List of violists

This is a list of Wikipedia articles on notable viola players. In cases where a violist has also achieved fame in another musical area, such as conducting or composing, this is noted.

Notable violists

A

Tasso Adamopoulos
Julia Rebekka Adler (b. 1978)
Sir Hugh Allen (1869–1946), conductor
Kris Allen (b. 1985)
Vladimir Altshuler (b. 1946), conductor
Johann Andreas Amon (1763–1825)
B. Tommy Andersson (b. 1964), composer, conductor
Paul Angerer (1927–2017), composer
Steven Ansell (b. 1954)
Atar Arad (b. 1945)
Cecil Aronowitz (1916–1978)
Dino Asciolla (1920–1994)
Jean-Marie Auberson (1920–2004), violinist, conductor
Emilie Autumn
Eddie Ayres (b. 1967)

B

Joseph Baber (b.1937), composer
Johann Aegidius Bach (1645–1716), organist
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), composer
Sigismund Bachrich (1841–1913), composer, violinist
August Baeyens (1895–1966), composer
Vladimir Bakaleinikov (1885–1953), conductor, composer
Michael Balling (1866–1925), conductor
Alain Bancquart (b. 1934)
Rudolf Barshai (1924–2010), conductor
Yuri Bashmet (b. 1953)
Cathy Basrak (b. 1977)
Natalie Bauer-Lechner (1858–1921)
Sally Beamish (b. 1956), composer
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), composer
Sviatoslav Belonogov (b. 1965)
Mitrofan Belyayev (1836–1904)
František Benda (1709–1786), composer
Jiří Antonín Benda (1722–1795), composer
Daniel Benyamini (1925–1993)
Wilhelm Georg Berger (1929–1993), composer
Yehonatan Berick (b. 1968), violinist
Lise Berthaud (b. 1982)
Vasily Bessel (1843–1907), music publisher
Mikhail Bezverkhny (b. 1947), violinist
Franz Beyer (1922–2018), musicologist
Hatto Beyerle (b. 1933), conductor
Luigi Alberto Bianchi (1945–2018)
Benjamin Blake (1751–1827), composer, violinist
Herbert Blendinger (1936–2020), composer
Joseph von Blumenthal (1782–1856), violinist, composer
Alexandre Pierre François Boëly (1785–1858)
Emil Bohnke (1888–1928), composer, conductor
Vadim Borisovsky (1900–1972)
Jacques Borsarello (b. 1951)
York Bowen (1884–1961), composer, pianist
Máximo Arrates Boza (1859–1936), composer
Frank Bridge (1879–1941), composer
Benjamin Britten (1913–1976), composer
Gabriel Brncic (b. 1942), composer
Sheila Browne (b. 1971)
František Brož (1896–1962), composer
Gerard von Brucken Fock (1859–1935), composer
Bjarne Brustad (1895–1978), composer, violinist
Peter Bucknell (b. 1977)
Kenji Bunch (b. 1973)

C

John Cale (b. 1942)
Helen Callus
Bartolomeo Campagnoli (1751–1827), composer, violinist
Giuliano Carmignola (b. 1951), violinist
David Aaron Carpenter (b. 1986)
Henri Casadesus (1879–1947)
Gérard Caussé (b. 1948)
Eugenio Cavallini (1806–1881), violinist, conductor
Alain Celo (b. 1960), composer
Ladislav Černý (1891–1975)
Eugène Chartier (1893–1963), violinist, conductor
Roger Chase (b. 1953)
André Hippolyte Chélard (1789–1861), composer, conductor
Rebecca Clarke (1886–1979), composer
Caroline Coade
Eric Coates (1886–1957), composer
Paul Coletti (b. 1959)
Anthony Collins (1893–1963), composer, conductor
Serge Collot (1923–2015)
Carlton Cooley (1898–1981), composer
Winifred Copperwheat (1905–76), performer, teacher
Wayne Crouse (1924–2000)
John Curro (b. 1932), conductor

D

David Dalton (b. 1934)
Steven Dann (b. 1953)
Gyula Dávid (1913–1977)
Tania Davis (b. 1975)
Brett Dean (b. 1961)
Christophe Desjardins (1962–2020)
Jack Delano (1914–1997), composer
Alan de Veritch (b. 1947)
Brett Deubner (b.1968)
Patrizia Di Paolo
Roberto Díaz (b. 1960)
Viacheslav Dinerchtein (b. 1976)
Napoleon Distelmans (1884–1946)
Paul Doktor (1919–1989)
Demetrius Constantine Dounis (1886–1954), violinist, pedagogue
Dimitris Dragatakis (1914–2001), composer
Karen Dreyfus
Duncan Druce (1939–2015), composer
Fyodor Druzhinin (1932–2007)
Philip Dukes (b. 1968)
Matthias Durst (1815–1875), violinist, composer
Charles Dutoit (b. 1936), conductor
Lawrence Dutton (b. 1954)
Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904), composer

E

Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (1814–1865), violinist
Ernest van der Eyken (1913–2010), composer, conductor

