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Composers whose names start with SH.

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Shafiga Akhundova

Shafiga Akhundova (; 21 January 1924 – 26 July 2013) was a prominent Azerbaijani composer, the first professional female author of an opera in the East and People's Artist of Azerbaijan. Akhundova

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Shahab Paranj

Dr. Shahab Paranj (Persian شهاب پارنج) (born April 17, 1983, Tehran) is an Iranian-American composer and instrumentalist based in Los Angeles. He is considered one of the pioneers among his

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Shakhida Shaimardanova

Shakhida Shaimardanova (11 November 1938 – 17 February 2020) was an Uzbek composer who is best known for her Symphony in C Major. Shaimardanova was born in Tashkent, where she studied music at the

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Shalom Hanoch

Shalom Hanoch (; born 1 September 1946) is an Israeli rock singer, lyricist and composer. He is considered one of the founders of Israeli rock and modern Israeli music in general, both of which have

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Shambhu Das

Shambhu Das (born 1934) is an Indian classical musician and educator. He is best known for his long association with Ravi Shankar, on whose behalf Das has acted as an ambassador for Indian music in

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Shamir Tandon

Shamir Tandon is an Indian music composer and director who works in Indian cinema. He made his debut as a Music Director with Raveena Tandon's 'Stumped' in 2003. He is known for the movies like Page

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Sharif lotfi

Sharif Lotfi (Persian: شریف لطفی, born 16 May 1950) is an Iranian musician, composer, conductor and music pedagogue. He is the founder of the Faculty of Music at Tehran University of Arts and has

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Sharon Elery Rogers

Sharon Elery Rogers (4 March 19293 May 2022) was an American composer, music educator, and organist who published over 550 compositions of sacred music. Rogers was born in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, to

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Sharon Knight (musician)

Sharon Knight is a San Francisco-based neopagan composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist known for writing, recording, and performing Celtic fusion music she calls Neofolk Romantique. She also

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Sharon Ruchman

Sharon Ruchman (born 1949) is an American classical music composer and musician. Ruchman's works have been performed on Connecticut Style on WTNH, channel 8 in Connecticut, at the National Composers

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Shaul Berezovsky

Shaul Berezovsky (, , , 1908–1975) was a Polish and Israeli composer, pianist, and music director. He composed music for productions by many of the leading figures of the Polish Yiddish Theatre of

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Shaun Davey

Shaun Davey (born 18 January 1948) is an Irish composer. Early years Shaun Davey was born in Belfast in 1948 and attended Rockport School in County Down. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin in

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Shawn Okpebholo

Shawn E. Okpebholo is a Nigerian American composer of contemporary classical music. Early life and education Shawn Okpebholo was born on March 28, 1981, and was raised by a single mother in the

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Shawn Patterson (composer)

Shawn Michael Patterson (born September 14, 1965) is an American composer and songwriter. He is known for writing the song "Everything Is Awesome" for the Warner Bros. feature film The Lego Movie

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Shaydee

Shadrach Adeboye Folarin (born September 21, 1987), professionally referred to as Shaydee, is a Nigerian singer-songwriter and vocalist. In 2015, Shaydee was listed on notJustOk's list of "15 Artists

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Sheida Gharachedaghi

Sheida Gharachedaghi () is a Persian-Canadian composer and music educator, based in Montreal. Life and career Born in Tehran in 1941, Sheida Gharachedaghi studied at the Vienna Music Academy in

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Sheila Nelson

Sheila Mary Nelson (5 March 1936 – 16 November 2020) was an English musician, music educator, writer and composer. She had played with the English Chamber Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

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Sheila Silver

Sheila Jane Silver (born October 3, 1946) is an American composer. Early life and studies Sheila Silver was born in Seattle, Washington in 1946, the youngest daughter of Robert and Fannie Silver. She

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Shelly Knotts

Shelly Knotts is a composer, performer and improvisor of live electronic, live coded and network music based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. She performs internationally, often using Live coding

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Shena Fraser

Shena Eleanor Fraser (26 May 1910 – 1993) was a Scottish pianist and composer who also used the pseudonym Sebastian Scott. She was born in Stirling, Scotland, and studied piano performance with Henry

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Sheree Clement

Sheree J. Clement (born 8 December 1955, Baltimore) is an American composer. She was President of the League of Composers. She graduated from the University of Michigan and Columbia University.

