100 Notable alumni of
Curtis Institute of Music
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Curtis Institute of Music is 500th in the world, 190th in North America, and 176th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Curtis Institute of Music sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Leonard Bernstein
- Occupations
- film score composerpianistconductorcomposermusicologist
- Biography
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Leonard Bernstein was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian. Considered to be one of the most important conductors of his time, he was the first American-born conductor to receive international acclaim. Bernstein was "one of the most prodigiously talented and successful musicians in American history" according to music critic Donal Henahan. Bernstein's honors and accolades include seven Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, and 16 Grammy Awards (including the Lifetime Achievement Award) as well as an Academy Award nomination. He received the Kennedy Center Honor in 1981.
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Lang Lang
- Occupations
- classical pianist
- Biography
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Lang Lang is a Chinese pianist who has performed with major orchestras around the world and appeared at many leading concert halls. Active since the 1990s, he was the first Chinese pianist to be engaged by the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic and many of the top American orchestras. A Chicago Tribune music critic called him "the biggest, most exciting young keyboard talent I have encountered in many a year of attending piano recitals." Lang is considered one of the most accomplished classical musicians of modern times by the United Nations.
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Ouyang Nana
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- television actorvoice actorcellistfilm actor
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Ouyang Nana is a Taiwanese singer, musician and actress, known for coming of age romance film Secret Fruit and the cyberpunk action film Bleeding Steel.
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Yuja Wang
- Enrolled in Curtis Institute of Music
- Studied in 2002-2008
- Occupations
- musicianpianist
- Biography
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Yuja Wang is a Chinese pianist. Born in Beijing, she began learning piano there at age six, and went on to study at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
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Nino Rota
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- actorpianistcomposerteacherfilm score composer
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Giovanni Rota Rinaldi, better known as Nino Rota ( IPA: [ˈniːno]), was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti. He also composed the music for two of Franco Zeffirelli's Shakespeare screen adaptations, and for the first two installments of Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather trilogy, earning the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Godfather Part II (1974).
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Hilary Hahn
- Enrolled in Curtis Institute of Music
- Studied in 1990-1996
- Occupations
- violinist
- Biography
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Hilary Hahn is an American violinist. A three-time Grammy Award winner, she has performed throughout the world as a soloist with leading orchestras and conductors, and as a recitalist. She is an avid supporter of contemporary classical music, and several composers have written works for her, including concerti by Edgar Meyer and Jennifer Higdon, partitas by Antón García Abril, two serenades for violin and orchestra by Einojuhani Rautavaara, and a violin and piano sonata by Lera Auerbach.
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Samuel Barber
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- musicologistpianistcomposer
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Samuel Osmond Barber II was an American composer, pianist, conductor, baritone, and music educator, and one of the most celebrated composers of the mid-20th century. Principally influenced by nine years' composition studies with Rosario Scalero at the Curtis Institute and more than 25 years' study with his uncle, the composer Sidney Homer, Barber's music usually eschewed the experimental trends of musical modernism in favor of traditional 19th-century harmonic language and formal structure embracing lyricism and emotional expression. However, he adopted elements of modernism after 1940 in some of his compositions, such as an increased use of dissonance and chromaticism in the Cello Concerto (1945) and Medea's Dance of Vengeance (1955); and the use of tonal ambiguity and a narrow use of serialism in his Piano Sonata (1949), Prayers of Kierkegaard (1954), and Nocturne (1959).
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Juan Diego Flórez
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- international forum participantopera singer
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Juan Diego Flórez is a Peruvian operatic tenor, particularly known for his roles in bel canto operas. On June 4, 2007, he received his country's highest decoration, the Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Sun of Peru.
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Ray Chen
- Occupations
- violinist
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Ray Chen is a Taiwanese-Australian violinist. He was the winner of the 2008 International Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition and the 2009 Queen Elisabeth Competition. Since then, he has regularly collaborated with the world’s foremost orchestras and appeared at renowned concert halls.
