The Most Influential People Across History

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#12701

Anne Gamble Kennedy

#189574
Overall Influence
1920 - 2001 (81 years)
Anne Gamble Kennedy was an American classical pianist, piano professor, and accompanist for the Fisk Jubilee Singers of Nashville, Tennessee. Early life Anne Lucille Gamble was born in Charleston, West Virginia to Dr. Henry Floyd Gamble and the former Nina Hortense Clinton. She was the younger of two children born to that union. She had two older step-siblings as well. She was eleven-years-old when her father was killed in a car accident in 1932. Her paternal grandmother had been born while enslaved on the Howard's Neck Plantation in Goochland County, Virginia. Her paternal grandfather, Henry...
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Carlotta de Bevilacqua

#191061
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
Carlotta de Bevilacqua is an Italian architect, designer and entrepreneur. She is currently President and CEO of Artemide and President of Danese Milano. Biography Graduated in 1983 in Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano, she is mainly known for her research in contemporary lighting design.
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#12703

Stephen Baysted

Stephen Baysted
#173433
Overall Influence
1969 - Present (57 years)
Stephen Baysted , is a British composer of film, television and video game music. He is known for composing music for racing simulator video games. Works Video gamesGTR – FIA GT Racing Game GT Legends GTR 2 – FIA GT Racing Game BMW M3 Challenge Need for Speed: Shift Shift 2: Unleashed Skid Racer Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends Eager Beaver The Walking Dead: Assault Project CARS Project CARS 2 World of Speed Fast & Furious: Crossroads Project CARS 3 Film and televisionI, Claude MonetSecrets of the Dead: Graveyard of the Giant BeastsAncient MysteriesRenoir: Revered and ReviledThe Impressionis...
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#12704

Michael Galvin

Michael Galvin
#184577
Overall Influence
1967 - Present (59 years)
Michael Galvin is a New Zealand actor, singer and playwright, well known for his role as Chris Warner on the soap opera Shortland Street, a character he has played almost since the show's debut in 1992 until 1996 and again from 2000 to present, and remains as of 2023, the only original cast member. He is the longest serving television soap opera actor in New Zealand.
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#12705

WoongSan

#191189
Overall Influence
1973 - Present (53 years)
WoongSan is a South Korean musician. She has been a leading figure in the jazz music scene in Korea and Japan for over a decade, having performed live over 500 times since her 1998 Japanese debut. She is the first Korean-born musician to perform at New York City's historic Blue Note Jazz Club and has collaborated with many other well-known jazz musicians including Benny Green, Lonnie Plaxico, Rodney Green, Conrad Herwig and Suzuki Hisatsugu. She is also well known for training Ali , a popular K-pop singer.
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#12706

Mònica Terribas i Sala

#189020
Overall Influence
1968 - Present (58 years)
Mònica Terribas i Sala is a Spanish journalist and professor at the University Pompeu Fabra. Between 2008 and 2012 she was director of Televisió de Catalunya and the following year, councillor delegated and publisher of the Ara newspaper. Since 2 September 2013 she has directed El matí de Catalunya Ràdio.
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#12707

David Fedderly

#187968
Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
David Fedderly is an American orchestral tuba player and teacher. Life and career As a fifth-grader in Silver Bay, Minnesota Fedderly's first choice of instrument was drums, but there were too many drummers already. Trumpet and trombone weren't available either, so he was offered a sousaphone instead. He earned the money for his first tuba by cleaning out bear cages at the Split Rock Trading Post, and went on to study at Northwestern University with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Arnold Jacobs.
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#12708

Marta Sosińska

#191862
Overall Influence
1939 - Present (87 years)
Marta Sosińska-Janczewska is a Polish classical pianist. She studied at the State Higher School of Music in Warsaw under Zbigniew Drzewiecki. In 1965 she was awarded 3rd prize at the VII International Chopin Piano Competition.
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#12709

Erika Haase

#188822
Overall Influence
1935 - 2013 (78 years)
Erika Haase was a German classical pianist. Career Born in Darmstadt, Haase was the daughter of a violinist. At the age of seven, she received her first piano lessons. In Darmstadt, she studied with Werner Hoppstock and Hans Leygraf. In 1959, she won the Kranichstein Music Prize of the city of Darmstadt . As a soloist and chamber musician she performed with the Swedish Radio Music Academy and various Swedish orchestras. Her centre of gravity was in a strong commitment to Neue Musik. In 1960, she participated in Eduard Steuermann's summer courses. She also improved her skill with Conrad Hansen.
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#12710

