Music Archives - Page 27 of 35

Hildegard von Bingen

German abbess and mystic who organized a school of nurses for service in the hospitals; noted composer whose works are still performed today, as well as a brewer and herbalist who described using hops in beer.

Merekotia Amohau

Composer of traditional and contemporary Māori music and was one of the foremost authorities on historical chants of Te Arawa.

Nellie Melba

Australian opera singer of international renown

Rita Moreno

Rita Moreno has influenced the entertainment industry for over 70 years as an actress, singer, and dancer. After earning the four major entertainment awards: an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony, Moreno became the first Latina woman to have an “E.G.O.T.” In 2004, she was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her many contributions to the arts.

Margaret Ogg

Margaret Ogg was a journalist and a leader in the suffrage campaign in Queensland, where she also aligned herself with temperance reform.

Georgia Lee

Georgia Lee was a jazz and blues singer of international renown who, in the 1950s was called ‘Melbourne’s Number One Female Singer’. Of Torres Strait Islander and Cloncurry Aboriginal descent, she was the first Indigenous artist to record a full album, and the first Australian to record one in stereo.

Gabriela Lena Frank

Identity has always been at the center of composer/pianist Gabriela Lena Frank’s music.

Heather Christian

Heather Christian is an Obie Award-winning composer and singer-songwriter.

Helen Grime

Composer Helen Grime has had works commissioned by ensembles and institutions including the London Symphony Orchestra, Barbican Centre, Aldeburgh Music, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Britten Sinfonia, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Tanglewood Music Center.

Missy Mazzoli

Grammy-nominated composer Missy Mazzoli was deemed “one of the more consistently inventive, surprising composers now working in New York” (The New York Times) and “Brooklyn’s post-millennial Mozart” (Time Out New York).