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#12801

Mindaugas Urbaitis

#192138

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Mindaugas Urbaitis is a Lithuanian composer. He was originally known as a radical minimalist. but began to use more recognisable musical quotes from the 1980s.

#12802

James Webster

#191828

Overall Influence

1925 - 2022 (97 years)

James Joseph Webster was an Australian politician. He was a Senator for Victoria from 1964 to 1980, representing the National Country Party . He served as Minister for Science and Science and the Environment in the Fraser government. He left politics to become High Commissioner to New Zealand, serving from 1980 to 1983.

#12803

Alfred Baum

#190487

Overall Influence

1904 - 1993 (89 years)

Alfred Baum was a Swiss composer, pianist, and organist.

#12804

Michael Convertino

#191967

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Michael John Convertino is an American musician and film score composer best known for his collaborations with director Randa Haines on films like Children of a Lesser God, The Doctor, Wrestling Ernest Hemingway, and Dance with Me, as well as The Hidden, Bull Durham, Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead, and the Tim Allen comedies The Santa Clause and Jungle 2 Jungle.

#12805

Józef Bachórz

#192147

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Józef Bachórz is a Polish philologist, professor of Gdańsk University, and an expert in Polish poetry. He was the recipient on the 2003 Johannes Hevelius Award in the humanities category, Order of Polonia Restituta in 2004, as well as a number of other awards.

#12806

Vladimir Koh

#185127

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Vladimir Koh is a Serbian violinist and university professor. Education Vladimir Koh started his musical training as a double major student at the Josip Slavenski School of Music in Belgrade. In the year 1980, he entered the Faculty of Music in Belgrade as the first in the rank . He graduated with the highest marks in 1984, in the class of Professor J. Petrović-Lasko. During his studies, he won top prizes at state's and federal competitions in Violin and Solfeggio. Additionally, he studied with R. Zemansky at Geneva Conservatory and he graduated violin on Music academy of Sarajevo with prof. I.

#12807

Itabari Njeri

#158071

Overall Influence

Itabari Njeri is an American journalist, novelist, and memoirist. Life Njeri was raised in Brooklyn and Harlem. She graduated from Boston University, and Columbia University with an M.S. In 1978, she joined The Miami Herald, and then The Los Angeles Times. In 1995, she was writer in residence at Washington University in St. Louis. She studied at Harvard University.

#12808

Robert Honeysucker

#191351

Overall Influence

1943 - 2017 (74 years)

Robert E. Honeysucker, Jr. was an American baritone. Biography Robert E. Honeysucker, Jr. was born in Memphis, Tennessee. His father, Robert E. Honeysucker, was a preacher. He was one of four children of Robert Sr. and Willa Ann Honeysucker.

#12809

Frances Clark

#168748

Overall Influence

1905 - 1998 (93 years)

Frances Oman Clark was an American pianist, pedagogue, and academic who authored, co-authored and edited many widely used piano method books, most notably The Music Tree series. Her 1955 publication, Time to Begin, introduced the concept of teaching music reading by pattern recognition, thus pioneering the "intervallic method," which "revolutionised" the teaching of music reading.

#12810

Miloš Mihajlović

#179693

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Miloš Mihajlović is a Serbian pianist and university professor. Education Miloš Mihajlović is a 1999 graduate of the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, and in 2005 completed his postgraduate studies there with the highest distinction. His primary teacher was eminent Serbian pianist and piano teacher, Professor Nevena Popović. He has also studied with noted pianists Sergei Dorensky, Alexander Shtarkman and Michel Dalberto. He was awarded the Emil Hajek Award and the Olga Mihailović Fund .

#12811

Michael F. Williams

#185102

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Michael F. Williams is a composer of contemporary classical music. He has received commissions from many of New Zealand's major musical institutions such as the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, NBR New Zealand Opera and Chamber Music New Zealand and his work is regularly broadcast on Radio New Zealand Concert. A lecturer in composition at the University of Waikato, Williams has received recognition in the NZSO-SOUNZ Readings on three occasions and in the SOUNZ Contemporary Award in 2012 for his multimedia World War II opera, The Juniper Passion.

