100 Notable alumni of
New England Conservatory of Music
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New England Conservatory of Music is 561st in the world, 214th in North America, and 197th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from New England Conservatory 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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Coretta Scott King
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- politicianwriteractivist
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Coretta Scott King was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader and the wife of Martin Luther King Jr. from 1953 until his death. As an advocate for African-American equality, she was a leader for the civil rights movement in the 1960s. King was also a singer who often incorporated music into her civil rights work. King met her husband while attending graduate school in Boston. They both became increasingly active in the American civil rights movement.
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Rose Kennedy
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- socialite
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Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald Kennedy was an American philanthropist, socialite, and matriarch of the Kennedy family. She was deeply embedded in the "lace curtain" Irish American community in Boston. Her father, John F. Fitzgerald, served in the Massachusetts State Senate (1892–1894), in the U.S. House of Representatives (1895–1901, 1919), and as Mayor of Boston (1906–1908, 1910–1914). Her husband, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., chaired the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (1934–1935) and the U.S. Maritime Commission (1937–1938), and served as United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (1938–1940). Their nine children included United States President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York, U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, Special Olympics founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver, and U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Jean Kennedy Smith. In 1951, Rose Kennedy was ennobled by Pope Pius XII, becoming the sixth American woman to be granted the rank of Papal countess.
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Walter Pidgeon
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- television actorstage actorsingerfilm actortrade unionist
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Walter Davis Pidgeon was a Canadian-American actor. A major leading man during the Golden Age of Hollywood, known for his "portrayals of men who prove both sturdy and wise," Pidgeon earned two Academy Award nominations for Best Actor, for his roles in Mrs. Miniver (1942) and Madame Curie (1943).
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Rick Beato
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- guitaristYouTuberrecord producersession musicianaudio engineer
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Richard John Beato is an American YouTube personality, multi-instrumentalist, music producer and educator. Since the early 1980s, he has worked variously as a musician, songwriter, audio engineer, and record producer, and has lectured on music at several universities. Based in Black Dog Sound Studios in Stone Mountain, a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, he has produced for and worked with bands such as Needtobreathe, Parmalee, and Shinedown. He is now known for his YouTube channel on which he covers different aspects of rock, jazz, blues, techno, rap and popular music, and interviews well-known musicians and producers.
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Rachael Price
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- jazz musician
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Rachael Price is an American jazz and blues singer, known for her work as the lead singer for the band Lake Street Dive. She was born in Sydney, Australia and grew up in Tennessee, graduating from the New England Conservatory of Music. She is the great-great-granddaughter of Seventh-day Adventist leader George McCready Price, the granddaughter of Hollywood actor John Shelton, and the daughter of composer and conductor Tom Price.
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Herbert Blomstedt
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- conductor
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Herbert Thorson Blomstedt is a Swedish conductor.
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Bernie Worrell
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- composer
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George Bernard Worrell, Jr. was an American keyboardist and record producer best known as a founding member of the Parliament-Funkadelic collective. In later years, he also worked with acts such as Talking Heads, Bill Laswell, and Jack Bruce. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic. Worrell was described by journalist Jon Pareles as "the kind of sideman who is as influential as some bandleaders," with his use of synthesizers particularly impactful on funk and hip hop.
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Cecil Taylor
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- writerclassical pianistpoetjazz pianistcomposer
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Cecil Percival Taylor was an American pianist and poet.
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Hettienne Park
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- television actorstage actorfilm actoractorvoice actor
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Hettienne Park is an American actress and writer, having played roles in Young Adult (2011), Bride Wars (2009), Blindspot (2018), The Outsider (2020), her most notable role being Beverly Katz on the psychological horror television series Hannibal (2013–14).
