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The following is a list of famous violinists. Please contact us if you would like to contribute content on any of these violin performers. Also, be sure to check out the composer pages to learn about influential violin composers.

Violinists A-B

  • Salvatore Accardo
  • Pierre Amoyal
  • Adele Anthony
  • Samuel Applebaum
  • Helen Armstrong
  • Michèle Auclair
  • Leopold Auer (1845-1930)
  • Lidia Baich
  • Ben Baker
  • Volodja Balzalorsky
  • Matthew Barrie
  • Paul Barritt
  • Rachel Barton
  • Elisabeth Batiashvili
  • Haroutune Bedelian
  • Nina Beilina
  • Boris Belkin
  • Monte Belknap
  • Joshua Bell (1976-)
  • Nicola Benedetti
  • Alessio Benvenuti
  • Sabrina Ann Berger
  • Dmitri Berlinsky
  • Pavel Berman
  • Marat Besengaliev
  • Vera Beths
  • Adolfo Betti
    (interview with Adolfo Betti)
  • Fabio Biondi
  • Kolja Blacher
  • Lola Bobesco
  • Igor Borodin
  • Emanuel Borok
  • Uli Bösking
  • Willi Boskovsky
  • Paul Bradley
  • Shony Alex Braun
  • Benjamen Breen
  • Karen Briggs
  • Zakhar Bron
  • Raphael Bronstein, Ariana Bronne
  • Eddy Brown
    (Interview with Eddy Brown)
  • Iona Brown
  • Jochen Brusch
  • Peter Bucknell
  • Adolf Busch

Violinists C-D

  • Alfredo Campoli
  • Stuart Canin
  • Renaud Capuçon
  • Humberto Carfi
  • Giulikano Carmignola
  • Jonathan Carney
  • Regina Carter
  • Charley Castleman
  • Vitezslav Cernoch
  • David Cerone
  • Corey Cerovsek
  • Sarah Chang (1982)
  • Stephanie Chase
  • Chee-Yun
  • Kyung-Wha Chung
  • Graham Clark
  • Benedict Cruft
  • Shaundra Culatta
  • Lucy van Dael
  • Carlos Damas
  • Michael D'Arcy
  • Lucas David
  • David Davidson
  • Robert Davidovici
  • Dorthy DeLay
  • Philippe Descamps
  • Lindsay Deutsch
  • Glenn Dicterow
  • Rafael Druian
  • Katarzyna Duda
  • Bruce Dukov
  • Augustin Dumay

Violinists E-G

  • Christiane Edinger
  • James Ehnes
  • Mischa Elman (1891–1967)
  • George Enescu
  • Isabelle Faust
  • Aldo Ferraresi
  • Peter Ferreira
  • Julia Fischer
  • Carl Flesch (1873 - 1944)
  • Eugene Fodor
  • Christina Fong
  • Martin Foster
  • Pamela Frank
  • Miriam Fried
  • Erick Friedman
  • Zino Francescatti
  • Daniel Froschauer
  • Mauricio Fuks
  • Greg Fulkerson
  • Iwao Furusawa
  • Ivan Galamian
  • Samuel Gardner
    (Interview with Gardner)
  • David Garrett
  • Enrico Gatti
  • Toni Geiling
  • Francesco Geminiani
    (1680 - 1762)
  • John Georgiadis
  • Mila Georgieva
  • André Gertler
  • Amanda Gerttula
  • Joseph Gingold
  • Rafael Gintoli
  • Artur Girsky
  • Ivry Gitlis
  • Kai Gleusteen
  • Vadim Gluzman
  • Szymon Goldberg
  • Ruben Gonzalez
  • Midori Goto (1971)
  • Clio Gould
  • Eduard Grach
  • Valery Gradow
  • Philippe Graffin
  • James Greening-Valenzuela
  • David Grimal
  • Tatjana Grindenko
  • Ilya Gringolts
  • Stephane Grappelli
  • Ilya Grubert
  • Arthur Grumiaux (1921 - 1986)
  • Erich Gruenberg
  • Rupert Guenther
  • Franco Guilli
  • Igor Gruppman
  • Vesna Gruppman
  • Michael Gustorff

