44 Notable alumni of State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart
Updated: May 30, 2026 EliteDegrees
State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart is ranked #5,410 in the world and #177 in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 44 notable alumni from State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Elisabeth Leisinger
1864-1933 (aged 69)
opera singer
Elisabeth Leisinger was a German dramatic soprano. Her mother initially opposed her wish for a singing career, but after her father's death she relented. She studied at the Stuttgart Conservatory and later with Pauline Viardot in Paris. She became a member of the Berlin Court Opera in 1884 and until 1894 after performing shows in Stuttgart. Her debut was as...
+ show more
2. Eugen Haile
1873-1933 (aged 60)
composer
Eugen Haile was a German-American composer, singer, and accompanist, primarily known for his songs. In his lifetime, it was claimed that he was one of the "truly inspired melodists, a lineal descendent of the great lyricists, Schubert, Schumann, Franz and Brahms."
+ show more
3. Peter Lehel
1965-. (aged 61)
jazz musician
jazz saxophonist
composer
tárogató player
music arranger
Peter Lehel is a German jazz saxophonist and composer.
4. Siglind Bruhn
1951-. (aged 75)
literary scholar
pianist
musicologist
music educator
Siglind Bruhn is a German musicologist, writer and concert pianist.
5. Edgar Stillman Kelley
1857-1944 (aged 87)
composer
conductor
journalist
music critic
Edgar Stillman Kelley was an American composer, conductor, teacher, and writer on music. He is sometimes associated with the Indianist movement in American music.
+ show more
6. Trude Eipperle
1908-1997 (aged 89)
opera singer
Trude Eipperle was a German operatic soprano.
7. Adolf Ruthardt
1849-1934 (aged 85)
composer
pianist
Adolf Ruthardt was a German piano teacher, composer and music editor.
8. Huck Hodge
1977-. (aged 49)
composer
academic
professor of music composition
university teacher
Huck Hodge is an American composer of contemporary classical music.
9. Koka Nikoladze
1989-. (aged 37)
composer
Koka Nikoladze is a Georgian composer and sound artist based in Europe. He studied at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire, Musikhochschule Stuttgart and Norwegian Academy of Music. He studied composition with Zurab Nadarejshvili, Marco Stroppa and violin with Ernst Arakelov.
+ show more
10. Luise Jaide
1842-1914 (aged 72)
opera singer
Luise Jaide was a German operatic mezzo-soprano who had an active career during the latter half of the 19th century. Among her signature roles were Amneris in Aida, Azucena in Il trovatore, Frau Reich in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Idamante in Idomeneo, Irmentraud in Der Waffenschmied, and Mary in The Flying Dutchman. She is best remembered today for playing...
+ show more
11. Louis Coerne
1870-1922 (aged 52)
composer
Louis Adolphe Coerne was an American composer and music educator.
12. Percy Goetschius
1853-1943 (aged 90)
musicologist
music educator
composer
Percy Goetschius was an American composer, music theorist, and teacher who won international fame in the teaching of composition and music theory.
13. Marta Fuchs
1898-1974 (aged 76)
opera singer
Marta Fuchs was a German concert and operatic dramatic soprano.
14. Swan Hennessy
1866-1929 (aged 63)
composer
Edward Swan Hennessy was an Irish-American composer and pianist who lived much of his life in Paris. In his pre-War piano music, he excelled as a miniaturist in descriptive, programmatic music. After joining a group of Breton composers, he developed a reputation as a "Celtic" composer, drawing on his Irish heritage, and writing in a style that was unique in...
+ show more
15. Adelaide Casely-Hayford
1868-1959 (aged 91)
educator
lawyer
writer
autobiographer
women's rights activist
Adelaide Casely-Hayford MBE, was a Sierra Leone Creole advocate, activist of cultural nationalism, teacher, fiction writer, and feminist. Her commitment to public service led her to improving the conditions of black men and women. She played an important role as an advocate of women's education in Sierra Leone to popularize Pan-Africanist and feminist politics in the early 1900s. In 1923,...
