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Hugo Ruf
1925 - 1999 (74 years)
Hugo Ruf was an influential German harpsichordist, music pedagogue and a pioneer of early music revival in Germany. He is noted in particular for his recordings of music by Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach. He was instrumental in the 20th century revival of C.P.E.Bach's music.
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Fang Man
1977 - Present (49 years)
FANG Man is a Chinese-born American composer. Compositions Orchestral That Raindrops have Hastened the Falling Flowers III for Sheng, Cello and Chamber Orchestra Feng for Piano, Percussion and Wind Ensemble Deluge 洪水 for Large Ensemble with Live Electronics Resurrection 重生 for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra with Live Electronics Sketch 素描 for Orchestra Noir 黑 for Orchestra Aqua 水蓝 In Memoriam Toru Takemitsu for Large Orchestra Lavender 薰衣草 for Soprano and Chamber Orchestra Who will bell the cat? 谁去系铃 for Children Band
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Dragotin Cvetko
1911 - 1993 (82 years)
Dragotin Cvetko was a Slovenian composer and musicologist. Early life and education Dragotin Cvetko was born in Vučja Vas, a village in Styria, Austria-Hungary. He was the son of Fran and Alojzija Cvetko, both schoolteachers in Vučja Vas, and the older brother of the composer Ciril Cvetko . He studied at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ljubljana and at the Ljubljana Conservatory , and continued his education in composition in Prague. He received his doctorate in 1938 with the dissertation Problem občega muzikalnega vzgajanja ter izobraževanja .
Go to ProfileThomas A. Dowd is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games. Career Thomas Dowd was one of the writers who supported Fantasy Games Unlimited's role-playing game, Villains and Vigilantes. The Shadowrun 2nd Edition rules from FASA, by Dowd with Paul Hume and Bob Charrette, won the Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Rules of 1992. In 1990, Dowd met Peter Adkison, who was trying to figure out how the gaming industry worked, and Dowd told Adkison to go to the Gama Trade Show. After Jonathan Tweet left White Wolf Publishing for Lion Rampant, Mark Rein-Hagen turned to Dowd for his new game about vampires.
Go to ProfileCarroll Freeman is an American operatic tenor, opera director, and music educator. He began his career as a prominent boy soprano in the 1960s. From the late 1970s through the mid 1990s he performed widely as a tenor with opera companies and orchestras in the United States. After that he worked as a director of opera productions with opera companies throughout North America. He is the former director of the opera program at the University of Tennessee and currently directs the opera program at Georgia State University. He is also the former Artistic Director of Mississippi Opera, Opera in the ...
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Alla Pugacheva
1949 - Present (77 years)
Alla Borisovna Pugacheva is a Soviet and Russian singer-songwriter. Her career started in 1965 and continues to this day, even though she has retired from performing. For her "clear mezzo-soprano and a full display of sincere emotions", she enjoys an iconic status across the former Soviet Union as the most successful Soviet performer in terms of record sales and popularity.
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Tomislav Trifić
1949 - Present (77 years)
Tomislav Trifić is a Serbian graphic artist and dean of the University of Pristina Faculty of Arts, in North Kosovo, Kosovo. External links List of full professors at the University of Pristina, Retrieved on 6 June 2010List of academic staff at the University of Pristina Faculty of Arts, Retrieved on 10 October 2008
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Theodora Skipitares
1947 - Present (79 years)
Theodora Skipitares is a New York–based interdisciplinary artist. Trained as a sculptor and theater designer, she began creating autobiographical solo performances in the late 1970s. She moved on to examine diverse social and political themes using a wide variety of puppets, of all sizes. She has created 26 original works featuring various forms of puppetry, original commissioned music, video, and documentary texts.
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A. Laurence Lyon
1934 - 2006 (72 years)
A. Laurence Lyon was a composer of music, usually sacred music with a Latter-day Saint theme. He also served for 30 years as a professor at Western Oregon University. Lyon was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands where his father, T. Edgar Lyon was serving as president of the Netherlands Mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints .
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Molly Wright Steenson
1971 - Present (55 years)
Molly Wright Steenson is an American professor of design and a historian of architecture and technology. Currently, Molly is the president and CEO of the American Swedish Institute. Previously, she was the Carnegie Mellon University Vice Provost for Faculty, K&L Gates Associate Professor of Ethics and Computational Technologies, and Senior Associate Dean for Research in the College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Siegfried Mauser
1954 - Present (72 years)
Siegfried Mauser is a German pianist, academic and music manager. In 2016, 2017, and 2018, German courts convicted him as a multiple sex offender. Education Siegfried Mauser was born in Straubing . He studied piano with Rosl Schmid and Alfons Kontarsky. Through the influence of the Kontarskys in particular, Mauser became a champion of modernist and of contemporary piano music. In Munich and Salzburg, his academic subjects were musicology, philosophy and art history.
