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#12751

Nelson Brodt

#175964

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Nelson Omar Brodt Chávez is a Chilean actor, director, dramatist, and teacher, with an extensive career in theater, film, and television. Career Nelson Brodt began his career at the Theater of the University of Concepción, where he developed an intense theatrical focus. In 1971 he emigrated to Santiago, where he participated as an actor in the Theater Company, the Los Cuatro Theater Company, the Nuevo Popular Theater, and the . In these years he also made his television debut on telenovelas such as and .

#12752

Ramona Luengen

#191457

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Ramona Luengen is a Canadian composer, choir conductor and educator who has received international attention for her compositions. She was born in Vancouver and received a BMus and MMus from the University of British Columbia and a DMus in composition from the University of Toronto. Luengen studied composition with Cortland Hultberg, Derek Holman and Harry Freedman and piano with Jane Coop.

#12753

Fathimath Nahula

#187633

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Fathimath Nahula is a Maldivian film director, film producer and screenwriter. Early life In 1991, Nahula joined Jamaluddin school and worked as a teacher for four years. During the time, she spends most of her time in writing and developing stories. She then penned dialogues and stories for several films and television dramas produced by Television Maldives while publishing handful of them on different platforms including newspapers and magazines. Aiming to deliver the real emotions she write on the paper, Nahula decided to pursue a career in film direction.

#12754

Christian Meier

Christian Meier

#191866

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Christian Dietrich Meier Zender , best known as Christian Meier, is a Peruvian actor and singer in Latin America, the US Hispanic market, and around the Spanish speaking world. Biography Meier was born in Lima, Peru, the youngest of four siblings. He is the son of Gladys Zender, Miss Universe 1957, and Antonio Meier, a Peruvian politician who in 2006 was elected mayor of the Lima district of San Isidro. He has two older sisters and one older brother: Sibylle Meier Zender, Karina Meier Zender, and Antonio Meier Zender.

#12755

Anna Vinnitskaya

#178773

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (43 years)

Anna Vinnitskaya is a Russian pianist who won the 2007 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition. Biography Anna Vinnitskaya was born in Novorossiysk. She began piano lessons at age 6. From 1995 to 2001, she studied at the Rachmaninoff Conservatory in Rostov-on-Don with Sergei Ossipenko, then at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg, where she studied with Evgeni Koroliov. As a soloist, she has appeared with such ensembles as the Gewandhaus Orchestra, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the Boston Symphony, the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, l'Orchestre Philharmonique...

#12756

Ola Wikander

#78986

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

Ola Wikander is a Swedish writer, translator and theologian. Contributions He has written the book I döda språks sällskap , which is about extinct languages, translations, and among other things, the Babylonian creation story of Enûma Eliš. In May 2008 came his first novel, Poeten och cirkelmakaren, which he has written with his father Örjan Wikander.

#12757

Amy London

#190602

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Amy London is a jazz singer and educator who has appeared on Broadway and in the vocal group The Royal Bopsters. London grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. She moved to Manhattan in 1980 and began teaching jazz vocals in 1984.

#12758

Yuri Poteyenko

#187914

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Yuri Anatolievich Poteyenko is a Russian film composer. Four times the winner of the Golden Eagle Award for the best film music . Selected filmography Night Watch Popsa Day Watch The Russian Game The Irony of Fate 2 Vanechka The Inhabited Island The Inhabited Island. Skirmish The Salamander Key Spy White Tiger Metro Devil's Pass Battalion The Age of Pioneers Anna Karenina: Vronsky's Story Saving Leningrad Goalkeeper of the Galaxy V2. Escape from Hell

#12759

Eva-Maria Houben

#172765

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Eva-Maria Houben is a German composer, organist, pianist, musicologist and university lecturer. Life Born in Rheinberg, Houben grew up in Kamp-Lintfort. Her mother worked as a special education teacher, her father was a machine steiger and presbyter in the Protestant village church of . There, Houben provided the organ service during her secondary school time. After her Abitur she studied school music at the Folkwang University of the Arts and artistic organ playing with Gisbert Schneider . Her teachers at the Folkwang Hochschule also included Mauricio Rosenmann Taub and Ludger Maxsein .

#12760

Hirini Matunga

#180888

Overall Influence

Hirini Matunga is a New Zealand town planning academic and as of 2019 is a full professor at the Lincoln University. He has written on Māori tourism as well as indigenous thinking within the field of urban planning.

