LIST OF CELLISTS

A person who plays the cello is called a 'cellist'. Notable cellists include:

Contents

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

XYZ

A

★ Richard Aaron (1960- ), faculty at University of Michigan, The Juilliard School

★ Claus Adam

★ Diran Alexanian

B

★ Zuill Bailey

★ Stephen Balderston, [1]

★ Sarah Balliet, cellist of Murder by Death

★ Franz Bartolomey

★ Felix Battanchon (1814-1893)

★ Charles Baudiot

★ Paul Bazelaire (1886-1958)

★ Thomas Batuello

★ Hugo Becker

★ Richard C. Beidel

★ Maya Beiser

★ Paolo Beschi

★ Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) (also a classical composer)

★ Gaetano Braga (1829-1907) (also a composer)

★ Jean-Baptiste Breval

★ Carter Brey, principal, New York Philharmonic [2]

★ Matthew Brubeck, member of Sheryl Crow's band [3]

★ Christopher Bunting, soloist [4]

★ Anner Bylsma (baroque cellist)

C

★ Isobel Campbell

★ Gautier Capuçon

★ Marissa Caranna

★ Colin Carr

★ Phoebe Carrai

★ Pablo Casals (1876-1973)

★ Carles Cases (also a pianist)

★ Gaspar Cassadó

★ Han-Na Chang

★ Myung-Wha Chung

★ Giovanni Battista Cirri (also a composer)

★ Lluis Claret

★ Natalie Clein

★ Robert Cohen

★ Gretta Cohn

★ Christophe Coin (1958-) (also plays viol and heads an orchestra[5])

★ Orlando Cole

★ Tom Cora

★ Bernhard Cossmann

★ Franklin Cox

★ Melora Creager

★ Michael Croitoru-Weissman

★ Jean-Baptiste Cupis

D

★ Caroline Dale

★ Robert Dauber (composer persecuted by Nazi Germany)

★ Karl Davidov (1838-1889)

★ Sunny Davis (Electric Cellist, The Stiletto Formal)

★ Stephen De'ak (1897-1975) (Hungarian-born American cellist, composer and teacher)

★ Jean Decroos

★ Peter Devos (Belgian, cellist and teacher)

★ Rohan de Saram

★ Valter Despalj

★ Andrés Diaz

★ Roel Dieltiens

★ Kate Dillingham

★ Friedrich Dotzauer

★ Jean-Louis Duport (1749-1819) (French; brother of Jean-Pierre Duport)

★ Jean-Pierre Duport (1741-1818)

★ Jacqueline du Pré (1945-1987) (English; legendary career cut short by multiple sclerosis)

E

★ Rushad Eggleston (1979 - )

★ Maurice Eisenberg (1900-1972) (American cellist and teacher)

★ Reşit Erzin (1939 - )

F

★ Yosif Feigelson

★ Dmitri Freschtman

★ Emanuel Feuermann (1902-1942)

★ Rocco Filippini

★ David Finckel

★ Mina Fisher

★ Beckie Foon (A Silver Mt. Zion)

★ Pierre Fournier (1906-1986) ("the aristocrat of cellists")

★ Auguste Franchomme (1808-1884)

★ Gideon Freudmann

★ Carl Fuchs

★ Michaela Fukačová

G

★ Domenico Gabrielli

★ Raya Garbousova (1909-1997)

★ Stephen Geber

★ Maurice Gendron

★ David Geringas

★ Emily Giles ; also known as June Emily Giles

★ Tim Gill

★ Clive Gillinson

★ Rebecca Gilliver (Co-Principal London Symphony Orchestra)

★ Rudolf Gleißner

★ Georg Goltermann

★ Julius Goltermann

★ Kristin von der Goltz

★ Leonid Gorokhov

★ Bernard Greenhouse (founding member of the Beaux Arts Trio)

★ Matthew Greswell

★ Friedrich Grützmacher (1832-1903)

★ Natalia Gutman

H

★ Barbara Haffner

★ Matt Haimovitz

★ Bonnie Hampton

★ David Hardy (Principal cellist of the National Symphony Orchestra)

★ Alan Harris

★ Beatrice Harrison (1892-1965) (English cellist)

★ Richard Harwood

★ Ofra Harnoy

★ Lynn Harrell

★ Matthew Scott Hartzsch

★ Stjepan Hauser

★ Ulrich Heinen

★ Frans Helmerson

★ Victor Herbert (1859-1924) (also composer)

★ Guillaume Hesse

★ Desmond Hoebig (Principal cellist of Cleveland Orchestra)

★ Janet Horvath (Assosiate principal cellist of the Minnesota Orchestra)

★ Jay Humeston

★ Ivan Hussey

I

★ Steven Isserlis

★ Alexander Ivashkin

J

★ Antonio Janigro (1918-1989) (Italian cellist)

★ Robert Jesselson

★ Joan Jeanrenaud, former cellist for the Kronos Quartet

★ Michael Kevin Jones

★ Jorane

★ Jonathan Oh Ban Hin

K

★ Anssi Karttunen

★ Paul Katz

★ Adelle Akiko Kearns

★ Zoë Keating

★ Julia Kent

★ Ralph Kirshbaum

★ Perttu Kivilaakso

★ Georgiy Khokhlov

★ Emil Klein (1955-2004)

★ Julius Klengel (1859–1933)

★ Kelli Klees

★ Maria Kliegel

★ Jonathan Koh

★ Nina Kotova

★ Antonín Kraft (1749-1820)