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Gian Carlo Menotti
- Enrolled in Curtis Institute of Music
- In 1928 studied composed musical work
- Occupations
- film directorcomposerlibrettistmusic teacherscreenwriter
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Gian Carlo Menotti was an Italian-American composer, librettist, director, and playwright who is primarily known for his output of 25 operas. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship. One of the most frequently performed opera composers of the 20th century, his most successful works were written in the 1940s and 1950s. Highly influenced by Giacomo Puccini and Modest Mussorgsky, Menotti further developed the verismo tradition of opera in the post-World War II era. Rejecting atonality and the aesthetic of the Second Viennese School, Menotti's music is characterized by expressive lyricism which carefully sets language to natural rhythms in ways that highlight textual meaning and underscore dramatic intent.
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Paavo Järvi
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- conductor
- Biography
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Paavo Järvi is an Estonian-American conductor. He has been chief conductor of Zurich's Tonhalle since 2020.
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Anna Moffo
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- television actortelevision presenteropera singerfilm actorEsperantist
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Anna Moffo was an American opera singer, television personality, and actress. One of the leading lyric-coloratura sopranos of her generation, she possessed a warm and radiant voice of considerable range and agility. Noted for her physical beauty, she was nicknamed "La Bellissima".
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Shuler Hensley
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- television actoractor
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Shuler Paul Hensley is an American singer and actor.
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Yu-Chien Tseng
- Occupations
- violinist
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Yu-Chien Tseng (Chinese: 曾宇謙; pinyin: Zēng Yǔqiān; Wade–Giles: Tsêng Yü-ch'ien; born August 24, 1994) is a Taiwanese violinist. In 2012 he was fifth laureate in the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition, where he also won both the Musiq'3 and the Klara-Canvas prizes awarded by the public. In the 15th International Tchaikovsky Competition held in 2015, Tseng won the 2nd prize in the violin contest, in which no first prize was awarded. Tseng has recorded for Fuga Libera and the Chimei Museum.
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Alan Gilbert
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- violinistmusic directorconductor
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Alan Gilbert is an American conductor and violinist. He is Principal Conductor of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and Music Director of Royal Swedish Opera. He was Music Director of the New York Philharmonic from 2009 to 2017.
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Ned Rorem
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- writerdiaristuniversity teacheractorcomposer
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Ned Miller Rorem was an American composer of contemporary classical music and a writer. Best known for his art songs, which number over 500, Rorem was considered the leading American of his time writing in the genre. Frequently described as a neoromantic composer, he showed limited interest in the emerging modernist aesthetic of his lifetime. As a writer, he kept—and later published—numerous diaries in which he spoke candidly of his exchanges and relationships with many cultural figures of America and France.
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Kit Armstrong
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- pianistcomposer
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Kit Armstrong is an American classical pianist, composer, organist, and former child prodigy of British-Taiwanese parentage.
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Yefim Bronfman
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- pianist
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Yefim "Fimi" Naumovich Bronfman is a Soviet-born Israeli-American pianist.
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Kate Liu
- Occupations
- pianist
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Kate Liu is a Singaporean American classical pianist. On October 20, 2015 she won the third prize (bronze medal), the audience favorite award, and the Polish Radio Award for the best performance of a mazurka in the 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, Poland.
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Ignat Solzhenitsyn
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- pianistconductor
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Ignat Aleksandrovich Solzhenitsyn is a Russian American conductor and pianist. He is the conductor laureate of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and the principal guest conductor of the Moscow Symphony Orchestra. He is the son of Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
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Jorge Bolet
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- pianistconductoruniversity teachermusic teacher
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Jorge Bolet was a Cuban-born American concert pianist, conductor and teacher. Among his teachers were Leopold Godowsky, and Moriz Rosenthal – the latter an outstanding pupil of Franz Liszt.
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Paul Romero
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- composer
- Biography
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Paul Anthony Romero is an American computer and video game music composer and classical pianist who has won awards for his work.
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Ahn Eak-tai
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- composerconductorcellist
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Ahn Eak-tai was a South Korean classical composer and conductor. He conducted numerous major orchestras across Europe, including the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Rome Philharmonic Orchestra. Ahn composed "Aegukga", a song best known as the national anthem of South Korea, Korean Dance, Nongae, and the Symphonic Fantasy Korea. His unpublished works, some of which have been discovered recently, include Poema Synfonic 'Mallorca, Lo Pi Formentor, and The Death of Emperor Gojong.