#12761

Harvey Pittel

#182945

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Harvey Pittel is an American saxophonist who performs principally in North America, and was the Professor of Saxophone at the University of Texas at Austin Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music in the College of Fine Arts.

#12762

Stjepan Damjanović

Stjepan Damjanović

#161135

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Stjepan Damjanović is a Croatian linguist, philologist and paleoslavist. He worked as a regular professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb. He is a former President of Matica hrvatska.

#12763

Luise Vosgerchian

#189427

Overall Influence

1922 - 2000 (78 years)

Luise Vosgerchian was an American concert pianist and music professor at Harvard University. Early life and education Vosgerchian was born in Watertown, Massachusetts in 1922, the daughter of Armenian immigrants. Her mother, Araxy Kurkjian, had immediate family who perished in the Armenian genocide.Her mother died in 1998 at the age of 102, though there is little known on how close they remained. Vosgerchian signed up for piano lessons almost immediately after hearing her first piano recital. Several years later, when she prepared to play her debut recital, she noticed a misprint in the program about her name.

#12764

Kathryn Alexander

#190448

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Kathryn Alexander is a Guggenheim Award-winning American composer and a professor of composition at Yale University. Early life and education Alexander was born in Texas and was involved with music from an early age. She earned a bachelor's degree at Baylor University studying flute with Helen Ann Shanley, and went on to the Cleveland Institute of Music to study with Maurice Sharp. While at Cleveland, she began to compose. She sought guidance from Cleveland faculty Donald Erb and Eugene O'Brien, and went on to earn a DMA in composition at the Eastman School of Music, working with Samuel Adler, Barbara Kolb, Allan Schindler, and Joseph Schwantner.

#12765

Anton Mordasov

#191404

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Anton Mordasov is a Russian pianist, born in Novosibirsk in 1972. A student at the Novosibirsk Music College under renowned Professor, Academician, Honored Artist of Russia Mary Lebenzon, in 1990 he won the Rachmaninov Competition and shared the IX Tchaikovsky Competition's 3rd prize with Kevin Kenner and Johan Schmidt. He subsequently settled in the USA, where he won the 1996 Cincinnati Competition. Mordasov teaches at the preparatory department at Texas Christian University. Anton also maintains a private studio at Travis Academy of Fine Arts in Fort Worth. He also teaches at Music Institute...

#12766

Victor Borge

#189885

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Victor Cito Borge is a bassist best known for playing in the Norwegian hard rock band TNT. He joined TNT in 2005, replacing Sid Ringsby, and played on three studio albums and one live album. Borge left TNT in December 2012 to pursue another project, but rejoined in late 2013.

#12767

David Bollard

#190180

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

David Bollard is a New Zealand-born Australian classical pianist and teacher. Career David Bollard studied with Béla Síki in 1962, then moved to London in 1964, studying with Ilona Kabos, Louis Kentner and Julius Katchen. After a successful Wigmore Hall debut, BBC broadcasts and concerts in Europe, he moved to Australia in 1970. He was a founding member of the Australia Ensemble, resident at the University of New South Wales, and performed and recorded with them for 19 years . He also toured with visiting artists such as violinists Wanda Wiłkomirska, Edith Peinemann and Dylana Jenson, and sin...

#12768

Eduard Schmieder

Eduard Schmieder

#185559

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Eduard Schmieder is a violinist, teacher and conductor. He is a highly regarded violin pedagogue.". He currently holds the position of Distinguished Professor of Violin at the Boyer College of Music and Dance, Philadelphia, Temple University where he is an Artistic Director for Strings. Prior to that appointment, he was Distinguished Algur H. Meadows Chair of Violin and Chamber Music in the Meadows School of the Arts in Dallas , and tenured professor of the violin at the University of Southern California, a position formerly held by Jascha Heifetz. His other tenured teaching appointments were at Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, Houston , and Lamar University, Beaumont .

#12769

Mary Jo Bole

#122339

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Mary Jo Bole , is a sculptor, printmaker, and artist-bookmaker who lives and works in Columbus, Ohio. Bole is a widely exhibited artist who has shown her works in the United States and Europe. She was a professor of art at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.

