Dorthaan Kirk
Called “Newark’s First Lady of Jazz,” Kirk has been active as a curator and producer of jazz events primarily in and around Newark, New Jersey, and is an avid supporter of musicians and jazz education for children.
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Cleo Brown
Cleo Brown was the first woman instrumentalist honored with the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship.
Hai-Ting Chinn
Mezzo-soprano opera singer
Marlene VerPlanck
American jazz and pop vocalist whose body of work centered on big band jazz, the American songbook, and cabaret
Martina Arroyo
American opera singer and educator
Sheila Jordan
Sheila Jordan was not only one of the premier singers in jazz, but she was known for her stimulating vocal workshops as well. A superb scat singer, she could just as easily reach the emotional depths of a ballad.
Mél Bonis
Late 19th- and early 20th-century French composer.
Eileen Reid
20th century Irish painter and musician
Susannah Coleman
20th century American pianist, composer, and teacher
Julie Taymor
Stage and screen director