100 Notable alumni of
Manhattan School of Music
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The Manhattan School of Music is 417th in the world, 167th in North America, and 156th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the Manhattan School 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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Charlie Puth
- Occupations
- DJ producerYouTubersingermusicianmusic arranger
- Biography
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Charles Otto Puth Jr. is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. His initial exposure came through the viral success of his song covers uploaded to YouTube. Puth signed with the record label eleveneleven in 2011 after performing on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, while also songwriting and producing material for other artists.
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Harry Connick Jr
- Occupations
- bandleadervoice actorrecording artistconductortelevision actor
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Joseph Harry Fowler Connick Jr. is an American singer, pianist, composer, actor, and former television host. As of 2019, he has sold over 30 million records worldwide. Connick is ranked among the top 60 best-selling male artists in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America, with 16 million in certified sales. He has had seven top 20 US albums, and ten number-one US jazz albums, earning more number-one albums than any other artist in U.S. jazz chart history as of 2009.
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Herbie Hancock
- Occupations
- singer-songwriterkeyboardistactorpianistbandleader
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Herbert Jeffrey Hancock is an American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer. Hancock started his career with trumpeter Donald Byrd's group. He shortly thereafter joined the Miles Davis Quintet, where he helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the post-bop sound. In the 1970s, Hancock experimented with jazz fusion, funk, and electro styles, using a wide array of synthesizers and electronics. It was during this period that he released perhaps his best-known and most influential album, Head Hunters.
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Dr. Luke
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Łukasz Sebastian Gottwald, known professionally as Dr. Luke, Tyson Trax, and Made in China, is an American record producer and songwriter. His professional music career began in the late-night television sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live as its house band's lead guitarist in 1997 and producing remixes for artists such as Bon Jovi and Gravediggaz. He came into music prominence in 2004 for producing Kelly Clarkson's single "Since U Been Gone" with Swedish record producer Max Martin.
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Ahmed Best
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- voice actortelevision actorrecord producerpercussionistfilm producer
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Ahmed Best is an American actor, comedian and musician. He is known for providing the voice and motion capture for the character Jar Jar Binks in the Star Wars franchise.
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Steve Gadd
- Occupations
- session musicianjazz musiciandrummer
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Stephen Kendall Gadd is an American drummer, percussionist, and session musician. Gadd is one of the best-known and highly regarded session and studio drummers in the industry, recognized by his induction into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1984. Gadd's performances on Paul Simon's "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover"(1976) and "Late in the Evening", Herbie Mann's "Hi-jack"(1975) and Steely Dan's "Aja"(1977) are examples of his style. He has worked with other popular musicians from many genres including Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor, Chick Corea, Chuck Mangione, Eric Clapton and Michel Petrucciani.
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Sophie B. Hawkins
- Occupations
- guitaristcomposersinger-songwriterrecording artistsinger
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Sophie Ballantine Hawkins is an American singer-songwriter, musician and painter. Born in New York City, she attended the Manhattan School of Music for a year as a percussionist before leaving to pursue a music career. She achieved critical and commercial success with her first two albums, producing a string of single hits including "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover", "Right Beside You", and "As I Lay Me Down". A dispute with her record label Sony Music over her third album, Timbre, led her to establish her own independent label, Trumpet Swan Productions, which has published her subsequent recordings.
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Rupert Holmes
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- composerscreenwriterwritersingerfilm producer
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David Goldstein, better known as Rupert Holmes, is a British-American composer, singer-songwriter, dramatist and author. He is widely known for the hit singles "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" (1979) and "Him" (1980). He is also known for his musicals The Mystery of Edwin Drood, which earned him two Tony Awards, and Curtains, and for his television series Remember WENN.
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Bernie Williams
- Occupations
- jazz musicianbaseball player
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Bernabé Williams Figueroa Jr. is a Puerto Rican former professional baseball player and musician. He played his entire 16-year career in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the New York Yankees from 1991 through 2006.
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Max Roach
- Occupations
- percussionistuniversity teachercomposerjazz musicianbandleader
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Maxwell Lemuel Roach was an American jazz drummer and composer. A pioneer of bebop, he worked in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the most important drummers in history. He worked with many famous jazz musicians, including Clifford Brown, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Abbey Lincoln, Dinah Washington, Charles Mingus, Billy Eckstine, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Eric Dolphy, and Booker Little. He also played with his daughter Maxine Roach, Grammy nominated Violist. He was inducted into the DownBeat Hall of Fame in 1980 and the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1992.