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Florence Price
- Enrolled in New England Conservatory of Music
- Studied in 1903-1906
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- music teacherclassical pianistcomposer
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Florence Beatrice Price was an American classical composer, pianist, organist and music teacher. Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Price was educated at the New England Conservatory of Music, and was active in Chicago from 1927 until her death in 1953. Price is noted as the first African-American woman to be recognized as a symphonic composer, and the first to have a composition played by a major orchestra. Price composed over 300 works: four symphonies, four concertos, as well as choral works, art songs, chamber music and music for solo instruments. In 2009, a substantial collection of her works and papers was found in her abandoned summer home.
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Eleanor H. Porter
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- children's writerwriter
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Eleanor Emily Hodgman Porter was an American novelist, most known for Pollyanna (1913) and Just David (1916).
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Anton Fig
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- session musicianmusiciandrummer
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Anton Fig, known as "The Thunder from Down Under", is a South African session drummer, perhaps best known as the drummer and second-in-command for Paul Shaffer and the World's Most Dangerous Band. David Letterman, for whom the band served as house band on his late-night talk shows, often referred to Fig as "Anton Zip" or "Buddy Rich Jr." Fig is also well known for his work with Kiss, Ace Frehley and Joe Bonamassa.
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Dave Holland
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- jazz musiciancomposerbandleadermusic teacherrecording artist
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David Holland is an English double bassist, bass guitarist, cellist, composer and bandleader who has been performing and recording for five decades. He has lived in the United States since the early 1970s.
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Neal E. Boyd
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- opera singer
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Neal Evans Boyd was an American singer who developed an interest in opera after listening to the performances of the Three Tenors. Despite being raised in conditions of poverty within the U.S. state of Missouri, he achieved a degree in music and eventually entered the third season of America's Got Talent, winning that year's competition. In addition to music, he also became involved in politics and conducted performances at many state-wide events across Missouri.
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Aoife O'Donovan
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- composersinger-songwriter
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Aoife O'Donovan is an American singer and Grammy award-winning songwriter. She is best known as the lead singer for the string band Crooked Still and she also co-founded the Grammy Award-winning female folk trio I'm with Her. She has released three critically acclaimed studio albums: Fossils (2013), In the Magic Hour (2016), and Age of Apathy (2022, nominated for the Best Folk Album Grammy Award), as well as multiple noteworthy live recordings and EPs, including Blue Light (2010), Peachstone (2012), Man in a Neon Coat: Live From Cambridge (2016), In the Magic Hour: Solo Sessions (2019), and Bull Frog's Croon (and Other Songs) (2020). She also spent a decade contributing to the radio variety shows Live from Here and A Prairie Home Companion. Her first professional engagement was singing lead for the folk group The Wayfaring Strangers.
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Vaughn Monroe
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- film actormusicianrecording artistbandleadersinger
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Vaughn Wilton Monroe was an American baritone singer, trumpeter and big band leader who was most popular in the 1940s and 1950s. He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for recording and another for radio performance.
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Carl Davis
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- composerconductorfilm score composer
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Carl Davis was an American-born British conductor and composer. He wrote music for more than 100 television programmes (notably the landmark ITV series World At War (1973) and BBC's Pride and Prejudice (1995), created new scores for concert and cinema performances of vintage silent movies and composed many film, ballet and concert scores that were performed worldwide, including (in collaboration with Paul McCartney) the Liverpool Oratorio in 1991. Davis's publisher was Faber Music.
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Vic Firth
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- university teachermusical instrument makerpercussionistentrepreneurcomposer
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Everett Joseph "Vic" Firth was an American musician and the founder of Vic Firth Company (formerly Vic Firth, Inc.), a company that makes percussion sticks and mallets.
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Josephine Hull
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- film actordirectortelevision actoractorstage actor
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Marie Josephine Hull was an American stage and film actress who also was a director of plays. She had a successful 50-year career on stage while taking some of her better known roles to film. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the movie Harvey (1950), a role she originally played on the Broadway stage. She was sometimes credited as Josephine Sherwood.
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Mabel Loomis Todd
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- painterwritereditor
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Mabel Loomis Todd or Mabel Loomis was an American editor and writer. She is remembered as the editor of posthumously published editions of Emily Dickinson's poetry and letters and also wrote several novels and books about her travels with her husband, astronomer David Peck Todd, as well as co-authoring a textbook on astronomy.