#12770

Krzysztof Chorzelski

#187892

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Krzysztof Chorzelski is a classical violist, conductor, and teacher. As a violist he is active both as a soloist and as member of the Belcea Quartet. Biography Chorzelski was born in Warsaw in 1971. According to The New York Times, he describes himself as "the son of two frustrated musicians." In 1988, at the age of 16, Chorzelski played the violin at a ceremony commemorating the 45th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

#12771

John Pierce

#190885

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

John Charles Pierce is an American operatic tenor and academic voice teacher. He made an international career based in Germany, and focused on Wagner roles such as Tannhäuser, Lohengrin and Tristan.

#12772

Bob Gliner

#188051

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Bob Gliner is an independent documentary filmmaker and Emeritus Faculty of Sociology at San Jose State University. Gliner's work focuses on social change throughout the world and covers such topics as the challenges facing developing nations, school reform, consumerism, climate change, college athletics, the military–industrial complex and the disabled. Gliner's programs air on PBS stations nationwide. Gliner lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains, in California.

#12773

Rudolf Metzmacher

#185504

Overall Influence

1906 - 2004 (98 years)

Rudolf Metzmacher , complete name Rudolf Hans Helmut Friedrich Carl Metzmacher, was a German cellist. Life Metzmacher was born in Schwerin as son of the head teacher August Metzmacher and his wife Marie, née Schultz. He received his first music lessons from his parents and studied from 1924 to 1927 with Julius Klengel at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig and afterwards with Hans Münch-Holland. He received further suggestions from Diran Alexianin and Hugo Becker.

#12774

Benjamin Kamins

#188256

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Benjamin Kamins is an American bassoonist, currently active and nationally recognized as both a teacher and performer. He spent his childhood in Los Angeles, and currently resides in Houston. He began playing bassoon at age 11, motivated by his opinion at the time that "it was the weirdest one."He attended Fairfax High School, a school notable for producing musicians such as Herb Alpert, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Jackson 5. At this time he began his studies with Norman Herzberg, a great bassoon pedagogue and member of the Warner Bros. Orchestra. He attended The University of Southern ...

#12775

Toshiya Eto

#190872

Overall Influence

1927 - 2008 (81 years)

was a Japanese violinist. Biography Etō Toshiya was born in 1927 in Toshima, Tokyo. He started violin lessons in 1932. His teacher was Shinichi Suzuki, and Etō Toshiya had lessons from him until age 12. He entered Ikuei Kogei school in 1940, and finished in 1944. From 1943, he took lessons from Alexander Mogilevsky, who taught at Tokyo School of Music.

#12776

Reiner Bredemeyer

#183228

Overall Influence

1929 - 1995 (66 years)

Reiner Bredemeyer was a German composer. He was born in Vélez, Santander and went to school in Breslau. In 1944 he was drafted into military service and was briefly held as a prisoner of war of the American Army in Bavaria. After the end of World War II, he met composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann who introduced him to the music of Igor Stravinsky, Béla Bartók, Anton Webern, Edgard Varèse, Charles Ives and Erik Satie. From 1949 to 1953 he studied composition with Karl Höller at the Munich Academy for Musical Arts. In 1954 Paul Dessau took him to East Germany, where Bredemeyer became a master studen...

#12777

Dietrich Unkrodt

#186644

Overall Influence

1934 - 2006 (72 years)

Dietrich Unkrodt was a German tubist and double bass player, the principal tubist of the Komische Oper Berlin. He was particularly active as a jazz tubist, appearing internationally. Unkrodt was one of the pioneers of solo tuba music in Germany.

#12778

Aleksandra Trajković

#190094

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Aleksandra Trajković is a Serbian pianist, Assistant Professor of Piano and Chief of the Piano Department at the University of Priština's Faculty of Arts. Education Ms. Trajković was born in Kosovska Mitrovica, SAP Kosovo, SFR Yugoslavia and started her early training at the Stevan Mokranjac Music School in Pristina and continued it at the University of Pristina's Faculty of Arts, where she was a student of Professor Dunja Košanin. She graduated in 1998, and completed her postgraduate studies at the same university in the class of renowned Professor Marko Savić . Additionally, she studied w...

#12779

Mario Peláez-Fernández

#190207

Overall Influence

1901 - Present (125 years)

Mario Peláez-Fernández is a science communicator best known in role as drag queen Sassy Science . Sassy Science Sassy Science is a drag queen disseminator of science and makes appearances wearing a crown and matching dress with the pattern of graphene.