+ show more
16. Barry McDaniel
1930-2018 (aged 88)
opera singer
Barry McDaniel was an American operatic baritone who spent his career almost exclusively in Germany, including 37 years at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. He appeared internationally at major opera houses and festivals, and created roles in several new operas, including Henze's Der junge Lord, Nabokov's Love's Labour's Lost, and Reimann's Melusine. He was also a celebrated concert singer and recitalist,...
+ show more
17. Frieder Bernius
1947-. (aged 79)
university teacher
choir director
conductor
Frieder Bernius is a German conductor, the founder and director of the chamber choir Kammerchor Stuttgart, founded in 1968. They became leaders for historically informed performances. He founded the Stuttgart festival of Baroque music, Internationale Festtage Alter Musik, in 1987, and is a recipient of the Edison Award (1990), Diapason d'Or (1990) and the Order of Merit of the Federal...
+ show more
18. Lauren Newton
1952-. (aged 74)
jazz musician
singer
actor
university teacher
Lauren Amber Newton is an avant-garde jazz and contemporary classical singer and founding member of the Vienna Art Orchestra.
19. Hermann Suter
1870-1926 (aged 56)
conductor
composer
musician
Hermann Suter was a Swiss composer and conductor.
20. Peter Schindler
1960-. (aged 66)
librettist
composer
jazz musician
pianist
songwriter
Peter Schindler is a German composer, pianist, keyboardist, organist and author, whose prime special field is musical theatre.
21. Iveta Apkalna
1976-. (aged 50)
organist
pianist
Iveta Apkalna is a Latvian organist and pianist.
22. Jacqueline Macaulay
1967-. (aged 59)
actor
film actor
Jacqueline Macaulay is an English actress who mainly works in Germany.
23. Ernest Torrence
1878-1933 (aged 55)
stage actor
singer
actor
film actor
Ernest Torrence was a Scottish film character actor who appeared in many Hollywood films, including Broken Chains (1922) with Colleen Moore, Mantrap (1926) with Clara Bow and Fighting Caravans (1931) with Gary Cooper and Lili Damita. A towering figure, 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) tall, Torrence frequently played cold-eyed and imposing villains.
+ show more
24. Marlis Petersen
1968-. (aged 58)
opera singer
musician
Marlis Petersen is a German operatic coloratura soprano.
25. Antônio Meneses
1957-2024 (aged 67)
music educator
soloist
chamber musician
string player
musician
Antônio Jeronimo de Meneses Neto was a Brazilian cellist and an academic teacher based in Switzerland. Known professionally as Antônio Meneses, he won the first prize and gold medal at the 1982 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. He was the cellist of the Beaux Arts Trio from 1998 to 2008.
+ show more
26. Agnes Lawrence Pelton
1881-1961 (aged 80)
painter
visual artist
artist
Agnes Lawrence Pelton was a modernist painter who was born in Germany and moved to the United States as a child. She studied art in the United States and Europe. She made portraits of Pueblo Native Americans, desert landscapes and still lifes. Pelton's work evolved through at least three distinct themes: her early "Imaginative Paintings," art of the American Southwest...
+ show more
27. Nadja Michael
1969-. (aged 57)
performing artist
musician
opera singer
Nadja Michael is a German opera singer with an active international career singing leading soprano roles. Her mother's great-aunt was the soprano Erna Sack.
+ show more
28. Karl Münchinger
1915-1990 (aged 75)
composer
conductor
Karl Münchinger was a German conductor of European classical music. He helped to revive the now-ubiquitous Canon in D by Johann Pachelbel, through recording it with his Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra in 1960. (Jean-François Paillard made a rival, and also very popular, recording of the same piece at around the same time.) Münchinger is also noted for restoring baroque traditions to...