F

Ralph Farris (b. 1970)
Kristina Fialová
Federigo Fiorillo (1753–c.1823), violinist, composer, pedagogue
Richard Fleischman (b. 1963)
Watson Forbes (1909–1997)
Cecil Forsyth (1870–1941), composer
Johannes Fritsch (1941–2010), composer
Lillian Fuchs (1901–1995)
Kenji Fusé (b. 1965), composer

G

Grigori Gamburg (1900–1967), composer, conductor
John Garvey (1921–2006), conductor
Ottmar Gerster (1897–1969), composer, conductor
Carlo Maria Giulini (1914–2005), conductor
Bruno Giuranna (b. 1933)
Donald A. Glaser (1926–2013), Nobel Prize–winning physicist
Roland Glassl (b. 1972)
Rosemary Glyde (1948–1994), composer
Rivka Golani (b. 1946)
Richard Goldner (1908–1991)
Jonny Greenwood, lead guitarist of Radiohead
Ebbe Grims-land (1915–2015)
Amihai Grosz (b. 1979)

H

Veronika Hagen (b. 1963)
Harutyun Hanesyan (1911–1987), composer
John Harbison (b. 1938), composer
Joseph Haydn (1732–1809), composer
Donald Heins (1878–1949), violinist, conductor, composer
Willy Hess (1859–1939), violinist
Raphael Hillyer (1914–2010)
Paul Hindemith (1895–1963), composer
Alfred Charles Hobday (1870–1942)
Manfred Honeck (b. 1958), conductor
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (1954–2006), mezzo-soprano
Ketil Hvoslef (b. 1939)

I

Nobuko Imai (b. 1943)
Yuko Inoue

J

Hanoch Jacoby (1909–1990), composer
Baudime Jam (b. 1972), composer
Leroy Jenkins (1932–2007)
Otto Joachim (1910–2010), composer
Matthew Jones (b. 1974), violinist

K

Jiří Kabeš (b. 1946), singer, songwriter
Thomas Kakuska (1940–2005)
Jan Karlin (b. 1954), producer, administrator
Jurgis Karnavičius (1884–1941), composer
Gilad Karni
Kim Kashkashian (b. 1952)
Milton Katims (1909–2006), conductor
Martha Strongin Katz (b. 1942)
Hugo Kauder (1888–1972), composer, violinist
Nigel Keay (b. 1955), composer
Nigel Kennedy (b. 1956), violinist
Volker David Kirchner (1942–2020), composer
Dmitri Klebanov (1907–1987)
Paul Klengel (1854–1935), violinist, pianist
Garth Knox (b. 1956)
Ulrich Koch (1921–1996)
František Kočvara (1730–1791), composer
Tosca Kramer (1903–1976)
Alison Krauss (b. 1971)
Emil Kreuz (1867–1932)
Milan Křížek (1926–2018), composer
Boris Kroyt (1897–1969)
Theodore Kuchar (b. 1960), conductor
Ferdinand Küchler (1867–1937), violinist, composer
Michael Kugel (b. 1946)
Sigiswald Kuijken (b. 1944), violinist, conductor

L

Michelle LaCourse
Théophile Laforge (1863–1918)
Édouard Lalo (1823–1892), composer
Anne Lanzilotti (b. 1983), composer
Jaime Laredo (b. 1941), violinist
Victor Legley (1915–1994), composer
Pierre Lénert (b. 1966)
Harold Levin (b. 1956)
Avri Levitan (b. 1973)
Jodi Levitz
Teng Li
Ingvar Lidholm (1921–2017), composer
Samuel Lifschey (1889–1961)
Lim Soon Lee (b. 1957), conductor
Ernest Llewellyn (1915–1982), violinist, conductor
Lloyd Loar instrument designer, composer, played viola alta
James Lowe (b. 1976), conductor
Pál Lukács (1919–1981)

M

Jef Maes (1905–1996), composer
Sergey Malov (b. 1983), violinist
Mat Maneri (b. 1969), composer, violinist
Michael Mann (1919–1977), violinist
Jethro Marks
Carlo Martelli (b. 1935), composer
Uri Mayer (b. 1946), conductor
Eduard Melkus (b. 1928), violinist
Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847), composer
Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999), violinist
John Metcalfe (b. 1964)
Michel Michalakakos (b. 1954)
Miroslav Miletić (1925–2018), composer
Shlomo Mintz (b. 1957), violinist
Alexander Mishnaevski
Roberto Molinelli (b. 1963), composer, conductor
Nils Mönkemeyer (b. 1978)
Pierre Monteux (1875–1964), conductor
Arie Van de Moortel (1918–1976), composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), composer
Janee Munroe (1923–2006)
Henry Myerscough (1927–2007)

N

Philipp Naegele (1928–2011), violinist
Naruhito, Emperor of Japan (b. 1960)
Oskar Nedbal (1874–1930), composer
Paul Neubauer (b. 1962)
Václav Neumann (1920–1995), conductor
Maria Newman (b. 1962), violinist, composer
Casimir Ney (1801–1877)
Nokuthula Ngwenyama (b. 1976)

