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#12651

Dina Ugorskaja

#190713

Overall Influence

1973 - 2019 (46 years)

Dina Ugorskaja was a Soviet-born German pianist. Life Dina Ugorskaja was born in Leningrad and grew up in a family of musicians. Her father was the pianist Anatol Ugorski. Maja Elik , her mother, was a musicologist who was born in Prague, where she and Ugorski were studying at the time. Ugorskaja grew up in Beltsy, Moldavian SSR. Her parents had first met in 1967 when they worked together on the Soviet premiere of Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire. Elik, who was working for a music publisher, had been engaged to produce a Russian translation of the work's German text.

#12652

Abdul Faththaah

#187792

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Abdul Faththaah Abdul Gayyoom , commonly known as Abdul Faththaah is a Maldivian film director, producer, editor, screenwriter and choreographer. One of the most successful filmmakers in Maldivian Cinema, Faththaah is the recipient of a number of awards, including four Gaumee Film Awards, and two Maldives Film Awards. In 2004, Government of Maldives honoured him with the National Award of Recognition. He is known for his romantically stylish film-making.

#12653

David Squires

#191389

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

David Squires is a Canadian composer and the dean of the School of the Arts, Media and Culture at Trinity Western University. Early life and education Squires received a bachelor's degree in music from University of Western Ontario in 1979, a masters in music University of Toronto in 1981, and a doctorate in State University of New York at Buffalo in 1993.

#12654

Andrew Legg

#179774

Overall Influence

Andrew Legg is a Tasmanian musician and director of the Southern Gospel Choir, which he runs through the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music. He is the Head of School at the Conservatorium, as well as a contemporary piano & keyboard tutor. He is also Director of Music at St Clements Anglican Church, Kingston.

#12655

Kevin Siegfried

#191785

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Kevin Siegfried is an American composer. He has been composer-in-residence with the Capitol Hill Chorale since 2014, and teaches at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Life and career Siegfried earned his bachelor's degree at Antioch College. He then attended the University of Iowa, where he received a master's degree in theory and composition; among his professors was Donald Martin Jenni. He completed a doctorate in composition at the New England Conservatory of Music, where his instructors included Lee Hyla, Michael Gandolfi, and Daniel Pinkham. He also studied in France and in India, where he received a Stanley Fellowship to study South Indian classical music with Sriram Parasuram.

#12656

Michael Kapsner

#189723

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Michael Kapsner is a German composer, organist, conductor, improvisator and music educator. He teaches at the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar. Life Born in Passau, Kapsner received his first organ lessons from Toni Glas in Passau. After graduating from the , he studied in Vienna and Freiburg with the following teachers: organ with Michael Radulescu and , piano with , composition with Friedrich Neumann, improvisation with Peter Planyavsky, conducting with Karl Österreicher and Hans-Michael Beuerle. From 1988 to 1990, he worked as a church musician in Freiburg.

#12657

Andreu Veà Baró

Andreu Veà Baró

#191024

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Andreu Veà is a Spanish engineer, president of the Internet Society and member of the advisory board of the Internet Hall of Fame. He has been appointed as Digital Champion for Spain in late 2014. Digital Champions are ambassadors for the Digital Agenda, appointed by their Members States to help every European become digital and reporting to the European Commission.

#12658

Christiane Iven

#186392

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Christiane Iven is a German lied, concert and opera singer as well as a vocal teacher at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München. Career Iven was born in Hamburg as the youngest of three siblings of a North German merchant family.

#12659

Josh Brown

#175236

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Joshua Brown is an American singer who is best known as the lead vocalist of Christian rock band Day of Fire. He was also the original lead vocalist of Full Devil Jacket and was a featured vocalist on Fireflight's hit song "You Decide" from their album The Healing of Harms.

#12660

Myke Roy

#188856

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Myke Roy is a Canadian composer and recording engineer. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre and a member of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community, his compositional output includes a substantial amount of electroacoustic music, instrumental music, multi-media works, and music for the theatre. In 1976 he was awarded the Sir Ernest MacMillan Award/Fellowship by the Composers, Authors and Publishers Association of Canada for his works Sveln , Dra-men Dzunkt and Tsé Tnant/Te Deum . In 1987 he won the Robert Fleming Prize.