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Freddy Cole
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- singerpianistjazz musician
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Lionel Frederick Cole was an American jazz singer and pianist whose recording career spanned almost 70 years. He was the brother of musicians Nat King Cole, Eddie Cole, and Ike Cole, father of Lionel Cole, and uncle of Natalie Cole and Carole Cole.
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Luis A. Ferré
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- engineermusicianpoliticianbusinessperson
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Don Luis Alberto Ferré Aguayo was a Puerto Rican engineer, industrialist, politician, philanthropist, and a patron of the arts. He was the governor of Puerto Rico from 1969 to 1973. He was the founder of the New Progressive Party, which advocates for Puerto Rico to become a state of the United States of America. He is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Bridget Kearney
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- musician
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Bridget Kearney is an American musician and songwriter. She is a founding member of the band Lake Street Dive and winner of the 2005 John Lennon Songwriting Contest in the Jazz category.
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Jaimie Branch
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- musiciancomposer
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Jaimie Breezy Branch was an American jazz trumpeter and composer.
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Fred Hersch
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- composeracademic musicianjazz pianist
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Fred Hersch is an American jazz pianist, composer, educator and HIV/AIDS activist, 17-time Grammy nominée. He was the first person to play weeklong engagements as a solo pianist at the Village Vanguard in New York City. He has recorded more than 75 of his jazz compositions.
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Rita Johnson
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- actorfilm actorstage actor
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Rita Ann Johnson was an American actress.
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Denyce Graves
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- music teacheropera singer
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Denyce Graves is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer.
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Sean Callery
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- film score composercomposer
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Sean Callery is an American musician and composer, best known for composing the music for the action/drama 24 and the Marvel adaptation Jessica Jones. Other projects include the 2004 video game, James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing and the television series La Femme Nikita and Homeland. Most recently he composes the music for the series Designated Survivor and Bull.
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John Medeski
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- pianistjazz musiciancomposer
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Anthony John Medeski is an American jazz keyboard player and composer. Medeski is a veteran of New York's 1990s avant-garde jazz scene and is known popularly as a member of Medeski Martin & Wood. He plays the acoustic piano and an eclectic array of keyboards, including the Hammond B3 organ, melodica, mellotron, clavinet, ARP String Ensemble, Wurlitzer electric piano, Moog Voyager Synthesizer, Wurlitzer 7300 Combo Organ, Vox Continental Baroque organ, and Yamaha CS-1 Synthesizer, among others. When playing acoustic piano, Medeski usually plays the Steinway piano and is listed as a Steinway Artist.
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Halim El-Dabh
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- pianistcomposeruniversity teacherethnomusicologist
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Halim Abdul Messieh El-Dabh was an Egyptian-American composer, musician, ethnomusicologist, and educator, who had a career spanning six decades. He is particularly known as an early pioneer of electronic music. In 1944 he composed one of the earliest known works of tape music, or musique concrète. From the late 1950s to early 1960s he produced influential work at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center.
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Regina Carter
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- jazz musicianviolinist
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Regina Carter is an American jazz violinist. She is the cousin of jazz saxophonist James Carter.
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Eric Lu
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- pianistcomposer
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Eric Lu is an American classical pianist. The recipient of the gold medal at the Leeds International Piano Competition in 2018. he has performed with many of the world's major orchestras including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic, and on tour with the Orchestre national de Lille. He records for Warner Classics under an exclusive contract, and has released critically acclaimed recordings of Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Schubert, and Schumann on the label.
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Zhu Xiao-Mei
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- pianistuniversity teacherpiano teacher
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Zhu Xiao-Mei is a Chinese French classical pianist and teacher, now based in Paris, France.
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Stephen Gould
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- opera singertenormusician
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Stephen Grady Gould was an American heldentenor and leading interpreter of Richard Wagner's stage works. He performed around 100 times at the Bayreuth Festival, notably as Tannhäuser starting in 2004, and later Siegfried and Tristan. In 2022, his performance in all three roles earned him nicknames such as Iron Man.