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Eva Heinitz
1907 - 2001 (94 years)
Eva Heinitz was a German musician, best known as a cellist but also highly acclaimed for her recordings on the viola da gamba. Heinitz, who was "half Jewish", left her native Berlin after the Nazis came to power, living first in France and later the United States, where she joined the faculty of the University of Washington in Seattle in 1948.
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Dorothy Chang
1970 - Present (56 years)
Dorothy Chang is an American-born composer and a professor of music at the University of British Columbia. Early life and education Chang was born in Winfield, Illinois. Her parents' families had fled to Taiwan from China during the Chinese Civil War, before immigrating to the United States. She graduated from the University of Michigan and Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in 2000 with degrees in composition. She married Canadian flautist Paolo Bortolussi, and the pair moved to British Columbia.
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Yevgeny Kibkalo
1932 - 2003 (71 years)
Yevgeny Gavrilovich Kibkalo was a Soviet and Russian operatic baritone singer and pedagogue. People's Artist of the RSFSR . Kiblako notably sang Petruchio for Zdeněk Chalabala's recording of Shebalin's The Taming of the Shrew in 1957, and the title role, of legless pilot Aleksey Maresyev, in the first recording of Prokofiev's The Story of a Real Man conducted by Mark Ermler in 1961.
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Jane M. Blocker
1962 - Present (64 years)
Jane M. Blocker is a Professor of Contemporary Art and Theory and the Chair of the Department of Art History at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where she is affiliated with the Moving Image Studies at the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature. In a note on the back cover of Blocker's What the Body Cost Lucy R. Lippard writes of her: "Jane Blocker is as good a writer, scholar, and original thinker as feminists could hope for."
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Marina Verenikina
1982 - Present (44 years)
Marina Gennadievna Verenikina , known as Marina V, is a Russian singer and musician. She has released 12 albums and toured internationally, performing over 1,200 concerts. Early life and education Verenikina was born to Gennadiy and Irina Verenikina in Moscow, Russia. Gennadiy works as a nuclear physicist Irina as a child psychologist Marina started singing before she could talk, and writing songs at 4 years of age.
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Hans Haselböck
1928 - 2021 (93 years)
Johann Haselböck was an Austrian organist, composer, author and academic teacher. He was organist at the Dominican Church, Vienna, for 65 years, and was professor of organ and improvisation at the Vienna Music Academy, where he later also served as head of the faculty of church music and as deputy rector. He gave organ concerts in Europe, North America, and the Near and Far East. Haselböck is regarded as a pioneer of Catholic church music in the German language after the Second Vatican Council.
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Thierry Lang
1956 - Present (70 years)
Thierry Lang is a Swiss composer and jazz pianist. In 2006, Lang gave a concert in his native village of Romont along with bassist Heiri Kanzig and violinist Didier Lockwood. He teaches piano and composition at the University of Lausanne and University of Bern in Switzerland. He has recorded jazz music discs with Blue Note Records, among others. In 2008 Lang was awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa from the European University.
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Jan Yun-hua
1923 - 2018 (95 years)
Jan Yun-hua was a Chinese language researcher, teacher and author. He was associated with McMaster University in Canada. He was born on 15 March 1923 in China and grew up and spent his early life there. He met Siu-fung Wong, when they were both students. They married and together went through the upheavals of World War II and the Chinese Civil War. After spending their early married life in Hong Kong they settled in Santiniketan in India. He joined the Cheena Bhavana, the Institute of Chinese language and culture, to continue his studies under the guidance of Tan Yun-Shan. After securing his Ph D at the Visva Bharati University, he continued with his research and writing.
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Reinhold Hammerstein
1915 - 2010 (95 years)
Reinhold Hammerstein was a German musicologist. Life and career Hammerstein was born in , Hessen, son of the rektor August Hammerstein. After his Abitur, he studied musicology, history and German studies at the University of Freiburg and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. In 1940 he obtained the Academic Degree of Dr. phil. In addition he completed an education in piano and singing.
