100 Notable alumni of
New England Conservatory of Music
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New England Conservatory of Music is 581st in the world, 216th in North America, and 199th 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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- activistwriterpolitician
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Coretta Scott King was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader who was the wife of Martin Luther King Jr. from 1953 until his assassination in 1968. 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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Rick Beato
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- session musicianrecord producerYouTuberguitaristtelevision producer
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Richard John Beato is an American YouTuber, multi-instrumentalist, music producer, and educator. Since the early 1980s, he has worked variously as a musician, songwriter, audio engineer, and record producer; he has also lectured on music at universities.
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Walter Pidgeon
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- singerstage actortelevision actortrade unionistfilm actor
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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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Herbert Blomstedt
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- conductormusician
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Herbert Thorson Blomstedt is an American-born Swedish conductor of classical music. At the age of 98, he continues to conduct concerts in Europe and the United States.
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Rachael Price
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- singerjazz musician
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Rachael Price is an Australian-American jazz and blues singer, known for her work as the lead singer for the band Lake Street Dive. She was born in Perth, Australia, and grew up in Tennessee, graduating from the New England Conservatory of Music in the class of ‘07. 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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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, and a touring member of Talking Heads in the 1980s. He also worked with such producers and musicians as Keith Richards, Yoko Ono, Bill Laswell, Mos Def, Sly and Robbie, Fela Kuti and Cream's Jack Bruce. The New York Times journalist Jon Pareles, described Worrell as "the kind of sideman who is as influential as some bandleaders" and stated that his music "indelibly changed the sound of funk and hip-hop." Worrell was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997 as a member of Parliament-Funkadelic, along with 15 other members the band. He also appeared with Talking Heads when they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002. Worrell was the uncle of rapper and actor Chino XL.
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Hettienne Park
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- stage actortelevision actorvoice actoractorfilm actor
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Hettienne Park is an American actress and writer, having played roles in Young Adult, Bride Wars (2009), Blindspot (2018), and The Outsider (2020), with her most notable role being Beverly Katz on the psychological horror television series Hannibal (2013–2014).
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Florence Price
- Enrolled in New England Conservatory of Music
- Studied in 1903-1906
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- music educatorcomposerclassical pianist
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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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Cecil Taylor
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- classical pianistwritercomposerjazz pianistpoet
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Cecil Percival Taylor was an American pianist and poet.
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Anton Fig
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- session musiciandrummermusician
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Anton Fig 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 called Fig "Anton Zip" or "Buddy Rich Jr." Fig is also known for his work with Kiss, Ace Frehley, and Joe Bonamassa.
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Eleanor H. Porter
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- writerchildren's writer
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Eleanor Emily Hodgman Porter was an American novelist. She was best known as the creator of the Pollyanna series of books, starting with Pollyanna (1913), which were a popular phenomenon.
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Aoife O'Donovan
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- singer-songwritercomposer
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Aoife Maria 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, as well as one-third of the supergroup folk trio I'm with Her alongside Sarah Jarosz and Sara Watkins. As a solo artist, O'Donovan has released four critically acclaimed studio albums: Fossils (2013), In the Magic Hour (2016), Age of Apathy (2022, nominated for the Best Folk Album Grammy Award), and All My Friends (2024, nominated for the Best Folk Album and Best American Roots Song Grammy Awards). She has also released 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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- singerbandleaderconductorfilm actorrecording artist
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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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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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Eric Lu
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- pianist
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Eric Lu is an American classical pianist. The winner of the 2025 XIX International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw and the 2018 Leeds International Piano Competition, he has performed with many of the world's major orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic, and toured with the Orchestre national de Lille.
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Carl Davis
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- film score composerconductorcomposer
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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 The World at War (1973) and BBC's Pride and Prejudice (1995), and he 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 the Liverpool Oratorio in 1991, in collaboration with Paul McCartney. Davis's publisher was Faber Music.
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Josephine Hull
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- actortelevision actordirectorfilm actortheatrical director
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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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- paintereditorwriter
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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. She 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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Vic Firth
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- musiciancomposerentrepreneurpercussionistmusical instrument maker
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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. He was also known for his association with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
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Freddy Cole
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- pianistjazz musiciansingermusician
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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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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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Luis A. Ferré
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- engineerbusinesspersonpoliticianmusician
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Don Luis Alberto Ferré Aguayo, most commonly known as Luis A. Ferré, was a Puerto Rican engineer, industrialist, politician, philanthropist, and patron of the arts who served as the third democratically elected governor of Puerto Rico from 1969 to 1973. Ferré previously served as an at-large member of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico from 1953 to 1957. After his governorship, he served as the eighth president of the Senate of Puerto Rico from 1977 to 1981.