Fahri Beqiri

#170683
Overall Influence
1936 - Present (90 years)
Fahri Beqiri was a Kosovar Albanian composer and professor at the University of Prishtina Department of Music. Early life and education Fahri Beqiri was born in 1936 in Yugoslavia, and graduated composition from the University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia, where he studied in the class of eminent Serbian composer Enriko Josif.
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#12711

Maximilian Dimoff

#190592
Overall Influence
1968 - Present (58 years)
Maximilian Dimoff has been the principal bassist of the Cleveland Orchestra since 1997. Career He has appeared with the orchestra at their summer venue, the Blossom Festival, performing Koussevitsky's Concerto for Double Bass. He attended Northwestern University, where he studied with Jeff Bradetich. Before joining the Cleveland Orchestra, he served as the principal bassist of the San Antonio Symphony, and section bass in the Grant Park Symphony and the Seattle Symphony. Dimoff has presented master classes at the Manhattan School of Music and several universities. He was formerly the head of ...
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#12712

Walter Carringer

#191313
Overall Influence
1924 - 2006 (82 years)
Walter Carringer was an American classical tenor who had an active career in operas, concerts, and recitals during the 1950s and 1960s. He was twice the recipient of the Martha Baird Rockefeller Foundation award and was a winner of the American Federation of Music Clubs singing competition. He also was twice awarded the Orpheus Award by Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia for “significant and lasting contributions to the cause of music in America.”
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#12713

Johannes Kreidler

#189071
Overall Influence
1980 - Present (46 years)
Johannes Kreidler is a German composer, performer, conceptual and media artist. He is the principal theorist and exponent of the New Conceptualism movement in 21st-century music. Career Johannes Kreidler was born in Esslingen, Germany. He studied composition with Mathias Spahlinger at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg from 2000–2006, and has taught at conservatories in Rostock, Detmold, Hannover and Hamburg. In 2019, he was made Professor for Composition and Music Theatre at the Musikakademie Basel.
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#12714

Ge Gan-ru

#188858
Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
Ge Gan-ru is a Chinese composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Ge Gan-ru was born in Shanghai, China. His early years were spent in the Chongming Island during the Cultural Revolution. In 1974, he was originally enrolled by the Shanghai Conservatory, majoring in violin. In the third year, he switched to composition major.
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#12715

Ronald Caltabiano

#191416
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (67 years)
Ronald Caltabiano is an American arts administrator and composer of contemporary classical music, with his music showing elements of modernism and romanticism. He holds B.M., M.M., and D.M.A. degrees from the Juilliard School, where he studied composition with Elliott Carter and Vincent Persichetti. He also has studied composition with Peter Maxwell Davies and conducting with Harold Farberman and Gennady Rozhdestvensky. His music has been commissioned by the Emerson Quartet, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the San Francisco Symphony, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and the Cincinn...
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#12716

John Rapson

#188559
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
Ira John Rapson, III was an American jazz trombonist and educator. Rapson began on piano at age five before switching to trombone. He studied at Westmont College, graduating in 1976, then took his MA in composition at California State University. Rapson taught at Westmont from 1980 to 1990, concurrently playing in Los Angeles with Vinny Golia . He also worked with Tim Berne , Walter Thompson , Bobby Bradford , and John Carter . He worked extensively as a leader with noted West Coast jazz players. His sextet, active from 1982 to 1985, included Golia, Wayne Peet, Alex Cline, and Roberto Miguel ...
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#12717

Maria Armoudian

#191913
Overall Influence
1901 - Present (125 years)
Maria Armoudian is a politics senior lecturer at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. She is also a published author, radio broadcaster, musician, and journalist. Her three books are Lawyers Beyond Borders: Advancing International Human Rights through Local Laws and Courts; Reporting from the Danger Zone: Frontline Journalists, Their Jobs and an Increasingly Perilous Future , and Kill the Messenger: The Media's Role in the Fate of the World . Armoudian is of Armenian American descent and is the host and producer of the Scholars' Circle on KPFK. Prior to moving to New Zealand, Armoudian w...
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#12718

Marilyn Neeley

#191400
Overall Influence
1937 - 2007 (70 years)
Marilyn Neeley was an American pianist. She won the Los Angeles Times Woman of the Year in Music award in 1963 and an Emmy Award in 1970.
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#12719

Sharon Christman

#190175
Overall Influence
Sharon Christman is an American soprano and professor. She serves currently as director of the Vocal Division of the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music, Catholic University of America, in Washington, DC.
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#12720

