The Most Influential People Across History
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Flor Roffé de Estévez
#182910
Overall Influence
1921 - 2004 (83 years)
Flor Roffé de Estévez was a composer, writer, and professor of Venezuelan music. She came from a Jewish family, which migrated to the country at the beginning of the 20th century. Biography In 1937, she learnt to teach music at the School of Music José Angel Lick, where she learned piano from Moses Moleiro, musical theory from Eduardo Square, harmony from Antonio Estévez, and music history from Juan Bautista Square. In 1944, she studied music pedagogy at the New York Teacher's College of the University of Columbia, and in 1945 at the Juilliard School of Music, and finally, at the New York Dal...
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Nohema Fernández
#189587
Overall Influence
1944 - Present (82 years)
Nohema Fernández is a Cuban-born American pianist. Early life and education Born in Havana, Fernández began her formal musical studies with famed teacher César Pérez Sentenat, continuing later with María Jones de Castro at the Conservatorio Internacional in that city, She played several recitals between the ages of 11 and 16, and then debuted at the Teatro Nacional when she was sixteen years old. With her brother José Pedro she came to the United States via Operation Peter Pan, arriving in 1961; their parents followed them nearly a year later. She continued her musical studies in the United States.
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Michael John Trotta
#188528
Overall Influence
1978 - Present (48 years)
Michael John Trotta is an American musical composer and conductor. He has appeared at Carnegie Hall three times since 2014. Biography During his undergraduate career at Rowan University, Trotta studied voice and conducting and earned his Bachelor's of Music Degree in Music Education. After 10 years of full-time public school teaching, he earned his Master's Degree in Composition and Choral Conducting. He earned his Doctorate in Choral Conducting at Louisiana State University, where he studied with Kenneth Fulton. While at LSU he met his future wife, Rachel. After graduating, he taught at Rowa...
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Ahmed Mukhtar
#184816
Overall Influence
1967 - Present (59 years)
Ahmed Mukhtar Arabic, أحمد مختار is an Iraqi musician who is internationally renowned for his playing of the oud. He was born in Baghdad and is a graduate of the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad.
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Christopher Hinterhuber
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Overall Influence
1973 - Present (53 years)
Christopher Hinterhuber is an Austrian classical pianist. Biography and career Hinterhuber was born in Klagenfurt, Austria, and studied with Rudolf Kehrer and Heinz Medjimorec at the university for Music in Vienna, and with Lazar Berman at the Accademia Pianistica in Imola, Italy. He also attended master classes with Dmitri Bashkirov, Oleg Maisenberg, and Murray Perahia. In 2001, he won the second prize at the Beethoven Piano Competition in Vienna, Austria, and also performed in Michael Haneke's film The Piano Teacher .
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Jean‐baptiste Michel
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Gerhard Schulz
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Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
Gerhard Schulz is an Austrian violinist, conductor and academic. Life Born in Linz, Schulz was born as the fourth child of a family of musicians and studied with Franz Samohyl at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Sándor Végh at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf and Shmuel Ashkenasi in the USA. He was involved in the founding of the Salzburg String Trio and the Schulz Ensemble and was first violinist of the Düsseldorf String Quartet.
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Charlotte Wesley Holloman
#189326
Overall Influence
1922 - 2015 (93 years)
Charlotte Wesley Holloman was an American soprano singer. Early life Charlotte Wesley was born in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., the daughter of Charles Harris Wesley and Florence Louise Johnson Wesley. Her father was a historian and a college professor; her mother was an English teacher. She was raised in the Washington, D.C. area, but spent some of her childhood in England, while her father was on a Guggenheim Fellowship there. She graduated from Dunbar High School in 1937. She studied music at Howard University, where Camille Nickerson, Hazel Harrison, and Todd Duncan were among her instructors.
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Mike Wilson
#181914
Overall Influence
1970 - Present (56 years)
Michael S. Wilson is an American business executive, video game producer, and film-maker. Beginning his career at DWANGO as Vice President of Development before being hired to lead marketing and publishing at id Software in 1995, Wilson has subsequently co-founded multiple independent video game publishers, including Gathering of Developers, Gamecock Media Group, Devolver Digital, Good Shepherd Entertainment, and DeepWell DTx.