Go to ProfileRobyn A. Phipps is a New Zealand construction academic. She is currently a full professor at Massey University. Academic career After a 2001 PhD titled 'Development of a decision support system for the design of good indoor air quality in office buildings' at Massey University, she joined the staff, rising to full professor.
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Liviu Comes
1918 - 2004 (86 years)
Liviu Comes was a Romanian composer and musicologist. He studied music at the Municipal Music Conservatory in Târgu Mureş , later at the Cluj Music Conservatory . He also studied medicine at the Cluj-Sibiu University .
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Thomas Kotcheff
1988 - Present (38 years)
Thomas Kotcheff is an American composer and pianist who currently resides in Los Angeles. He is a winner of a 2016 Charles Ives Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a 2015 Presser Foundation Music Award.
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Renato Dionisi
1910 - 2000 (90 years)
Renato Dionisi was an Italian composer and music educator. Biography Renato Dionisi was born in Rovinj in Istria, but soon moved to Borgo Sacco, Rovereto where he spend childhood and early youth. He studied music composition at the music schools in Bolzano and Rovereto, graduating in 1936. From 1940 he taught music history, choral music, harmony and counterpoint at several schools including the Bolzano Conservatory, Milan Conservatory and the Conservatory "Luigi Cherubini" in Florence.
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Heather Thomson
1940 - Present (86 years)
Heather Thomson is a Canadian soprano. Born in Vancouver, Thomson studied from 1954 until 1961 with Phylis Inglis, in the latter year winning a prize at the CBC Talent Festival. She underwent further studies at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, and debuted as the Dew Fairy in Hansel and Gretel with the Canadian Opera Company in 1962. The following season she sang Mimi for the same company, with which she continued to appear throughout her career in roles such as Marguerite, Tatiana, and Heloise in the premiere of Charles Wilson's Heloise and Abelard in 1973. She debuted at Sadler's Wells in 1966.
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Charley Wilkinson
1955 - Present (71 years)
Charles Earl "Charley" Wilkinson III is an American professional musician. He has been a member of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C., since 1979, where he currently performs as the assistant principal timpanist, and is a key part of the percussion section. He attended the Interlochen Arts Academy, earned his B.A. at the Cleveland Institute of Music in 1977, and his M.A. in 1978. He was also appointed associate adjunct professor of percussion at Kent State University in 1978, until his departure in 1979.
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Nikolai Rasheyev
1935 - 2021 (86 years)
Nikolay Georgievich Rasheyev was a Soviet and Ukrainian film director and screenwriter. Biography Rasheyev was born in Kyiv, Ukraine. His father was a Bulgarian political émigré, who was arrested in 1937. He graduated from the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in 1957 and enrolled in Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, from which he was expelled during the campaign against Boris Pasternak's novel Dr. Zhivago. Pasternak was persecuted by the Soviet government until his death and was forced to decline the Nobel Prize. Nikolay Rasheyev, like many of his contemporaries, was expelled from the university after being accused of being "a spiritual brother of Pasternak".
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Tanja Softić
1966 - Present (60 years)
Tanja Softić is a Bosnian-American visual artist and art educator who works in media of drawing, printmaking, painting and photography. She is Professor of Art Practice in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Richmond.
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Hermann Dechant
1939 - Present (87 years)
Hermann Dechant is an Austrian, conductor, flautist, musicologist, composer and music publisher. Career Dechant was born in Wien-Meidling as the son of the architect and sculptor Oskar Dechant. After his Matura, he studied flute. and conducting at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and musicology with Erich Schenk, theatre studies with Heinz Kindermann, philosophy and history at the University of Vienna. He continued his university studies from 1968-1973 and studied with Wolfgang Osthoff and musicology with Hermann Beck at the University of Regensburg and received his doctorate there in 1975.
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Debashish Bhattacharya
1963 - Present (63 years)
Debashish Bhattacharya is an Indian classical musician, singer, composer and educator. He is said to have introduced the first Slide Guitar Syllabus in the world. Bhattacharya redefined Indian classical music on slide guitar through the introduction of a new playing technique and sound, as well as a blending of traditional and uniquely contemporary approaches in designing his music. A music producer who plays lap slide guitar, he has taught more than a thousand students, created a new genre , designed his own instruments and performed in more than two thousand concerts and workshops, with Grammy nominations and several world music awards.