#12812

Lucio Luiz

#191578

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Lucio Luiz is a Brazilian journalist, writer, editor, podcaster and comics author. He holds a degree in Journalism and has Master's degree and Doctorate in Education. Biography Fan fiction From 2002, Lucio started writing fan fiction on the Hyperfan website, then one of the main Brazilian websites dedicated to fanfics. In 2006, already as editor-in-chief of the site, he organized the book Hyperfan: cinco anos de fanfic in honor of the site's anniversary, which brought unpublished stories created by its members, as well as illustrations by the comics artist JJ Marreiro.

#12813

DJ Paul

#191374

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Paul Duane Beauregard , better known by his stage name DJ Paul, is an American DJ, record producer, and rapper from Memphis, Tennessee. He is a founding member of hip hop group Three 6 Mafia and the half-brother of rapper Lord Infamous. DJ Paul is also the half-brother of convicted drug lord Craig Petties. He is also a part owner of FaZe Clan.

#12814

Monika Hestad

#104485

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Monika Hestad is a Norwegian industrial designer and researcher. Hestad was educated at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and received a Master of Industrial Design degree in 2002. She was awarded a doctorate from the same institution in 2008. Hestad has practiced as an industrial designer and consultant since 2001.

#12815

Mara Margaret Helmuth

#189927

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Margaret Mara Helmuth is an American composer. She studied at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, and then continued her studies at Columbia University, graduating with a doctorate in music.

#12816

Jane Venis

#192161

Overall Influence

Jane Venis is a New Zealand multimedia artist, musician and writer. Venis gained a Master of Fine Arts from the Dunedin School of Art, and then a PhD in Fine Arts from Queensland College of Art. Career Venis taught 'Music Making' night-classes in the 1980s. She is currently Professor of Creative Studies in the School of Design at Otago Polytechnic, and she teaches in undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

#12817

Matt Corriel

#189341

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (44 years)

Matthew Joseph "Matt" Corriel is an American composer and lyricist. He was raised in Nanuet, New York. Corriel studied literature at Harvard University, graduating in 2005, and earned his JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2013. From 2007 to 2010, he was the operations director for Harvard's Freshman Arts Program and resident songwriter and drama tutor in Adams House.

#12818

Jeremiah Spence

#191226

Overall Influence

Jeremiah P. Spence is a visiting professor at the University of Texas, Austin. He was an assistant professor at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands. He taught Global and International Communication in the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication. He is a visiting researcher at Federal University of Bahia, University of Sao Paolo, and Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul.

#12819

Nobuho Nagasawa

#154617

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Nobuho Nagasawa is a Japanese-born US-based transdisciplinary artist. Nagasawa is known for her site-specific installations involving in-depth research into the cultural history and memory, and extensive community participation. Her works were featured in international exhibitions including the Asian Art Biennial , the Sharjah Biennial , and the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial . She has exhibited extensively in galleries and museums in Asia, Europe, and the North America. The venues include, the Royal Garden of the Prague Castle , Ludwig Museum , Rufino Tamayo Museum , Sharjah Art Museum , Alexandria Library , among others.

#12820

P. Q. Phan

#186016

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

P. Q. Phan , is a Vietnamese composer of contemporary classical music living in the United States. He became interested in music while studying architecture in 1978 and taught himself to play the piano, compose, and orchestrate. In 1982, he immigrated to the United States and began his formal musical training.

#12821

Kaoru Ikeya

#192168

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

is a Japanese film director. He directed the documentary The Ants . Reception "In the intricate tapestry of World War II, there are still many threads left to be considered. Hidden in the annals, and almost forgotten, is the full record of Japan’s military actions in China. Director Ikeya Kaoru covers this controversial territory from a deeply human perspective, that of 80-year-old veteran Mr. Okumura, who once fought beside fellow Imperial soldiers in China, and who is now confronting the spectre of his war crimes. In a passionate campaign, Okumura joins with fellow veterans to expose the secret military orders that kept his company in China years after Japan had ostensibly surrendered.

#12822

Kyungsun Suh

#186687

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Kyungsun Suh is a South Korean composer. Biography Kyungsun Suh was born in Seoul, Korea. She studied composition and theory at the Seoul National University, graduating with bachelor's and master's degrees, and at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. After completing her studies she took a position teaching at Hanyang University in 1974. Her works have been performed internationally.