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Jennifer Higdon
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- composer
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Jennifer Elaine Higdon is an American composer of contemporary classical music. She has received many awards, including the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her Violin Concerto and three Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for her Percussion Concerto in 2010, Viola Concerto in 2018, and Harp Concerto in 2020. Elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019, she was a professor of composition at the Curtis Institute of Music from 1994 to 2021.
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Lynn Harrell
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- cellistmusicianuniversity teachermusic teacher
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Lynn Harrell was an American classical cellist. Known for the "penetrating richness" of his sound, Harrell performed internationally as a recitalist, chamber musician, and soloist with major orchestras over a career spanning nearly six decades.
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Lukas Foss
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- conductorpianistclassical composeruniversity teacher
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Lukas Foss was a German-American composer, pianist, and conductor.
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Haochen Zhang
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- pianist
- Biography
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Zhang Haochen is a Chinese pianist. He was a Gold Medalist of the 13th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2009, becoming one of the youngest winners in the history of the competition. Zhang received an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2017.
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Marc Blitzstein
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- pianistlyricistcomposerlibrettist
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Marcus Samuel Blitzstein, was an American composer, lyricist, and librettist. He won national attention in 1937 when his pro-union musical The Cradle Will Rock, directed by Orson Welles, was shut down by the Works Progress Administration. He is known for The Cradle Will Rock and for his off-Broadway translation/adaptation of The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. His works also include the opera Regina, an adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play The Little Foxes; the Broadway musical Juno, based on Seán O'Casey's play Juno and the Paycock; and No for an Answer. He completed translation/adaptations of Brecht's and Weill's musical play Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and of Brecht's play Mother Courage and Her Children with music by Paul Dessau. Blitzstein also composed music for films, such as Surf and Seaweed (1931) and The Spanish Earth (1937), and he contributed two songs to the original 1960 production of Hellman's play Toys in the Attic.
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George Walker
- Enrolled in Curtis Institute of Music
- In 1945 graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- music teacherpianistcomposer
- Biography
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George Theophilus Walker was an American composer, pianist, and organist, and the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, which he received for his work Lilacs in 1996. Walker was married to pianist and scholar Helen Walker-Hill (May 26, 1936 – August 8, 2013) between 1960 and 1975. Walker was the father of two sons, violinist and composer Gregory T.S. Walker and playwright Ian Walker.
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Eric Lu
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- pianistcomposer
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Eric Lu is an American classical pianist. The recipient of the gold medal at the Leeds International Piano Competition in 2018. he has performed with many of the world's major orchestras including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic, and on tour with the Orchestre national de Lille. He records for Warner Classics under an exclusive contract, and has released critically acclaimed recordings of Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Schubert, and Schumann on the label.
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Elisabeth Waldo
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- violinistcomposerconductor
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Elisabeth Ann Waldo is an American former violinist, composer, conductor, and ethnomusicologist.
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Shura Cherkassky
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- pianist
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Shura Cherkassky was a Russian-American concert pianist known for his performances of the romantic repertoire. His playing was characterized by a virtuoso technique and singing piano tone. For much of his later life, Cherkassky resided in London.
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Jenny Oaks Baker
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- violinist
- Biography
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Jenny Oaks Baker is an American violinist. She has been nominated for a Grammy Award, and is a former member of the National Symphony Orchestra. Baker has released eighteen studio albums, several of which have ranked high on the Billboard charts.
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Thomas Schippers
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- conductorcomposer
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Thomas Schippers was an American conductor. He was highly regarded for his work in opera.
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Teo Gheorghiu
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- film actorpianist
- Biography
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Teo Gheorghiu is a Swiss-Canadian pianist.
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Jaime Laredo
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- music teacherviolinistconductor
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Jaime Laredo is a violinist and conductor. He was the conductor and Music Director of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, and he began his musical career when he was five years old.
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Ruth Slenczynska
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- pianistmusiciandiarist
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Ruth Slenczynska is an American pianist with Polish roots.
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Jonathan Biss
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- pianist
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Jonathan Biss is an American pianist, teacher, and writer based in Philadelphia. He is the co-artistic director (with Mitsuko Uchida) of the Marlboro Music Festival.
