100 Notable alumni of
Curtis Institute of Music
Curtis Institute of Music is 488th in the world, 188th in North America, and 174th 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
- pianistmusicologistassociate professorfilm score composerconductor
- 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 conductor to receive international acclaim. According to music critic Donal Henahan, he was "one of the most prodigiously talented and successful musicians in American history". Bernstein was the recipient of many honors, including seven Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, sixteen Grammy Awards including the Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Kennedy Center Honor.
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Lang Lang
- Occupations
- classical pianist
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Lang Lang is a Chinese pianist who has performed with leading orchestras in China, North America, Europe, and elsewhere. Active since the 1990s, he was the first Chinese pianist to be engaged by the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic and some 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 by many as one of the most accomplished classical musicians of modern time.
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Ouyang Nana
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- film actorcellistvoice actortelevision 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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Nino Rota
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- conductorscreenwritermusicianlecturerfilm 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 films, and for the first two films of Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather trilogy, earning the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Godfather Part II (1974).
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Yuja Wang
- Enrolled in Curtis Institute of Music
- Studied in 2002-2008
- Occupations
- pianistmusician
- Biography
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Yuja Wang is a Chinese classical pianist. She was born in Beijing, began studying 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. By the age of 21, she was already an internationally recognized concert pianist, giving recitals around the world. She has a recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon. Wang tours internationally, and has received critical praise for her performances. Yuja Wang lives in New York City.
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Hilary Hahn
- Enrolled in Curtis Institute of Music
- Studied in 1990-1996
- Occupations
- violinist
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Hilary Hahn is an American violinist. 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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- composerpianistmusicologist
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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 20th century. The music critic Donal Henahan said, "Probably no other American composer has ever enjoyed such early, such persistent and such long-lasting acclaim." 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 singersinger
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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
- Biography
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Ray Chen is a Taiwanese-Australian violinist. He was the first prize winner of the 2009 Queen Elisabeth Competition and the 2008 International Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition.
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Paavo Järvi
- Occupations
- 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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Gian Carlo Menotti
- Enrolled in Curtis Institute of Music
- In 1928 studied composed musical work
- Occupations
- musicologistfilm directormusic teacherlibrettistconductor
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Gian Carlo Menotti was an Italian 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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Anna Moffo
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- television actorEsperantistfilm actoropera singertelevision presenter
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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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- actortelevision actor
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Shuler Paul Hensley is an American singer and actor.
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Yu-Chien Tseng
- Occupations
- violinist
- Biography
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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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- conductormusic directorviolinist
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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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Kit Armstrong
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- composerpianist
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Kit Armstrong is an American classical pianist, composer, and former child prodigy of British-Taiwanese parentage.
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Yefim Bronfman
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- pianist
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Yefim "Fima" 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
- Occupations
- conductorpianist
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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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- pianistmusic teacheruniversity teacherconductor
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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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Lynn Harrell
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- music teacheruniversity teachermusiciancellist
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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. He was the winner of the inaugural Avery Fisher Prize and two Grammy Awards, among other accolades, and taught at the University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music, Royal Academy of Music, Cleveland Institute of Music, Juilliard School, USC Thornton School of Music, and the Shepherd School of Music.
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Ahn Eak-tai
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- cellistconductorcomposer
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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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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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Lukas Foss
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- conductoruniversity teacherclassical composerpianist
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Lukas Foss was a German-American composer, pianist, and conductor.
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Marc Blitzstein
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- pianistlibrettistcomposerlyricist
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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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Haochen Zhang
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- pianist
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Haochen Zhang is a Chinese pianist from Shanghai, China. He was a Gold Medalist and First Prize winner of the Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2009, becoming one of the youngest winners in the history of the competition. Zhang received a 2017 Avery Fisher Career Grant in recognition of his outstanding talents.
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George Walker
- Enrolled in Curtis Institute of Music
- In 1945 graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- composerpianistmusic teacher
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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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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
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Jenny Oaks Baker is a Grammy nominated American violinist and former member of the National Symphony Orchestra. She has released eighteen studio albums, several of which have topped or nearly topped Billboard charts.