#12823

Choi Ha-won

#192178

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Choi Ha-won is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He directed 25 films between 1968 and 1990. Selected filmography The Old Jar Craftsman Invited People External links

#12824

Stephen Maxym

#182808

Overall Influence

1915 - 2002 (87 years)

Stephen Maxym was an American bassoonist. Born in New York City, he attended the Institute of Musical Arts before Joining the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra as Principal Bassoon under Fritz Reiner. After serving in the US Merchant Marine during World War II, he auditioned for Erich Leinsdorf to become Principal Bassoon of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, a position he maintained until he retired from his active orchestral career. While at the Metropolitan Opera, he performed under many of the great conductors of his day, including Herbert von Karajan, Karl Böhm, Rafael Kubelík, Leonard Bernstein, Georg Solti, et al.

#12825

Heinrich Lindlar

#180824

Overall Influence

1912 - 2009 (97 years)

Heinrich Lindlar was a German musicologist and music educator. Life Lindlar was born in Bergisch Gladbach. After studying music and musicology in Cologne, Bonn and Berlin, Lindlar was awarded the title of Dr. phil. with a work published in 1940 on Hans Pfitzners Klavierlied. After the Second World War he worked as music critic first for the General-Anzeiger in Bonn, later also for various national daily newspapers and specialist publications. From 1952 he published the series of publications Musik der Zeit, from 1958 the Kontrapunkte.

#12826

Ana Sánchez-Colberg

#188966

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Ana Sánchez-Colberg is a Puerto Rican multidisciplinary artist working internationally. She has been awarded Fellowships by the Swedish Research Council, Arts Council of England, British Council amongst others. She has also been a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Award in 2016 and the recipient of the highly coveted MAP Funding award in 2019, among other awards and recognitions.

#12827

Hubert Sielecki

Hubert Sielecki

#177787

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Hubert Sielecki is an Austrian artist, primarily known for his animated films. Biography In 1985 he founded the Austrian chapter of the International Animated Film Association . In 1990–1991 he was a lecturer for film at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig. From 1986 to 1991 he was a member of film promotion boards in Austria. Sielecki is also a board member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus.

#12828

Brunhilde Sonntag

#189572

Overall Influence

1936 - 2002 (66 years)

Brunhilde Sonntag was a German composer, musicologist and music teacher. Biography Brunhilde Sonntag was born in Kassel, Germany. She studied organ at the School of Church Music in Schlüchtern and education at the Pedagogical Institute Jugenheim. From 1959 to 1963 she worked as a teacher at the Friedrich Ebert School in Frankfurt and took private composition lessons from Kurt Hessenberg. From 1963 to 1969 she studied composition at the Hochschule for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with and Gottfried von Einem, and took a teaching position in the Department of Music of the Justus Liebig ...

#12829

Roberta Floris

#192053

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (47 years)

Roberta Floris is an Italian journalist, television presenter and former model. Biography Roberta Floris was born on April 27, 1979, in Cagliari , to father Giorgio Floris and mother Caterina Placco and is the third of three daughters: one of whom is called Rosanna. Not to be confused with the homonymous cousin, Roberta Floris , and both are the granddaughters of the politician and trade unionist Mario Floris.

#12830

Jascha Silberstein

#188251

Overall Influence

1934 - 2008 (74 years)

Jascha Silberstein, born Hannes Bruno Willer, was a German-born American musician. He was for thirty years first cellist of the orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. Early life and education Silberstein was born in Stettin, Germany under the name of Hannes Bruno Willer, and raised in Stettin and then Mannheim. To escape the 1943 bombing raids on Stettin, his family relocated to the maternal home in southern Germany, with his father, a physician, remaining in Stettin. Beginning studies on the piano aged 5, he made his first public appearance at 11, playing Bach's Concerto in D minor, then switched to the cello aged 12 after hearing Gregor Piatigorsky play.