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Aaron Rosand
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- violinist
- Biography
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Aaron Rosand was an American violinist.
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Joseph Alessi
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- university teachermusicianmusic teachertrombonistclassical trombonist
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Joseph Norman Alessi is an American classical trombonist with the New York Philharmonic.
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Leonard Rose
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- music teachermusiciancellist
- Biography
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Leonard Joseph Rose was an American cellist and pedagogue.
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Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg
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- violinist
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Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg is an Italian and American classical violinist and teacher.
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Eugene Istomin
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- pianistcomposer
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Eugene George Istomin was an American pianist. He was a winner of the Leventritt Award and recorded extensively as a soloist and in a piano trio in which he collaborated with Isaac Stern and Leonard Rose.
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Jennifer Koh
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- violinist
- Biography
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Jennifer Koh is an American violinist, born to Korean parents in Glen Ellyn, Illinois.
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Mohammed Fairouz
- Years
- 1985-.. (age 39)
- Occupations
- composer
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Mohammed Fairouz is an American composer.
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Muriel Smith
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- actoropera singer
- Biography
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Muriel Burrell Smith was an American singer. In the 1940s and 1950s, she was a star of musical theater and opera, and was also the off-film ghost singer in several hit movies. She is perhaps best known in the UK for her 1953 #3 hit single, "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me", which was first covered in 1965 by Mel Carter (and which remains a staple of easy listening and oldies radio to this day) and later in 1994 by Gloria Estefan.
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Ruth Laredo
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- pianistmusician
- Biography
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Ruth Laredo was an American classical pianist.
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Claire Huangci
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- pianistmusician
- Biography
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Claire Huangci is an American classical pianist. She lives in Frankfurt am Main.
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Eleanor Sokoloff
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- pianistmusic teacher
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Eleanor Sokoloff was an American pianist and academic who formed a piano duo with her husband, Vladimir Sokoloff. She taught piano on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music from 1936 until her death in 2020.
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Helen Gilbert
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- 1915-1995 (aged 80)
- Occupations
- musicianactor
- Biography
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Helen Amelia Gilbert was an American film actress and musician.
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Gilles Apap
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- soloistviolinist
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Gilles Apap is a French classical violinist. Born in Béjaïa, Algeria, he was raised in Nice, France. In 1985 he won first prize in the contemporary music category at the Yehudi Menuhin Competition. He served as concertmaster with the Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra for 10 years, but has since focused on his career as a soloist with orchestras around the world.
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Yekwon Sunwoo
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- pianistmusician
- Biography
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Yekwon Sunwoo is a South Korean classical pianist. In 2017, at 28 years old, Sunwoo was the first Korean to win the gold medal at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. He won the Sendai International Music Competition in 2013.
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Josef Špaček
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- violinistmusicianconcertmaster
- Biography
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Josef Špaček is a Czech solo violinist and until 2019/20 season a concertmaster of the Czech Philharmonic orchestra. He performs on the c. 1732 “LeBrun; Bouthillard” Guarneri del Gesù violin, generously on loan from Ingles & Hayday.
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Teddy Abrams
- Years
- 1987-.. (age 37)
- Occupations
- songwriterconductor
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Edward "Teddy" Paul Maxwell Abrams is an American conductor, pianist, clarinetist, and composer. He is currently Music Director of the Louisville Orchestra and the Britt Festival Orchestra.
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Jan Savitt
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- jazz violinistconductormusic arrangercomposerbandleader
- Biography
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Jan Savitt, known as "The Stokowski of Swing", from having played violin in Leopold Stokowski's orchestra, was an American bandleader, musical arranger, and violinist.
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Joseph Silverstein
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- music teacherconcertmasterconductor
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Joseph Harry Silverstein was an American violinist and conductor.
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Liza Ferschtman
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- cellistviolinist
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Liza Ferschtman is a Dutch classical violinist who appears internationally, both as a soloist with orchestra and in chamber music. She received the Nederlandse Muziekprijs in 2006 and has directed the Delft Chamber Music Festival since 2007.
