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Jennifer Higdon
Jennifer Higdon
American composer
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Caroline Shaw
Caroline Shaw
American composer
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John Corigliano
John Corigliano
American composer
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Kaija Saariaho
Kaija Saariaho
Finnish composer
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Charles Dutoit
Charles Dutoit
Swiss conductor
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John Adams
John Adams
American composer
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Missy Mazzoli
Missy Mazzoli
American composer and pianist
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Hildur Guðnadóttir
Hildur Guðnadóttir
Icelandic musician and composer
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Hilary Hahn
Hilary Hahn
musician
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William Bolcom
William Bolcom
American composer
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Clarice Assad
Clarice Assad
American musician and singer
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Wu Fei
Wu Fei
Chinese singer
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Renée Fleming
Renée Fleming
American opera soprano
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Lewis Spratlan
Lewis Spratlan
American music academic and composer of contemporary classical music
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Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma
American cellist
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Judith Weir
Judith Weir
British composer
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Martha Argerich
Martha Argerich
Argentine/Swiss pianist
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Jocelyn Pook
Jocelyn Pook
Composer, pianist
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Unsuk Chin
Unsuk Chin
South Korean composer
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Marilyn Horne
Marilyn Horne
American mezzo-soprano opera singer
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Tina Guo
Tina Guo
American cellist, musician and composer
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Cecilia Bartoli
Cecilia Bartoli
Italian singer
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Tan Dun
Tan Dun
Chinese composer
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Sarah Brightman
Sarah Brightman
British soprano, musical theatre actress, and dancer
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Lera Auerbach
Lera Auerbach
Soviet-Russian-born American classical composer and pianist
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Kathleen Battle
Kathleen Battle
American opera singer
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Osvaldo Golijov
Osvaldo Golijov
Argentine composer of classical music
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Shulamit Ran
Shulamit Ran
American composer
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Joshua Bell
Joshua Bell
American violinist
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Anthony Davis
Anthony Davis
American pianist and composer
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Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis
American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center (born 1961)
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Christopher Tin
Christopher Tin
composer
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Max Richter
Max Richter
British composer
Du Yun
Composer, multi-instrumentalist, performance artist

Du Yun

Intro
Composer, multi-instrumentalist, performance artist
Genres
Music

Du Yun (traditional Chinese: 杜韻, simplified Chinese: 杜韵) is a Chinese born composer, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and performance artist. She won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her opera Angel's Bone, with libretto by Royce Vavrek. She was a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow. Du Yun was named as one of the 38 Great Immigrants by the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 2018, and received a 2019 Grammy nomination in the category of Best Classical Contemporary Composition for her work Air Glow.