+ show more
29. Harry Plunket Greene
1865-1936 (aged 71)
opera singer
Harry Plunket Greene was an Irish baritone who was most famous in the formal concert and oratorio repertoire. He wrote and lectured on his art, and was active in the field of musical competitions and examinations. He also wrote Where the Bright Waters Meet (1924) a book about fly fishing.
+ show more
30. Helmuth Rilling
1933-2026 (aged 93)
choir director
conductor
composer
Kirchenmusikdirektor
university teacher
Helmuth Rilling was a German choral conductor and an academic teacher who was internationally known as an authority on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. He was the founder of the Gächinger Kantorei in 1954 when still a student, the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart in 1965, the Oregon Bach Festival in 1970, the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart in 1981 and other Bach Academies...
+ show more
31. Anneke Kim Sarnau
1972-. (aged 54)
actor
Anneke Kim Sarnau is a German theater and movie actress living in Berlin.
32. Jasmin Tabatabai
1967-. (aged 59)
voice actor
composer
actor
songwriter
guitarist
Jasmin Tabatabai is a German actress and singer.
33. Ulrich Noethen
1959-. (aged 67)
television actor
stage actor
actor
film actor
Ulrich Noethen is a German actor who has appeared in many movies and TV films.
34. Judy Winter
1944-. (aged 82)
voice actor
stage actor
actor
film actor
Judy Winter is a German actress. She resides in Berlin.
35. Ursula Cantieni
1947-2023 (aged 76)
actor
university teacher
Ursula Cantieni was a Swiss-German actress known for her role on Die Fallers – Die SWR Schwarzwaldserie.
36. Victor Herbert
1859-1924 (aged 65)
composer
cellist
conductor
screenwriter
Victor August Herbert was an American composer, cellist and conductor of English and Irish ancestry and German training. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is best known for composing many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I. He was also prominent among the Tin Pan Alley composers and...
+ show more
37. Timothy Peach
1963-. (aged 63)
film actor
voice actor
stage actor
Timothy Peach is a British / German actor. He appeared in more than seventy films since 1986.
38. Paul Klee
1879-1940 (aged 61)
draftsperson
printmaker
university teacher
designer
lithographer
Paul Klee was a Swiss-born German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism.
+ show more
39. Harald Schmidt
1957-. (aged 69)
stage actor
actor
cabaret performer
writer
film actor
Harald Franz Schmidt is a German actor, comedian, television presenter and writer best known as the host of two popular German late-night shows.
40. Ulrich Tukur
1957-. (aged 69)
stage actor
singer
film actor
musician
Ulrich Tukur is a German actor and musician. He is known for his roles in Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon, Steven Soderbergh's Solaris, the docudrama North Face based on the 1936 Eiger climbing disaster in Switzerland, and as Wilhelm Uhde in Martin Provost's biopic Séraphine.
+ show more
41. Reinhard Febel
1952-. (aged 74)
university teacher
music theorist
musicologist
composer
music educator
Reinhard Febel is a German composer, notable for his operas. He is also a music theorist and a university professor at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover and the Mozarteum.
+ show more
42. Maryja Kaleśnikava
1982-. (aged 44)
flautist
conductor
music educator
politician
Maria Kalesnikava is a Belarusian professional flutist and political activist. In 2020, she headed Viktar Babaryka's electoral campaign during the presidential elections of 2020 in Belarus. Kalesnikava represented the united campaign of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, then she became a member of the presidium of the Coordination Council formed during the 2020 Belarusian protests in opposition to the regime of Alexander Lukashenko....
+ show more
43. Antonio Janigro
1918-1989 (aged 71)
music educator
conductor
cellist
Antonio Janigro was an Italian cellist and conductor.
44. Ewandro Stenzowski
1984-. (aged 42)
opera singer
Ewandro Stenzowski is a Brazilian operatic tenor and veteran of the Brazilian Marine Corps. He appeared in concerts and leading tenor roles in South America and Europe.
+ show more