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Deke Sharon
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- singercomposer
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Deke Sharon is an American singer, arranger, composer, director, producer, pioneer, and teacher of a cappella music, and is one of the leaders and promoters of the contemporary a cappella community. He has been referred to as "the father of contemporary a cappella" by some authors, and "the godfather of a cappella" by others.
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Joseph Douglass
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- violinist
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Joseph Henry Douglass was an American concert violinist, the son of Charles Remond Douglass and Mary Elizabeth Murphy, and grandson of abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
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Ralph Burns
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- jazz musiciancomposerconductorfilm score composersongwriter
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Ralph Joseph P. Burns was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger.
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Monir Vakili
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- opera singertelevision producermusic directorartist
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Monir Vakili was an Iranian soprano. She was the first Persian singer to popularize Persian Folk Songs in Iran and the international music scene.
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Katherine Kennicott Davis
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- hymnwriterpianistcomposerlyricistmusic teacher
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Katherine Kennicott Davis was an American composer, pianist, arranger, and teacher, whose most well-known composition is the Christmas song "Carol of the Drum," later known as "The Little Drummer Boy".
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George Whitefield Chadwick
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- music teacheruniversity teachercomposer
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George Whitefield Chadwick was an American composer. Along with John Knowles Paine, Horatio Parker, Amy Beach, Arthur Foote, and Edward MacDowell, he was a representative composer of what is called the Second New England School of American composers of the late 19th century—the generation before Charles Ives. Chadwick's works are influenced by the Realist movement in the arts, characterized by a down-to-earth depiction of people's lives.
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J. Rosamond Johnson
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- composer
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John Rosamond Johnson was an American composer and singer during the Harlem Renaissance. Born in Jacksonville, Florida, he had much of his career in New York City. Johnson is noted as the composer of the tune for the hymn "Lift Every Voice and Sing”. It was first performed live by 500 Black American students from the segregated Florida Baptist Academy, Jacksonville, Florida, in 1900. The song was published by Joseph W. Stern & Co., Manhattan, New York (later the Edward B. Marks Music Company).
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Nobu Kōda
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- pianistviolinistcomposer
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Nobu Kōda 幸田延 was a Japanese composer, violinist, and music teacher. She was one of the first Japanese women to study music overseas. She studied at the New England Conservatory. She later studied in Europe. She was the sister of Kōda Rohan.
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Rachel Z
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- jazz pianist
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Rachel Carmel Hakim, better known as Rachel Z, is a jazz and rock pianist and keyboardist. She has recorded 13 albums as a leader and jazz musician. Her musical style, especially her improvisation, has been described as adjacent to Herbie Hancock and McCoy Tyner.
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Jane Morgan
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- stage actortelevision actoractorviolinist
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Jane Morgan was a British-born American actress and singer whose career encompassed concert halls, vaudeville, the legitimate stage, radio, television, and film, best known as Eve Arden's nosy landlady Mrs. Davis on the radio and television versions of Our Miss Brooks.
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Chou Wen-chung
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- composer
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Chou Wen-chung was a Chinese American composer of contemporary classical music. He emigrated in 1946 to the United States and received his music training at the New England Conservatory and Columbia University. Chou is credited by Nicolas Slonimsky as one of the first Chinese composers who attempted to translate authentic East Asian melo-rhythms into the terms of modern Western music.
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Matthew Shipp
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- pianistjazz musicianrecording artist
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Matthew Shipp is an American avant-garde jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader.
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Don Byron
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- saxophonistcomposerclarinetistjazz musician
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Donald Byron is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist. He primarily plays clarinet but has also played bass clarinet and saxophone in a variety of genres that includes free jazz and klezmer.
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Adolph Herseth
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- musiciantrumpetermilitary officer
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Adolph Sylvester "Bud" Herseth was principal trumpet in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1948 until 2001, and served as principal trumpet emeritus from 2001 until his retirement in 2004.