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Rima Pipoyan
1988 - Present (38 years)
Rima Pipoyan is an Armenian choreographer, director, dancer and dance teacher. She is considered to be one of the pioneers of modern ballet and contemporary dance in Armenia. In 2017 she has found "Choreography development" educational and cultural foundation aiming to support the development of contemporary dance and modern ballet in Armenia. Since 2020, she has been the head of the Modern Dance Department at the Yerevan State Choreographic College. The department was created on her initiative. Pipoyan has presented her choreographic works in Italy, Spain, Serbia, Croatia, Russia, Belarus, G...
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Rosephanye Powell
1962 - Present (64 years)
Rosephanye Powell, pronounced ro-SEH-fuh-nee, is an American choral composer, singer, professor, and researcher. Rosephanye Dunn Powell has been hailed as one of America's premier composers of choral music. She has a diverse and impressive catalogue of works published by some of the nation's leading publishers, including the Hal Leonard Corporation, the Fred Bock Music Company/Gentry Publications, Oxford University Press, and Alliance Music Publications. Her compositions include sacred and secular works for mixed chorus, women's chorus, men's chorus, and children's voices. Her style of compos...
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Elena Zhosul
1980 - Present (46 years)
Elena Victorovna Zhosul is a Russian journalist, television presenter, politologist and media expert. She is a presenter of social and political talk show Do Samoj Suti and talk show for Orthodox women Zhenskaja Polovina on the first Russian public Orthodox TV channel "Spas" . From 2005 to 2010 Zhosul was a correspondent and columnist for the news agency Interfax-Religion.
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Gerhard Schwarz
1902 - 1995 (93 years)
Gerhard Schwarz was a German church musician, organist and composer. Life Born in Rusinowa , Silesia, Schwarz studied church, and school music, philosophy and musicology in Berlin. On 1 November 1932, he became a member of the NSDAP . Schwarz founded the Spandauer Kirchenmusikschule and was organist at the new church in Berlin.
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Januarius Jingwa Asongu
1970 - Present (56 years)
Januarius Jingwa Asongu is an American philosopher, scholar, journalist, author, entrepreneur, and activist. Born in the city of Lewoh, in the former British Southern Cameroons, Africa, he moved to the United States in the mid-1990s, where he is now a naturalized citizen.
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Joe Odom
1948 - 1991 (43 years)
Joseph Algerine Odom was an American attorney who later became a musician. He came to prominence after his appearance as one of the main characters in John Berendt's true-crime book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, although he died three years before its publication.
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Robert Duncan
1973 - Present (53 years)
Robert Duncan is a Canadian composer of film and television music. He has composed music for such TV series as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Castle; as well as films such as Butterfly on a Wheel and Into the Blue 2: The Reef. He has been associated with writer/producer Shawn Ryan, composing some of his produced TV shows including The Unit, Lie to Me, Timeless and more recently S.W.A.T.. He has received fourteen ASCAP awards.
Go to ProfileHoward Davidson is a composer of music for film, television, radio and the theatre. Davidson has over 300 scores to his credit, many in collaboration with noted documentary maker Michael Wood and made for the BBC and PBS. His orchestral scores have been performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra, and both the Royal Philharmonic and Philharmonia Orchestras. Radio credits include Iris Murdoch's Under the Net, Nabokov's Laughter in the Dark and Terre Haute by Edmund White. For television, recent productions include Titanic-Birth of a Legend and Michael Wood's In Search of Shakespeare, In Search of M...
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Fredrik Högberg
1971 - Present (55 years)
Fredrik Karl Kristian Högberg, born 5 February 1971 in Vellinge, Sweden, is a Swedish composer and producer. He resides in the old courthouse in Nyland, Ångermanland . Fredrik Högberg grew up in Svedala, southern Sweden, and studied at the Folk High School of Framnäs, Piteå 1987–1991. Högberg has studied composition mainly with professor Jan Sandström at Piteå School of Music . He earned a licentiate degree in performing arts at Luleå University of Technology 2012. He teaches composition at Piteå School of Music since 2015.
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Giuseppe Albanese
1979 - Present (47 years)
Giuseppe Albanese is an Italian pianist. Early years Albanese studied at Imola International Piano Academy and at Messina University, where he was awarded a Magna cum laude Doctorate in Philosophy, writing his thesis on the aesthetics of Liszt in his Années de pèlerinage. At age of 25, Giuseppe became a full professor, teaching Methodology of Musical Communication at the University of Messina.