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Timothy Chooi
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- violinist
- Biography
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Timothy Chooi is a Canadian–American violinist and professor of Indonesian-Chinese ethnic background. He won the First Prize at the 2018 International Joseph Joachim Violin Competition and Second Prize at the 2019 Queen Elisabeth Competition. He has also won prizes at the International Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition, Michael Hill International Violin Competition and the Grand Prize at the 2010 Montreal ManuLife Competition.
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Reid Anderson
- Occupations
- jazz musician
- Biography
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Reid Anderson is a bassist and composer from Minnesota. He is a member of The Bad Plus with drummer Dave King, saxophonist Chris Speed, and guitarist Ben Monder. The original lineup of The Bad Plus first played together in 1989 and formally established the band in 2000. Anderson attended the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music.
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Anthony McGill
- Occupations
- music teacher
- Biography
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Anthony McGill is the principal clarinetist for the New York Philharmonic, after having served for a decade as principal clarinet of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.
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Paul Jacobs
- Occupations
- music teacher
- Biography
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Paul Jacobs is an American organist. He is the first organist to receive a Grammy Award. Jacobs is currently the chair of the Juilliard School's organ department and is considered "America's leading organ performer."
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Daniel Heifetz
- Occupations
- violinist
- Biography
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Daniel Alan Heifetz is an American concert violinist and pedagogue best known as the Founder of the Heifetz International Music Institute. His career has been focused on education and the art of communication through performance.
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Walter Hendl
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- pianistconductor
- Biography
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Walter Hendl was an American conductor, composer and pianist.
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Ulf Hoelscher
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- music teacherviolinist
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Ulf Hoelscher is a German violinist.
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Dmitry Yablonsky
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- musiciancellistconductor
- Biography
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Dmitry Albertovich Yablonsky is a Russian classical cellist and conductor, who was educated at the Juilliard School of Music and Yale University.
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Vladimir Sokoloff
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Vladimir Sokoloff was an American pianist and accompanist on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music. In addition to his teaching work with the accompanying, piano and chamber music students, he was an active performer.
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Pierrette Alarie
- Occupations
- music teacheropera singer
- Biography
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Pierrette Alarie, was a French Canadian coloratura soprano. She was married to the French-Canadian tenor Léopold Simoneau.
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David Shifrin
- Occupations
- music teacherclarinetist
- Biography
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David Shifrin is an American classical clarinetist and artistic director.
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Daron Hagen
- Occupations
- musicologistconductorpianistcomposer
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Daron Aric Hagen is an American composer, writer, and filmmaker.
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Adrian Anantawan
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Adrian Anantawan is a Canadian violinist. Anantawan, who began studying violin at age nine, has performed with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and at the White House. He is an alumnus of the Etobicoke School of the Arts in Canada, the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Yale University and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Growing up in the neighbourhood of Clarkson, in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, he attended St. Christopher's Elementary School, and is a member of the St. Christopher's Church Parish. He is currently a member of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation and is the Chair of Music at Milton Academy and artistic director of Shelter Music Boston.
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Tim Fain
- Occupations
- violinist
- Biography
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Tim Fain is an American violinist and composer, best known for his performances in the feature film soundtracks to Black Swan, 12 Years a Slave, and Moonlight, and his work with American composer Philip Glass.
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Michael Tree
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- violistmusic teacher
- Biography
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Michael Tree, born Michael Applebaum, was an American violist.
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Henri Temianka
- Occupations
- violinistuniversity teacherconductor
- Biography
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Henri Temianka was a virtuoso violinist, conductor, author and music educator.
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John Mack
- Occupations
- oboistmusic teacher
- Biography
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John Mack was an American oboist.
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David Ludwig
- Years
- 1974-.. (age 50)
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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David Serkin Ludwig is an American composer, teacher, and Dean of Music at The Juilliard School. His uncle was pianist Peter Serkin, his grandfather was the pianist Rudolf Serkin, and his great-grandfather was the violinist Adolf Busch. He holds positions and residencies with nearly two dozen orchestras and music festivals in the US and abroad. His choral work, The New Colossus, was performed at the 2013 presidential inauguration of Barack Obama.
