100 Notable alumni of
New England Conservatory of Music
New England Conservatory of Music is 551st in the world, 212th in North America, and 195th 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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- writeractivistwomen's rights activistpoliticianhuman rights activist
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Coretta Scott King was an American author, activist, civil rights leader, and the wife of Martin Luther King Jr. 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 (1892-94), in the U.S. House of Representatives (1895-1901, 1919) and as mayor of Boston (1906-08, 1910-14).
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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. He earned two Academy Awards for Best Actor nominations for his roles in Mrs. Miniver (1942) and Madame Curie (1943). Pidgeon also starred in many films such as How Green Was My Valley (1941), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), Forbidden Planet (1956), Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961), Advise & Consent (1962), Funny Girl (1968), and Harry in Your Pocket (1973).
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Rachael Price
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- jazz musician
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Rachael Price is an Australian-born 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-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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- musiciancomposer
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George Bernard Worrell, Jr. was an American keyboardist and record producer best known as a founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic and for his work with Talking Heads. 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 Jon Pareles of The New York Times as "the kind of sideman who is as influential as some bandleaders."
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Cecil Taylor
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- classical pianistpoetcomposerwriterjazz pianist
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Cecil Percival Taylor was an American pianist and poet.
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Hettienne Park
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- actortelevision actorstage actorvoice actorfilm actor
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Hettienne Park is an American actress and writer, best known for her role as Beverly Katz on the television series Hannibal. She was born in Boston, grew up in Wayland, Massachusetts, and studied acting at the William Esper Studio in New York City.
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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, most known for Pollyanna (1913) and Just David (1916).
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Neal E. Boyd
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- singeropera singer
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Neal Evans Boyd was an American classical singer, who developed a passion for opera music after being enthralled with 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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Anton Fig
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- drummermusicianstudio musician
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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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- composerdouble-bassistmusic pedagoguejazz musicianbandleader
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Dave Holland is an English jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader who has been performing and recording for five decades. He has lived in the United States for over 40 years.
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Vaughn Monroe
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- bandleaderconductortrumpetersingermusician
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Vaughn Wilton Monroe was an American baritone singer, trumpeter, big band leader, actor, and businessman, 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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Aoife O'Donovan
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- singer-songwritercomposer
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Aoife O'Donovan is an Irish-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 Man in a Neon Coat: Live from Cambridge (2016), as well as multiple noteworthy EPs, including Blue Light (2010), Peachstone (2012), 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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Vic Firth
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- musicianuniversity teacherpercussionistmusical instrument makerbusinessperson
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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 actorstage actortelevision 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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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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Mabel Loomis Todd
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- writereditorpainter
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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 and also wrote several novels and logs of her travel with her husband, astronomer David Peck Todd.
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Luis A. Ferré
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- musicianengineerpoliticianbusinessperson
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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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Fred Hersch
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- pianistmusic pedagoguejazz musicianuniversity teachercomposer
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Fred Hersch is an American jazz pianist, educator and HIV/AIDS activist. 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 70 of his jazz compositions. Hersch has been nominated for several Grammy Awards, and, as of December 2014, had been on the Jazz Studies faculty of the New England Conservatory since 1980 (with breaks).
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Denyce Graves
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- singeropera singermusic pedagogue
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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 James Bond 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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Rita Johnson
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- actorstage actorfilm actor
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Rita Ann Johnson was an American actress.
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John Medeski
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- composerjazz musicianpianist
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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 (a "kids' toy"), among others. When playing acoustic piano, Medeski usually plays the Steinway piano and is listed as a Steinway Artist.
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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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Halim El-Dabh
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- composerethnomusicologistpianistuniversity teacher
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Halim Abdul Messieh El-Dabh was an Egyptian 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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Zhu Xiao-Mei
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- pianistpiano teacheruniversity teacher
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Zhu Xiao-Mei is a Chinese classical pianist and teacher, now based in Paris, France.
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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 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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Ralph Burns
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- conductorpianistcomposerjazz musiciansongwriter
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Ralph Jose P. Burns was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger.
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Joseph Douglass
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- violinist
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Joseph Henry Douglass was a groundbreaking African-American concert violinist, the son of Charles Remond Douglass and Mary Elizabeth Murphy, and grandson of abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
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Monir Vakili
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- singerartistopera singermusic directortelevision producer
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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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George Whitefield Chadwick
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- composermusic pedagogueuniversity teacher
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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 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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- composerviolinistpianist
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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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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 oriental 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 pianist, composer, and bandleader.