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Konrad Hünteler
#191368
Overall Influence
1947 - 2020 (73 years)
Konrad Hünteler was a German flutist who specialized in Baroque music and followed the practice of historically informed performance. Biography Hünteler studied the recorder, the transverse flute, and the baroque flute. As a soloist, he performed with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, the Collegium Aureum, the Cappella Coloniensis, the London Classical Players, and the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. He was a professor of the flute at the Musikhochschule Münster from 1979 to 2012. He often performed alongside Anner Bylsma, Bob van Asperen, and Jacques Ogg. He became an honorary me...
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J. J. Johnson
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James Anthony Johnson, known professionally as J. J. Johnson, is a Canadian-born writer, director, executive producer, and founding member of Sinking Ship Entertainment. He is the creator of children's television programmes, including This is Daniel Cook, Dino Dana and Endlings. He also serves on the Youth Media Alliance board as a co-chair.
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Howard Bashaw
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Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
Howard Bashaw is a composer of acoustic music; and a Professor of Music at the University of Alberta. Bashaw graduated as a Master of Music in 1984 and a Doctor of Musical Arts in 1989 from the University of British Columbia. He also attended the Banff Centre for the Arts where he won the Banff Centre Concerto Competition in 1992. He teaches composition, orchestration, music theory and analysis at the University of Alberta, previously having taught at the University of British Columbia, and at the Université Canadienne en France, Nice.
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Martin Krumbiegel
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Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
Martin Krumbiegel is a German classical tenor, conductor and musicologist. A member of the Thomanerchor as a boy, he is mostly active in oratorios, cantatas and vocal chamber music of the 17th and 18th century.
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Kevin Popović
#190906
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
Kevin Popović is an American communications author, educator, and entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of Ideahaus and Market Ready Index. Popović also serves as the Director of Idea Lab, part of the Zahn Innovation Platform at San Diego State University.
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V. P. Sivakumar
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Overall Influence
1947 - 1993 (46 years)
Vazhappilliyil Padmanabhan Nair Sivakumar , commonly identified as V. P. Sivakumar, was an Indian writer and translator, known for bringing in a new sensibility in Malayalam literature through his short stories. Besides four short story anthologies, he published a compilation of satirical articles and translated several works of Jorge Luis Borges and Eugène Ionesco into Malayalam.
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Ona Narbutienė
#185884
Overall Influence
1930 - 2007 (77 years)
Ona Narbutienė was a Lithuanian musicologist and educator. She received the Lithuanian National Prize for arts and culture in 1999, and was the author of a number of articles on Lithuanian music history and several books on Lithuanian composers and musical personalities.
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Jovan Šajnović
#182950
Overall Influence
1924 - 2004 (80 years)
Jovan Šajnović was a renowned Yugoslavian conductor and university professor. Education Šajnović started to study music with eminent Yugoslav musicians - Emil Hajek , Ljubica Marić and Mihajlo Vukdragović . In 1946, he went to Zagreb, in order to continue his musical training with famous conductor from Berlin - Fritz Zaun.
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Victoria Marks
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Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
Victoria Marks is a professor of choreography in the Department of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA, where she has been teaching since 1995. Before taking her post at UCLA she lived in London, where for three and a half years she worked on her own choreographic projects and served as head of choreography at London Contemporary Dance School, a conservatory for the training of professional dance artists in Europe. She led her own dance company, the Victoria Marks Performance Company in the 1980s.
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Albert Tipton
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Overall Influence
1917 - 1997 (80 years)
Albert Tipton was an American flutist, pianist and conductor. In 1966, Time placed Albert Tipton amongst the "30 first-rate flutists" in the United States and Europe. He studied with William Kincaid at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He served as principal flutist with the National Symphony Orchestra from 1937 to 1939 and toured with Leopold Stokowski as a soloist with the All American Youth Orchestra in 1939. He became second flutist with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1940 and left that position in 1946 to become the principal flutist of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra . He was in Detroit from 1956–1968, where he played principal flute in the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
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Yadollah Eslami
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Overall Influence
Yadollah Eslami was the editor in chief of Iranian newspaper Fath. Fath was shut down in 2000 after it had published an interview with Hussein-Ali Montazeri, and in January 2001 Eslami was convicted of publishing lies and anti-state propaganda. Fath was considered as the replacement of Khordad.
