Merekotia Amohau
Composer of traditional and contemporary Māori music and was one of the foremost authorities on historical chants of Te Arawa.
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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.
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).
Sarah Kirkland Snider
Called “an important representative of 21st-century trends in composition”, composer Sarah Kirkland Snider writes music of direct expression and dramatic narrative that has been hailed as “rapturous” (The New York Times), “groundbreaking” (The Boston Globe), and “ravishingly beautiful” (NPR).
Gabriela Lena Frank
Identity has always been at the center of composer/pianist Gabriela Lena Frank’s music.