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Ron Carter
- Occupations
- university teachercomposerrecording artistdouble-bassistjazz bassist
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Ronald Levin Carter is an American jazz double bassist. His appearances on 2,221 recording sessions make him the most-recorded jazz bassist in history. He has won three Grammy Awards, and is also a cellist who has recorded numerous times on that instrument.
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Dave Grusin
- Occupations
- composeractorpianistbandleadersongwriter
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Robert David Grusin is an American composer, arranger, producer, jazz pianist, and band leader. He has composed many scores for feature films and television, and has won numerous awards for his soundtrack and record work, including an Academy Award and 10 Grammy Awards. He is also a frequent collaborator with director Sydney Pollack, scoring many of his films like Three Days of the Condor (1975), Absence of Malice (1981), Tootsie (1982), The Firm (1993), and Random Hearts (1999). In 1978, Grusin founded GRP Records with Larry Rosen, and was an early pioneer of digital recording.
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Melissa Manchester
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- songwriterfilm actormusicianrecording artistactor
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Melissa Manchester is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Since the 1970s, her songs have been played by adult contemporary radio stations. She has also appeared on television, in films, and on stage.
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Bob McGrath
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- writertelevision actorsingeractorvoice actor
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Robert Emmett McGrath was an American actor, singer, and children's author best known for playing original human character and music teacher Bob Johnson on the educational television series Sesame Street from 1969 to 2016.
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David Campbell
- Occupations
- composer
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David Richard Campbell is a Canadian-American arranger, composer, and conductor. He has composed and arranged music for many films, including North Country (2005), Brokeback Mountain (2005), August: Osage County (2013), Annie (2014), Foxcatcher (2014), Rock of Ages (2012), Dreamgirls (2007), and Joy (2015). He has also worked on over 450 gold and platinum albums by artists of a wide range of genres, including The Rolling Stones, Neil Diamond, Metallica, Radiohead, Evanescence, Rush, Beyoncé, Muse, Michael Jackson, Aaliyah, Ariana Grande, Harry Styles, Aerosmith, Garth Brooks, and various albums by his son Beck.
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Donald Byrd
- Occupations
- jazz musicianjazz trumpetermusic teacherrecording artistcomposer
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Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II was an American jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter and vocalist. A sideman for many other jazz musicians of his generation, Byrd was one of the few hard bop musicians who successfully explored funk and soul while remaining a jazz artist. As a bandleader, Byrd was an influence on the early career of Herbie Hancock and many others.
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Alondra de la Parra
- Occupations
- pianistconductor
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Alondra de la Parra is a Mexican conductor.
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Yusef Lateef
- Occupations
- university teachercomposernon-fiction writerrecording artistoboist
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Yusef Abdul Lateef was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, and prominent figure among the Ahmadiyya Community in the United States.
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Leo Pellegrino
- Occupations
- musician
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Leonardo Pellegrino, also known as Leo P, is a baritone saxophonist from Pittsburgh who is based in New York City. He is a member of the "brass house" band Too Many Zooz and former member of the Lucky Chops brass band. He is known for his energetic dancing that he performs while playing, often in public areas.
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Page Hamilton
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- composersongwritermusicianrecord producersinger
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Page Nye Hamilton is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter and record producer, mostly noted for his work with alternative metal band Helmet. Most of his work has been in the hard rock and alternative metal styles, though he trained in jazz guitar and has substantial connections with avant-garde music and film soundtrack composition.
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Angela Bofill
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- songwritercomposersingerjazz musician
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Angela Tomasa Bofill is an American singer-songwriter of Cuban-Puerto Rican origins. A New York native, Bofill began her professional career in the mid-1970s. Bofill is most known for singles such as, "This Time I'll Be Sweeter", "Angel of the Night", and "I Try". Bofill's career spans over four decades.
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Herbie Mann
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- jazz musiciancomposersaxophonist
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Herbert Jay Solomon, known by his stage name Herbie Mann, was an American jazz flute player and important early practitioner of world music. Early in his career, he also played tenor saxophone and clarinet (including bass clarinet), but Mann was among the first jazz musicians to specialize on the flute. His most popular single was "Hi-Jack", which was a Billboard No. 1 dance hit for three weeks in 1975.