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Igor Lovchinsky
1984 - Present (42 years)
Igor Lovchinsky is a Russian-American classical pianist. Performing and recording career Born in Kazan, Russia, Lovchinsky studied at the Kazan Special Music School for Gifted Children. After immigrating to the United States, he continued his studies with Nina Polonsky and Steven Glaser. In 2003, Lovchinsky entered the Juilliard School in New York on full scholarship, where he studied under Jerome Lowenthal. He received his Bachelor's degree from Juilliard in 2007 and his Master's degree from the New England Conservatory in Boston in 2009.
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Antonio Perazzi
1969 - Present (57 years)
Antonio Perazzi is an Italian garden designer, landscape architect, botanist, writer and journalist. He is an expert in naturalistic and ecological garden. Biography Antonio Perazzi specialized in garden and landscape architecture at Politecnico di Milano and at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in London. In 1998 he opened his studio and he signed projects as well as having offered advice to architectural and engineering companies, collaborating with Michele de Lucchi, Ettore Sottsass, Antonio Citterio, Franco Zagari, Park Associati, OBR, Tekne S.p.A., Cecchi & Lima Architetti Associati.
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Mark Carlson
1952 - Present (74 years)
Mark Carlson is an American composer, flutist, UCLA professor, and the founder and artistic director of the chamber music ensemble Pacific Serenades. Biography Born in Fort Lewis, Washington, and raised primarily in Modesto, California, Carlson attended Johnston College at the University of Redlands; received a B.A. from California State University, Fresno, in 1974, where he studied composition with Dennis Riley and David Bates; and received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Music Theory and Composition at UCLA, where he studied with Alden Ashforth and Paul Reale. His principal flute teacher was Roger S.
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Alessandro Carrera
1954 - Present (72 years)
Alessandro Carrera is an Italian poet and translator. He is Director of Italian Studies and Graduate Director of World Cultures & Literatures at the University of Houston. See also Peter Carravetta External links Alessandro Carrera
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Jason Eckardt
1971 - Present (55 years)
Jason Eckardt is an American composer. He began his musical life playing guitar in heavy metal and jazz bands and abruptly moved to composing after discovering the music of Anton Webern. Compositions Atonal and microtonal harmony, intricate rhythms, highly polyphonic textures and large-scale transformational processes are prevalent in Eckardt's compositions. Allan Kozinn of The New York Times wrote that Eckardt's music "celebrates harmonic prickliness, rhythmic complexity and a density of ideas". Though Eckardt has been associated with the New Complexity movement, he is also influenced by Ame...
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Rosa María Cid López
1956 - Present (70 years)
Rosa María Cid López is a Spanish academic. Specializing in the study of women and gender, she served as President of the Asociación Española de Investigación de Historia de las Mujeres . Early years Cid López was born in 1956. In 1979, she received a license in Philosophy and Letters in the University of Oviedo. In 1986, she defended her thesis, "The cult to the emperor in Numidia of Diocletian". She earned a PhD in Geography and History at the University of Oviedo.
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Lewis Hugh Cooper
1920 - 2007 (87 years)
Lewis Hugh Cooper was professor of bassoon at the University of Michigan School of Music for 52 years, beginning in 1945 when he joined the Detroit Symphony as second bassoonist. He was an internationally recognized expert on bassoon design and acoustics, repair, pedagogy, and performance.
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Christoph Dreher
1952 - Present (74 years)
Christoph Dreher is a German filmmaker, musician and scriptwriter. From 2000 until 2020, he was a professor of audiovisual media. After studying political science and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin, he studied filmmaking at DFFB between 1978 and 1983.
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Elena Braslavsky
1950 - Present (76 years)
Elena Braslavsky is a pianist of Russian birth. Since the early 1980s, Braslavsky has had an active international performance career in both the concert and chamber music repertoire. Formerly a faculty member at the Juilliard School and the Mannes School of Music, Braslavsky currently serves on the piano faculty of the Mozarteum University of Salzburg.
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Scott McGregor
1981 - Present (45 years)
Scott McGregor is an Australian model, television presenter and actor. McGregor worked as a model on the game show Temptation. He has also appeared in television commercials and print advertisements. From 2008, McGregor hosted the motoring show Blood, Sweat and Gears. As an actor, he has appeared in Underbelly, Winners & Losers and Offspring. McGregor joined the cast of Neighbours as Detective Mark Brennan in 2010. He departed the show the following year to pursue other career opportunities, before returning in 2013 for a guest stint. He returned in 2014 in a regular capacity, until his departure in 2019.
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