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Cindy Bradley
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- jazz musiciancomposer
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Cindy Lynn Bradley is an American smooth jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player and composer.
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Tony Yike Yang
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- pianist
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Tony Yike Yang is a Canadian-Chinese pianist.
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Heather Masse
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- singer
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Heather Masse is an American alto singer and member of the Canadian folk trio The Wailin' Jennys. She was born and grew up in Maine, and studied at the New England Conservatory of Music as a jazz singer. She is currently based in Taos, New Mexico.
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Justino Díaz
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- opera singer
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Justino Díaz is a Puerto Rican operatic bass-baritone. In 1963, Díaz won an annual contest held at the Metropolitan Opera of New York, becoming the first Puerto Rican to obtain such an honor and as a consequence, made his Metropolitan debut in October 1963 in Verdi's Rigoletto as Monterone.
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Mohammed Fairouz
- Years
- 1985-.. (age 39)
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Mohammed Fairouz is an American composer.
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Jamie Saft
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- pianistfilm score composerjazz musicianrecord producer
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Jamie Saft is an American keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist and composer. He was born in New York City and raised a Conservative Jew, and studied at Tufts University and the New England Conservatory of Music.
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Christopher O'Riley
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- pianistradio personality
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Christopher O'Riley is an American classical pianist and public radio show host. He was the host of the weekly National Public Radio program From the Top. O'Riley is also known for his piano arrangements of songs by alternative musicians.
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Lukáš Vondráček
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- pianist
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Lukáš Vondráček is a Czech pianist. Noted by The Chicago Tribune for his "considerable tenderness of tone" and "expressive impact" and by The Washington Post for his "astonishing delicacy", Vondráček won the first prize in the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2016, the first Czech musician to do so.
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Hisato Ohzawa
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- conductorcomposer
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Hisato Ohzawa, known in Japan as Hisato Ōsawa, was a Japanese composer. Renewed interest in his work reflects the view that he was one of the preeminent Japanese composers of his day.
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Werner Janssen
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- composerconductorfilm score composer
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Werner Janssen was an American composer and conductor of classical music and film scores. He was the first New York-born conductor to lead the New York Philharmonic. For his film work he was nominated for six Academy Awards.
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Olga Bell
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- pianistsinger-songwritercomposer
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Olga Bell is an American musician, music producer, composer, and singer-songwriter. She was born in Moscow, Russia, raised in Anchorage, Alaska and is currently based in Brooklyn, New York. A classically trained pianist and self-taught electronic music producer, she has worked in a wide range of genres, including classical, electronic pop, and Russian folk. Best known for Край (Krai), a tribute to her Russian heritage, and Diamonite, an album she produced with Gunnar Olsen and Jason Nazary under the moniker BELL, she has also played in Chairlift and Dirty Projectors and collaborated with Tom Vek under the name Nothankyou. In 2016, Bell released her third studio album Tempo.
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Marilyn Crispell
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- pianistrecording artistcomposerjazz musician
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Marilyn Crispell is an American jazz pianist and composer. Scott Yanow described her as "a powerful player... who has her own way of using space... She is near the top of her field." Jon Pareles of The New York Times wrote: "Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano... She is one of a very few pianists who rise to the challenge of free jazz." In addition to her own extensive work as a soloist or bandleader, Crispell is also known as a longtime member of saxophonist Anthony Braxton's quartet in the 1980s and '90s.
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Jimmy Earl
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- jazz musiciancomposer
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James Christopher Earl is an American jazz bass guitarist who is a member of the Jimmy Kimmel Live! band.
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Phyllis Curtin
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- music teacheruniversity teacheropera singer
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Phyllis Curtin was an American soprano and academic teacher who had an active career in operas and concerts from the early 1950s through the 1980s. She is known for her creation of roles in operas by Carlisle Floyd, such as the title role in Susannah and Catherine Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights. She was a dedicated song recitalist, who retired from singing in 1984. She was named Boston University's Dean Emerita, College of Fine Arts in 1991.