#12831

Warren Wolf

#183558

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (47 years)

Warren Wolf Jr. is an American jazz vibraphonist from Baltimore, Maryland. Biography Under the tutelage of his father, Warren Wolf Sr., Warren began his music studies at the age of three, learning the vibraphone, marimba, drums, and piano. A classically trained musician, he attended the Peabody Institute's preparatory program for eight years. He attended high school at the Baltimore School for the Arts, from which he graduated in 1997, and subsequently attended the Berklee College of Music, where he studied under jazz vibraphonist Dave Samuels for seven of eight semesters, the remaining semester being spent receiving instruction from vibraphonist Ed Saindon.

#12832

Carmen Moral

#184357

Overall Influence

Carmen Moral is an orchestra conductor and also teaches conducting at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. She holds master's degrees from the Manhattan School of Music and Columbia University and a master's degree and a DEA in Musicology from the Sorbonne . She studied conducting with Ionel Perlea of New York City's Metropolitan and with Laszlo Halasz, one of the founders of the City Center Opera of New York.

#12833

Iryna Kyrylina

#183515

Overall Influence

1953 - 2017 (64 years)

Iryna Yakovlevna Kyrylina was a Ukrainian composer. She was born in Dresden, Germany, and studied with R.I. Vereschagin at the Kyiv Musical College, and with M.V. Dremlyuga at the Kyiv Conservatory, graduating in 1977. After completing her studies, she taught at a Kyiv Music School and directed children’s choirs. Since 1982 she has worked as a full-time composer.

#12834

Víctor Amela

#173271

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Victor Manuel Amela Bonilla, better known as Víctor Amela is a Spanish writer and journalist present in several media. It is one of the co-creators of the section La contra at La Vanguardia, where he has published more than 1,800 interviews in 15 years.

#12835

Michael Leckrone

Michael Leckrone

#173499

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Michael “Mike” Leckrone was the director of the University of Wisconsin Marching Band from 1969 to 2019. He is noted for his extraordinary ability to remember the names of all the past and present members of the band, as well as where they were from, and what instrument they played.

#12836

Aviva Slesin

#173730

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Aviva Slesin is a documentary film-maker. Slesin was awarded the Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary for her film The Ten Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table in 1987. She is member of the Directors Guild of America and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Slesin has been a MacDowell Fellow and has had a retrospective of her work shown at the Sundance Film Festival She is a member of the faculty at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Slesin is also a painter.

#12837

Giorgio Nottoli

Giorgio Nottoli

#184670

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Giorgio Nottoli is an Italian composer, musician and academic. Born in Cesena in 1945 he completed his musical studies at the Conservatory "G. Rossini" in Pesaro. He studied composition with Domenico Guaccero and Mario Bertoncini, guitar with Carmen Lenzi Mozzani and electronic music with Walter Branchi. Self-taught as a designer and researcher, has completed his apprenticeship in science, collaborating with various researchers, including Giuseppe di Giugno, Guido Guiducci and Silvio Santoboni. From 1968 he worked as a performer until 1975 and as a composer and researcher so far.

#12838

Peter Schmidl

#86721

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Peter Schmidl is an Austrian clarinetist. Schmidl was born in Olomouc, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and studied clarinet with Rudolf Jettel at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. He was the principal clarinetist of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. He has played with the MDR Orchestra, the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, and the Tokyo New Philharmonia. He has taught at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna since 1967.

#12839

Johanna Householder

#185444

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Johanna Householder is an American-born, Canadian performance artist. Since the late 1970s Householder has made performance works and videos while writing and editing texts about performance art in Canada. In the 1980s, Householder, Louise Garfield and Janice Hladki were members of the feminist performance ensemble The Clichettes, using lip-synching and humour to critique contemporary culture. The Clichettes are considered "the quintessential Bad Girls of Canadian performance of the 70s" and have been called "dangerously and aggressively funny" by Clive Robertson .

#12840

David Monacchi

#181687

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

David Monacchi is an Italian sound artist, researcher and eco-acoustic composer, best known for his multidisciplinary project Fragments of Extinction, patented periphonic device, the Eco-Acoustic Theatre, and award-winning music and sound-art installations.

#12841

Ghulam Abbas

#191069

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Ghulam Abbas is a Pakistani radio, television, and film singer. He is known for his ghazals, geets, and playback singing for Urdu and Punjabi movies. Besides winning 4 Nigar Awards as a playback singer, he was also honored with the Tamgha-i-Imtiaz in 2011 and the Pride of Performance Award in 2020 by the President of Pakistan.

