Curtis Institute of Music faculty

The list Curtis Institute of Music faculty includes Ivan Galamian, Samuel Barber, Jorge Bolet, Jascha Brodsky and Spiro Malas. The list consists of 68 members.

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Private music school in Philadelphia, United States

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Ivan Galamian

Armenian-American violin teacher

Overview: Ivan Alexander Galamian (Armenian: Իվան Ղալամեան; February 5 [O.S. January 23] 1903 – April 14, 1981) was an American violin teacher of the twentieth century.

Date of birth: 23 January 1903

Date of death: 14 April 1981

Age: 78 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Violinist

Gender: Male

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Male classical violinists 1,044T

20th-century American male musicians 6,873T

20th-century male musicians 12,801T
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Samuel Barber

American composer

Overview: Samuel Osmond Barber II (March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981) was an American composer, pianist, conductor, baritone, and music educator. One of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century; music critic ...

Date of birth: 9 March 1910

Date of death: 23 January 1981

Age: 70 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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LGBT classical composers 103T

American contemporary classical composers 42T

20th-century American male musicians 6,873T
3.

Jascha Brodsky

American musician

Overview: Jascha Brodsky (June 6, 1907 – March 3, 1997) was a Russian-American violinist and teacher.

Date of birth: 6 June 1907

Date of death: 3 March 1997

Age: 89 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Violinist

Gender: Male

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Musicians from Kharkiv 38T

Male classical violinists 1,044T

20th-century American male musicians 6,873T
4.

Jorge Bolet

American musician

Overview: Jorge Bolet (November 15, 1914 – October 16, 1990) was a Cuban-born American virtuoso pianist and teacher. Among his teachers were Leopold Godowsky, and Moriz Rosenthal – the latter an outstanding ...

Date of birth: 15 November 1914

Date of death: 16 October 1990

Age: 75 (age at death)

Nationality: Cuban

Occupation: Pianist

Gender: Male

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20th-century American male musicians 6,873T

20th-century male musicians 12,801T

American male pianists 2,053T
5.

Spiro Malas

American opera singer

Overview: Spiro Samuel Malas (January 28, 1933 – June 23, 2019) was a Greek-American bass-baritone opera singer and actor.

Date of birth: 28 January 1933

Date of death: 23 June 2019

Age: 86 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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20th-century American opera singers 581T

2019 deaths 9,204T

20th-century male singers 5,297T
6.

Vittorio Giannini

American composer

Overview: Vittorio Giannini (October 19, 1903, Philadelphia – November 28, 1966, New York City) was a neoromantic American composer of operas, songs, symphonies, and band works.

Date of birth: 19 October 1903

Date of death: 28 November 1966

Age: 63 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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20th-century American male musicians 6,873T

Classical musicians from Pennsylvania 181T

20th-century male musicians 12,801T
7.

Gary Graffman

American musician

Overview: Gary Graffman (born October 14, 1928) is an American classical pianist, teacher and administrator.

Date of birth: 14 October 1928

Age: 96

Nationality: Russian

Occupation: Pianist

Gender: Male

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20th-century American male musicians 6,873T

21st-century American male musicians 4,997T

Male classical pianists 1,919T
8.

Franco Ferrara

Italian composer

Overview: Franco Ferrara (Palermo, 4 July 1911 – Florence, 6 September 1985) was an Italian conductor.

Date of birth: 4 July 1911

Date of death: 7 September 1985

Age: 74 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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Musicians from Palermo 54T

Conservatorio Santa Cecilia faculty 9T

20th-century Italian conductors (music) 146T
9.

Queena Mario

American opera singer

Overview: Queena Marian Tillotson (August 21, 1896 – May 28, 1951), known professionally as Queena Mario, was an American soprano opera singer, newspaper columnist, voice teacher, and fiction writer.

Date of birth: 21 August 1896

Date of death: 28 May 1951

Age: 54 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Opera singer

Gender: Female

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Plainfield High School (New Jersey) alumni 24T

20th-century women opera singers 1,242T

Classical musicians from New Jersey 82T
10.

Alexander Lambert

Overview: Alexander Lambert (November 1, 1863 – December 31, 1929) was a pianist and a piano teacher, who was struck and killed by a taxicab in Manhattan, New York City.

Date of birth: 1 November 1863

Date of death: 31 December 1929

Age: 66 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Pianist

Gender: Male

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American male pianists 2,053T

Pedestrian road accident deaths 218T

Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States 780T
11.