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Lillian Nordica
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- stage actoropera singer
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Lillian Nordica was an American opera singer who had a major stage career in Europe and her native country.
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Charlie Albright
- Born in
- United States
- Occupations
- pianist
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Charlie Albright is an American pianist and composer. He is an official Steinway Artist, 2014 Avery Fisher Career Grant Recipient, 2010 Gilmore Young Artist (2010) and former Young Concert Artist. He graduated from Harvard College (AB) and the New England Conservatory (MM) as the first classical pianist in the schools' five-year AB/MM Joint Program, was named the Leverett House Artist in Residence for 2011–2012, and was one of the 15 Most Interesting Seniors of the Harvard College Class of 2011. He graduated from the Juilliard School of Music with his post-graduate Artist Diploma (AD) in 2014.
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Melissa Ferlaak
- Occupations
- opera singersinger-songwriter
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Melissa Marie Ferlaak is an American soprano, best known as the former singer of symphonic metal bands Aesma Daeva, Visions of Atlantis, and Echoterra. She is the singer of doom/death metal project Plague of Stars and the ambient band MY Eternel with Voa voxyd. She wrote the libretto and vocal parts for the opera Demandolx, and sang the role of Madeleine on the recording. She has appeared as a guest with bands such as Ad Inferna, Therion, Beto Vazquez Infinity and more.
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Sergiu Comissiona
- Occupations
- conductorviolinist
- Biography
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Sergiu Comissiona was a Romanian-Israeli-American conductor and violinist.
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Billy Hill
- Occupations
- songwriter
- Biography
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Billy Hill was an American songwriter, violinist, and pianist who found fame writing Western songs such as "They Cut Down the Old Pine Tree", "The Last Round-Up", "Wagon Wheels", and "Empty Saddles". Hill's most popular song was "The Glory of Love", recorded by Benny Goodman in 1936 and by Peggy Lee, Otis Redding, Paul McCartney, and others.
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Marilinda Garcia
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Marilinda Joy Garcia is an American lobbyist and politician from the state of New Hampshire. A Republican, she served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives, representing the Rockingham 8th district from 2012 to 2014. She previously represented the Rockingham 4th district from 2007 to 2009 and from 2009 to 2012. A harpist, Garcia is also a music teacher.
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Dan Tepfer
- Occupations
- music teacherpianistmusician
- Biography
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Dan Tepfer is a French-American jazz pianist and composer. He is best known for his 2011 album Goldberg Variations/Variations and his 2019 multimedia project Natural Machines.
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Will Lamartine Thompson
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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William Lamartine Thompson was a noted American composer. He founded the W. L. Thompson Music Company and tried his hand with some success at secular compositions before finding his forte in hymns and gospel songs.
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Henry Kimball Hadley
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- conductorcomposer
- Biography
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Henry Kimball Hadley was an American composer and conductor.
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Yasmine Azaiez
- Occupations
- actorviolinist
- Biography
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Yasmine Azaiez is a British-born violinist of Tunisian descent. She currently resides in Tunisia.
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Darcy James Argue
- Occupations
- jazz musiciancomposerbandleader
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Darcy James Argue is a jazz composer and bandleader known for his work with his 18-piece ensemble, Secret Society.
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Louis Krasner
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- musicianviolinistmusic teachercomposerconcertmaster
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Louis Krasner was a Russian Empire-born American classical violinist who premiered the violin concertos of Alban Berg and Arnold Schoenberg.
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Benjamín Gutiérrez
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Benjamín Gutiérrez is a celebrated composer in Costa Rica. He is a conductor, composer, and pianist. Gutiérrez began by studying music with his grandmother, Rosa Jiménez Nuñez, daughter of the composer Pilar Jiménez.” Gutiérrez then studied music in Guatemala City, Boston, Ann Arbor, Aspen, and Buenos Aires. The following were several of his teachers: Ross Lee Finney, Darius Milhaud, and Alberto Ginastera. Gutiérrez has written music for piano, orchestra, violin, viola, clarinet, flute, saxophone, trombone quartet, bassoon quartet, marimba, opera, and several other instruments.