#12661

Tina Guo

#190412

Overall Influence

1985 - Present (41 years)

Tina Guo is a Chinese-born American cellist and erhuist from San Diego. Her international career as a cellist, electric cellist, erhuist, and composer is characterized by videos featuring theatrical backdrops and elaborate costumes, a range of genres, and an improvisatory style in film, television, and video game scores.

#12662

Frederick Burchinal

#191594

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Frederick Burchinal is an American operatic baritone, whose career centered on the works of Giuseppe Verdi as well as verismo opera more broadly. Burchinal is best known for his association with the Metropolitan Opera, and sang with the company for over 22 years.

#12663

Valjean McCarty Hessing

Valjean McCarty Hessing

#189377

Overall Influence

1934 - 2006 (72 years)

Valjean McCarty Hessing was a Choctaw painter, who worked in the Bacone flatstyle. Throughout her career, she won 9- awards for her work and was designated a Master Artist by the Five Civilized Tribes Museum in 1976. Her artworks are in collections of the Heard Museum of Phoenix, Arizona; the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma; the Southern Plains Indian Museum in Anadarko, Oklahoma; and the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian of Santa Fe, New Mexico, among others.

#12664

John Gilmore

#190688

Overall Influence

1950 - 1994 (44 years)

John Gilmore was an American operatic tenor. His voice is preserved on several recordings made for the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts and on the television program Live from the Metropolitan Opera.

#12665

Giuseppe Mariotti

#189349

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Giuseppe Mariotti is an Italian classical pianist.. 2003~ University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, dispatch professor at the music faculty of the Tokushima Bunri University. Since 2007 full-time professor and dean of the music faculty.

#12666

Jon Christensen

#190754

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Jon Allan Christensen is an American freelance journalist with a focus of writing about California, from his Venice home in coastal Los Angeles County. He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, where he periodically teaches a class, Environmental journalism, for undergraduate Environmental Science majors at UCLA. In January 2020 he authored an op-ed opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times about bulldozing the Ballona Wetlands, which would harm endangered native wildlife and rare native wildflowers, as well as removing living soil.

#12667

Lev Natochenny

#180002

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Lev Natochenny is a Russian-American classical pianist and professor of piano. Born in Moscow, Natochenny graduated from the Moscow "Tchaikovsky" Conservatoire, where he was taught by Lev Oborin. He also studied with Boris Zemliansky and Eliso Virsaladze as well as with Alexei Lubimov and worked in the violin class with David Oistrakh.

#12668

Victor Bumbalo

#187099

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Victor Bumbalo is an American actor and playwright. Early life and education Bumbalo graduated from the Masters Program in Theater at Bennington College. In New York City, Bumbalo became immersed in the Off- and Off-Off Broadway theater scene. He directed the American premiere of Mrozek's The Enchanted Night and became the artistic director of the Soul and Latin Theater, one of the first successful street theaters. Their productions toured the streets of New York for four consecutive summers.

#12669

Mamoru Fujieda

#190405

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Mamoru Fujieda is a Japanese composer associated with the postminimalist movement of contemporary classical music. Biography He received a Ph.D. in music from the University of California, San Diego in 1988. His composition instructors have included Joji Yuasa, Morton Feldman, Gordon Mumma, and Julio Estrada.

#12670

Charles Alexander

#191445

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Charles Alexander is an American poet, publisher, and book artist. He is the director and editor-in-chief of Chax Press. Alexander also served as the Director of the Minnesota Center for the Book Arts from 1993 until 1995, and as book artist there through 1996. Alexander lives in Tucson, AZ with his wife the visual artist Cynthia Miller and his two daughters. In 2006 he received the Arizona Arts Award and in 2021 he received the Lord Nose Award for excellence in independent literary publishing.

#12671

Susan Kempter

#189195

Overall Influence

Susan Kempter is an American violin teacher and prominent Suzuki teacher trainer who specializes in applying interdisciplinary research to music pedagogy. She is an active promoter of teaching students to play musical instruments with both physical as well as musical demands in mind, so that they can play their instruments without the pain and repetitive stress injuries which are common in the profession. She was influenced by the teaching of Paul Rolland and John Kendall. She is the director of a violin performing group, Mad About Music, in Albuquerque, NM, which exemplifies her teaching me...