#12780

Sanja Stijačić

#174224

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Sanja Stijačić is a Serbian flutist and Associate Professor of Flute at the University of Pristina and University of East Sarajevo. Education Sanja Stijačić was born in Šabac, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia. She graduated and completed her postgraduate studies with the highest marks, from the University of Novi Sad Academy of Arts, where she studied with Professor Marijan Egić. Additionally, she studied in Basel, with Professor Aurèl Nicolet.

#12781

Michelle Handelman

#190747

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Michelle Handelman is an American contemporary artist, filmmaker, and writer who works with live performance, multiscreen installation, photography and sound. Coming up through the years of the AIDS crisis and Culture Wars, Handelman has built a body of work that explores the dark and uncomfortable spaces of queer desire. She confronts the things that provoke collective fear and denial – sexuality, death, chaos. She directed the ground-breaking feature documentary on the 1990s San Francisco lesbian S/M scene BloodSisters: Leather, Dykes & Sadomasochism, described by IndieWire as “a queer clas...

#12782

Diodorus of Adramyttium

#191686

Overall Influence

Diodorus of Adramyttium, was a rhetorician and Academic philosopher. He is known only from the account given by Strabo. He lived at the time of Mithridates , under whom he commanded an army. In order to please the king, he caused all the senators of his native place to be massacred. He afterwards accompanied Mithridates to Pontus, and, after the fall of the king, Diodorus received the punishment for his cruelty. Charges were brought against him at Adramyttium, and as he felt that he could not clear himself, he starved himself to death in despair.

#12783

Paul Green

#191745

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Paul Richard Green is an American record producer, film producer, director, screenwriter, singer-songwriter, music teacher, entrepreneur, and philanthropist who founded School of Rock , a performance-based music program for kids. This for-profit educational company operates and sponsors franchises for after-school music instructional programs in the United States.

#12784

Denisse Dibós

#191660

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

María Denisse Dibós Silva is a Peruvian actress, theatrical producer, music director, art educator, dance instructor, singer, and businessperson. She is creator and director of "Preludio Asociación Cultural", with which she has produced several musicals and plays since 1997. This musicals are adaptations of Broadway originals productions with respective rights and permissions.

#12785

Georg Friedrich Schenck

#191847

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Georg Friedrich Schenck is a German musician. Schenk was born in Aachen, Germany. Graduating from Hanover Music College , he took masterclasses with Claudio Arrau, and then was a student of the American pianist Andre Watts for many years.

#12786

Milena Kitic

#182623

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Milena Kitic is a Serbian American operatic mezzo-soprano. Biography Kitic graduated from the Mokranjac Music School in Belgrade. Her first professor was Andjelka Obradovic. As a child, Kitic was a competitive gymnast in her native Yugoslavia.

#12787

Mark Delpriora

#189422

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Mark Delpriora is an American classical guitarist and composer. Delpriora is currently Chair of the Guitar Department at the Manhattan School of Music, where he has been on the faculty since 1989. Mark is also on the faculty of The Juilliard School, where he teaches guitar studies. He studied guitar with Rolando Valdés-Blain and later with Manuel Barrueco. He studied theory/composition in his early teens with Roland Trogan and later with Giampaolo Bracali. Mr. Delpriora has recorded for Koch International Classics, Soundspells, Philips, Tzadik, and CRI. In addition, he has recorded 6 CDs wi...

#12788

Desmond Hoebig

#187036

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Desmond Hoebig is a Canadian cellist with a career as a soloist, orchestral and chamber musician. Hoebig has held the chair of Principal Cellist in the Cleveland Orchestra, Houston Symphony Orchestra, and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Hoebig is currently Professor of Cello at The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, in Houston, Texas, US. He is also on the faculty of The Glenn Gould School at The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. From 1989 to 1991 he was an associate professor at the University of Toronto in Canada.

#12789

Maria Baptist

#189233

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Maria Baptist is a German musician and professor. Career Maria Baptist was born in 1971 in East Berlin in a very musical family. Her grandfather was an orchestra musician and composer, her father himself is a pianist. Maria discovered very early her fascination for music and at the age of six she began playing the piano. At the age of eleven she composed her first pieces. Maria developed her desire to become a classical concert pianist. At the age of fifteen Maria listened to recordings of Dave Brubeck and Keith Jarrett and discovered for the first time the world of jazz and improvisation. Impressed by the musical expression, Maria felt that she had to continue on this path.