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Shuler Hensley
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- television actoractor
- Biography
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Shuler Paul Hensley is an American singer and actor.
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Elliot Goldenthal
- Occupations
- songwritercomposerlyricistfilm score composer
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Elliot Goldenthal is an American composer of contemporary classical music and film and theatrical scores. A student of Aaron Copland and John Corigliano, he is best known for his distinctive style and ability to blend various musical styles and techniques in original and inventive ways. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Score in 2002 for his score to the motion picture Frida, directed by his longtime partner Julie Taymor.
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Lucia Micarelli
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- violinistjazz musiciantelevision actor
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Lucia Micarelli is an American violinist, singer and actress best known for her collaborations with Josh Groban, Chris Botti, Jethro Tull, and her role as Annie Talarico in Treme.
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Joseph Trapanese
- Enrolled in the Manhattan School of Music
- Graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- conductormusic arrangerorchestratorcomposerrecord producer
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Joseph Trapanese is an American composer, arranger, and producer. He works in the production of music for films, television, records, theater, concerts, and interactive media.
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Phil Woods
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- jazz musiciancomposersaxophonistconductorbandleader
- Biography
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Philip Wells Woods was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader, and composer.
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Anton Coppola
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- conductorcomposerfilm score composermusic teacher
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Antonio Francesco Coppola was an American opera conductor and composer. He was the uncle of film director Francis Ford Coppola and actress Talia Shire, as well as the great-uncle of Nicolas Cage, Christopher Coppola, Sofia Coppola, Gian-Carlo Coppola, Jason Schwartzman and Robert Schwartzman, and the younger brother of American composer and musician Carmine Coppola.
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John Lewis
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- university teacherrecord producercomposerfilm score composermusic teacher
- Biography
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John Aaron Lewis was an American jazz pianist, composer and arranger, best known as the founder and musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet.
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Chris Potter
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- saxophonistcomposerclarinetistjazz musician
- Biography
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Chris Potter is an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist.
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Nellie McKay
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- singer-songwritercomposerpianiststage actorfilm actor
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Nell Marie McKay is a English–American singer and songwriter. She made her Broadway debut in The Threepenny Opera (2006).
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Jared Bernstein
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- writerpoliticianeconomistinternational forum participantjournalist
- Biography
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Jared Bernstein is an American economist who is the chair of the United States Council of Economic Advisers. He is a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. From 2009 to 2011, Bernstein was the chief economist and economic adviser to Vice President Joe Biden in the Obama Administration. In 2008, Michael D. Shear described Bernstein as a progressive and "a strong advocate for workers".
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Jane Monheit
- Occupations
- jazz musiciansinger
- Biography
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Jane Monheit is an American jazz and pop singer.
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Adam Neely
- Years
- 1988-.. (age 36)
- Enrolled in the Manhattan School of Music
- In 2012 graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- YouTuberbassisttelevision producervideo blogger
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Adam Michael Neely is an American bassist, YouTuber, and composer. His YouTube channel is described as containing "music theory, music cognition, jazz improvisation, musical performance technique, musicology and memes". He also creates "Gig Vlogs", which give insight into his life as a professional musician in New York City. As a musician, he performs as a solo artist, as a session musician, and as a member of a number of New York City-based ensembles, including the electro-jazz duo Sungazer (along with drummer Shawn Crowder), and the jazz bands Adam Neely's Jazz School and Aberdeen.
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Joshua Cohen
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- novelistwriter
- Biography
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Joshua Aaron Cohen is an American novelist and story writer, best known for his works Witz (2010), Book of Numbers (2015), and Moving Kings (2017). Cohen won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Netanyahus (2021).
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Kristjan Järvi
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- conductorpianistcomposerrecord producer
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Kristjan Järvi is an Estonian American conductor, composer and producer. Born in Tallinn, Estonia, he is the younger son of the conductor Neeme Järvi and brother of conductor Paavo Järvi and flutist Maarika Järvi.
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Rhoda Scott
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- jazz musicianorganistjazz singer
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Rhoda Scott is an American soul jazz organist and singer. She is nicknamed "The Barefoot Lady".