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Jaimie Branch
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- composermusician
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Jaimie "Breezy" Branch was an American jazz trumpeter and composer.
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Fred Hersch
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- jazz pianistacademic musiciancomposer
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Fred Hersch is an American jazz pianist, composer, and a 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 written and recorded more than 75 original compositions.
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Dave Holland
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- music educatorbandleadercomposerjazz musiciandouble-bassist
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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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Rita Johnson
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- film actoractorstage actor
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Rita Ann Johnson was an American actress.
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Denyce Graves
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- opera singermusic educator
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Denyce Graves is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer.
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Sean Callery
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- composerfilm score composer
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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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- pianistcomposerjazz musician
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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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- composerpianistethnomusicologistuniversity teacher
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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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- violinistjazz musician
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Regina Carter is an American jazz violinist. She is the cousin of jazz saxophonist James Carter.
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Filiz Ali
- Enrolled in New England Conservatory of Music
- 1958-1962 graduated with doctorate
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- piano teacherart directorpianistmusicologistmusic critic
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Filiz Ali is a Turkish pianist, musicologist, music critic and writer. She is the daughter of one of the greatest authors of Turkish literature Sabahattin Ali (1907–1948).
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Joseph Douglass
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- violinist
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Joseph Henry Douglass was an American violinist, the son of Charles Remond Douglass and Mary Elizabeth Murphy, and grandson of abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
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Stephen Gould
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- opera singermusician
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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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Ralph Burns
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- film score composerconductorcomposerjazz musicianpianist
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Ralph Joseph P. Burns was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger.
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Katherine Kennicott Davis
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- pianisthymnwritermusic teacherlyricistcomposer
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Katherine Kennicott Davis was an American composer, pianist, arranger, and teacher, whose best-known composition is the Christmas song "Carol of the Drum", later known as "The Little Drummer Boy".
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Deke Sharon
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- composersinger
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Deke Sharon is an American singer, arranger, composer, director, producer, author, coach, 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" and "the godfather of a cappella".
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Monir Vakili
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- television produceropera singerartistmusic director
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Monir Vakili was an Iranian soprano. She was the first Persian singer to popularise Persian folk songs in Iran and the international music scene.
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George Li
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- pianist
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George Li is an American concert pianist who was a recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2016 and silver medalist of the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition.
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Nobu Kōda
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- violinistpianistcomposer
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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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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, much of his music career was in New York City. Johnson is hailed well over a century later as the music composer of the civic anthem "Lift Every Voice and Sing" first performed live by 500 Black American students from racially-segregated Jacksonville, Florida's First Baptist Academy, in the pivotal year of 1900. The song was published by Joseph W. Stern & Co., Manhattan, New York (later the Edward B. Marks Music Company).
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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 an American 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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George Whitefield Chadwick
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- university teachermusic educatorcomposer
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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. 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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Jane Morgan
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- television actorstage actorviolinistactor
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Jennie "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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- pianistrecording artistjazz musician
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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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- composersaxophonistjazz musicianclarinetist
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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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- military officertrumpeter
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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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- composerjazz musician
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Cindy Lynn Bradley is an American smooth jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player and composer.
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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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Tony Yike Yang
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Tony Yike Yang is a Canadian-Chinese pianist.
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Mohammed Fairouz
- Years
- 1985-.. (age 41)
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Mohammed Fairouz is an American composer.
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Lukáš Vondráček
- Occupations
- 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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Marilyn Crispell
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- composerrecording artistpianistjazz 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 known as a longtime member of saxophonist Anthony Braxton's quartet in the 1980s and '90s.
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Jamie Saft
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- pianistrecord producerjazz musicianfilm score composer
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Jamie Saft is an American keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist and composer. He was raised a Conservative Jew, and studied at Tufts University and the New England Conservatory of Music.
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Werner Janssen
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- film score composerconductorcomposer
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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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Christopher O'Riley
- Occupations
- radio personalitypianist
- Biography
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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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Hisato Ohzawa
- Occupations
- composerconductor
- Biography
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Hisato Ohzawa was a Japanese composer and conductor. Renewed interest in his work reflects the view that he was one of the preeminent Japanese composers of his day.