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Sofia Rei
- Occupations
- singer
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Sofia Eugenia Koutsovitis, known professionally as Sofia Rei, is an Argentinian vocalist, songwriter, producer, and educator. A classically trained mezzo-soprano, Rei's influences include South American folk styles, jazz, pop, new classical and electronic music. Singing in Spanish, English and Portuguese, her voice was described by The Boston Globe as "possessing a voluptuously full voice, comprehensive command of Latin American rhythms, and encyclopedic knowledge of folkloric forms from Argentina, Peru, Colombia, and Uruguay." She was born and raised in Buenos Aires and has been based in New York since 2005.
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Mat Maneri
- Occupations
- jazz musicianviolinist
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Mat Maneri is an American composer, violin, and viola player. He is the son of the saxophonist Joe Maneri and Sonja Maneri.
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Louis Alter
- Occupations
- pianistsongwritercomposerfilm score composer
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Louis Alter was an American pianist, songwriter and composer. At 13, he began playing piano in theaters showing silent films. He studied at the New England Conservatory of Music under the tutelage of Stuart Mason.
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Tim Brady
- Occupations
- jazz musiciancomposer
- Biography
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Timothy Wesley John Brady is a Canadian composer, electric guitarist, improvising musician, concert producer, record producer and cultural activist. Working in the field of contemporary classical music, experimental music, and musique actuelle, his compositions utilize a variety of styles from serialism to minimalism and often incorporate modern instruments such as electric guitars and other electroacoustic instruments. His music is marked by a synthesis of musical languages, having developed an ability to use elements of many musical styles while retaining a strong sense of personal expression. Some of his early recognized works are the 1982 orchestral pieces Variants and Visions, his Chamber Concerto (1985), the chamber trio...in the Wake... (1985, 1988), and his song cycle Revolutionary Songs (1994).
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Claude Williamson
- Occupations
- jazz musicianpianist
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Claude Berkeley Williamson was an American jazz pianist.
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Yitzhak Yedid
- Occupations
- pianistcomposer
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Yitzhak Yedid is an Israeli-Australian composer of contemporary classical music and improvising pianist, the recipient of numerous awards. Yedid has been hailed as one of the most original composers on the international music scene today. His compositional style has been aptly characterized as "eclectic, multicultural, and deeply personal," blending elements of jazz and Jewish cantor music, classical European traditions, and avant-garde experimentation. His works are known for their captivating fusion of visceral and intellectual appeal, often incorporating visually striking elements.
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Tessa Lark
- Born in
- United States
- Occupations
- violinist
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Tessa Lark is an American concert violinist.
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Shirley Brill
- Occupations
- university teacherprofessorclarinetist
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Shirley Brill is an Israeli clarinetist living in Germany.
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Li Shude
- Years
- 1929-2014 (aged 85)
- Occupations
- violinist
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Shu-De Li（English: 李淑德, 1929-2014）was a Taiwanese music educator and violinist. She graduated from the Department of Music at National Taiwan Normal University. She served as a conductor for various orchestras and earned a reputation as the "Mother of Violin Education in Taiwan" due to her significant contributions to music education in the country.
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Mildred Miller
- Occupations
- musicianopera singer
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Mildred Miller Posvar was an American classical mezzo-soprano who had a major career performing in operas, concerts, and recitals during the mid twentieth century. She was notably a principal artist at the Metropolitan Opera from 1951 through 1974. In 1978 she founded the Opera Theater of Pittsburgh, serving as the company's Artistic Director through 1999.
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Sophia Brous
- Years
- 1985-.. (age 39)
- Occupations
- singer
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Sophia Brous is an artist, performance-maker, musician and curator based in New York and Melbourne, Australia.