Violinists H-I

  • Ida Haendel
  • Detlef Hahn
  • Hilary Hahn (1980)
  • Kelly Hall-Tompkins
  • Susie Hansen
  • Chloe Hanslip
  • Joji Hattori
  • Sidney Harth
  • Arthur Hartman
    (Interview with Hartman)
  • Paul Hegele
  • Jascha Heifetz (1901-1987)
  • Jonathan Hill
  • Ulf Hoelscher
  • Latica Honda-Rosenberg
  • Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker
  • David Hochstein
    (Interview with Hochstein)
  • Daniel Hope
  • Yuzuko Horigome
  • Mario Hossen
  • Bella Hristova
  • Bin Huang
  • Cecilia Huang
  • Jeno Hubay
  • Bronislaw Huberman
  • Monica Huggett
  • Judith Ingolfsson
  • Eriko Iso and Miho Kamiya
  • Jacques Israelievitch
  • Maki Itoi

Violinists J-K

  • Janine Jansen
  • Joseph Joachim
  • Leila Josefowicz
  • Adrian Justus
  • Oleg Kagan
  • Ani Kavafian
  • Ida Kavafian
  • Ilya Kaler
  • Koh-Gabriel Kameda
  • Dong-Suk Kang
  • Lewis Kaplan
  • Mark Kaplan
  • Dalibor Karvay
  • Daishin Kashimoto
  • Tomoko Kato
  • Leonidas Kavakos
  • Narimichi Kawabata
  • Tomoko Kawada
  • Tamaki Kawakubo
  • Nigel Kennedy (1956)
  • Alexander Kerr
  • Misha Keylin
  • Anastasia Khitruk
  • Chin Kim
  • David Kim
  • Young Uck Kim
  • Masayuki Kino
  • Mayu Kishima
  • Raphael Klayman
  • Sherry Kloss
  • Franz Kneisel
    (Interview with Kneisel)
  • Daniel Kobialka
  • Leonid Kogan
  • Rudolf Koelman
  • Elissa Lee Koljonen
  • Ilya Konovalov
  • Patricia Kopatchinskaja
  • Laurent Korcia
  • Berent Korfker
  • Sasha Korobkina
  • Natasha Korsakova
  • Adam Kostecki
  • Hana Kotkova
  • Bojidara Kouzmanova
  • Herman Krebbers
  • Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962)
  • Gidon Kremer
  • Rodolphe Kreutzer
  • Jan Kubelik
  • Yoko Kubo
  • Sigiswald Kuijken
  • Pekka Kuusisto

Violinists L-O

  • Cho-Liang Lin
  • Jack Liebeck
  • Lucia Lin
  • Jaime Laredo
  • Kiril Laskarov
  • Kyung Sun Lee
  • Hans Letz
    (Interview with Hans Letz)
  • Tasmin Little
  • Yang Liu
  • Malcolm Lowe
  • Richard Luby
  • Sergiu Luca
  • Cora Venus Lunny
  • Vanessa Mae
  • Teiko Maehashi
  • Robert Mann
  • David Mannes
    (Interview with Mannes)
  • Catherine Manoukian
  • Andrew Manze
  • Albert Markov
  • Martin-Pierre
  • Edvin Marton
  • Anthony Marwood
  • Anne-Sophie Mutter (1963)
  • Eduard Melkus
  • Rachael McDonnell
  • Yuri Medianik
  • Yehudi Menuhin (1916 - 1999)
  • Anne Akiko Meyers
  • Franco Mezzena
  • Lucia Micarelli
  • Stoika Milanova
  • Stefan Milenkovich
  • Nathan Milstein
  • Shlomo Mintz
  • Lydia Mordkovitch
  • Darragh Morgan
  • Gil Morgenstern
  • Erica Morini
  • Sviatoslav Moroz
  • Evgeny Moskovchuk
  • Graf Mourja
  • Leopold Mozart
  • Victoria Mullova
  • Tivadar Nachez
    (Interview with Nachez)
  • Hayato Naka
  • Pietro Nardini
  • Jo Nardolillo
  • Johann Baptist Neruda
  • Ginette Neveu
  • Philip Newman
  • Eijin Nimura
  • Takako Nishizaki
  • Chiyoko Noguchi
  • Mark O'Connor
  • Arthur Oistrach
  • David Oistrakh (1908 - 1974)
  • Igor Oistrakh (1931
  • Elmar Oliveira
  • Akiko Ono
  • Adelina Oprean
  • Joan Oriol
  • Krysia Osostowicz
  • Reiko Otani