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Lloyd Ultan
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Overall Influence
1929 - 1998 (69 years)
Lloyd Ultan was an American composer of contemporary classical music. Career Ultan received a bachelor's degree from New York University, a master's degree from Columbia University, and a doctorate from the University of Iowa. In 1971, he founded, and, from 1971 to 1974, served as Director of the Composer's Residency Program at Wolf Trap Farm Park in Vienna, Virginia.
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Hi Kyung Kim
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Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
Hi Kyung Kim is a South Korean composer. Life Hi Kyung Kim was born in South Korea. She graduated from Seoul National University with a BA and the University of California, Berkeley, with an MA and PhD, where she studied composition with Andrew Imbrie, Olly Wilson, Gérard Grisey, and Sung-Jae Lee. As a benefit of the U.C. Berkeley’s George C. Ladd Prix de Paris, she worked at Institut de Rechéreche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique and École Normale Supérieure in Paris from 1988-1990.
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Justin Pierre
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Overall Influence
Justin Pierre is a British actor working in theatre, film and television. His numerous roles have included Prince Ivar/Mystic Knight of Water in Saban's Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog, Mike in World Productions series Attachments and Dave Summers in the series Burnside , and he appeared in Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy II: The Golden Army.
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Butch Baldassari
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Overall Influence
1952 - 2009 (57 years)
Jerome Henry "Butch" Baldassari was an American mandolinist, recording artist, composer, and music teacher. Biography Early life Baldassari played guitar in rock bands as a teen with his brother Buster, but converted to mandolin in 1972 at the Philadelphia Folk Festival when he saw Andy Statman with David Bromberg and Barry Mitterhoff with the Bottle Hill Boys.
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Cecelia Condit
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Overall Influence
1947 - Present (79 years)
Cecelia Condit is an American video artist. Condit's films are noted for their attempts to subvert traditional mythologies of female representation and psychologies of sexuality and violence. Condit has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, American Film Institute, National Endowment for the Arts, Mary L. Nohl Foundation, Wisconsin Arts Council and National Media Award from the Retirement Research Foundation. Her work has shown internationally in festivals, museums and alternative spaces and is represented in collections including the Museum of Modern Art in NYC and Centre Georges Pompidou Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France.
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Ken Krimstein
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Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
Ken Krimstein is an American author and lecturer. He works as a cartoonist in The New Yorker, where he has been publishing cartoons since 2011. Krimstein has published in Forbes Magazine, Forward, The New York Observer, among others, and has authored two books: Kvetch as Kvetch Can: Jewish Cartoons and The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt . In addition to his work as a writer and cartoonist, Krimstein is an advertising creative director and teaches at DePaul University, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
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Rosalina Abejo
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Overall Influence
1922 - 1991 (69 years)
Sister Maria Rosalina Madroñal Abejo, RVM was a Filipino composer, pianist and conductor. She was born in Tagoloan in Misamis Oriental in the Philippines, and died in Fremont, California. She is the first Filipina composer and conductor, and a nun of the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary. Her aunt, the late Sister Maria Rosario Madroñal, RVM was her first music teacher.
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Tim Warfield
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Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
Timothy Reginald Warfield Jr. is an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Early life Warfield picked up alto saxophone when he was nine years old, and switched to tenor when he was a teenager at William Penn Senior High School. After two years at Howard University he became a jazz musician full-time.
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Juan José González Rivas
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Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
Juan José González Rivas is a Spanish jurist and magistrate. He served as President of the Spanish Constitutional Court from 2017 to 2021. He was member of this High Court from 2012 to 2021.
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Haewon Song
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Overall Influence
Haewon Song is a South Korean pianist and pedagogue who was awarded many prizes at the World and Oberlin International Piano Competitions as well as Music Teachers National Association award. She used to give lessons in France, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, and her native Korea. As a soloist she performed at the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Cleveland Chamber Symphony and was a participant of the Festival Internacional Cervantino, and both Oberlin and Grand Teton Music Festivals. She was a graduate of Toho Gakuen School of Music and Juilliard School where she was under guidance from Shuku Iwasaki, Julian Martin, and Martin Canin.
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Adeem Younis
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Overall Influence
1980 - Present (46 years)
Adeem Younis is an English-Pakistani entrepreneur, philanthropist, and humanitarian. He is best known as founder of digital matrimony platform SingleMuslim.com and international humanitarian charity Penny Appeal.