#12842

Roger Bourland

#186178

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Roger Bourland is an American composer, publisher, blogger, and Professor-Emeritus of Music at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Biography Born in Evanston, Illinois, Bourland received a Bachelor of Music in Music Theory and Composition from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, studying with Leslie Thimmig and Randall Snyder; a Master of Music in Music Composition from the New England Conservatory of Music, studying with William Thomas McKinley and Donald Martino; and a Master of Arts and Ph.D. in Music Composition from Harvard University, studying with Randall Thompson, Earl Kim and L...

#12843

Maria Teresa Luengo

#191961

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Maria Teresa Luengo is an Argentine composer and musicologist. Life Luengo was born in Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and graduated from the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina in Buenos Aires in 1969, where she studied with Alberto Ginastera, Luis Gianneo, Juan Francisco Giacobbe, Roberto Caamaño and Gerardo Gandini. In 1973 she was awarded a scholarship that allowed her to continue her studies in electro-acoustic music with Francisco Krópfl, Gerardo Gandini, Femando Von Reichenbach, Gabriel Bmcyc, and Peter Maxwell Davies at the Center of Art and Communication . During this time ...

#12844

Shih-Hui Chen

#190633

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Shih-Hui Chen is a Taiwanese composer who lives and works in the United States. Biography Chen Shih-hui was born in Taipei, Taiwan, and came to the United States in 1982 to study for a master's degree from Northern Illinois University and a doctoral degree from Boston University. After receiving her DMA in Music Composition, Shih-Hui Chen took a position at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University where she is currently Professor of Music Composition and Theory. Chen also serves on Asia Society Texas Center's Performing Arts & Culture Committee and is the director of 21C: Classical, Co...

#12845

Dylan Valley

#191267

Overall Influence

1901 - Present (125 years)

Dylan Valley is a South African filmmaker, born and raised in Cape Town. He has directed work with SABC, Al Jazeera, and independently. He teaches in the television studies department at Wits University.

#12846

Juliana Cunha

#190060

Overall Influence

1987 - Present (39 years)

Juliana Silva Cunha de Mendonça is a Brazilian journalist, writer, researcher, and university professor. She is the author of the blog Já matei por menos, which became a book published by the independent publisher in 2013. She also translated Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F. Scott Fitzgerald for the same publisher in 2016.

#12847

Lawrence Maxey

#192256

Overall Influence

Lawrence S. Maxey is professor emeritus of clarinet at the University of Kansas School of Music. A native of Indiana, Larry Maxey was a student of Keith Stein at Michigan State University, where he received his undergraduate degree. He holds Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from the Eastman School of Music, where he was a student of Stanley Hasty. Maxey taught on the full-time music faculties of Baylor University, California State University at Long Beach, and Michigan State University before joining the faculty at the University of Kansas, where he taught from 1971 until re...

#12848

Hanan Hadžajlić

#187644

Overall Influence

1991 - Present (35 years)

Hanan Hadžajlić is a Bosnian composer, flutist, and researcher who is primarily known for her work in contemporary music. Hadžajlić co-founded the INSAM Institute for Contemporary Artistic Music and serves as its director.

#12849

Ann-Marie Ivars

#130907

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Ann-Marie Ivars is a Swedish-speaking Finnish writer, who focuses on studies of the Swedish dialects in Finland. Urban Colloquial Swedish in Finland Urban Colloquial Swedish in Finland is a sociolinguistically oriented project, financed by the Academy of Finland from 1990 to 1995. The aim of the project has been to "describe the local language of a number of towns with a Swedish-speaking population, and to analyze the forces behind the rise and the preservation of local urban varieties". The main results of the project are a dissertation , "" by Marie-Charlotte Gullmets , and a monograph, "" by Ann-Marie Ivars .

#12850

Gordon Kampe

#190077

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Gordon Kampe is a German composer and academic teacher. Career Kampe was born in Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He completed an apprenticeship as an electrician in 1995 and studied after his Abitur composition with Hans-Joachim Hespos, Adriana Hölszky and Nicolaus A. Huber . In 2008, he finished his dissertation about fairy tale opera of the 20th century at the Folkwang University of the Arts.

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