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Rossen Milanov
- Occupations
- conductor
- Biography
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Rossen Milanov is a Bulgarian conductor. He is Music Director of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra & New Jersey's Symphony in C. He is also Principal Conductor of Orquesta Sinfonica del Principado de Asturias, in Spain and the former Music Director of Bulgaria's New Symphony Orchestra. He is the Music Director of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, and the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra.
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Michael Houstoun
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Michael James Houstoun is a concert pianist from New Zealand. He has twice in his life performed the complete cycle of Beethoven sonatas and in between these achievements, he overcame focal hand dystonia.
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Nicolas Chumachenco
- Occupations
- violinist
- Biography
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Nicolas Chumachenco or Chumachenko was a Polish-born violin soloist, professor, and director of the Queen Sofía Chamber Orchestra. He won the Merit Diploma Konex Award in 1999, as one of the best Bow Instrument Performer of that decade in Argentina.
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Jenny Q. Chai
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Jenny Q Chai is a Chinese-American pianist. She is active throughout China, the United States, and Europe, and specializes in contemporary piano music. She is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and the Manhattan School of Music where she earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree.
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Wilbur Evans
- Years
- 1905-1987 (aged 82)
- Occupations
- actoropera singer
- Biography
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Wilbur Whilt "Wib" Evans was an American actor and singer who performed on the radio, in opera, on Broadway in films and early live television.
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Lorne Munroe
- Occupations
- cellist
- Biography
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Lorne Munroe was an American cellist. He was principal cellist of the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1951 to 1964 and principal cellist of the New York Philharmonic from 1964 to 1996. He was a featured soloist more than 150 times during the 32 seasons he played for the New York Philharmonic. His last performance with the orchestra as a member of the ensemble was on February 27, 1996; although he later returned as a guest artist.
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Yoonjung Han
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Yoonjung "Yoonie" Han is a South Korean-born American classical pianist.
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Andre-Michel Schub
- Occupations
- pianistmusic teacher
- Biography
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Andre-Michel Schub is a classical pianist.
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Tim Cobb
- Occupations
- music teacher
- Biography
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Timothy Cobb is the American current principal double bassist with the New York Philharmonic. He previously taught at the Peabody Institute of Music, and joined the Manhattan School of Music faculty in 1992. Cobb also currently teaches at SUNY Purchase, Lynn University, Rutgers University: Mason Gross School of the Arts, YOA Orchestra of the Americas, and Mannes School of Music Preparatory Division. He is the current chair of the double-bass department at the Juilliard School, where he has been on faculty since 2002.
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Benjamin Bowman
- Occupations
- violinist
- Biography
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Benjamin Walter Bowman is an American-Canadian violinist. The Metropolitan Opera and incoming Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin appointed Bowman as concertmaster as of the 2018-19 season, after a successful one-year term in 2017-18; he shares his role with David Chan. Bowman was Grammy-nominated in 2016 for his recording with the ARC (Artists of the Royal Conservatory) Ensemble 'Chamber Works of Jerzy Fitelberg' on the Chandos label. He has performed to critical acclaim throughout North America, Europe and Asia. He is a member or frequent guest artist for leading chamber music ensembles internationally, including the twice Grammy-nominated ARC Ensemble (Artists of The Royal Conservatory of Music), Art of Time Ensemble, and Leondari Ensemble. Bowman was featured on the 2013 Juno-winning album Levant and the 2011 Juno-nominated disc Armenian Chamber Music with the Amici Chamber Ensemble. Until 2019, he was the concertmaster of the American Ballet Theatre orchestra (as of October 2014). He is an ensemble member of Orchestra of St. Luke's.
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Chin Kim
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 67)
- Occupations
- violinist
- Biography
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Chin Kim is a Korean-born American classical violinist, largely educated in the United States through the Juilliard School, and the Curtis Institute of Music.
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Seo Jung-Hack
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Seo Jung-hack is a South Korean baritone singer.
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Ethel Stark
- Occupations
- conductormusicianpedagogueviolinist
- Biography
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Ethel Stark, was a Canadian violinist and conductor.