Barbara Lister-Sink

#187407
Overall Influence
1947 - Present (79 years)
Barbara Lister-Sink is an American classical pianist, music educator, and global leader in injury-preventive keyboard technique. Education As a child and teenager, Lister-Sink studied piano at the Preparatory School of Salem College with Margaret Meuller and Clemens Sandresky. Lister-Sink graduated with a BA in Music in 1969 from Smith College, where she studied with the American composer and pianist John Duke. After suffering from tendinitis, she worked with Edith Grosz in Amsterdam and successfully overcame her injury. In the early 1970s, Lister-Sink also became interested in incorporating the Alexander Technique into a model of well-coordinated piano technique.
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#12721

Helmut Freitag

#181962
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Helmut Freitag is a German pianist, organist, conductor and academic teacher. Education Born in Bad Kreuznach, Freitag studied church music, music school and orchestral conducting in Saarbrücken, Düsseldorf and Geneva. His teachers were André Luy, Lionel Rogg, Jean Micault, Hans Drewanz and Hartmut Schmidt.
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#12722

Mohammad Mohammadian

#165762
Overall Influence
1987 - Present (39 years)
Mohammad Mohammadian is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, photographer and producer. He became interested in cinema in his teenage years, and started his filmmaking education with the Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, whose cinematic style has been a great influence on him.
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#12723

Alan Mauritz Swanson

#191934
Overall Influence
1941 - Present (85 years)
Alan Mauritz Swanson is an American composer and academic who lives in the Netherlands. He took his BA and MA at Indiana University and his PhD at the University of Chicago . In between he studied at Stockholm University. As an academic, he taught at Augustana College , Brigham Young University , and the University of Groningen , and came to specialize in the theatre and opera of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Trained as a singer, many of his early compositions are for voice, but recent work has tended to be varied in form: string quartets, a viola concerto, a partita for piano, and others.
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#12724

Lindsay Beamish

#191318
Overall Influence
Lindsay Beamish is an American actress and professor, best known for her roles as Severin in Shortbus and Jamie in Forgetting the Girl. As of 2015, she teaches at Emerson College and graduated from UC Santa Cruz.
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#12725

Poia Rewi

#172083
Overall Influence
Poia Rewi is a professor and the former head of Te Tumu: School of Maori, Pacific, and Indigenous Studies at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. He is known for his work in the areas of the revitalisation of the Māori language and . He is a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.
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#12726

John McKay

#188429
Overall Influence
1938 - Present (88 years)
John McKay is an American pianist and music educator of Canadian birth. He has performed in concerts, recitals, and on radio and television broadcasts throughout North America and Europe. His programs often include works by contemporary American and Canadian composers, and he has performed the world premieres of works by Mortimer Barron, Clermont Pépin and Harry Somers among other composers. He has also performed extensively as a chamber musician and accompanist, including in performances with his wife, contralto Sara Hayden. In 1989 he co-founded the Minnesota Valley Sommarfest.
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#12727

Kevin O'Rourke

#170372
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Kevin O'Rourke is an American film, stage, and television actor, best known for his role as Scott Sherwood in Remember WENN , Edward Bader in Boardwalk Empire, and as Spencer Tracy in The Aviator. Early life and education Kevin O'Rourke was born January 25, 1956, in Portland, Oregon, and raised in Tacoma, Washington. He graduated from Williams College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre.
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#12728

Aku Kadogo

#183668
Overall Influence
Aku Kadogo, born Karen Vest, is a choreographer, director, actress, and educator. She was one of the original cast members of Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf , and acted in the 1990s Australian children's television series Lift Off. She has educated and performed in Australia, Senegal, Cuba, Brazil, and Hong Kong, and South Korea.
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#12729

Paul Alan Levi

#184940
Overall Influence
1941 - Present (85 years)
Paul Alan Levi is an American composer whose compositions have been performed in Carnegie Hall, among other major venues in United States and Europe, as well as on national television. He is the composer of the 1971-1984 PBS identity music.
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#12730

Anne Eline Riisnæs

#190869
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
Anne Eline Riisnæs is a Norwegian pianist and piano pedagog. Early life Riisnæs was born in Oslo. Her mother was Eline Nygaard Riisnæs, a pianist. Riisnæs's brothers are Knut Riisnæs , a jazz saxophonist, and Odd Riisnæs , saxophonist.
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#12731

Mate Matišić

#190511
Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
Mate Matišić is a Croatian playwright, screenwriter, composer and musician. His plays have been staged in Croatian theaters as well as internationally, and some of them have been adapted into feature films. As a composer, he is best known for his film and theatrical music. He has won five Golden Arena awards at the Pula Film Festival.
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#12732

