Grice or Moore? Chen or Gavrylyuk? It is difficult for inquiring minds to tackle a field as large and diverse as classical music, covering 10 centuries of history: there are uncountable numbers of classical music performers in the world. Making a selection of musicians, such as a “top 10” for example, is a difficult and subjective exercise. A musical selection is often the expression of personal preferences or artistic opinions, very interesting but also very different according to critics or musicologists, or simply influenced by the context: will an English performer/musician not be instinctively privileged by an English critic?
For example: in Canada, Marc-André Hamelin, a Quebec pianist and composer, is at least as popular as the German violinist Anne-Sofie Mutter, who is more internationally renowned.
Timeline of classical musicians in Oceania
Whoever wants to discover classical music does not always have an experienced music lover, an expert or an educator at his or her side to support and guide him or her in this field. So : Grice (New Zealand musician) or Moore (New Zealand pianist) ? Tuckwell (Australian horn player) or Ogden (Australian guitarist) ? However, the knowledge available about musicians is enormous. It was processed to select the 10, 25, 50... most popular performers around the world, for those living or having lived en Oceania, . And this objectively, and for the first time (soClassiQ exclusivity).
Performers rendered as a timeline to bring a little perspective:
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ComposersConductorsLyrical singersPerformersT 2020
This timeline is interactive to navigate through the ages or across continents (with ).
Why are all these composers included in this timeline?
Many composers have also been concert performers or conductors, although their fame is associated with their work today. On the other hand, some conductors such as Arturo Toscanini, Georg Solti ... or musicians such as Martha Argerich, Vladimir Horowitz, Glenn Gould ... have also composed. Itzhak Perlman, David Oïstrakh... very well known as concert performers, have also conducted orchestras. Others, such as Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, William Christie ..., are renowned as much for their careers as composers, conductors and performers.
Top 10 classical musicians in Oceania
Who are these greatest performers, the most famous over the 1880-2020 era in Oceania? The carreer of these musician has marked the history of classical music. There are those you probably know, or at least by name and the others.
Here are these 10 performers, renowned artists from around the world:
The musicians and artists who also composed were removed from this ranking.
The selections of musicians (performers) proposed by soClassiQ are based exclusively on algorithms. The same applies to the composers, their works, the lyrical singers, les orchestras, the conductors and the venues : opera houses, concert halls or festivals.
What about the others? 25, 50 or more?
Summarizing to 10 musician names such a wide and diverse field may seem extreme or too simplistic for those who know classical music well, for those who can easily name 50 or more classical music performers. Grigsby, Helfgott, Niese, Haywood, Davies, Goodwin, Grigoryan...
At this time, soClassiQ has listed more than 10000 performers. So here is a selection of some performers for the years 1880-2020, in Oceania, widely recognized around the world:
Note:
- This selection may include highly reputed artists and musicians who have occasionally devoted themselves to classical music and not exclusively.
- It may also include performers who have been or are composers, some more renowned for the work they have left than for their careers as musicians.
Tayla AlexanderThe great classical music performers
age 19 (20th century)
Lyrical singer & Performer
Zane BanksThe great classical music performers
age 34 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Alan BanksThe great classical music performers
age 47 (20th century)
Performer
Don BanksThe great classical music performers
1923-1980 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Cheryl BarkerThe great classical music performers
age 60 (20th century)
Lyrical singer & Performer
Arthur BenjaminThe great classical music performers
1893-1960 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Julius BittnerThe great classical music performers
1874-1939 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Richard BonyngeThe great classical music performers
age 89 (20th century)
Conductor & Performer
Brenton BroadstockThe great classical music performers
age 67 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Edwin CarrThe great classical music performers
1926-2003 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Ray ChenThe great classical music performers
age 31 (20th century)
Performer
Peter Coleman-WrightThe great classical music performers
age 62 (20th century)
Lyrical singer & Performer
Gertrude ConcannonThe great classical music performers
1899-1978 (20th century)
Lyrical singer & Performer
Edward Harold DaviesThe great classical music performers
1867-1947 (20th century)
Conductor & Performer
Steve DavislimThe great classical music performers
age 53 (20th century)
Lyrical singer & Performer
Helena DixThe great classical music performers
age 41 (20th century)
Lyrical singer & Performer
Lance DossorThe great classical music performers
1916-2005 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Grant DoyleThe great classical music performers
age 49 (20th century)
Lyrical singer & Performer
Alexander GavrylyukThe great classical music performers
age 35 (20th century)