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Natalya Antonova
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Overall Influence
Natalya Antonova is a Russian pianist and educator at the Eastman School of Music. Early life and career Natalya began to study piano at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory when she was 4 years old. At 16, she made her first public appearance with the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, and shortly thereafter accepted a professorship at the Conservatory, as the youngest professor in the history of the school.
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Karlton Hester
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Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
Karlton Hester is an American, performer, composer, scholar, and educator. Biography Hester earned his B.M. at University of Texas at El Paso, his M.A. in Music Education from San Francisco State University, and his Ph.D. in composition from the City University of New York Graduate Center. He formally studied flute with Harry Nelsova and Paul Renzi, saxophone with Frank Chase and Bill Tremble, composition with Bruce Saylor and Robert Starer, and improvisation with Joe Henderson and John Handy. He began his career as a studio musician and music educator in Los Angeles and would later serve as the Herbert Gussman Director of Jazz Studies at Cornell University from 1990 to 2000.
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Michael Sterling
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Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Michael Sterling is an American singer and composer from Miami, Florida. His 1990 single 'Lovers and Friends' was a quiet storm classic, having notably been sampled in Usher, Ludacris and Lil Jon and the East Side Boyz 'Lovers and Friends'. Sterling also worked with Miami artists having produced for MC Shy D, engineered for 2 Live Crew and Poison Clan, and was briefly a member of the Reggae group Inner Circle.
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Felix Korobov
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Overall Influence
1972 - Present (54 years)
Felix Pavlovich Korobov is a Russian conductor and cellist. Biography Korobov is a graduate of the Moscow Conservatory, cello and conducting , he was the conductor of the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia and joined the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre in 1999 and the Novaya Opera Theatre in 2003, becoming its principal conductor between 2004 and 2006. Korobov regularly conducts a repertoire of over thirty operas in the theatres of Moscow and as of 2011 he is chief conductor of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre and often tours as a conductor and cellist.
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Vladimir Gorikker
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Overall Influence
1925 - 2021 (96 years)
Vladimir Mikhailovich Gorikker was a Russian film director and screenwriter. He died on 30 December 2021, at the age of 96. External links
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Vasily Rainchik
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Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Vasil Rainčyk , also Vasily Rainchik, is a Belarusian musician and composer and also a professor at the Belarus University of Culture, Minsk, Belarus. He was also the leader of Vierasy, an early Belarusian pop music band. Currently he is director of the State Youth Variety Theater of the Belarus University of Culture. Rainčyk was awarded the honorary title of People's Artist of Belarus.On 20 December 2010, Vasil Rainčyk was among a few Belarusian artists who supported the use of brutal military force against the demonstration of opposition in Minsk. Vasil Rainčyk became known world-wide after ...
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Sherri Marie Williams
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Overall Influence
Dr Sherri Williams Assistant Professor School of Communication American University. Williams earned a Ph.D. mass communication and an M.A. in magazine, newspaper, and online journalism at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. She also earned a B.A. English with a concentration in journalism at Jackson State University. At the intersection of social media, social justice, reality television, mass media and how people of color use and are represented by these mediums is where you’ll find Dr. Sherri Williams. Williams has a particular interest in how black people’s ...
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Harald Bjørkøy
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Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
Harald Bjørkøy is a Norwegian tenor from Trondheim, Norway. He made his debut in 1982 and has since then been singing concerts in Europe and in the USA. In 1991 he made his debut at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York City. He is a professor of music at the Grieg Academy at the University of Bergen, has appeared with many of the Norwegian Symphony Orchestras and has been a guest in main roles at the Norwegian Opera.
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Jeri Brown
#185161
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
Jeri Brown is an American jazz singer, songwriter, and professor. Life and work Jeri Brown grew up in St. Louis, where she first appeared in public at age six. In Iowa, she studied classical singing, and later appeared in the Midwestern United States and Europe. After graduating, she lived in Cleveland, where she worked with the Cleveland Chamber Orchestra and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. She performed in Ohio with the band of drummer and bandleader Bob McKee. As a consequence, she had collaborations with artists such as Ellis Marsalis, Billy Taylor and Dizzy Gillespie.