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Jason Moran
- Occupations
- recording artistjazz pianistcomposermusic teacher
- Biography
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Jason Moran is an American jazz pianist, composer, and educator involved in multimedia art and theatrical installations.
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Charles Calello
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- songwritersingerconductorrecord producercomposer
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Charles Calello is an American arranger, composer, conductor, record producer, and singer born in Newark, New Jersey. Calello attended Newark Arts High School and the Manhattan School of Music, in New York City. His track record of successfully collaborating with various artists to produce or arrange Billboard hit songs led to his nickname in the industry as the "Hit Man."
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David Amram
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- singer-songwritercomposerautobiographerlyricisthorn player
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David Werner Amram III is an American composer, arranger, and conductor of orchestral, chamber, and choral works, many with jazz flavorings. He plays piano, French horn, Spanish guitar, and pennywhistle, and sings.
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Catherine Russell
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- singersinger-songwriterjazz musician
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Catherine Russell is an American jazz and blues singer. She is best known for her 2016 album Harlem on My Mind.
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Ambrose Akinmusire
- Occupations
- jazz musiciancomposertrumpeter
- Biography
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Ambrose Akinmusire is an American avant-garde jazz composer and trumpeter.
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Kirill Gerstein
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Kirill Gerstein is a Russian-American concert pianist. He is the sixth recipient of the Gilmore Artist Award. Born in the former Soviet Union, Gerstein is an American citizen based in Berlin. Between 2007-2017, he led piano classes at the Stuttgart Musik Hochschule. In 2018, he took up the post of Professor of Piano at the Hanns Eisler Hochschule in Berlin in addition to the Kronberg Academy’s Sir András Schiff Performance Programme for Young Artists.
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Miho Hazama
- Occupations
- pianistmusic arrangerconductorcomposer
- Biography
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Miho Hazama is a Tokyo-born composer and jazz musician, based in New York City.
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Mauro Refosco
- Occupations
- musicianpercussionist
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Mauro Refosco is a Brazilian percussionist. He is best known for his work with singer David Byrne and the American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. He was a member of the experimental supergroup Atoms for Peace – featuring Thom Yorke and Flea – and the forró band Forro in the Dark. Refosco was also briefly a member of Dirty Projectors.
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Iiro Rantala
- Occupations
- film score composerpianistjazz musicianmusic teachercomposer
- Biography
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Iiro Rantala is a Finnish jazz pianist. He studied piano in the jazz department of Sibelius Academy and classical piano at the Manhattan School of Music. He is one of the best known Finnish jazz pianists, both in Finland and abroad. Rantala is a pianist and composer with Trio Töykeät, a Finnish jazz trio. In addition to jazz, he has composed some classical pieces, most notably the Concerto for Piano and Concerto in G♯ΔA♭.
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Anthony Roth Costanzo
- Occupations
- opera singermusicianactorcountertenorperforming artist
- Biography
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Anthony Roth Costanzo is an American countertenor who has led performances at opera companies around the world. Beginning his career in musical theatre at the age of 11, he has since been featured at the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, English National Opera, Los Angeles Opera, and Glyndebourne Opera Festival, as well as in concert with the New York Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, London Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, and National Symphony Orchestra. In 2012, he won first place at Plácido Domingo's international opera competition Operalia and, in 2009, was a Grand Finals Winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. As an actor, he has performed in several films, including the Merchant Ivory film A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries, for which he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. As a producer and curator, he has created shows for National Sawdust, Opera Philadelphia, the Philharmonia Baroque, Princeton University, WQXR, The State Theater in Salzburg, MasterVoices, and Kabuki-za Tokyo. Costanzo is a graduate of Princeton University, where he has returned to teach, and he received his master's degree from the Manhattan School of Music.
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Susan Graham
- Occupations
- music teacherpianistopera singer
- Biography
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Susan Graham is an American mezzo-soprano.
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John Frizzell
- Occupations
- film score composercomposer
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John Frizzell is an American film and television composer, known for his work with Mike Judge. He scored Judge's films Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, Office Space and Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe (2022), and he supplied the music for Judge's television sitcom King of the Hill. Frizzell also gained notice for his score to Crime of the Century in 1996, followed by Dante's Peak and Alien Resurrection in 1997.