Kenneth Boulton

#188949
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
Kenneth Boulton is an American pianist and music educator. Boulton is currently the dean of the School for Fine Arts at Northern State University in South Dakota. Biography Boulton was born in Seattle, Washington, and raised in Arlington, Washington, graduating from Arlington High School in 1980. He received a bachelor's degree in piano performance from Washington State University and a master's degree and doctorate in the same field from the University of Maryland.
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#12733

Michio Kitazume

#191770
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Michio Kitazume is a Japanese composer and conductor. Biography Michio Kitazume was born in Tokyo. He studied at Tokyo University of the Arts. Works Orchestral Ei-sho , The 42nd Otaka Prize, '95 International Rostrum of Composers Grand PrixFrom the beginning of the sea Scene of the earth , The 49th Otaka PrizeSong is always there
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#12734

Yaroslav Senyshyn

Yaroslav Senyshyn
#179590
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Yaroslav Senyshyn, also known as Slava, is a Canadian pianist, author, and professor of philosophy, music aesthetics, and moral education at Simon Fraser University's Faculty of Education. Education Senyshyn was one of two pupils of Antonina Yaroshevich, from the Kiev Conservatory, and of Canadian pianist and composer, Larysa Kuzmenko. He has also studied with Damjana Bratuz, Howard Munn, Clifford von Kuster, Katherine Wolpe and Pierre Souverain.
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#12735

Larry Brown

#188800
Overall Influence
1947 - Present (79 years)
Larry Brown is an American musician, composer and recording engineer. Background 1960s In the 1960s, he started out playing drums in various bands including surf music bands. During the late 1960s to the 1970s, he either provided or helped provide music for a number of exploitation films which include biker cult classics such as The Wild Angels, The Glory Stompers, The Angry Breed and Mary Jane. In 1965, Brown was the drummer for Davie Allan who provided the music for many biker films in the 1960s, Larry wrote some of his earliest pieces of film music for Roger Corman's The Wild Angels. . ...
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#12736

Jennifer Reeder

#180697
Overall Influence
1971 - Present (55 years)
Jennifer Reeder is an American artist, filmmaker, and screenwriter. Her short film A Million Miles Away was nominated for a Tiger Award for Short Films at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and screened at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. Short Narrative Films category. In 2003, she had a solo screening at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden. She received a Rockefeller Grant for New Media in 2002 and a Creative Capital grant in 2015 to support the production of her first experimental feature-length film, Knives and Skin. She won a 2018–19 SFFILM Rainin Grant for scriptwriting, and was the 2019 recipient of the Alpert Film Award residency at the MacDowell Colony.
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#12737

Matthias Kirschnereit

Matthias Kirschnereit
#186720
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
Matthias Kirschnereit is a German classical pianist. Life Born in Dorsten, Kirschnereit grew up in Namibia and later studied at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold with Renate Kretschmar-Fischer. He was a prizewinner at renowned competitions in Germany and abroad, such as the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb in Bonn, the Concours Géza Anda in Zurich and the Sydney International Piano Competition. In 1989, he received the .
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#12738

Léon Bernier

#190893
Overall Influence
1936 - 2011 (75 years)
Léon Bernier was a Canadian composer, conductor, pianist, arranger, accompanist, and music pedagogue. He composed and arranged music for numerous programs on Canadian radio and television, and also wrote music for a number of theatrical productions in Canada. For CBC Television he served as music director of the programs Les Coqueluches, Allo Boubou, Zoum, and Les Démons du midi, and composed music for the television dramas Edna, Le Vélo devant la porte, Pâques, Le Misanthrope, and Coup de sang among others.
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#12739

Andrés Cárdenes

#182911
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
Andrés Cárdenes is a Cuban-born violinist, teacher, conductor, and concertmaster. He has performed and taught in a number of prominent positions, including his current professorship in violin at Carnegie Mellon University School of Music where he holds the Dorothy Richard Starling & Alexander Speyer Jr. Endowed Chair. He is also the current Artistic Director of the Carnegie Mellon University Philharmonic.
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#12740

Leonello Tarabella

#191664
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Leonello Tarabella is an Italian researcher, musician and composer. His activity runs on the academic/artistic double track. Biography Graduated in Computer Science at University of Pisa, during the '70s he started his research work under the direction of M° Pietro Grossi who was pioneering Computer Music at the CNR in Pisa, Italy. Later, as a study grant holder, he specialized on the technology of computer music at the EMS , MIT-Boston and at CCRMA , Stanford University.
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#12741