★ Jeffrey Krieger

★ Georges Alexandré Krins

★ Joel Krosnick

★ Friedrich August Kummer

★ Friedemann Kupsa

L

★ Janis Laurs

★ Sebastian Lee (1805-1887)

★ Gerard Le Feuvre

★ Laurence Lesser

★ Katie Lettall

★ Peter Lewy

★ Max Lilja, cellist of Hevein

★ Jonathan Linford

★ Gavriel Lipkind (
★ 1977)

★ Julian Lloyd Webber

★ Paavo Lötjönen

★ Andrés Rodrigo López

★ Jonathan Liu

★ Trey Lee

★ Jozef Lupták

M

★ Yo-Yo Ma

★ Linday Mac

★ Tibor de Machula (1912-1982)

★ Fritz Magg

★ Mischa Maisky

★ Antero Manninen

★ Maurice Maréchal

★ Gerhard Mantel

★ Dmitri Markevitch

★ Rudolf Matz (1901-1988)

★ Angelica May

★ Martin McCarrick

★ Joseph McQuerrey

★ Antonio Meneses

★ Derek Menchan

★ Alain Meunier

★ Tyme Mientka

★ Kazimierz Michalik

★ Sarah Milne Das

★ Frank Miller

★ Aaron Minsky

★ Mari Paskin

★ Georges Miquelle

★ Víctor Mirecki Larramat

★ Miloš Mlejnik

★ Ivan Monighetti

★ Kermit Moore

★ Truls Mørk

★ Charlotte Moorman

★ John Moran

★ Lief Moxon-Emre

★ Natalie Mujica-Schwahn

★ May Mukle (1880-1963)

★ Daniel Müller-Schott

N

★ André Navarra (1911-1988)

★ Zara Nelsova

★ Hai-Ye Ni

★ George Niekrug

★ Zach Nikonovich-Kahn

O

★ Jacques Offenbach (also a composer)

P

★ Siegfried Palm

★ Johann Sebastian Paetsch

★ Aldo Parisot

★ Vito Paternoster

★ Miklos Perenyi

★ Boris Pergamenschikow

★ Oscar Pettiford (1922-1960) Bebop

★ Gregor Piatigorsky (1903-1976)

★ Alfredo Piatti (1822-1901)

★ Anthony Pleeth (Baroque cellist; son and student of William Pleeth)

★ William Pleeth (1916-1999) (British cellist and teacher of Jacqueline du Pre)

★ David Popper (1843-1913)

★ Frederick Preston

★ Andrei Pricope

★ Carlos Prieto

Q

★ Jean-Guihen Queyras

R

★ Fred Raimi

★ Ernst Reijseger (improvising cellist)

★ Gabor Reijto

★ Tanya Remenikova

★ Giovanni Ricciardi

★ Hank Roberts

★ Hannah Roberts

★ Sharon Robinson

★ Rohan de Saram

★ Joshua Roman

★ Bernhard Romberg

★ Leonard Rose (1918–1984)

★ Nathaniel Rosen

★ Mstislav Rostropovich (1927–2007 ) (known as Slava; great Russian cellist and conductor)

★ Margaret Rowell

★ Martin Rummel

★ Arthur Russell

S

★ Koray Salman

★ Felix Salmond

★ John Sant’Ambrogio

★ Sara Sant'Ambrogio

★ Zachary Sakaan

★ Jane Scarpantoni

★ Nasim Saad

★ Heinrich Schiff

★ Franz Schmidt (also a pianist and composer)

★ Georg Schnéevoigt (also a conductor)

★ Eleonore Schoenfeld (1925-2006) Soloist and internationally renown cello pedagogue.

★ Karl Schröder (1848-1935)

★ Joseph Schuster

★ Adrien Francois Servais

★ Daniil Shafran

★ Natalia Shakhovskaya

★ Irene Sharp

★ John Sharp

★ Matthew Sharp

★ Suzanne Shelton

★ Andrew Shulman

★ Luigi Silva (1903-1961)

★ Ciril Škerjanec

★ Kenneth Slowik

★ Giovanni Sollima (also a composer)

★ David Soyer Founding cellist of the Guarneri Quartet.

★ Mark Summer Cellist for the Turtle Island String Quartet, which does jazz and occasional covers of rock songs.

★ János Starker

★ Leo Stern

★ Guilhermina Suggia

★ Saskia Rao-de Haas

T

★ Marina Tarasova

★ Torleif Thedéen

★ Werner Thomas-Mifune

★ Fiona Thompson

★ Auguste Tolbecque

★ Eino Toppinen (pioneer of so-called cello rock; also known as Eicca Toppinen)

★ Paul Tortelier

★ Arturo Toscanini

★ Bion Tsang

U

★ Frances-Marie Uitti

★ Tómas Ulrich

V

★ Eduardo Vasallo

★ Laszlo Varga

★ Sasha von Dassow

W

★ Raphael Wallfisch

★ Jian Wang

★ Michael Weintraub

★ Gay-Yee Westerhoff

★ Sonia Wieder-Atherton

★ Hanus Wihan

★ Donald Whitton

★ Peter Wiley

★ Sandy Walsh-Wilson

★ Bryan Charles Wilson

★ Harry Wimmer

★ Ethan Winer (Kind of a composer as well; he created A cello rondo)

★ Pieter Wispelwey

XYZ

★ Ladislav Zélenka

★ Hillel Zori

★ YoYo Ma