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Megan Marie Hart
- Enrolled in the Manhattan School of Music
- 2006-2007 graduated with Professional Studies Certificate
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Megan Marie Hart is an American operatic soprano from Eugene, Oregon, performing in leading operatic roles and concerts in America and Europe.
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Aaron Parks
- Occupations
- jazz musicianpianist
- Biography
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Aaron Parks is an American jazz pianist.
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Ron Miles
- Occupations
- musicianrecording artisttrumpeter
- Biography
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Ronald Glen Miles was an American jazz trumpeter, cornetist, and composer. He recorded for the labels Prolific (1986), Capri (1990), and Gramavision. His final album, Rainbow Sign, was his first on the Blue Note label.
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Dolora Zajick
- Occupations
- singeropera singermusician
- Biography
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Dolora Zajick is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer who specializes in the Verdian repertoire. Zajick has been described as having "one of the greatest voices in the history of opera".
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Art Tripp
- Occupations
- percussionistmusiciandrummer
- Biography
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Arthur Dyer Tripp III is an American retired musician who is best known for his work as a percussionist with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention and Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band during the 1960s and 1970s. Thereafter, Tripp retired from music. He attended an accredited chiropractic college in Los Angeles from 1980 through 1983, graduating with his Doctor of Chiropractic degree. He currently practices in Gulfport, Mississippi.
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Kenny Werner
- Occupations
- pianistjazz pianistcomposermusic teacher
- Biography
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Kenny Werner is an American jazz pianist, composer, and author.
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Edward Downes
- Occupations
- oboistconductor
- Biography
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Sir Edward Thomas Downes, CBE (17 June 1924 – 10 July 2009) was an English conductor, specialising in opera.
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Christian Sands
- Occupations
- jazz pianist
- Biography
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Christian Sylvester Sands is an American jazz pianist and composer. His third album for Mack Avenue Records, Be Water, was released in 2020 and received a Grammy Award nomination in the Best Instrumental Composition category for the song "Be Water II".
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Larry Willis
- Occupations
- pianistmusicianjazz musician
- Biography
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Lawrence Elliott Willis was an American jazz pianist and composer. He performed in a wide range of styles, including jazz fusion, Afro-Cuban jazz, bebop, and avant-garde.
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Eric Lewis
- Occupations
- jazz musicianpianist
- Biography
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Eric Robert Lewis, popularly known as ELEW, is an American jazz pianist who has found cross-over success playing rock and pop music. He is known for his unconventional and physical playing style, which eschews a piano bench and includes reaching inside the piano lid to pull at the strings directly, as well as the creation that he calls "Rockjazz", a genre that "takes the improvisational aspect of jazz and 'threads it through the eye of the needle of rock.'"
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Hyung-ki Joo
- Years
- 1973-.. (age 51)
- Occupations
- pianistcomposer
- Biography
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Hyung-ki Joo is a Korean-British pianist, composer, comedian and one half of the comedy-musical duo Igudesman & Joo. Billy Joel chose Joo to arrange and record his classical piano pieces for the album Fantasies & Delusions. It was recorded in the Mozart Hall of the Vienna Konzerthaus, and reached the No. 1 spot on the Billboard album chart for 18 weeks.
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Simon Shaheen
- Occupations
- violinistlutenistcomposer
- Biography
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Simon Shaheen is a Palestinian-American oud and violin player and composer who holds Israeli citizenship.
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Stefon Harris
- Occupations
- jazz musician
- Biography
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Stefon DeLeon Harris is an American jazz vibraphonist.
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Adolphus Hailstork
- Enrolled in the Manhattan School of Music
- In 1966 graduated with Bachelor of Music in music composing
- Occupations
- music teacheruniversity teachercomposer
- Biography
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Adolphus Cunningham Hailstork III is an American composer and educator. He was born in Rochester, New York, and grew up in Albany, New York, where he studied violin, piano, organ, and voice. He currently resides in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
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Catherine Malfitano
- Occupations
- opera singermusicianmusic teacherperforming artistcreator
- Biography
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Catherine Malfitano is an American operatic soprano and opera director. Malfitano was born in New York City, the daughter of a ballet dancer mother, Maria Maslova, and a violinist father, Joseph Malfitano. She attended the High School of Music and Art and studied at the Frank Corsaro Studio and Manhattan School of Music, graduating in 1971. She often mentions that she was rejected from The Juilliard School.
