- Carl Orff
Carl Orff (July 10, 1895 - March 29, 1982) was a 20th-century German composer, most famous for "Carmina Burana" (1937). He was also successful and influential in the field of music education. - Nadia Boulanger
Nadia Boulanger (September 16, 1887 - October 22, 1979) was an influential French composer, conductor, and music professor. An outstanding music educator at the highest level, she taught many of the most important composers and conductors of the 20th century. - Lowell Mason
Lowell Mason (January 8, 1792- August 11, 1872) was a leading figure in American church music, the composer of over 1600 hymns, many of which are often sung today. He was also largely responsible for introducing music into American public schools, and is considered to be the first important music educator in the United States. - Jamey Aebersold
Jamey Aebersold (born July 21, 1939) is an American jazz saxophonist and music educator. His "Play-A-Long" series of instructional book and CD collections, the first of which was released in 1967, are an internationally renowned resource for jazz education. As of 2006 more than 120 of these collections have been published by Aebersold, who currently teaches musical improvisation at the University of Louisville. He is also an adept pianist, bassist, and banjoist. - Felix Mendelssohn
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born and known generally as Felix Mendelssohn (February 3, 1809 - November 4, 1847) was a German composer and conductor of the early Romantic period. Born to a notable Jewish family, being the grandson of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. His work includes symphonies, concertos, oratorios, piano and chamber music. After a long period of relative denigration due to changing musical tastes in the late 19th century, … - Michael Tilson Thomas
Michael Tilson Thomas (b. December 21, 1944), aka MTT, is an American conductor, pianist and composer who directs the San Francisco Symphony. - Shinichi Suzuki
Shin'ichi Suzuki was the creator of the international Suzuki method of music education. Considered to be one of the most influential pedagogues of the 20th century, he often spoke about the ability of all children to learn things well, given the right environment. - Zoltán Kodály
Zoltán Kodály, (approximate pronunciation, Zol-tan Koddah-ee) (December 16, 1882 - March 6, 1967) was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, educator, linguist and philosopher. Though born in Kecskemét, Kodály spent most of his childhood in Galánta and Nagyszombat (now Trnava, Slovakia). His father was a stationmaster and keen amateur musician, and Kodály learned to play the violin as a child. He also sang in a cathedral choir and wrote music, … - Anthony Braxton
Anthony Braxton (born June 4, 1945 in Chicago) is an American composer, saxophonist, clarinettist, flautist, and pianist. He has created a large body of highly complex work. While not known by the general public, Braxton is one of the most prolific American musicians/composers to date, having released well over 100 albums of his works since the 1960s. Among the vast array of instruments he utilizes are the flute; the sopranino, soprano, C-Melody, F alto, E-flat alto, … - Edwin Gordon
Edwin E. Gordon is an influential researcher, teacher, author, editor, and lecturer in the field of music education. Through extensive research, Gordon has made major contributions to the study of music aptitudes, audiation, music learning theory, rhythm in movement and music, and music development in infants and very young children. He is the author of several seminal works in the field of music education, including "Learning Sequences in Music: Skill, Content, … - Ella Jenkins
Ella Jenkins Dubbed “The First Lady of the Children’s Folk Song” by the "Wisconsin State Journal", Ella Jenkins has been a leading performer of children’s music for fifty years.<sup>1</sup> <br><br> - John Marshall
John Marshall, born 1954-05-01 is a American percussionist. He has worked with many internationally acclaimed musicians including David Darling, George Benson, Benjamin Verdery, and the Paul Winter Consort. - George Garzone
George Garzone Garzone is well-known as a sought-after jazz educator, teaching at the Berklee College of Music, New England Conservatory, Longy School of Music, New York University and the New School University Jazz and Contemporary Program. He has pioneered the triadic chromatic approach and students of his have included Joshua Redman, Branford Marsalis, Teadross Avery, Luciana Souza, Mark Turner, Donny McCaslin, Doug Yates and Danilo Pérez, to name a few. - Mstislav Rostropovich
Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich KBE, (March 27 1927 - April 27 2007), known to close friends as “Slava”, was a cellist and conductor. He was married to the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya. He was one of the greatest cellists of the twentieth century. - Andrew Hill
Andrew Hill (June 30, 1931 - April 20, 2007) was an American jazz pianist and composer. - Michael Davis