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Rachel Z
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- pianistjazz musician
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Rachel Carmel Nicolazzo, better known as Rachel Z, and now Rachel Z Hakim, is a jazz and rock pianist and keyboardist. She has recorded 10 solo albums as a jazz musician. Her musical style has been described by The Guardian as: "unlike singer/pianists Diana Krall, Norah Jones or Jamie Cullum, whose keyboard skills are closer to the song-based jazz mainstream, Rachel Z is an improviser whose spontaneous playing is by no means eclipsed by the work of presiding geniuses such as Herbie Hancock and McCoy Tyner".
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Adolph Herseth
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- military officermusiciantrumpeter
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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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Don Byron
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- composerclarinetistjazz musiciansaxophonist
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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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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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Jane Morgan
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- actorvioliniststage actortelevision actor
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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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Justino Díaz
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- singeropera 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
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- pianist
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Tony Yike Yang is a Canadian-Chinese pianist.
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Heather Masse
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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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Mohammed Fairouz
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- 1985-.. (age 37)
- Occupations
- composer
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Mohammed Fairouz is an American composer.
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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.
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Jamie Saft
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- pianistjazz musicianfilm score composerrecord producer
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Jamie Saft is an American keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist and composer. He was born in New York City, and studied at Tufts University and the New England Conservatory of Music.
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Olga Bell
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- singer-songwriterpianistcomposer
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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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Hisato Ohzawa
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- composerconductor
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Hisato Ohzawa, known in Japan as Hisato Ōsawa, was a Japanese composer. His relative neglect today contrasts with the view that he was one of the preeminent Japanese composers of his day.
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Werner Janssen
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- conductorcomposerfilm score composer
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Hans-Werner Janssen was an American conductor of classical music, and composer 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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Phyllis Curtin
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- singeropera singermusic pedagogueuniversity teacher
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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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Marilyn Crispell
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- pianistcomposerjazz 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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Amanda Forsythe
- Years
- 1976-.. (age 46)
- Occupations
- singeropera singer
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Amanda Forsythe is an American light lyric soprano who is particularly admired for her interpretations of baroque music and the works of Rossini. Forsythe has received continued critical acclaim from many publications including Opera News, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Boston Globe.
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Lillian Nordica
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- singeropera 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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Charlie Albright
- Born in
- United States
- Occupations
- pianist
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Charlie Albright is an American-born classical pianist, composer, and improviser. 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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Jimmy Earl
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- composerjazz musician
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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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Sergiu Comissiona
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- conductorviolinist
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Sergiu Comissiona was a Romanian-Israeli-American conductor and violinist.
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Melissa Ferlaak
- Occupations
- singeropera 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: The First Chapter of Convent Demonic Possession, 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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Jaimie Branch
- Occupations
- musiciancomposer
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Jaimie Breezy Branch is an American jazz trumpeter and composer.
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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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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 subsequently by Peggy Lee, Otis Redding, Paul McCartney, and others.
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Dan Tepfer
- Occupations
- musicianpianistmusic pedagogue
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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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Henry Kimball Hadley
- Occupations
- composerconductor
- Biography
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Henry Kimball Hadley was an American composer and conductor.
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Darcy James Argue
- Occupations
- composerjazz musicianbandleader
- 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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Louis Krasner
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- violinistmusiciancomposermusic pedagogueconcertmaster
- Biography
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Louis Krasner was a renowned Ukrainian-born American classical violinist who premiered the violin concertos of Alban Berg and Arnold Schoenberg.
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Benjamín Gutiérrez
- Occupations
- composer
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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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Yasmine Azaiez
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- 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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Louis Alter
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- composerpianistsongwriterfilm score composer
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Louis Alter was an American pianist, songwriter and composer. At 13 Alter 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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Mat Maneri
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- jazz musicianviolinist
- 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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Yitzhak Yedid
- Occupations
- composerpianist
- Biography
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Yitzhak Yedid is an Israeli-Australian contemporary classical music composer and improvising pianist.
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Shirley Brill
- Occupations
- clarinetistprofessor
- Biography
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Shirley Brill is an Israeli clarinetist living in Germany.
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Mildred Miller
- Occupations
- musiciansingeropera singer
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Mildred Miller is 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 37)
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Sophia Brous is a cross-disciplinary performance-maker based in New York and Melbourne, Australia.
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Maud Cuney Hare
- Occupations
- music historianbiographerfolkloristpianistwriter
- 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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- 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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Tessa Lark
- Born in
- United States
- Occupations
- violinist
- Biography
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Tessa Lark is an American concert violinist from Kentucky.
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Marcus Rojas
- Occupations
- music pedagoguejazz musiciancomposer
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Marcus Rojas is an American tubist from New York City.