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Miguel Zenón
- Occupations
- saxophonistflautistuniversity teacherjazz musician
- Biography
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Miguel Zenón is a Puerto Rican alto saxophonist, composer, band leader, music producer, and educator. He is a Grammy Award winner, and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Fellowship. He also holds an Honorary Doctorate Degree in the Arts from Universidad del Sagrado Corazón. Zenón has released many albums as a band leader and appeared on over 100 recordings as a sideman.
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Carol Williams
- Occupations
- organist
- Biography
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Carol Anne Williams D.M.A., ARAM, FRCO, FTCL, ARCM is a British-born international concert organist and composer, now residing in America. She served from October 2001 and resigned her post in October 2016 as Civic Organist for the city of San Diego, California, performing regularly at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion. She was concurrently serving as the artistic director of the Spreckels Organ Society; producing the largest organ festival in North America since 2001. She was formerly the Artist in Residence at St. Paul's Cathedral San Diego.
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Herbert Deutsch
- Occupations
- inventorcomposermusicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Herbert Arnold "Herb" Deutsch was an American composer, inventor, and educator. Until his death in 2022, he was professor emeritus of electronic music and composition at Hofstra University. He was best known for co-inventing the Moog synthesizer with Bob Moog in 1964.
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Tobias Picker
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Tobias Picker is an American composer, pianist, and conductor, noted for his orchestral works Old and Lost Rivers, Keys To The City, and The Encantadas, as well as his operas Emmeline, Fantastic Mr. Fox, An American Tragedy and Lili Elbe, among many other works.
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Linda May Han Oh
- Occupations
- composerdouble-bassistjazz musicianjazz bassist
- Biography
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Linda May Han Oh is an Australian jazz bassist and composer. She is currently Associate Professor at the Berklee College of Music and is also part of the Institute for Jazz and Gender Justice.
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Lauren Jelencovich
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Lauren Jelencovich is an American singer.
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John Bernard Riley
- Occupations
- musicianpercussionistmusic teacherjazz musiciandrummer
- Biography
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John Bernard Riley is an American jazz drummer and educator. He has performed with Woody Herman, Stan Getz, Milt Jackson, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, John Scofield, Bob Mintzer, Gary Peacock, Mike Stern, Joe Lovano, Franck Amsallem, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, John Patitucci, and Bob Berg.
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Mitchel Forman
- Occupations
- pianistjazz musiciancomposer
- Biography
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Mitchel Forman is a jazz and fusion keyboard player.
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Max Neuhaus
- Occupations
- percussionistcomposersound artistmusicianvisual artist
- Biography
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Max Neuhaus was an American musician, composer and artist who was a noted interpreter of contemporary and experimental percussion music in the 1960s. He went on to create numerous permanent and short-term sound installations in the four decades that followed.
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Ryan Kisor
- Occupations
- jazz musician
- Biography
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Ryan Kisor is an American jazz trumpeter.
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Ben Lanzarone
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Benjamin Anthony Lanzarone is an American composer. He was the winner of ASCAP's Most Performed Composer Award.
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Simon O'Neill
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Simon John O'Neill is a New Zealand-born operatic tenor. In 1998, his image appeared on the New Zealand one-dollar performing arts postage stamp.
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Franck Amsallem
- Occupations
- jazz musicianpianist
- Biography
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Franck Amsallem is a French-American jazz pianist, arranger, composer, singer and educator. He was born in 1961 in Oran, French Algeria, but grew up in Nice, France.
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Joe Wilder
- Occupations
- jazz musiciancomposer
- Biography
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Joseph Benjamin Wilder was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.
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Antal Zalai
- Enrolled in the Manhattan School of Music
- Studied in 2001-2002
- Occupations
- violinist
- Biography
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Antal Zalai is a Hungarian concert violinist.
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Edward W. Hardy
- Occupations
- classical composermusic directormusical theatre composerviolinistinstrumentalist
- Biography
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Edward W. Hardy is an American composer, music director, violinist and violist. He is known as the composer, co-conceiver, music director, and violinist of the Off-Broadway show The Woodsman and is the owner of The Black Violin.