#12790

Aleksandra Žvirblytė

#184864

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Aleksandra Žvirblytė is a Lithuanian pianist. She graduated at the Lithuanian Academy of Music, completing her studies in Russian , German and Swiss Conservatories. She has performed internationally since. She was awarded with, respectively, a 2nd and a 3rd prize in the 1986 and 1991 editions of the Ciurlionis competition, and in 1999 she won the Paris' Nikolay Rubinstein competition.

#12791

Miri Yampolsky

#191615

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Miri Yampolsky is a Russian pianist and a naturalised Israeli citizen. In 1994, Yampolsky won the IX José Iturbi Competition. A lecturer at the Cornell University's Department of Music, she has organised a Shostakovich Festival at Ithaca.

#12792

Carol Plantamura

#184318

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Carol Plantamura is an American soprano specializing in 17th and 20th century music. She graduated from Occidental College and was an original member of the Rockefeller Foundation-funded Creative Associates at SUNY Buffalo, under the direction of Lukas Foss. She has collaborated with such composers as Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Vinko Globokar, Pauline Oliveros, Lukas Foss, Betsy Jolas, Will Ogdon, Bernard Rands, Frederic Rzewski, and Robert Erickson. Beginning in 1966, she was an original member of the improvising electronic music collective Musica Elettronica Viva in Rome, Italy.

#12793

Orit Wolf

#191479

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Orit Wolf is an Israeli pianist, composer and lecturer. Currently holds lecturer positions at the Royal Academy of Music in London and at Reichman University , Israel. From the 2022 to 2023 academic year, Wolf will be artist in residence at the Technion.

#12794

Juan Pampin

#192057

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Juan Pampin is an Argentine composer and sound artist who lives and works in Seattle. Biography Since 2002, Pampin has been a professor of composition at the University of Washington and a founding faculty member of the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media . He received an MA in Composition from the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Lyon, France and a DMA in Composition from Stanford University, where he studied with composer Jonathan Harvey.

#12795

Fiona Ross

#186656

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Fiona Ross is a British type designer, academic and linguist. Since 2003, she has worked at the University of Reading, where she is a Professor and Lecturer in Non-Latin Typeface Design. She has received awards such as the 2014 SoTA Typography Award and the 2018 TDC Medal.

#12796

Rodrigo Valenzuela

#188334

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (44 years)

Rodrigo Valenzuela is a Chilean-born award-winning contemporary visual artist with exhibitions worldwide. He has a BA in Art History from the University of Chile, a BA in Philosophy from the Evergreen State College, Washington, and an MFA in PhotoMedia from the University of Washington. In 2017 he was appointed assistant professor in the Department of Art, UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.

#12797

Thomas G. Osenton

#188082

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Thomas George Osenton, nicknamed Tom, is an American publisher and author. He was president, chief executive officer and publisher of The Sporting News Publishing Company. Personal Osenton was born April 9, 1953, in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire, Brookline High School and Phillips Exeter Academy.

#12798

Ruth Vatvedt Fjeld

Ruth Vatvedt Fjeld

#80079

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Ruth Eldbjørg Vatvedt Fjeld is a Norwegian linguist. She is a Professor of Lexicography and Dialect Research at the University of Oslo. She obtained the dr.philos. degree at the University of Oslo in 1998, with the dissertation Rimelig ut fra sakens art. Om tolkning av ubestemte adjektiv i regelgivende språk. She has been responsible for a large project on the lexicography of bokmål since 2000. She has also served as the expert adviser on language to the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.

#12799

Elizabeth Pennisi

#115608

Overall Influence

Elizabeth Pennisi is an American science journalist specializing in genomics, evolution, and microbiology. Life Pennisi completed a bachelor's degree in biology at Cornell University. She earned a master's degree in science writing from Boston University.

#12800

Dénes Kovács

#181635

Overall Influence

1930 - 2005 (75 years)

Dénes Kovács was a Hungarian classical violinist and academic teacher, described as "pre-eminent among Hungarian violinists". He won the Carl Flesch International Violin Competition in 1955. In his career as a soloist and recording artist, he premiered and recorded the works of 20th-century Hungarian composers, and was also noted for his recordings of Bartók and Beethoven. From 1967 to 1980, he headed the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary's principal music college. He received many national awards including the Kossuth Prize .

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