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Leonard Bernstein
American conductor and composer (1918–1990)
Scott Joplin
American composer, musician, pianist (1867/68-1917)
Aaron Copland
American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor (1900-1990)
Samuel Barber
American composer (1910-1981)
Caroline Harrison
First Lady of the United States from 1889 to 1892
Jon Tester
American politician and farmer (born 1956)
Joshua Bell
American violinist (born 1967)
Zitkala-Sa
Zitkala-Ša, also Zitkála-Šá (Lakota: , meaning Red Bird; February 22, 1876 – January 26, 1938), was a Yankton Dakota writer, editor, translator, musician, educator, and political activist. She was also known by her anglicized and married name, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin. She wrote several works chronicling her struggles with cultural identity, and the pull between the majority culture in which she was educated, and the Dakota culture into which she was born and raised. Her later books were among the first works to bring traditional Native American stories to a widespread white English-speaking re
George Crumb
American composer (1929-2022)
Rudolf Serkin
Bohemian-born American pianist
Henry Cowell
American composer, music theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario (1897-1965)
Leopold Godowsky
American pianist, composer, and teacher (1870–1938)
Gregor Piatigorsky
Ukraine-born American cellist
Kara DioGuardi
American music producer, composer and pop singer
Marni Nixon
American singer and actress (1930-2016)
Arkady Luxemburg
American composer
Michael Tilson Thomas
American conductor, pianist and composer
Marshall Applewhite
American cult leader (1931–1997)
Emanuel Feuermann
Austrian musician (1902-1942)
Michael Angelo Batio
American guitarist
Anthony Braxton
American musician, composer and philosopher (born 1945)
James Scott
American ragtime composer (1885–1938)
Andrew Hill
American jazz pianist and composer (1931-2007)
Shirley Scott
American jazz organist (1934–2002)
Sam Bush
American musician
Morten Lauridsen
American composer
Ruth Crawford Seeger
American composer (1901-1953)
Joseph Trapanese
American composer
Leonard Rose
American musician (1918-1984)
Carl Ruggles
American composer (1876-1971)
Joseph Achron
Russian composer and violinist (1886–1943)
Aldo Parisot
Brazilian-American music educator and cellist
Dorothy DeLay
American musician and violin instructor (1917–2002)
Chen Yi
Chinese-American composer and violinist
Susan Graham
American singer
Wallingford Riegger
American music composer (1885–1961)
Jennie Tourel
singer (1900–1973)
Bernard Greenhouse
American cellist and music pedagogue (1916-2011)
Josef Gingold
American musician (1909-1995)
Gary Graffman
American musician (1928–2025)
Jon Faddis
American jazz trumpet player
Marsha Norman
American playwright, screenwriter and novelist
Robert Folk
composer, conductor
Eileen Farrell
American soprano (1920–2002)
Karen Tanaka
Japanese composer
Ella Jenkins
American folk singer (1924–2024)
Don Friedman
American jazz pianist (1935–2016)
Catherine Malfitano
singer, opera director
Dika Newlin
American musician (1923–2006)
Rez Abbasi
American fusion and jazz guitarist, music producer, and composer
Raya Garbousova
Russian-American musician (1909–1997)
Edward Auer
American musician
Lora Aborn
composer
Catalina Berroa
composer
Sylvia McNair
American opera singer, soprano
Wadada Leo Smith
American jazz trumpeter and composer
Shulamit Ran
American composer
Eleanor Steber
singer (1914–1990)
Giovanni Hidalgo
Puerto Rican percussionist and music educator
Rick Beato
American YouTuber, guitarist, record producer