Sara Cahier

American opera singer and teacher

Overview: Sara Cahier (8 January 1870 – 15 April 1951) was an American-born mezzo-soprano or contralto singer in opera and lieder, singing primarily in Europe. Cahier later acquired Swedish citizenship. She ...

Date of birth: 8 January 1870

Date of death: 15 April 1951

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: Swedish

Occupation: Opera singer

Gender: Female

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19th-century women singers 504T

Women music educators 982T

Swedish operatic mezzo-sopranos 23T
12.

Paul Makanowitzky

American musician

Overview: Paul Makanowitzky (June 20, 1920 Stockholm – February 24, 1998 Freeport, Maine) was an American violinist, and violin teacher.

Date of birth: 20 June 1920

Date of death: 24 February 1998

Age: 77 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Violinist

Gender: Male

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20th-century American male musicians 6,873T

20th-century male musicians 12,801T

American male violinists 412T
13.

Louis Svečenski

Croatian American violinist

Overview: Louis Svećenski (Croatian: Ljudevit "Lujo" Svećenski, born Ljudevit Kohn; November 7, 1862 – June 18, 1926) was notable Croatian - American violist - violinist and rector of the Boston Academy of Music ...

Date of birth: 7 November 1862

Date of death: 18 June 1926

Age: 63 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Violinist

Gender: Male

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Male classical violinists 1,044T

American male violinists 412T

Male violinists 1,628T
14.

Margaret Harshaw

Singer

Overview: Margaret Harshaw (12 May 1909 – 7 November 1997) was an American opera singer and voice teacher who sang for 22 consecutive seasons at the Metropolitan Opera from November 1942 to March 1964. She began ...

Date of birth: 12 May 1909

Date of death: 7 November 1997

Age: 88 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Opera singer

Gender: Female

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Winners of the Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air 12T

20th-century women opera singers 1,242T

20th-century American opera singers 581T
15.

Anton Torello

Spanish-born American double bassist

Overview: Anton Torello (Catalan: Antoni Torelló i Ros, 30 June 1884, Sant Sadurní d'Anoia – 1960, Los Angeles) was a Catalan double bass player. He was Principal Bass of the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1914 until ...

Date of birth: 30 June 1884

Date of death: 1 June 1960

Age: 75 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Bassist

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Musicians of the Philadelphia Orchestra 39T

20th-century American male musicians 6,873T

Male double-bassists 693T
16.

Carter Brey

American cello virtuoso

Overview: Carter Brey (born 1954) is an American cello virtuoso. He had a prolific solo career from 1981 until 1996 when he became the principal cellist of the New York Philharmonic, a position he still holds today ...

Date of birth: 1954

Age: 70

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Peabody Institute alumni 109T

American classical musicians 181T

American classical cellists 114T
17.

Isadore Freed

Jewish composer

Overview: Isadore Freed (March 26, 1900 – November 10, 1960) was a Jewish composer of Belarusian birth.

Date of birth: 26 March 1900

Date of death: 10 November 1960

Age: 60 (age at death)

Nationality: Belarusian

Occupation: Composer

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Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States 780T

Belarusian composers 20T

20th-century composers 2,513T
18.

Marion Zarzeczna

American pianist

Overview: Marion Zarzeczna (1931 – June 1, 2020) was an American concert pianist and educator.

Date of birth: 1931

Date of death: 1 June 2020

Age: 88 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Educator

Gender: Female

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20th-century American women pianists 112T

21st-century American women pianists 79T

2020 deaths 11,737T
19.

Eleanor Sokoloff

American pianist

Overview: Eleanor Sokoloff (née Blum; June 16, 1914 – July 12, 2020) was an American pianist and piano teacher. She had taught on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music since 1936.

Date of birth: 1914

Date of death: 12 July 2020

Age: 106 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Educator

Gender: Female

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2020 deaths 11,737T

20th-century American women musicians 816T

American women music educators 176T
20.

Nitzan Haroz

Musical artist

Overview: Nitzan Haroz (né Nitzan Har Haroz) is an Israeli trombonist. He is the Principal Trombone of the Philadelphia Orchestra, having been in this position from 1995 to 2012, and rejoining the orchestra in 2014 ...

Nationality: Israeli

Occupation: Musician

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Musicians of the Philadelphia Orchestra 39T

21st-century trombonists 238T

Year of birth missing (living people) 37,022T