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Frank Guarrera
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Frank Guarrera was an Italian-American lyric baritone who enjoyed a long and distinguished career at the Metropolitan Opera, singing with the company for a total of 680 performances. He performed 35 different roles at the Met, mostly from the Italian and French repertories, from 1948 through 1976. His most frequent assignments at the house were as Escamillo in Georges Bizet's Carmen, Marcello in Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème, Valentin in Charles Gounod's Faust, and Ping in Puccini's Turandot. He was also an admired interpreter of Mozart roles, establishing himself in the parts of both Guglielmo and Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte and Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro. Most of the roles he portrayed were from the lyric repertoire, such as the title role in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, but he also sang some heavier roles at the Met like Amonasro in Aïda, Jack Rance in La fanciulla del West and Il conte di Luna in Il trovatore.
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Howard Mitchell
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- cellistconductor
- Biography
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Howard Mitchell was an American cellist and conductor. He was principal conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra from 1949 to 1969.
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Layla Claire
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Layla Claire is a Canadian soprano opera singer.
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Eytan Pessen
- Occupations
- pianistvocal coach
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Eytan Pessen is a pianist and voice teacher, currently at the Opera houses of Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Vienna (Volksoper), Zürich and international festivals. He was former opera director of the Semperoper in Dresden, artistic advisor to Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, and former casting director of the Staatstheater Stuttgart.
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Gwendolyn Bradley
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Gwendolyn Bradley is an American soprano who performed on many opera and concert stages worldwide.
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Elliot Madore
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Elliot Madore is a Canadian lyric baritone with an international operatic career.
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Ang Li
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Ang Li is a classical pianist.
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Cheng Wai
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Praised as the "Piano Poet", Cheng Wai is a pianist and Steinway Artist from Hong Kong. She is a winner of the Hong Kong Young Music Performer Award of the International Year of Youth and voted as one of the Top Ten Outstanding Young Persons by the Junior Chamber International Hong Kong in 2009.
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Duncan Brinsmead
- Occupations
- computer scientist
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Duncan Brinsmead is a Canadian software programmer and developer of simulations of natural environments in 3D computer graphics (CGI). He created the Maya Paint Effects for digitally painting instances like plants or hair in a virtual 3D environment. In 2008, together with Jos Stam, Julia Pakalns and Martin Werner he received an Academy Award for Technical Achievement for the design and implementation of the Maya Fluid Effects system. Fluid Effects are based on the simulation of fluid mechanics in software and used for simulating natural phenomena such as fog, steam or smoke.
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Albert Tipton
- Years
- 1917-1997 (aged 80)
- Occupations
- pianistconductor
- Biography
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Albert Tipton was an American flutist, pianist and conductor. In 1966, Time placed Albert Tipton amongst the "30 first-rate flutists" in the United States and Europe. He studied with William Kincaid at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He served as principal flutist with the National Symphony Orchestra from 1937 to 1939 and toured with Leopold Stokowski as a soloist with the All American Youth Orchestra in 1939. He became second flutist with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1940 and left that position in 1946 to become the principal flutist of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra (1946–1956). He was in Detroit from 1956 to 1968, where he played principal flute in the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. In 1968 he accepted a position at Florida State University as Professor of Flute. He later moved to Rice University in Houston, Texas serving as Professor of Flute from 1975 to 1990.
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Michael Alden Bayard
- Years
- 1958-.. (age 66)
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Michael Alden Bayard is an American percussionist, drummer, composer, recording artist, music lecturer, and author. A graduate of the Juilliard School of Music Pre-College Division and the Curtis Institute of Music who made his Carnegie Hall debut at age 16, Bayard has performed percussion and timpani under numerous conductors. As a percussion soloist, he served with the Sacramento Symphony as the principal percussionist for 17 years and has been featured with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Pops Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony, Queens Symphony, Joffrey Ballet Orchestra, Jacksonville Symphony, Reno Philharmonic, Stockton Symphony, and Santa Rosa Symphony. Bayard currently performs with Grammy award-winning Mary Youngblood.
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Gordon Turk
- Occupations
- organist
- Biography
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Gordon Turk is an American concert organist. He has played throughout the United States, made two concert tours in Japan, and performed frequently in Europe, including Ukraine and Russia, both as solo organist and with orchestra.
