Charlotte C Johnston
Boston artist and pianist
Boston artist and pianist
Cleveland musician, teacher, and collector who founded and served as the first president (1933-35) of the Women’s Committee of the Cleveland Institute of Music
Blessed with an enormous orchestral capacity at the keyboard, Dorothy Donegan was fluent in several styles of jazz as well as with European classical music.
Cleo Brown was the first woman instrumentalist honored with the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship.
20th century American pianist, composer, and teacher
French composer and pianist
American pianist and composer
Scottish pianist and composer
American pianist and composer
From her early beginnings as a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), Amina Claudine Myers has gained acclaim as a skilled composer for voice and instruments, often displaying her gospel influences. Her move to New York City in the 1970s led her to prioritize her compositional work and to take on theatrical production projects.