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Maud Cuney Hare
- Occupations
- writerpianistmusic historianbiographerfolklorist
- Biography
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Maud Cuney Hare was an American pianist, musicologist, writer, and African-American activist in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. She was born in Galveston, the daughter of famed civil rights leader Norris Wright Cuney, who led the Texas Republican Party during and after the Reconstruction Era, and his wife Adelina (née Dowdie), a schoolteacher. In 1913 Cuney-Hare published a biography of her father.
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Henry F. Gilbert
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- musicologistcomposer
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Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert was an American composer and collector of folk songs. He is best remembered today for his interest in the music of African-Americans around the turn of the 20th century.
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Marcus Rojas
- Occupations
- music teacherjazz musiciancomposer
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Marcus Rojas is an American tubist from New York City.
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Gavriel Lipkind
- Occupations
- musicianmusic executive
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Gavriel Lipkind is an Israeli classical cellist based in The Netherlands. Lipkind made his radio debut performance aged eight, left Israel at an age of about 18, and received degrees from three music colleges. He won awards in music competitions and performed with orchestras until 2002, when he took time off from touring for three years to study music and revise his repertoire. Lipkind released two albums in 2006 and tours solo and with the Lipkind-Quartet.
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Tupac Mantilla
- Occupations
- musician
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Tupac Mantilla is a percussionist from Bogotá, Colombia. He is the founder and director of the Global Percussion Network PERCUACTION and the director of the percussion group Tekeyé. He has worked with Bobby McFerrin, Esperanza Spalding, Zakir Hussain, Bill Cosby, Danilo Perez, Julian Lage, Bob Moses, and Medeski, Martin and Wood.
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Suguru Goto
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 58)
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Suguru Goto is a Japanese composer and new media artist who lives in Paris. He performances using new technology such as projection mapping, Kinect, motion capture and robotics and programming which he invented himself. He integrates dances, sounds and images into the performance, highlighting boundaries between human and machine, reality and virtual. He was also a researcher and invited composer at IRCAM. He is currently assistant professor at Tokyo University of the Arts.
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Bill McHenry
- Occupations
- jazz musicianrecording artistsaxophonist
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Bill McHenry is an American jazz saxophonist and composer. He is the leader of the Bill McHenry Quartet and has released over a dozen albums under his own name, in addition to collaborating on many more.
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Tom Varner
- Occupations
- jazz musicianhorn player
- Biography
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Tom Varner is an American jazz horn (French horn) player and composer.
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Alfred Allen
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Alfred Allen was an American silent film actor and author.
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Ed Schuller
- Occupations
- jazz musicianuniversity teacher
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Edwin Gunther Schuller is an American jazz bassist and composer. His father is Gunther Schuller, a composer, horn player, and music professor, and his younger brother is drummer George Schuller.
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Lior Navok
- Occupations
- composer
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Lior Navok is an Israeli classical composer, conductor and pianist. He was born in Tel Aviv. His music has been performed internationally by orchestras and ensembles including the Oper Frankfurt, Nuernberg Opera, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and the Tanglewood Festival Orchestra. Amongst the awards he has received are those from the Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. He has also received awards from the Fromm Music Foundation, Lili Boulanger Memorial Fund Award, and Israel Prime Minister Award. In 2004, he was one of seven composers awarded commissions for new musical works by the Serge Koussevitzky Foundation in the Library of Congress and the Koussevitzky Music Foundation.
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John Vincent
- Occupations
- conductorcomposer
- Biography
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John Nathaniel Vincent Jr. was an American composer, conductor, and music educator.
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Arthur Shepherd
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- music teachercomposerconductor
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Arthur Shepherd was an American composer and conductor in the 20th century.
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Jesús Maria Sanromá
- Occupations
- pianistmusic teacher
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Jesús María Sanromá was a Puerto Rican pianist who is one of the 20th century's most accomplished and important pianists. In 1932 he gave the first North American performance of Maurice Ravel's Concerto in G under the baton of Serge Koussevitzky, the same day as Sylvan Levin did with the Philadelphia Orchestra.