Performer
Jayson GillhamThe great classical music performers
age 33 (20th century)
Performer
Andrew GoodwinThe great classical music performers
age 41 (20th century)
Lyrical singer & Performer
Percy GraingerThe great classical music performers
1882-1961 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Jeffrey GriceThe great classical music performers
age 66 (20th century)
Performer
Slava GrigoryanThe great classical music performers
age 44 (20th century)
Performer
Nicholas GrigsbyThe great classical music performers
age 45 (20th century)
Performer
Eric GrossThe great classical music performers
1926-2011 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Fiona Joy HawkinsThe great classical music performers
age 56 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Sam HaywoodThe great classical music performers
age 48 (20th century)
Performer
David HelfgottThe great classical music performers
age 73 (20th century)
Performer
Stephen HoughThe great classical music performers
age 58 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Michael HoustounThe great classical music performers
age 67 (20th century)
Performer
Leslie HowardThe great classical music performers
age 72 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Kiri Te KanawaThe great classical music performers
age 76 (20th century)
Lyrical singer & Performer
Charles MackerrasThe great classical music performers
1925-2010 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Gustav MahlerThe great classical music performers
1860-1911 (Romantic)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
MasterpiecesComplete works
Marshall McGuireThe great classical music performers
age 55 (20th century)
Conductor & Performer
Jonathan MillsThe great classical music performers
age 57 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Vera MooreThe great classical music performers
1896-1997 (20th century)
Performer
Ian MunroThe great classical music performers
age 56 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Danielle de NieseThe great classical music performers
age 41 (20th century)
Lyrical singer & Performer
Mary-Jean O'DohertyThe great classical music performers
age 38 (20th century)
Lyrical singer & Performer
Craig OgdenThe great classical music performers
age 70 (20th century)
Performer
Siobhan OwenThe great classical music performers
age 26 (20th century)
Lyrical singer & Performer
Peter SculthorpeThe great classical music performers
1929-2014 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Larry SitskyThe great classical music performers
age 85 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Richard StraussThe great classical music performers
1864-1949 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
MasterpiecesComplete works
Margaret SutherlandThe great classical music performers
1897-1984 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Geoffrey TozerThe great classical music performers
1954-2009 (20th century)
Performer
Barry TuckwellThe great classical music performers
1931-2020 (20th century)
Conductor & Performer
Lindsay VickeryThe great classical music performers
age 55 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Carl VineThe great classical music performers
age 65 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Linda VogtThe great classical music performers
1922-2013 (20th century)
Performer
Gillian WhiteheadThe great classical music performers
age 79 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Sally WhitwellThe great classical music performers
age 46 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Phillip WilcherThe great classical music performers
age 62 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
John WilliamsThe great classical music performers
age 79 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Malcolm WilliamsonThe great classical music performers
1931-2003 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Simone YoungThe great classical music performers
age 59 (20th century)
Conductor & Performer
Some performers to be celebrated very soon
Next month, more than 40 important artists and musicians will be honoured. In July 2020 some of them may celebrate a special anniversary. For others, amateurs and enthusiasts will celebrate the bicentenary of their birth or the fiftieth anniversary of their death for example. Among them, some famous performers:
on 3, Audra Mcdonald (1970- ), 50th anniversary,
on 12, Keith Andes (1920-2005), 100th anniversary (Birth),
on 21, Isaac Stern (1920-2001), 100th anniversary (Birth),
on 28, Riccardo Muti (1940- ), 80th anniversary,
on 29, John Barbirolli (1899-1970), 50th anniversary (Death),
...
There are others to discover. And it is not too late to focus on the June 2020 celebrations (20+).
Always good opportunities to discover or deepen, (re)listen, explore the vastness and diversity of classical music...
See also...
Timelines : Performers
- The great classical music performers
- Europe * North America * South America * Asia * Oceania * Africa
- The great 20th-century performers [II.] (1950 - 2000)
- Europe * North America * South America * Asia * Oceania * Africa
- The great 20th-century performers [I.] (1900 - 1950)
- Europe * North America * South America * Asia * Oceania * Africa
- The great 19th-century performers (1850 - 1900)
Indexes
- All performers : by instrument * by country
- by alphabetical order : A * B * C * D * E * F * G * H * I * J * K * L * M * N * O * P * Q * R * S * T * U * V * W * X * Y * Z
- Young artists (Performers)
Other timelines
- Composers : 10 centuries of classical music
- The great classical music conductors
- The great lyrical singers
Commemorations 2020, 2021, ...
Last update : 2020-06-01