Classical musicians from Michigan

The list Classical musicians from Michigan includes Maria Ewing, Bejun Mehta, Cheryl Studer, Robert Ashley and Thomas Schippers. The list consists of 77 members.

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Maria Ewing

American opera singer (1950–2022)

Overview: Maria Louise Ewing (March 27, 1950 – January 9, 2022) was an American opera singer who has sung both soprano and mezzo-soprano roles. She is noted as much for her acting as her singing.

Date of birth: 27 March 1950

Date of death: 9 January 2022

Age: 71 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Opera singer

Gender: Female

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20th-century African-American women opera singers 65T

2022 deaths 151T

African-American women opera singers 63T
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Bejun Mehta

opera singer

Overview: Bejun Mehta (born 1968 or 1969) is an American countertenor. He has been awarded the Echo Klassik, the Gramophone Award, Le Diamant d’Opera Magazine, the Choc de Classica, the Traetta Prize, and been ...

Date of birth: 29 June 1968

Age: 56

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Opera singer

Gender: Male

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Classical musicians from North Carolina 6T

21st-century American opera singers 189T

20th-century American opera singers 581T
3.

Thomas Schippers

American conductor

Overview: Thomas Schippers (9 March 1930 – 16 December 1977) was an American conductor. He was highly regarded for his work in opera.

Date of birth: 9 March 1930

Date of death: 16 December 1977

Age: 47 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Conductor

Gender: Male

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American male organists 374T

20th-century American male musicians 6,873T

20th-century American conductors (music) 591T
4.

Lucia Dlugoszewski

American classical composer

Overview: Lucia Dlugoszewski (June 16, 1925 – April 11, 2000) was a Polish-American composer, poet, choreographer, performer, and inventor. She created over a hundred musical instruments, including the timbre piano ...

Date of birth: 16 June 1925

Date of death: 11 April 2000

Age: 74 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Performance Artist

Gender: Female

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20th-century women composers 1,221T

20th-century American women musicians 816T

20th-century American composers 2,513T
5.

Kim Kashkashian

Violist

Overview: Kim Kashkashian (born August 31, 1952) is an American violist. She is recognized as one of the world's top violists. She has spent her career in the US and Europe and collaborated with many major cont ...

Date of birth: 31 August 1952

Age: 72

Nationality: American

Occupation: Musician

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Women violists 60T

Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" faculty 85T

ECM Records artists 225T
6.

Eve Beglarian

American composer and musician

Overview: Eve Beglarian (born Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S., July 22, 1958) is a contemporary American composer, performer and audio producer of Armenian descent. Her music is often characterized as postminimalist ...

Date of birth: 22 July 1958

Age: 66

Nationality: American

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Female

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LGBT classical composers 103T

American contemporary classical composers 42T

20th-century women composers 1,221T
7.

Cheryl Studer

American soprano opera singer

Overview: Cheryl Studer (born October 24, 1955) is an American dramatic soprano who has sung at many of the world's foremost opera houses. Studer has performed more than eighty roles ranging from the dramatic r ...

Date of birth: 24 October 1955

Age: 69

Nationality: American

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

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Hochschule für Musik Würzburg faculty 20T

21st-century women opera singers 489T

20th-century women opera singers 1,242T
8.

Robert Ashley

American composer

Overview: Robert Reynolds Ashley (March 28, 1930 – March 3, 2014) was an American contemporary composer, who was best known for his television operas and other theatrical works, many of which incorporate electronics ...

Date of birth: 28 March 1930

Date of death: 3 March 2014

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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20th-century American male musicians 6,873T

21st-century American male musicians 4,997T

People from Tribeca 20T
9.

Anita Darian

American singer and actress

Overview: Anita Darian (April 26, 1927 – February 1, 2015) was an American singer and actress who had an extensive career from the 1950s to the 2010s.

Date of birth: 26 April 1927

Date of death: 1 February 2015

Age: 87 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

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Cooley High School alumni 22T

Singers from Detroit 254T

21st-century American women 15,152T
10.

Paul Riser

American musician

Overview: Paul Riser (born September 11, 1943) is an American trombonist and Motown musical arranger who was responsible for co-writing and arranging dozens of top ten hit records. His legacy as one of the "Funk ...