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Lillian Nordica
- Occupations
- opera singerstage actor
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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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Melissa Ferlaak
- Occupations
- singer-songwriteropera singer
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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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Charlie Albright
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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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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Phyllis Curtin
- Occupations
- university teachermusic educatoropera 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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Sergiu Comissiona
- Occupations
- violinistconductor
- 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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William Joseph 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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Will Lamartine Thompson
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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William Lamartine Thompson was an American composer and music publisher. 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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Dan Tepfer
- Occupations
- pianistmusic educatormusician
- 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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Tessa Lark
- Born in
- United States
- Occupations
- violinist
- Biography
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Tessa Lark is an American concert violinist.
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Darcy James Argue
- Occupations
- bandleadercomposerjazz musician
- Biography
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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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Henry Kimball Hadley
- Occupations
- composerconductor
- Biography
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Henry Kimball Hadley was an American composer and conductor.
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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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Sofia Rei
- Born in
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Argentina - Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Sofia Eugenia Koutsovitis, known professionally as Sofia Rei, is an Argentine 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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Louis Krasner
- Occupations
- musicianconcertmastercomposermusic educatorviolinist
- Biography
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Louis Krasner was a Russian-born American classical violinist who premiered the violin concertos of Alban Berg and Arnold Schoenberg.
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Yasmine Azaiez
- Occupations
- violinistactor
- Biography
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Yasmine Azaiez is a British-born violinist of Tunisian descent. She currently resides in Tunisia.
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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 among 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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Yitzhak Yedid
- Occupations
- composerpianist
- Biography
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Yitzhak Yedid is an Israeli-Australian composer of contemporary classical music. He is also a pianist and an educator.
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Mat Maneri
- Occupations
- violinistjazz musician
- Biography
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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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Tim Brady
- Occupations
- composerjazz musician
- 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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Louis Alter
- Occupations
- composersongwriterpianistfilm score composer
- Biography
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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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Mildred Miller
- Occupations
- opera singermusician
- Biography
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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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Claude Williamson
- Occupations
- pianistjazz musician
- Biography
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Claude Berkeley Williamson was an American jazz pianist.
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Li Shude
- Years
- 1929-2014 (aged 85)
- Occupations
- violinist
- Biography
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Shu-De Li（English: 李淑德, 1929–）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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Shirley Brill
- Occupations
- clarinetistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Shirley Brill is an Israeli clarinetist living in Germany.
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Sophia Brous
- Years
- 1985-.. (age 41)
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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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
- music historianpianistwriterfolkloristbiographer
- 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, Texas, 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
- Occupations
- composermusicologist
- Biography
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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 educatorcomposerjazz musician
- Biography
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Marcus Rojas is an American tubist from New York City.
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Gavriel Lipkind
- Occupations
- cellistmusicianmusic executive
- Biography
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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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Suguru Goto
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 60)
- 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 professor at Tokyo University of the Arts.
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Bill McHenry
- Occupations
- saxophonistrecording artistjazz musician
- Biography
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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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Tupac Mantilla
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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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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Alfred Allen
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Alfred Allen was an American silent film actor and author.
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Tom Varner
- Occupations
- horn playerjazz musician
- Biography
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Tom Varner is an American jazz horn (French horn) player and composer.
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Ed Schuller
- Occupations
- university teacherjazz musician
- Biography
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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
- Biography
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Lior Navok is an Israeli classical composer, conductor and pianist. He was born in Tel Aviv. Navok studied composition privately with the Israeli composer Moshe Zorman, and completed a Bachelor's degree at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, where he studied composition (with Yinam Leef) and conducting. He later completed he studied for a Master's and Doctorate at the New England Conservatory, where he studied with John Harbison.
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John Vincent
- Occupations
- composerconductor
- Biography
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John Nathaniel Vincent Jr. was an American composer, conductor, and music educator.
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Jesús Maria Sanromá
- Occupations
- music educatorpianist
- Biography
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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.
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Arthur Shepherd
- Occupations
- music educatorconductorcomposer
- Biography
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Arthur Shepherd was an American composer and conductor in the 20th century.
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Zaccai Curtis
- Occupations
- bandleaderconductorjazz musician
- Biography
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Zaccai Greg Curtis is an American pianist and composer. He won the 2025 Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album for his album Cubop Lives!
