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Christopher Rouse

American composer

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Trans-Siberian Orchestra

American rock band

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William Parker

American jazz musician

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Mitsuko Uchida

Japanese-British pianist

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John Luther Adams

American composer

5

Thomas Adès

British composer, pianist and conductor

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John Corigliano

American composer

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Christian Thielemann

German conductor

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Valery Gergiev

Russian conductor and opera company director

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Ludovico Einaudi

Italian composer and pianist

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Anthony Coleman

American musician

11

Georg Friedrich Haas

Austrian composer

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Brett Dean

Australian composer, conductor

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Simon Rattle

British conductor

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Joan Tower

American composer, concert pianist and conductor

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Jon Rose

Australian musician

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Carl Craig

American music producer

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Otomo Yoshihide

Japanese composer, guitarist (1959-)

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John Harbison

American composer

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Ravi Shankar

Indian sitar player (1920-2012)

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Renée Fleming

American opera soprano

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Lowell Liebermann

American composer, pianist and conductor

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Antipop Consortium

American alternative hip hop group

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Paavo Berglund

Finnish conductor and violinist

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Clan of Xymox

band formed in the Netherlands in 1981

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Elliott Sharp

American musician

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Jack Cooper

American composer, arranger, orchestrator, multireedist, and music educator.

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Tito Puente

American musician, songwriter and record producer (1923-2000)

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András Schiff

Hungarian-born British musician

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Sally Beamish

British composer and violist

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Michel van der Aa

Dutch composer

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Wolfgang Sawallisch

German conductor and pianist

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Mark Dresser

American musician

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Theodore Kuchar

Violist and conductor

34

Michiru Oshima

Japanese composer

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Jack Johnson

Hawaiian musician

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The Gathering

Dutch alternative rock band

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Paavo Järvi

Estonian conductor

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Michael Nyman

English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist

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Philip Glass

American composer and pianist

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Kamran Ince

American composer

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Natalie Dessay

French opera soprano

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Dennis Báthory-Kitsz

American composer

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Ryuichi Sakamoto

Japanese musician

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Primus

rock band from the United States

45

Paquito D'Rivera

Cuban musician

46

Branford Marsalis

American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (born 1960)

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Kaija Saariaho

Finnish composer

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Kathryn Tickell

British musician