Violinists P-R

  • Niccolo Paganini
  • Philip Palermo
  • Kathleen Parlow
  • William de Pasquale
  • Gyorgy Pauk
  • Susie Peek
  • Itzhak Perlman (1945)
  • Louis Persinger
  • Maximilian Pilzer
    (Interview with Pilzer)
  • PB Ploy
  • Antonio Pontarelli
  • Jean-Luc Ponty
  • Hristo Popov
  • Gérard Poulet
  • Maude Powell
    (Interview with Maud Powell)
  • Pavel Prantl
  • William Preucil
  • Vasa Prihoda
  • Rodrigo Puskas
  • Stephanie Quinn
  • Philip Quint
  • Michael Rabin
  • Julian Rachlin
  • Neyveli S.Radhakrishna
  • Dragan Radosavievich
  • Michi Regier
  • Ossy Renardy
  • Vadim Repin
  • June Rhee
  • Susan Rhodes-Kempter
  • André Rieu
  • Ruggero Ricci
  • Paul Roland
  • Aaron Rosand
  • Alma and Arnold Rosé

Violinists S

  • Gustav Saenger
    (Interview with Saenger)
  • Shaundra
  • Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg
  • Leon Sametini
    (Interview with Sametini)
  • Pablo de Sarasate
  • Alexander Saslavsky
    (Interview with Saslavsky)
  • Shunsuke Sato
  • Zina Schiff
  • Beth Ilana Schneider-Gould
  • Alexander Schneider
  • Wolfgang Schneiderhan
  • Sergiu Schwartz
  • Angie Seegers
  • Michio Shirasawa
  • Toscha Seidel
    (Interview with Toscha Seidel)
  • Mayumi Seiler
  • Berl Senofsky
  • Edmund Severn
    (Interview with Edmund Severn)
  • Gil Shaham (1971)
  • Hagai Shaham
  • Karen Shakhgaldyan
  • Susan Shane
  • Sayaka Shoji
  • Joseph Silverstein
  • Andy Simionescu
  • Dmitry Sitkovetsky
  • Alexander Skwortsow
  • Andrew Sords
  • Anton Sorokow
  • Albert Spalding
    (interview with Albert Spalding)
  • Leon Spierer
  • Theodore Spiering
    (Interview with Spiering)
  • Helena Spitkova
  • Vladimir Spivakov
  • Tossy Spivakovsky
  • Pavel Sporcl
  • Oliver Steiner
  • Isaac Stern (1920 - 2001)
  • Lara St. John
  • Malcolm Stewart
  • Josef Suk
  • Leonid Sushansky
  • Akiko Suwanai
  • Shinichi Suzuki
  • Henryk Szeryng
  • Joseph Szigeti

Violinists T-Z

  • Kyoko Takezawa
  • Chien Tan
  • Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770)
  • Byron Tauchi
  • Cat Taylor
  • Arve Tellefsen
  • Alexander Telnikoff
  • Christian Tetzlaff
  • Jacques Thibaud
    (Interview with Thibaud)
  • Jassen Todorov
  • Roman Totenberg
  • Yasushi Toyoshima
  • Viktor Tretyakov
  • Alexander Trostiansky
  • Martina Trumpp
  • Uto Ughi
  • Miyo Umezu
  • Asako Urushihara
  • Masuko Ushioda
  • Isabelle van Keulen
  • Tibor Varga
  • Maxim Vengerov
  • Henri Vieuxtemps
  • Gioconda De Vito
  • Olena Vrublevska
  • Elizabeth Wallfisch
  • Takayoshi Wanami
  • Mira Wang
  • Reiko Watanabe
  • Ruth Waterman
  • Hanna Weinmeister
  • Antje Weithaas
  • Camilla Wicks
  • Henryk Wieniawski
  • August Wilhelmj
  • Wanda Wilkomirska
  • Jasper Wood
  • Tatsuya Yabe
  • Jeannie Wells Yablonsky
  • Abram Yampolsky
  • Toru Yasunaga
  • Eugène Ysaÿe
    (Interview with Yasaye)
  • David Yonan
  • Igor Yuzefovich
  • Èdua Amarilla Zádory
  • Andrew Zaplatynsky
  • Thomas Zehetmair
  • Zvi Zeitlin
  • Jay Zhong
  • Cecilia Zilliacus
  • Efrem Zimbalist
  • Frank Peter Zimmermann (1965)
  • Nikolai Znaider
  • Pinchas Zuckerman (1948)
  • Paul Zukofsky
  • Jaap van Zweden
  • Mimi Zweig

 

 

 


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