Michael Davis is a bass guitarist, singer, songwriter and music producer. He replaced original MC5 bassist Pat Burrows when singer Rob Tyner and guitarist Wayne Kramer decided that they liked Davis' style and wanted him in the band. Michael Davis, bass, Wayne Kramer, guitar, Fred “Sonic” Smith, guitar, Dennis “Machine Gun” Thompson, drums, and Rob Tyner, vocals, are the MC5. - Dorothy Delay
Dorothy DeLay was an American violin instructor at the Juilliard School. Born in Medicine Lodge, Kansas, her pedagogy is considered revolutionary, and she is generally regarded as the most influential American violin teacher of the late 20th century. - Gunild Keetman
Gunild Keetman (1904-1990) was the primary originator, along with Carl Orff, of the approach (not a method!) to teaching music known as Orff Schulwerk. Keetman was responsible for most of the actual teaching that was done in the early stages of the movement, perhaps most prominently as the teacher for the radio and television broadcasts that popularized the Schulwerk throughout Germany in the 1950s. - Claude T. Smith
Claude Thomas Smith (March 14, 1932-December 13, 1987) was an American educator, conductor, and composer. He was born in Monroe City, Missouri, and he died in Kansas City, Missouri. - Josef Gingold
Josef Gingold was born in Brest-Litovsk, Russian Empire and emigrated to the United States in 1920 where he studied violin with Vladimir Graffman in New York City and then moved to Belgium for several years to study with master violinist Eugène Ysaÿe. In 1937 he won a spot in the NBC Symphony Orchestra with Arturo Toscanini as its conductor, then was the concertmaster (and occasional soloist) of the Detroit Orchestra, … - John Langstaff
John Langstaff (December 24, 1920 - December 13, 2005) was the founder of the Northeast United States tradition of the Christmas Revels, as well as a respected musician and educator. He attended the Curtis Institute of Music as well as Juilliard. In 1943 he married Diane Hamilton. He was later married to Nancy Woodbridge, a pianist. Langstaff's lifelong project, the Christmas Revels, began in 1957 with a show in New York. In 1971 the longest running Revels, in Cambridge, … - Luther Whiting Mason
Luther-Whiting Mason (1818 - 14 July 1896) was an American music educator who was hired by the Meiji period government of Japan as a foreign advisor to introduce Western music into the Japanese educational curriculum. Mason was born in Turner, Maine. He had been working as a music teacher for many years, was in Louisville (1852-55), followed by Cincinnati (1856-64), and Boston (1864-79). In addition to teaching, Mason collected songs, wrote textbooks, … - Émile Jaques-Dalcroze
Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, was a Swiss musician and music educator who developed eurhythmics, a method of learning and experiencing music through movement. (The influence of Eurhythmics can be seen in the Orff Schulwerk pedagogy, common in public school music education throughout the United States.) The Dalcroze Method is a method of teaching musical concepts through movement. A variety of movement analogues are used for musical concepts, … - Wadada Leo Smith
Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (18 December 1941 in Leland, Mississippi) is a trumpeter and composer working primarily in the fields of avant-garde jazz and free improvisation. He started out playing drums, mellophone and French horn before he settled on the trumpet. He played in various R&B groups and by 1967 became a member of the AACM and co-founded the Creative Construction Company, a trio with Leroy Jenkins and Anthony Braxton. In 1971 Smith formed his own label, Kabell. - Greg Lyne
Dr. Greg Lyne is a noted choral director, arranger, composer and vocal educator. Currently the full-time Director of Voices In Harmony, he has also directed the Masters of Harmony to three International Chorus Championships of the Barbershop Harmony Society (1990, 1993, & 1996), and the West Towns Chorus to one (1987). He previously served as Director of Music Education and Services for the Society. - Leopold Mozart
Johann Georg Leopold Mozart was a composer, music teacher and violinist. He was born in the city of Augsburg (Germany), and was legally a citizen of the Diocese of Salzburg (now in Austria), but spent much of his time in Vienna, Austria, (all within the Holy Roman Empire). He is best known today for being the father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as well as writing the well-known book, "Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule", but in his time, … - Ivan Galamian
Ivan Alexander Galamian (January 23, 1903-April 14, 1981) was one of the most influential violin teachers of the Twentieth Century. He was born in Tabriz, Persia, to Armenians from Russia, but his family soon emigrated to Moscow, Russia. Galamian studied violin at the School of the Philharmonic Society there with Konstantin Mostras (a student of Leopold Auer) until his graduation in 1919. - John Curwen