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Mary LeCron Foster
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Overall Influence
1914 - 2001 (87 years)
Mary LeCron Foster was an American anthropological linguist, who spent most of her working life at the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Foster carried out graduate work in anthropology under the direction of Ruth Benedict. The influence of Franz Boas, whom she also knew at Columbia, may be seen in Foster's interests in symbolism and language origins. In addition to writing grammars of Sierra Popoluca and Purépecha, she published several articles purporting to reconstruct spoken Primordial Language . PL, she maintained, was constructed out of speech sounds ...
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Harald Stamm
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Overall Influence
1938 - Present (88 years)
Harald Stamm is a German opera singer and voice teacher. Life and career Born in Frankfurt, Stamm grew up in Bingen am Rhein. After the Abitur at the local Stefan-George-Gymnasium and subsequent sport studies, he worked as a teacher and took private singing lessons with Franz Fehringer.
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Fan Lei
#185704
Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
Fàn Lei is a Chinese–American clarinetist, teacher, author, and entrepreneur. Fàn Lei has performed as a clarinet soloist and recitalist throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. He won first prize at the 1985 Chinese National Clarinet competition and was chosen to represent the People's Republic of China at the Toulon International Competition in France, where he also won honors. He has authored several books on clarinet technique and is currently a professor at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China and a visiting professor at Xi'an Conservatory of Music and Shenyang Conservatory of Music.
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Thomas Rosenkranz
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Overall Influence
1977 - Present (49 years)
Thomas Rosenkranz is a contemporary American pianist, noted for performances of modern and international music. Studies Rosenkranz, born in 1977, studied with Robert Shannon at the Oberlin Conservatory and with Nelita True at the Eastman School of Music where he received a Doctoral degree in Performance and was awarded the Performer's Certificate. He also studied privately with Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen in Paris.
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Farnell Newton
#188653
Overall Influence
1977 - Present (49 years)
Farnell Newton is a composer and jazz trumpeter. Farnell Newton was born in Miami, Florida, and moved to Philadelphia in 1992, where he attended the Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts. While in Philadelphia, Newton also studied with his uncles, saxophonist/arranger Conny Murray and Sunny Murray, one of the early avant garde’s most inventive and influential drummers.
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Andrzej Fidyk
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Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
Andrzej Fidyk is a Polish documentary filmmaker, producer, and professor of the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School in Katowice. He is best known for work his 1989 documentary Defilada , which depicts the mass parades choreographed to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in 1988.
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Jonathan Leshnoff
#187262
Overall Influence
1973 - Present (53 years)
Jonathan Leshnoff is an American classical music composer and pedagogue. Early life and education Jonathan Leshnoff was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey to Susan and Steven Leshnoff; his mother was an artist, and his father an engineer. For his undergraduate studies, Leshnoff attended Johns Hopkins University and Peabody Conservatory concurrently, earning bachelor's degrees in Anthropology and Music Composition, respectively. He went on to receive a Master’s of Music from Peabody, then received his Doctorate of Music from the University of Maryland. Leshnoff was raised observing Conservative Judaism.
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Nerine Barrett
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Overall Influence
1944 - Present (82 years)
Nerine Barrett is a Jamaican classical pianist, one of the few black women who have achieved international recognition as a pianist. She was selected in 1966 by the Young Concert Artists to appear at Carnegie Hall and the following year won the Mozart Memorial Prize of the Haydn-Mozart Society of London. In the 1980s, she began teaching music as a professor at the Hochschule für Musik Saar and later at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold. She continued to perform both as a solo artist and as part of the Trio Paideia.
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Peter Kazaras
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Overall Influence
Peter Kazaras is an American stage director, artistic director and opera singer from New York City. Career Kazaras holds an undergraduate degree in government. Before his career in opera, he worked in a law firm. He served as Artistic Director for the Seattle Opera Young Artist Program from 2006 to 2013.
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Hans Heintze
#182684
Overall Influence
1911 - 2003 (92 years)
Hans Heintze was a German Kantor and organist. Life Born in , Lower Saxony, Heintze grew up in Bremen, where he received his Abitur at the . In 1929, he began studying classical philology at the University of Leipzig. Later he moved to study church music at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig, which he completed with Günther Ramin and Carl Adolf Martienssen . Fritz Reuter was also one of his teachers in Leipzig.
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