roberts, Bobby Hutcherson and Art Pepper. His groups include New Stories and the Marc Seales Quartet. Seales won the Earshot Jazz Golden Ear Award for Best Instrumentalist in 1999.

#12387

Neil Slater

#187630

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (95 years)

Kenneth Neil Slater is an American educator, composer, and pianist. In 2008, he retired as professor emeritus. He has composed over 80 works for jazz ensemble and has written for symphony, chamber groups, a cappella choir, opera, and musical theatre.

#12388

Georg Essl

#173846

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Georg Essl is an Austrian computer scientist and musician, who works in the areas of human-computer interaction, acoustics, mobile computing and mobile music. He is a visiting research professor at the College of Letters & Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and he is also affiliated with the Center for 21st Century Studies. Prior to that he was an assistant professor at the University of Michigan.

#12389

Masuko Ushioda

#149061

Overall Influence

1942 - 2013 (71 years)

was a Japanese violinist who had an international career as soloist and teacher. Early life Masuko Ushioda was born in Shenyang, Manchuria. Her parents were a well-educated, cosmopolitan couple: her father was a graduate of Waseda University who became an architect, and her mother was a folkloric dancer and choreographer. As it was her mother's dream for her two daughters to achieve independent lives as professionals, and since Western music was of great interest to her parents, Ushioda and her sister Fusa were introduced to musical instruments early on. Family lore says that in the afterma...

#12390

Vladan Nikolic

#185911

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Vladan Nikolic is a Serbian independent film director, screenwriter and film producer. Biography Nikolic has taught film directing, production, and digital filmmaking classes at various universities, including New York University. He is Dean of the School of Media Studies at The New School.

#12391

Charlie Banacos

#177406

Overall Influence

1946 - 2009 (63 years)

Charlie Banacos was an American pianist, composer, author and educator, concentrating on jazz. Banacos created over 100 courses of study for improvisation and composition. His concepts of teaching and his courses influenced educators since the late 1950s. He was the original author of courses named "Hexatonics", "Intervallics", "Tetratonics", "Superimpositions", "Harps", "Overlaps", "Bitonal Pendulums", "Double Mambos", "Twenty-third Chords", "Tonal Paralypsis", and "Triad Pairs," among others. These and many of his other terms for his courses have become part of the basic lexicon in jazz edu...

#12392

Richard Festinger

#185805

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Richard Festinger is an American composer of contemporary classical music, pianist and educator. Biography Festinger was born in Newton, Massachusetts. He received his B.A. in music, magna cum laude, from San Francisco State University, and his Ph.D. in music composition from the University of California, Berkeley. He was the founding director of Earplay, a new chamber music ensemble based in the Bay Area. He has been a resident artist at the MacDowell Colony, Camargo Foundation, Cité internationale des arts in Paris, Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Rockefeller Foundatio...

#12393

Geraldine Walther

#114585

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Geraldine Lamboley Walther is an American violist. From 2005 to May 2020 she was a member of the Takács Quartet. During this time she also taught at the University of Colorado Boulder. She was also the principal violist of the San Francisco Symphony, a role she held from 1976 through 2005. Previously, she was assistant principal viola of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the Miami Philharmonic. In 1979, she won the First Prize at the Primrose International Viola Competition.

#12394

Jonathan Wolff

#183540

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Jonathan Wolff is an American composer. Biography Wolff was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and attended Atherton High School. He is well known for creating the theme and music for the television series Seinfeld. Wolff is also the composer for about 75 other TV series, including Will & Grace, Who's the Boss?, Married... with Children, The Hughleys, The King of Queens, and Reba.

#12395

Michael Viscardi

Michael Viscardi

#108561

Overall Influence

1989 - Present (37 years)

Michael Anthony Viscardi of San Diego, California is an American mathematician who, as a highschooler, won the 2005 Siemens Competition and Davidson Fellowship with a mathematical project on the Dirichlet problem, whose applications include describing the flow of heat across a metal surface, winning $100,000 and $50,000 in scholarships, respectively. Viscardi's theorem is an expansion of the 19th-century work of Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet. He was also named a finalist with the same project in the Intel Science Talent Search. Viscardi placed Best of Category in Mathematics at the International Science and Engineering Fair in May 2006.

#12396

Charles Repole

#188283

Overall Influence

Charles Repole is an American actor, theater director, and college professor. Repole made his Broadway debut in Very Good Eddie in 1975, earning a Tony Award nomination and a Theatre World Award for his performance. Additional Broadway credits include the 1979 revival of Whoopee!, which garnered him a Drama Desk Award nomination, Doubles , and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes , which he directed.

#12397

Sarah Turner

#157027

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Sarah Turner is a British artist, filmmaker, writer, curator and academic. Her moving image work is known for its preoccupation with form and its interplay between abstraction and narration. Education Turner studied Fine Art, Film and Video at St Martin’s School of Art in the late eighties, followed by an MA at the Slade School of Fine Art.

#12398

Michele Campanella

#184614

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Michele Campanella is an Italian pianist who specialises in the music of Franz Liszt, and is also a conductor. Campanella was born in Naples in 1947. He won the Alfredo Casella Prize at age 19, after studying with Vincenzo Vitale. This led to an international performing career, taking him to many countries , regularly appearing at international music festivals such as Lucerne, Vienna, Berlin, Prague, Taormina, Turin, and Pesaro, and working with such conductors as Claudio Abbado, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Vernon Handley, Eliahu Inbal, Sir Charles Mackerras, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Georges Prêtr...

#12399

Albert Mkrtchyan

Albert Mkrtchyan

#188258

Overall Influence

1937 - 2018 (81 years)

Albert Mkrtchyan was an Armenian film director, screenwriter, actor, and recipient of the People's Artist of the Republic of Armenia award . He was the younger brother of Soviet actor Frunzik Mkrtchyan.

#12400

Mladen Milicevic

Mladen Milicevic

#90628

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Mladen Milicevic is a composer of experimental music, sound installation, and film music. He is a professor and has been for many years the Chair of the Recording Arts Department at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He is best known for composing the score to the cult film The Room.

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