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Ross Mintzer
- Occupations
- songwriterguitaristsingerjazz musiciansaxophonist
- Biography
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Ross Philip Mintzer is an American musician and performer. He has led the Ross Mintzer Band since its formation in 2012. Mintzer was featured on National Public Radio show From the Top. In 2011, he started a girls' choir in Karachi, Pakistan and has been recognized by the National Association for Music Education.
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Luis Bonilla
- Occupations
- jazz musician
- Biography
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Luis Diego Bonilla is an American jazz trombonist of Costa Rican descent. He is also a producer, composer, and educator.
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Anne-Marie McDermott
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Anne-Marie McDermott is an American classical pianist and member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. She is also the artistic director of the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival, the Ocean Reef Chamber Music Festival in Key Largo, Florida, and the Avila Chamber Music Celebration in Curaçao.
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Tineke Postma
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- jazz saxophonistcomposer
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Tineke Postma is a Dutch jazz saxophonist.
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Koh Gabriel Kameda
- Occupations
- violinistmusicianwriter
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Koh Gabriel Kameda is a German and Japanese concert violinist and violin teacher.
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Katherine Hoover
- Occupations
- conductorcomposerflautistmusic teacher
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Katherine Hoover was an American composer of Contemporary classical music and Chamber music, flutist, teacher of Musical composition and Music theory, poet, and later a conductor of her music. Her career as a composer began when few women composers earned recognition in Classical music in the 1970s. As shown in her list of known works, she has composed pieces for solo flute, mixed ensembles, chamber orchestra, choir, full orchestra, and many other combinations of instruments and voice. Some of her flute pieces incorporated Native American themes.
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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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Oliver Schnyder
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Oliver Schnyder is a Swiss classical pianist.
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Sam Most
- Occupations
- clarinetistjazz musiciancomposerflautistsaxophonist
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Samuel Most was an American jazz flutist, clarinetist and tenor saxophonist, based in Los Angeles. He was "probably the first great jazz flutist", according to jazz historian Leonard Feather.
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Jeremy Davenport
- Occupations
- jazz musician
- Biography
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Jeremy Davenport is an American jazz trumpeter and singer based in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Chris White
- Occupations
- jazz musiciancomposerrecord producer
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Chris White was an American jazz bassist.
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The Potash Twins
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Adeev and Ezra Potash professionally known as The Potash Twins are American identical twin musicians and television personalities from Omaha, Nebraska. The twins have hosted several TV shows on Food Network, Bravo TV and Travel Channel. They have performed with John Legend, Diplo, Snoop Dogg, Lil Baby, Jon Batiste, Robert Glasper, Major Lazer and Wynton Marsalis.
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Sebastian Currier
- Occupations
- university teachercomposer
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Sebastian Currier is an American composer of music for chamber groups and orchestras. He was also a professor of music at Columbia University from 1999 to 2007.
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Salvatore Di Vittorio
- Occupations
- conductorcomposer
- Biography
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Salvatore Di Vittorio is an Italian composer and conductor. He is the music director and Conductor of the Chamber Orchestra of New York. He has been recognized by Luigi Verdi (Philharmonic Academy of Bologna) as a "lyrical musical spirit, respectful of the ancient Italian tradition… an emerging leading interpreter of the music of Ottorino Respighi".
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Wang Jie
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Wang Jie is a Chinese-born American composer.
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Johanna Meier
- Years
- 1938-.. (age 86)
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Johanna Meier is an American operatic soprano. She has been described as "one of the foremost Wagnerian sopranos of her era". She had an international career, including fourteen years at the Metropolitan Opera and three summers singing the role of Isolde in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde for the Bayreuth Festival—the Festival's first American Isolde.
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Jaleel Shaw
- Occupations
- musiciansaxophonist
- Biography
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Jaleel Shaw is an American jazz alto saxophonist.
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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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Myron Walden
- Occupations
- jazz musiciansaxophonist
- Biography
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Myron Walden is a jazz saxophonist, flutist, and bass clarinetist.
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Sara Hershkowitz
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Sara Hershkowitz is an American coloratura soprano, who made an international career based in Germany. She is known for roles in Mozart and Strauss operas, such as Konstanze, the Queen of the Night, Sophie and Zerbinetta, but also for contemporary music such as Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre.
