Yo-Yo Ma

Yo-Yo Ma

male, 54 years old
cellist, American classical cellist, French, Grammy awards, United States National Medal of Arts recipient, From Ningbo…JuilliardSchoolofMusicalumni, Harvard University alumni
Yo-Yo Ma (b. October 7, 1955) is a French-born American cellist of world renown and the winner of multiple Grammy Awards.
Miles Davis

Miles Davis

male, deceased (1991)
cool jazz, trumpet, bebop, Jazz fusion, Bebop musician, Trumpet player…Birth of the Cool, kind of blue, JuilliardSchoolofMusicalumni, Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame, rock and roll hall of fame
Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 - September 28, 1991) was an American jazz musician, widely considered one of the most influential of the 20th...
Dorothy Delay

Dorothy Delay

female, deceased (2002)
from Kansas, Juilliard School faculty, JuilliardSchoolofMusicalumni, cancer death, music educator, Oberlin College alumni…United States National Medal of Arts recipient, juilliard school, Michigan State University alumni, University of Colorado, Royal College of Music
Dorothy DeLay was an American violin instructor at the Juilliard School. Born in Medicine Lodge, Kansas, her pedagogy is considered revolutionary,...
John Williams

John Williams

male, 77 years old
Star Wars music, film score composer, Schindler's List, American, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws…Raiders of the Lost Ark, JuilliardSchoolofMusicalumni, Memoirs of a Geisha, Best Original Music Score Oscar winner, Easy listening music
John Towner Williams (born February 8 1932) is an American composer, conductor and pianist. In a career that spans six decades, Williams has...
Leonard Slatkin

Leonard Slatkin

male, 65 years old (SAINT LOUIS, Missouri, United States)
Frederick Zlotkin, St. Louis Cardinal, JuilliardSchoolofMusicalumni, New Orleans Symphony, New Orleans Philharmonic Orchestra, digital stereo…United States National Medal of Arts recipient, St. Louis music, juilliard school, director of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, has emerged as one of the world's great conductors
Leonard Slatkin (born September 1 1944) is an American conductor. His father was the violinist, conductor and founder of the Hollywood String...
Philip Glass

Philip Glass

male, 72 years old
Minimalist music, composer, film score composer, Opera composer, American, Songwriter…Theater Music, JuilliardSchoolofMusicalumni, julliard school, juilliard school, University of Chicago
Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an Academy Award-nominated American composer. His music is frequently described as "minimalist", though he...
Henry Mancini

Henry Mancini

male, deceased (1994)
American military personnel of World War II, JuilliardSchoolofMusicalumni, Grammy, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Grammy Award winner, composer…Light music composer, Best Original Music Score Academy Award winner, Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee, Easy listening music
Henry Mancini (April 16, 1924 - June 14, 1994), was an Academy Award winning American composer, conductor and arranger. He is remembered...
Emanuel Ax

Emanuel Ax

male, 60 years old
Yoko Nozaki, chopin, Jewish person, JuilliardSchoolofMusicalumni, Galician, Christopher Rouse…juilliard school, Columbia University alumni, Juilliard Orchestra
Emanuel Ax (born June 8, 1949) is a Jewish-American pianist. Born in Lviv, Ukraine (then a constituent republic of the Soviet Union) to parents...
Pinchas Zukerman

Pinchas Zukerman

male, 61 years old
Arianna Zukerman, Israeli classical violist, JuilliardSchoolofMusicalumni, viola, violist, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra…juilliard school
Pinchas Zukerman is a noted Israeli violinist, violist, and conductor who was appointed Music Director of Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra...
Bernard Herrmann

Bernard Herrmann

male, deceased (1975)
death by myocardial infarction, JuilliardSchoolofMusicalumni, the devil and daniel webster, death from cardiovascular disease, The War of the Worlds, Songwriter
Bernard Herrmann (June 29, 1911 - December 24, 1975) was an Academy Award-winning composer ("The Devil and Daniel Webster", 1941). Although...