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Gavriel Lipkind
- Occupations
- musicianmusic 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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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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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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Bill McHenry
- Occupations
- jazz musiciansaxophonist
- 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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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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Alfred Allen
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Alfred Allen was an American silent film actor and author.
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Suguru Goto
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 56)
- Occupations
- composer
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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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Arthur Shepherd
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- composermusic pedagogueconductor
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Arthur Shepherd was an American composer and conductor in the 20th century.
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John Vincent
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- composerconductor
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John Nathaniel Vincent, Jr was an American composer, conductor, and music educator.
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Gertrude Foster Brown
- Occupations
- pianistteachersuffragistsuffragette
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Gertrude Foster Brown was a concert pianist, teacher, and suffragist. Following the passage of women suffrage in New York State in 1917, and pending passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Brown wrote Your Vote and How to Use It, published in 1918. She was Director-General of the Women's Overseas Hospitals in France, founded by suffragists, in 1918. In addition to her work in the New York suffrage movement, she helped to found the National League of Women Voters. She was the Managing Director of the Woman's Journal from 1921-1931.
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Anthony Glise
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- composerguitaristclassical guitarist
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Anthony Glise is an American guitarist, composer and author. He is the only American guitarist who has won first prize in the International Toscanini Competition held in Italy. He is also the only guitarist to be chosen as "Individual Artist of the Year" by the Missouri State Arts Council.
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Jesús Maria Sanromá
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- music pedagoguepianist
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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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Tracey Adams
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 68)
- Enrolled in New England Conservatory of Music
- In 1980 graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- paintermusician
- Biography
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Tracey Adams is an American abstract painter and printmaker. She was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of a ceramist. Her artworks reflect a strong interest in musical patterns, rhythms, lyrical compositional elements and what she calls a sense of performance. She lives and works in Carmel, California.
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Aram Gharabekian
- Occupations
- conductor
- Biography
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Aram Gharabekian was an Iranian-born Armenian conductor, former Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia. In 1983 he founded and until 1996 directed and conducted the Boston SinfoNova Orchestra.
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Frank Daniels
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- actorstage actorscenographer
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Frank Albert Daniels was a comedian, an actor on stage, early black-and-white silent films, and a singer.
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Percy Jewett Burrell
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- writer
- Biography
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Percy Jewett Burrell was an American author and director of historical and civic pageants. Known for his skills in oratory and elocution, he also taught public speaking and drama, and was known as a "public reciter." A native and lifelong resident of the greater Boston area, he was described by Time magazine as a "professional director of civic and patriotic shows." By the mid-1920s, Burrell had developed a nationwide reputation for his work, having had 75,000 participants in his productions, which had collectively been performed in front of over 900,000 people. According to a printed program used at a service in his memory, "His mastery of the spoken and written word led him to be a well known public speaker with an enviable reputation as a teacher of oratory, and later as an author and director of national distinction." Burrell served as the first supreme historian of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity from 1901 to 1903, and the sixth supreme (national) president of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia fraternity from 1907 to 1914, and along with fraternity founder Ossian E. Mills has been credited by fraternity historians with encouraging the early expansion of and formulating the basic ideals espoused by the fraternity. Much of this fundamental philosophy is encapsulated in his presidential messages expounding the fraternity's Object, which appeared in the Sinfonia Yearbooks between 1908 and 1910. Today, these writings are regularly used to instruct the fraternity's probationary members about the fraternity's Object, and the obligations and expectations of fraternity membership.
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Arthur Nevin
- Years
- 1871-1943 (aged 72)
- Occupations
- composermusicologist
- Biography
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Arthur Finley Nevin was an American composer, conductor, teacher and musicologist. Along with Charles Wakefield Cadman, Blair Fairchild, Charles Sanford Skilton, and Arthur Farwell, among others, he was one of the leading Indianist composers of the early twentieth century.
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Zaccai Curtis
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- bandleaderconductorjazz musician
- Biography
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Zaccai Curtis is a pianist and composer.
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Julia Klumpke
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- violinistmusiciancomposer
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Julia Klumpke, often spelled Julia Klumpkey, was an American concert violinist and composer.
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Avram Fefer
- Occupations
- composerclarinetistjazz musiciansaxophonist
- Biography
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Avram Fefer is an American jazz saxophonist, composer and band leader.
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Mario Braggiotti
- Occupations
- composerpianisthumorist
- Biography
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Mario Braggiotti was a United States pianist, composer and raconteur. His career was launched by George Gershwin, who became his friend and mentor.