Amjad Ibrahim

#189047
Overall Influence
1967 - Present (59 years)
Amjad Ibrahim Didi , commonly known as Amjad Ibrahim, is a Maldivian film director and screenwriter. Early life After completing eleven years of service in Maldives National Defence Force, Ibrahim decided to pursue a career in film direction due to his "fondness" towards film-making process. His first work as a director was Naifaru Dhohokko's video single "Maslahathu Neiy An'binney", followed by directing six songs for the television program, Maazeege Handhaan. His first television drama, Maaburuge Usoolu was released in 1995 produced by the Maldives National Defence Force.
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#12742

Lydia Artymiw

#161870
Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
Lydia Artymiw is native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and an American concert pianist and Emerita Distinguished McKnight Professor of Piano in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota.
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#12743

Michael William Gilbert

#188640
Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
Michael William Gilbert is an American music composer working in the genres of electronic music and world music. Biography Michael William Gilbert grew up in Connecticut and Brussels, Belgium. While living in Europe he first encountered the music of Varese, Stockhausen, and Pierre Henry, as well as music of India, Africa, and Japan. After studying electrical engineering at MIT, he continued studies in music at the Boston School of Electronic Music, later as a teacher and designer of synthesis systems. He graduated with a degree in music from Hampshire College, and shortly thereafter became th...
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#12744

Reza Vali

#165702
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
Reza Vali is an Iranian musician and composer. Reza Vali was born in Iran and studied at the Tehran Conservatory. In 1972, he attended the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, where he studied composition. He later attended the University of Pittsburgh where he received his PhD in composition and theory. Since 1988 he has been on the Carnegie Mellon University faculty.
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#12745

Jordi Montaña

#98210
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
Jordi Montaña has been the Rector of the University of Vic since 13 July 2010, when he was appointed by the Balmes University Foundation Board of Trustees. Teaching work A full professor at Ramon Llull University and a lecturer at ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Jordi Montaña holds a doctorate in industrial engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, a master's degree in Business Administration and Management from ESADE and a degree in industrial engineering from the School of Industrial Engineering of Barcelona. He took postgraduate studies at the University of Bradford, at ...
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#12746

Naoki Kodaka

#139071
Overall Influence
Naoki Kodaka is a Japanese video game music composer who worked for Sunsoft. He is currently a professor of music at several universities and occasionally composes new music for special events. Kodaka first learned to play piano during his early childhood but quit formal training at age 7, finding that he preferred to play popular music. He later resumed his classical studies in high school and would go on to major in composition at the Aichi Prefectural University of the Arts. Following his graduation, he briefly worked on producing music for radio and television. Among his classmates, Kodaka...
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#12747

Stewart L. Gordon

#182994
Overall Influence
1930 - Present (96 years)
Stewart Lynell Gordon is an American musician, teacher, writer, editor, composer, and impresario. Gordon is Professor of Keyboard Studies at the USC Thornton School of Music of the University of Southern California as well as the music faculty at the Claremont Graduate University.
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#12748

Sigutė Stonytė

#190277
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
Sigutė Stonytė is a Lithuanian soprano and professor at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. Biography Ms. Sigutė Stonytė graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music in 1982 - here she studied singing with Prof. Z. Paulauskas. In 1982-1984 she also studied with vocal teacher Joana Kepenienė. In 1984 the soloist won the International Competition for Singers in Riga and a year later made her debut at the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre as Tatyana in P. Tchaikovsky‘s opera “Eugene Onegin” - since then she has been performing leading soprano parts in most performances produced by the LNOBT and other companies.
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#12749

Margarita Höhenrieder

#188392
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Margarita Höhenrieder is a German classical pianist and a professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München. She has performed internationally and recorded, with a focus on chamber music. She premiered compositions which Harald Genzmer dedicated to her.
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#12750

Barbara Shearer

#189835
Overall Influence
1936 - 2005 (69 years)
Barbara Shearer was an American pianist and pedagogue at the University of California, Berkeley. Early life and education Shearer spent her childhood in the rural Midwest. She attended Carthage College for two years, then Wittenberg University in Ohio, where she graduated with a bachelor's degree in music. On the advice of her teachers, she went to New York City in 1958 to study piano with Leonard Shure, whom she later followed to Zurich and Munich. A later influence was Karl Ulrich Schnabel, from whom she received valuable coaching and with whom she taught as a colleague.
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