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Thomas Schippers
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- composerconductor
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Thomas Schippers was an American conductor. He was highly regarded for his work in opera.
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Jaime Laredo
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- conductorviolinistmusic teacher
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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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- diaristmusicianpianist
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Ruth Slenczynska is an American pianist with Polish roots.
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Aaron Rosand
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- violinist
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Aaron Rosand was an American violinist.
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Jonathan Biss
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- pianist
- Biography
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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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Leonard Rose
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- cellistmusicianmusic teacher
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Leonard Joseph Rose was an American cellist and pedagogue.
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Joseph Alessi
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- classical trombonisttrombonistmusic teachermusicianuniversity teacher
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Joseph Norman Alessi is an American classical trombonist with the New York Philharmonic.
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Eugene Istomin
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- composerpianist
- Biography
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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
- Occupations
- violinist
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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 38)
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Mohammed Fairouz is an American composer.
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Ruth Laredo
- Occupations
- musicianpianist
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Ruth Laredo was an American classical pianist.
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Muriel Smith
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- opera singeractorsinger
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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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Eleanor Sokoloff
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- music teacherpianist
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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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Gilles Apap
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- violinistsoloist
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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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Jan Savitt
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- bandleadercomposermusic arrangerconductorjazz violinist
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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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- conductorconcertmastermusic teacher
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Joseph Harry Silverstein was an American violinist and conductor.
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Josef Špaček
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- concertmastermusicianviolinist
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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 ca. 1732 “LeBrun; Bouthillard” Guarneri del Gesù violin, generously on loan from Ingles & Hayday.
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Claire Huangci
- Occupations
- musicianpianist
- Biography
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Claire Huangci is an American classical pianist. She lives in Frankfurt am Main.
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Liza Ferschtman
- Occupations
- violinistcellist
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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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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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Teddy Abrams
- Years
- 1987-.. (age 36)
- Occupations
- conductorsongwriter
- Biography
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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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Helen Gilbert
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- 1915-1995 (aged 80)
- Occupations
- actormusician
- Biography
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Helen Amelia Gilbert was an American film actress and musician.
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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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Timothy Chooi
- Occupations
- violinist
- Biography
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Timothy Chooi is a Canadian–American violinist and professor. 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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Walter Hendl
- Occupations
- conductorpianist
- Biography
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Walter Hendl was an American conductor, composer and pianist.
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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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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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Dmitry Yablonsky
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- conductorcellistmusician
- 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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Ulf Hoelscher
- Occupations
- violinistmusic teacher
- Biography
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Ulf Hoelscher is a German violinist.
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Pierrette Alarie
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- opera singersingermusic teacher
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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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Yekwon Sunwoo
- Occupations
- musicianpianist
- 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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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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Daron Hagen
- Occupations
- musicologistcomposerpianistconductor
- Biography
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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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- music teacherviolist
- Biography
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Michael Tree, born Michael Applebaum, was an American violist.
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John Mack
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- music teacheroboist
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John Mack was an American oboist.
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Henri Temianka
- Occupations
- musicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Henri Temianka was a virtuoso violinist, conductor, author and music educator.
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David Ludwig
- Years
- 1974-.. (age 49)
- 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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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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Wilbur Evans
- Years
- 1905-1987 (aged 82)
- Occupations
- opera singeractorsinger
- 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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Andre-Michel Schub
- Occupations
- music teacherpianist
- Biography
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Andre-Michel Schub is a classical pianist.
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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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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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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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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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Chin Kim
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 66)
- 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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Frank Guarrera
- Occupations
- opera singersinger
- 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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Seo Jung-Hack
- Occupations
- opera singersinger
- Biography
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Seo Jung-hack is a South Korean baritone singer.