#12672

Rav Shmuel

#190026

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Shmuel Skaist, known professionally as Rav Shmuel, is an American Orthodox rabbi, speaker, and musician from Brooklyn, New York. Initially gaining recognition for his Jewish outreach programs aimed at Phish concertgoers, Skaist taught in yeshivot in New York and Israel for several years before deciding to pursue a music career. His debut studio album, Protocols, was released in 2006 by the Jewish Music Group label.

#12673

Boyd McDonald

#185311

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

Boyd McDonald is a Canadian pianist, fortepianist, composer, and music educator. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre, his compositional output includes works for choirs, bandss, orchestras, and art songs. His works have been performed throughout Canada and Europe by ensembles like the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, the Renaissance Singers, the Scholars of London, Symphony Hamilton, the Waterloo Chamber Players, and the Wellington Winds among others.

#12674

Robin Anderson

#170826

Overall Influence

1948 - 2002 (54 years)

Robin Anderson was an Australian award-winning documentary filmmaker. Career Anderson was in born in Perth, Western Australia in 1950. After graduating from high school in 1967 she spent a year in Europe including 6 months in Paris. Back in Australia she studied economics at the University of Western Australia and graduated three years later with honors and a federal government scholarship to study for master's degree in sociology at the Columbia University in New York City. There she studied under Herbert J. Gans and during her time in New York she developed a greater interest in cinema and ...

#12675

Isabelle Dussauge

#147297

Overall Influence

Isabelle Dussauge is a science, technology and society researcher at the Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University, Sweden and former assistant professor at the Department of Thematic Studies , Linköping University, Sweden. She is also the co-founder, with Anelis Kaiser, of The NeuroGenderings Network, and acted as guest editor, again with Kaiser on the journal Neuroethics.

#12676

Ken Cowan

#187422

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Kenneth Andrew Cowan is a Canadian church and concert organist who currently serves as professor of organ at the Shepherd School of Music of Rice University in Houston, Texas. Biography A native of Thorold, Ontario, he has toured extensively in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and has made numerous recordings, most on the JAV label. Cowan is a graduate of both the Curtis Institute of Music and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music . He has held positions at Saint Bartholomew's Church, Saint James Episcopal Church, the Church of Saint Mary the Virgin in New York City, Saint Clement's...

#12677

Eric Funk

#186623

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Eric Funk is an American contemporary classical composer and conductor. Originally from Deer Lodge, Montana, he currently resides in Bozeman, Montana, where he teaches music courses at Montana State University.

#12678

Helza Cameu

#190334

Overall Influence

1903 - 1995 (92 years)

Helza Cameu was a Brazilian composer, pianist, musicologist, and author. Winning national competitions with her compositions, she worked as a musicologist at the National Museum, preserving indigenous music and cataloguing instruments. She also gave lectures at the National School of Music and was enrolled in the in 1946.

#12679

Owen Underhill

#188074

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Owen Underhill is a Canadian composer, flutist and conductor based in Vancouver. He is currently a professor of music at Simon Fraser University. He has been an active contributor to the new music scene on the West Coast, as a flutist, as co-music director of Western Front New Music , as the artistic director of the Vancouver New Music Society, and as a conductor in Magnetic Band and the Turning Point Ensemble, for which he is also currently the Artistic Co-Director.

#12680

Lawrence Golan

#82806

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Lawrence Golan is an American orchestral conductor and violinist. He is the Music Director of the Denver Philharmonic Orchestra in Colorado, the Yakima Symphony Orchestra in Washington state, the York Symphony Orchestra in Pennsylvania, and the Lamont Symphony Orchestra and Opera Theatre at the University of Denver where he is director of orchestral studies and professor of conducting at the Lamont School of Music.

#12681

John Kasiewicz

#185795

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

John Kasiewicz is an American guitarist and composer, notable as a member of the jazz/rock trio Raisinhill and ambient/folktronic duo 5turns25. He has also recorded and toured with Phish drummer Jon Fishman as members of the hard rock band J. Willis Pratt & We're Bionic.