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Sherri Chung

Sherri Chung is an American film and television composer, pianist, vocalist, and songwriter. She has composed scores for television series including Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai, Based on a True

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Shigeaki Saegusa

Shigeaki Saegusa (, formerly ; Saegusa Shigeaki; born July 8, 1942) is a Japanese composer. Career Saegusa is best known for Chushingura, his opera version of the well-known kabuki epic of the

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Shigeomi Hasumi

(7 December 1967 – 18 June 2017) was a Japanese composer, arranger and musician. He also used the alias Glenn Miyashiro. He graduated from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Faculty of Foreign

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Shih (composer)

Shih (born 29 November 1950 in Taipei, Taiwan) is a naturalized Austrian composer. Shih has been living and working in Vienna since 1974. In Europe Shih forgoes his full Chinese name due to

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Shih Wei-Liang

Shih Wei-Liang (September 3, 1926 – February 14, 1977) was a Taiwanese composer, ethnomusicologist and one of the most influential and representative figures in the modern history of Taiwanese music,

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Shih-Hui Chen

Shih-Hui Chen (; born 1962) is a Taiwanese composer who lives and works in the United States. Biography Chen Shih-hui (陳士惠) was born in Taipei, Taiwan, and came to the United States in 1982 to study

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Shin Hye-sung

Jung Pil-kyo (; born November 27, 1979) is a South Korean singer-songwriter. He is best known as a member of the South Korean boy group Shinhwa. The main vocalist of Shinhwa, he debuted as a solo

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Shin Mizutani

is a Japanese contemporary music composer. He completed the Master's Program in Music at the Graduate School of Music, Toho Gakuen School of Music. He studied under Richard Barrett and others, and

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Shinji Hosoe

, also known as Megaten and Sampling Masters MEGA, is a Japanese video game composer and musician most famous for scoring Ridge Racer, Street Fighter EX and many Namco arcade games between 1987 and

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Shiori Usui

Shiori Usui is a composer of contemporary classical music, improvising musician and music animateur based in Scotland. She is originally from Japan. Career Usui's music has been performed by

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Shirish Korde

Shirish Korde (born June 18, 1945) is a Ugandan composer of Indian ancestry. He is the Chair of the Music Department at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. He has previously

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Shirley Myers

Shirley Myers is a Canadian country music singer-songwriter. Signed to Stony Plain Records in the 1990s, she released her debut album, Let It Rain, in 1997. The first single, the title track, reached

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Shirley Thompson (composer)

Shirley Joy Thompson (born 7 January 1958) is an English composer, conductor, and violinist of Jamaican descent. Her output as a composer encompasses symphonies, ballets, operas, concertos, and other

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Shirley Walker

Shirley Anne Walker (née Rogers; April 10, 1945 – November 30, 2006) was an American film and television composer and conductor. She was one of the few female film score composers working in

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Shirō Hamaguchi

is a Japanese composer, arranger and orchestrator. He is best known for composing music to the anime franchises Girls und Panzer, One Piece, and Oh My Goddess! and arranging/orchestrating music in

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Sholom Secunda

Sholom Secunda (, 4 September 1894, Alexandria, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire13 June 1974, New York) was an American composer of Ukrainian-Jewish descent, best known for the tunes of "Bei Mir

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Shona Mooney

Shona Mooney (born c. 1984) is a Scottish fiddle player and composer. Career Shona Mooney was the winner of the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician competition in 2006. She has appeared at

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Shoshana Riseman

Shosh (Shoshana) Riseman (or Raizman, ; born 10 April 1948) is an Israeli music educator, stage director and composer. She studied composition and orchestration with Noam Sheriff, Leon Schidlowsky

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Shostakovich v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.

Shostakovich v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. is a landmark 1948 New York Supreme Court decision that was the first case in United States copyright law to recognize the theory of moral rights in

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Shuki Levy

Shuki Levy (; born June 3, 1947) is an Israeli-American music composer and television producer. Levy created soundtrack compositions for children's television programs of the 1980s, such as The Real

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Shulamit Ran

Shulamit Ran (; born October 21, 1949, in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an Israeli-American composer. She moved from Israel to New York City at 14, as a scholarship student at the Mannes College of Music. Her

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Shunsuke Kikuchi

was a Japanese composer who was active from the early 1960s until 2017. He specialized in incidental music for media such as television and film. Kikuchi was regarded as one of Japan's most highly

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Shwe Pyi Aye

Shwe Pyi Aye (; born Tin Maung Aye 13 February 1909 – 22 October 1977) was a Burmese musician and composer. Biography Shwe Pyi Aye was born in Yangon in Burma during British rule on 13 February 1909

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