Date of birth: 15 August 1936

Age: 88

Nationality: American

Occupation: Educator

Gender: Male

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21st-century American male musicians 4,997T

21st-century American conductors (music) 471T

21st-century male musicians 9,676T
11.

Angela Jia Kim

American classical pianist

Overview: Angela Jia Kim (born in East Lansing, Michigan) is an American classical pianist.

Nationality: American

Occupation: Pianist

Gender: Female

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21st-century American women musicians 884T

Classical musicians from New York (state) 382T

American women classical pianists 179T
12.

Charles Gerhardt

American conductor

Overview: Charles Allan Gerhardt (February 6, 1927 – February 22, 1999) was an American conductor, record producer, and arranger.

Date of birth: 6 February 1927

Date of death: 22 February 1999

Age: 72 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Male

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20th-century American male musicians 6,873T

20th-century American conductors (music) 591T

20th-century male musicians 12,801T
13.

Ruth Laredo

US-American classical pianist

Overview: Ruth Laredo (November 20, 1937 – May 25, 2005) was an American classical pianist.

Date of birth: 20 November 1937

Date of death: 25 May 2005

Age: 67 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Female

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Mumford High School alumni 16T

20th-century American women musicians 816T

American women classical pianists 179T
14.

Frank Porretta

American opera, musical, and concert singer

Overview: Frank Porretta Jr. (May 4, 1930, Detroit – April 23, 2015, Stamford, Connecticut) was an American tenor who had an active career performing in operas, musicals, and concerts from 1952 through 1971. He ...

Date of birth: 4 May 1930

Date of death: 23 April 2015

Age: 84 (age at death)

Occupation: Opera singer

Gender: Male

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University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance alumni 270T

20th-century American opera singers 581T

20th-century male singers 5,297T
15.

Marsha Mabrey

African American conductor

Overview: Marsha Eve Mabrey (born November 7, 1949) is an African American conductor, educator, violinist and violist. She was the first African American woman to be appointed and serve as the conductor of the ...

Date of birth: 7 November 1949

Age: 75

Nationality: American

Occupation: Conductor

Gender: Female

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David Van De Pitte

Music arranger

Overview: David J. Van De Pitte (October 28, 1941 – August 9, 2009) was an American music arranger and bass player. He is best known for his work at Motown Records during the 1960s and early 1970s, when he ...

Date of birth: 28 October 1941

Date of death: 9 August 2009

Age: 67 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Bassist

Gender: Male

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20th-century classical trombonists 49T

20th-century American male musicians 6,873T

20th-century American conductors (music) 591T
17.

Michelle DeYoung

American opera singer

Overview: Michelle DeYoung (born 1968, Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States) is an American classical vocalist who has an active international career performing in operas and concerts.

Date of birth: 1968

Age: 56

Nationality: American

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

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Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers 202T

Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers 81T

Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers 114T
18.

Bion Tsang

American-Chinese musician

Overview: Bion Yu-Ting Tsang (traditional Chinese/simplified Chinese: 章雨亭; pinyin: Zhāng Yǔ-Tíng) (born May 4, 1967) is an American cellist and professor.

Date of birth: 4 May 1967

Age: 58

Nationality: American

Occupation: Educator

Gender: Male

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Musicians from Lansing, Michigan 12T

Chinese classical cellists 7T

University of Texas at Austin faculty 549T
19.

Florence Cole Talbert

American opera singer

Overview: Florence Cole Talbert-McCleave (born Florence Cole, June 17, 1890 – April 3, 1961), also known as Madame Florence Cole-Talbert, was an American operatic soprano, music educator, and musician. Called "The ...

Date of birth: 17 June 1890

Date of death: 3 April 1961

Age: 70 (age at death)

Occupation: Opera singer

Gender: Female

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African-American female opera singers 57T

20th-century women opera singers 1,242T

20th-century American opera singers 581T
20.

Elizabeth Parcells

American coloratura soprano

Overview: Elizabeth Parcells (December 28, 1951 in Detroit, Michigan – December 29, 2005 in Detroit, Michigan) was an American coloratura soprano. In the United States, she sang at the Michigan Opera Theater, the ...

Date of birth: 28 December 1951

Date of death: 29 December 2005

Age: 54 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Opera singer

Gender: Female

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20th-century women opera singers 1,242T

21st-century American opera singers 189T

20th-century American opera singers 581T