#12682

Michael Stuart

#180056

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Michael Stuart is an American salsa singer, songwriter and actor. Early years Stuart was born in New York City, to Puerto Rican parents who settled in the 1960s after moving from Puerto Rico. Stuart received his primary and secondary education in Arecibo Puerto Rico. He was musically influenced by his uncle Israel Stuart. Stuart grew up listening to hip hop and rock music. He grew to love many kinds of music, especially Latin music. Stuart would accompany his uncle to many rehearsals where he would sing and play the maracas or congas. He taught himself to play the trumpet and most of the times he would sing to the tones of Héctor Lavoe and El Gran Combo.

#12683

Örjan Sandred

#186268

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Örjan Sandred is a Swedish composer and is a Professor in Composition at the Marcel A. Desautels Faculty of Music at the University of Manitoba in Canada. Biography Sandred studied composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, McGill University and at IRCAM . Among his teachers are Sven-David Sandström, Pär Lindgren, Magnus Lindberg, Daniel Börtz, Bill Brunson and Bruce Mather.

#12684

Robert N. Cavarra

#190772

Overall Influence

1934 - 2008 (74 years)

Robert N. Cavarra was an American composer, organist, harpsichordist, pianist and musicologist who taught at Colorado State University from 1963 to 2000. According to the Denver Post, he was "a leading participant in the revival of the classical organ tradition in North America."

#12685

Christian Weber

#189876

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Christian Weber is a Swiss double bass player. He is especially well known in the field of free improvisation and jazz. Life and works In 1990, Weber began playing double bass. After taking private lessons in Zurich, he moved to Graz in 1993 for studying at the academy of music and performing arts. Simultaneously, he started studying under Aderhard Roidinger at Anton Bruckner Private University for Music, Drama, and Dance.

#12686

Paul Brody

#190320

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Paul Brody is a US-American sound installation artist, composer, trumpeter, and writer based in Berlin. His work explores the relationship between spoken word and melody through radio art, Sound installation, composition, and performance.

#12687

Giulio Boccaletti

#108364

Overall Influence

Giulio Boccaletti is a British-Italian scientist and author. He is an Honorary Research Associate at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. He has been the Chief Strategy Officer and Global Managing Director for Water at The Nature Conservancy and was a partner of consulting firm McKinsey & Company. Trained as a physicist and atmospheric scientist, Boccaletti has been a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council, and has served on the OECD-WWC High Level Panel on Infrastructure Financing for a Water-Secure World. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Scientific Advisory...

#12688

Tony Clements

#185734

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Tony Clements is an American musician who was the Principal Tubist of the San Jose Symphony from 1981 until its closure in 2001. He subsequently became Principal Tubist and a soloist with its successor, Symphony Silicon Valley.

#12689

Peter Kolkay

#157347

Overall Influence

Peter Kolkay is an American bassoonist. In 2002, he was awarded First Prize at the Concert Artists Guild International Competition, and was the recipient of a 2004 Avery Fisher Career Grant. Kolkay is a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the IRIS Orchestra in Germantown, TN. He serves as Associate Professor of Bassoon at the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University.

#12690

Gerald Hendrie

#191675

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Gerald Mills Hendrie, , is an English scholar, composer, organist, pianist and harpsichordist. Education Framlingham College, Suffolk, 1949–52, Foundation ScholarRoyal College of Music , 1952–54, Foundation Scholar, Piano ; Gained Sir Walter Parratt prize.Selwyn College, Cambridge 1954–61, Organ Scholar. ;Royal College of Organists , FRCO Studied at the RCM with Geoffrey Tankard, Harold Darke, William Harris, Herbert Howells; at Cambridge with Thurston Dart and Patrick Hadley; privately with Geraint Jones, John Dykes Bower, Ralph Downes, and André Marchal

#12691

Kenneth E. Bailey

#38167

Overall Influence

1930 - 2016 (86 years)

Kenneth E. Bailey was an American author, professor of theology, and linguist. Life Bailey was born in Bloomington, Illinois. He spent 40 years teaching in Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel and Cyprus. He had a degree in Arabic and literature, systematic theology and wrote his dissertation in the field of New Testament. He was ordained by the Presbyterian Church . Since 1962 he taught for the Near East School of Theology in Beirut , where he founded the Institute for Middle Eastern New Testament Studies. From 1985 to 1995, he taught at the Ecumenical Institute for Theological Research in Jerusalem.