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Layla Claire
- Occupations
- opera singersinger
- Biography
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Layla Claire is a Canadian soprano opera singer. She was born in Penticton, British Columbia. She is a graduate of the Lindemann Young Artist at the Metropolitan Opera, where she made her debut as Tebaldo in Verdi's Don Carlos in 2010. She studied at Université de Montréal and graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music in 2009. She was awarded the Prix des Amis d'Aix-en-Provence for best Mozart performance for her 2012 European debut as Sandrina ('La finta giardiniera) and has since made acclaimed debuts at the Salzburg Festival as Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Opernhaus Zürich as the Governess (The Turn of the Screw), Washington National Opera as Blanche de la Force (Dialogues des Carmélites), Canadian Opera Company as Fiordiligi (Cosi fan tutte), Glyndebourne Festival Opera as Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Händel-Festspiele Karlsruhe as Tusnelda (Arminio), and returned to the stage of the Metropolitan Opera as Anne Truelove (The Rake's Progress). Ms. Claire has worked with major conductors including Tilson-Thomas, Nézet-Séguin, Haitink, Langrée and Hrůša in works by Mahler, Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart and Dvořák.
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Ethel Stark
- Occupations
- conductorviolinistpedagoguemusician
- Biography
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Ethel Stark, was a Canadian violinist and conductor.
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Howard Mitchell
- Occupations
- conductorcellist
- 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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Eytan Pessen
- Occupations
- vocal coachpianist
- Biography
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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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Ang Li
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Ang Li is a classical pianist.
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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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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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Albert Tipton
- Years
- 1917-1997 (aged 80)
- Occupations
- conductorpianist
- 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 1956–1968, 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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Duncan Brinsmead
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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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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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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Jeanne Behrend
- Occupations
- composerpianistmusic teacher
- Biography
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Jeanne Behrend was an American pianist, music educator, musicologist and composer.
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Peter Bloom
- Years
- 1943-.. (age 80)
- Occupations
- musicologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Peter Bloom is the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. He obtained his BA in music at Swarthmore College, his Ph.D. in musicology at the University of Pennsylvania, and studied the oboe with John de Lancie at the Curtis Institute of Music.
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Gordon Turk
- Born in
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United States - 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.
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Milton Adolphus
- Occupations
- composerjazz musicianpianist
- Biography
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Irving Milton Adolphus was an American pianist and composer.
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Teng Li
- Born in
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China - Occupations
- violist
- Biography
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Teng Li is a Chinese Canadian violist. She is currently the principal violist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Li was the principal violist of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra from 2004 to 2018. Along with her TSO solo appearances, Li has performed with the National Chamber Orchestra, the Santa Rosa Symphony, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Haddonfield Symphony, Shanghai Opera Orchestra, the Canadian Sinfonietta and Esprit Orchestra. Her performances have been broadcast on CBC Radio 2, National Public Radio, WQXR (New York), WHYY (Pennsylvania), WFMT (Chicago), and Bavarian Radio (Munich). Li is also an active recitalist and chamber musician participating in the festivals of Marlboro, Santa Fe, Mostly Mozart, Music from Angel Fire, Rome, Moritzburg (Germany) and the Rising Stars Festival in Caramoor. She has performed with the Guarneri Quartet in New York, at Carnegie Hall (Weill Recital Hall) and with the 92nd St. “Y” Chamber Music Society. Li was featured with the Guarneri Quartet in their last season (2009), and was also a member of the prestigious Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society Two Program.
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Benjamin Steinberg
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Benjamin Steinberg was an American concert violinist, conductor, and civil rights activist, who is best remembered as the founding artistic director of the Symphony of the New World, the first racially integrated orchestra in the United States, its premiere concert was at New York City's Carnegie Hall on May 6, 1965.
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Nina Gamble Kennedy
- Occupations
- documentary filmmakerpianist
- Biography
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Nina Gamble Kennedy is an American classical pianist, orchestral conductor, filmmaker, and writer.
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Temple Painter
- Occupations
- organistharpsichordistpianist
- Biography
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Temple Painter was an American harpsichordist and organist.
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Coline-Marie Orliac
- Occupations
- harpist
- Biography
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Coline-Marie Orliac is a harpist from Antibes, France. A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, she has performed with leading orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic.
