Wu Man

Wu Man

female, 46 years old
Wu Man (born 1963 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China) is a Chinese pipa and ruan player. She is an exponent of the Pudong School of pipa playing. She...
David Grisman

David Grisman

male, 64 years old
David Grisman is an acclaimed mandolin player. As a teenager, David met and studied with mandolinist/folklorist, Ralph Rinzler. He learned to play...
Kimmo Pohjonen

Kimmo Pohjonen

male, 45 years old
Kimmo Pohjonen (born August 16, 1964) is a Finnish accordionist, whose music can be said to stretch from Finnish folk music to rock and improvised...
Kevin Volans

Kevin Volans

male, 60 years old
Kevin Volans is a composer associated with the post-minimalist movement in contemporary composition. He was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa...
Hamza el Din

Hamza el Din

male, deceased (2006)
Hamza El Din (b. Toshka, Egypt, July 10, 1929; d. Berkeley, California, May 22, 2006), was a Nubian oud player, "tar" player, and vocalist. Born in...
David Lang

David Lang

male, 52 years old
David Lang (born January 8, 1957 in Los Angeles, California) is an American composer. Together with Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon, Lang co-founded...
Foday Musa Suso

Foday Musa Suso

male
Foday Musa Suso (b. Sarre Hamadi Village, Wuli District, in the Upper River Division of eastern Gambia) is a musician and composer from the West...

Franghiz Ali-Zadeh

female
Franghiz Ali-Zadeh (Azerbaijani Firəngiz Əlizadə, Russian Франгиз Али-Заде; born 29 May 1947, Baku) is an Azerbaijani composer and pianist, currentl...
Muhal Richard Abrams

Muhal Richard Abrams

male, 79 years old
Muhal Richard Abrams is a pianist, composer, and cofounder of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), the influential...
Carlos Paredes

Carlos Paredes

male, deceased (2004)
Carlos Paredes, <small>ComSE</small&gt;, pron., (February 16 1925-July 23 2004) was a Portuguese guitar player, born in Coimbra, son to the equally...