#12692

Adriano Guarnieri

#191796

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Adriano Guarnieri is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music. Biography He studied at the Conservatory in Bologna where he got his diploma in musical composition with Giacomo Manzoni and another diploma in choral music with Tito Gotti. He started his activity as a conductor as well, founding the Nuovo Ensemble Bruno Maderna in Florence.

#12693

William J. Small

#191341

Overall Influence

1926 - 2020 (94 years)

William Jack Small was an American broadcast journalist, executive, author, and educator. Early life and family background William J. Small was born September 20, 1926, in Chicago, Illinois. He served in the US military during WWII, in Leyte, The Philippines. He attended Marshall High School and The University of Chicago.

#12694

Margarita Fyodorova

#191821

Overall Influence

1927 - 2016 (89 years)

Margarita Alekseevna Fyodorova - Маргарита Алексеевна Фёдорова was a Soviet Russian pianist, People's Artist of Russia. She won silver in the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in 1950. She was known for her interpretations of Alexander Scriabin's work.

#12695

Joani Blank

#187336

Overall Influence

1937 - 2016 (79 years)

Joani Blank was an American sex educator, entrepreneur, author, videographer, cohousing enthusiast, philanthropist, and inventor in the field of sexuality. She used publishing, her sex store, and other endeavors to promote sex-positive feminism. Her papers are part of the Human Sexuality Collection at Cornell University Library.

#12696

Leandra Overmann

#191870

Overall Influence

1956 - 2012 (56 years)

Leandra Overmann, real name Jelica Overmann was a Yugoslavian-Serbian opera, song, concert and oratorio singer . Life and career Overmann was born in Belgrade . She received her first singing lessons from her mother Đurđevka Čakarević, the former prima donna of the Belgrade Opera. She also took piano lessons. She studied in Detmold and Cologne and at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. She made her debut as Rosina in The Barber of Seville at the Belgrade Opera.

#12697

Nina Tichman

#188977

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Nina Tichman is an American pianist. She studied at the Juilliard School in New York, which awarded her the Eduard-Steuermann-Prize for outstanding achievements, then in Europe with Alfons Kontarsky, Hans Leygraf and Wilhelm Kempff. Tichman has received numerous prizes, including at the Busoni, Casagrande, ARD, Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition, European Piano Contest Bremen, and Mendelssohn competitions. Her recording of the complete works of Claude Debussy, which she also performed cyclically in New York and in Frankfurt. Works for piano and violoncello with the cellist Maria Kliegel and Beethoven's Piano Trio with the Xyrion Trio.

#12698

Józef Świder

#181382

Overall Influence

1930 - 2014 (84 years)

Józef Świder was a Polish composer and music teacher. He graduated from the Academy of Music in Katowice , then continued his studies with Goffredo Petrassi at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. Since 1954, he taught composition and music theory at the Akademia Muzyczna in Katowice. Among his pupils were the Polish composers Aleksander Lasoń, Julian Gembalski, Andrzej Dziadek and Wiesław Cieńciała. Professor at the University of Silesia where, from 1985 until 1999, he managed the Institute for Music Education. Since 1984 professor of the postgraduate course for choir directors at the Akademia Muzyczna in Bydgoszcz.

#12699

Roland C. Jordan

#187296

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Roland Carroll Jordan, Jr is an American composer and music theorist. He studied in Texas and Pennsylvania before receiving his Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis, where he taught theory and composition for three decades. As a composer, Jordan has written for both large ensembles and chamber groups, and as a music theorist, he has explored the uses of phenomenological methodology and structuralist/post-structuralist theory.

#12700

Mari Fitzduff

#191878

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Mari Christine Fitzduff is an Irish policy maker, writer and academic. She began her work in peacebuilding and mediation working with universities during the Northern Ireland conflict before setting up a mediation organisation in 1989. In 1990 she was a founding director of the Community Relations Council, set up to help develop and fund peace initiatives in Northern Ireland.

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