John Curwen (1816-1880) was an English Congregationalist minister, and founder of the Tonic Sol-fa system of musical teaching. John Curwen was born November 14, 1816 at Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, the son of Spedding Curwen and Mary Jubb. His father was a Non-conformist minister, as John was also from 1838 until 1864. Curwen gave up full time ministry in order to devote himself to his new method of musical nomenclature. - Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric Chopin (Polish: Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, sometimes "Szopen"; French: Frédéric François Chopin; English surname pronunciation: or ; March 1, 1810, Żelazowa Wola - October 17, 1849, Paris) was a Polish piano composer of the Romantic period. He is widely regarded as one of the most famous, influential, and prolific composers for piano of all time. Chopin was born in the village of Żelazowa Wola, … - Dan Welcher
Dan Welcher (born 1948) is an American composer, conductor, and music educator. Welcher was born in Rochester, New York and earned degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the Manhattan School of Music, studying bassoon, piano, and composition. He served the Louisville Orchestra as its Principal Bassoonist and taught composition and theory at the University of Louisville from 1972 to 1978. - Rachel Barton Pine
Rachel Barton Pine (born October 11, 1974) is a violinist from Chicago. Considered a child prodigy at the violin, she started playing at the age of 3 and a half. She played at many renowned venues through her child and teen years. She currently resides in Chicago with her husband Greg, plays regularly with the Chicago Symphony and on her own, tours worldwide, and has an active recording career. - Patrick Allen
Patrick Allen is the English author of Singing Matters (Heinemann publishers), which won the Times Educational Supplement Schoolbook Award in 1999. He also won The Guardian Award for Teacher of the Year in a Secondary School in 2004. He works as an Advanced Skills Teacher and as a music education consultant, based at Ifield Community College in Crawley, England where he is also Head of Music. He was awarded Advanced Skills Teacher status in 2001. - Leopold Auer
Leopold Auer, (June 7, 1845 - July 15, 1930) was a Hungarian violinist, teacher, conductor and composer. Auer was born in Veszprém to a Jewish family, but became a Christian later in life. He first studied violin with a local concertmaster. He later continued his studies with Ridley Kohné in Budapest, Jacques Dont in Vienna and finally Joseph Joachim in Hanover. He settled in St. Petersburg and taught at the conservatoire there from 1868 to 1917, … - Leonard Rose
Leonard Rose (July 27, 1918 - November 16, 1984) is considered one of the greatest American cellists of the 20th century. Born in Washington, D.C., Rose took lessons from Walter Grossman, Frank Miller and Felix Salmond and after completing his studies at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music at age 20, he joined Arturo Toscanini's NBC Symphony Orchestra, and almost immediately became associate principal. - Chris Brien
Chris Brien from Australia is a professional drummer and a popular drum clinician. Brien grew up in Australia, and lives in Sydney. Chris Brien is currently one of Australia's most in demand live and studio drummers. He has been named "The Drumming Wizard Of Oz" because his musical tallent. Chris Brien does many workshops around Australia and in other parts of the World. - Clara Kathleen Rogers
Clara Kathleen Rogers, was an American composer, singer, writer and music educator. - Gregor Piatigorsky
Gregor Piatigorsky was a Ukrainian cellist well known in his time. Gregor Piatigorsky, or occasionally known as "Grisha," was born in Ekaterinoslav and studied violin and piano with his father as a child. After seeing and hearing the cello, he determined to become a cellist and constructed a play cello with two sticks. He was given a real cello when he was seven. He won a scholarship to the Moscow Conservatory, … - Paul Katz
Paul Katz is an American cellist. He is known to concertgoers the world over as cellist of the Cleveland Quartet, which during an international career of 26 years, made more than 2,500 appearances on four continents. As a member of this celebrated ensemble from 1969-1995, … - Allen Britton
Allen Perdue Britton was an American music educator. Through his many passions in life he contributed to the field of music education by bringing the doctoral program up to the same stature as the field of musicology. He was the one who actually developed the doctorate program at the University of Michigan and eventually directed 51 dissertations there. He contributed heavily to the field of understanding of music practices in early America, … - Bernard Greenhouse
Bernard Greenhouse (born 1916) is a well-known cellist and one of the founding members of the Beaux Arts Trio. He started his professional studies with Felix Salmond at Juilliard when he was eighteen. After four years of study with Salmond, Greenhouse proceeded to move on to studies with Emanuel Feuermann, Diran Alexanian, Raya Garbousova and Pablo Casals. After finishing studies with Casals, Greenhouse went on to pursue a solo career for twelve years.
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