O

Heiichiro Ohyama (b. 1947)
David Oistrakh (1908–1974), violinist
Raphaël Oleg (b. 1959), violinist
Martin Outram

P

Niccolò Paganini (1782–1840), composer, violinist
Johannes Palaschko (1877–1932), violinist, composer
Úna Palliser, vocalist, violinist
Ian Parrott (1916–2012), composer
Harry Partch (1901–1974), composer
Ödön Pártos (1907–1977), composer
Joseph de Pasquale (1919–2015)
Bruno Pasquier (b. 1943)
Pemi Paull (b. 1975)
Pierre Pasquier (1902–1986)
Clara Petrozzi (b. 1965), violinist, composer
Allan Pettersson (1911–1980), composer
Cynthia Phelps (b. 1961)
Robert Pikler (1909–1984), violinist
Ashan Pillai (b. 1969)
Enrico Polo (1868–1953), violinist
Jocelyn Pook (b. 1960), composer
Diemut Poppen (b. 1960)
Rita Porfiris (b. 1969)
Ari Poutiainen (b. 1972)
Lawrence Power (b. 1977)
William Presser (1916–2004), composer, violinist
Milton Preves (1909–2000)
Joseph Primavera (1926–2006), conductor
William Primrose (1904–1982)

Q

Karl Traugott Queisser (1800–1846)

R

Julian Rachlin (b. 1974), violinist
Mary Ramsey (b. 1963), violinist, singer, songwriter
Wilhelm Ramsøe (1837–1895), composer, conductor, violinist
Émile Pierre Ratez (1851–1934), composer
Mary Ruth Ray (1956–2013)
Adolf Rebner (1876–1967)
Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936), composer
Sophia Reuter (b. 1971), violinist
Allard de Ridder (1887–1966), conductor, composer
Frederick Riddle (1912–1995)
Joaquín Riquelme García (b. 1983)
Karen Ritscher
Hermann Ritter (1849–1926)
Carol Rodland
Jean Rogister (1879–1964), composer
Hartmut Rohde (b. 1966)
Alessandro Rolla (1757–1841), composer
Antonio Rolla (1798–1837), violinist, composer
Paul Rolland (1911–1978)
Max Rostal (1905–1991), violinist
Simon Rowland-Jones (b. 1950)
Vincent Royer (b. 1961)
Miklós Rózsa (1907–1995), composer
Thomas Ryan (1827–1903)
Maxim Rysanov (b. 1978)

S

Luigi Sagrati (1921–2008)
Philip Sainton (1891–1967), composer, conductor
Stephanie Sant'Ambrogio (b. 1960), violinist
Guido Santórsola (1904–1994), composer
Hermann Scherchen (1891–1966), conductor
Peter Schidlof (1922–1987)
Ervin Schiffer (1932–2014)
Franz Schubert (1797–1828), composer
Joseph Schubert (1754–1837), composer, violinist
David Schwartz (1916–2013)
Rudolf Schwarz (1905–1994), conductor
Albert Seitz (1872–1937), composer
Konstantin Sellheim (born 1978)
Tibor Serly (1901–1978), composer
William Shield (1748–1829)
Bernard Shore (1896–1985)
Oscar Shumsky (1917–2000), violinist, conductor
Paul Silverthorne (b. 1951)
Robert Siohan (1894–1985), composer, conductor
Nadia Sirota
Hans Sitt (1850–1922)
Scott Slapin (b. 1974), composer
Kay Slocum
Peter Slowik (b. 1957)
Anton Stamitz (1750–c.1800), composer
Carl Stamitz (1745–1801), composer
Johann Stamitz (1717–1757), composer
Jean Stewart (1914–2002)
Scott St. John (b. 1969)
Simon Streatfeild (1929–2019), conductor
Jennifer Stumm
Josef Suk (1929–2011), violinist
Jean Sulem (b. 1959)
Louis Svećenski (1862–1926)
Gusztáv Szerémi (1877–1952), composer

Lionel Tertis

T

Robert Talbot (1893–1954), conductor, composer, violinist
Václav Talich (1883–1961), conductor, violinist
Antoine Tamestit (b. 1979)
Will Taylor (b. 1968)
Anahit Tsitsikian (1926–1999), violinist, musicologist
Jan Tausinger (1921–1980), composer, conductor
Yuri Temirkanov (b. 1938), conductor
Mela Tenenbaum, violinist
Lionel Tertis (1876–1975)
Marcus Thompson (b. 1946)
Katia Tiutiunnik (b. 1967), composer
Lars Anders Tomter (b. 1959)
Giuseppe Torelli (1658–1709), pedagogue, composer
Sabine Toutain (b. 1966)
Walter Trampler (1915–1997)
Michael Tree (1934–2018)
Karen Tuttle (1920–2010)

U

Åke Uddén (1903–1987), composer, conductor
Alfred Uhl (1909–1992)
Chrétien Urhan (1790–1845)

V

Roland Vamos (b. 1930)
Léon van Hout (1864–1945)
Emanuel Vardi (1915–2011)
Maxim Vengerov (b. 1974), violinist
Robert Vernon (b. 1949)
Maurice Vieux (1884–1951)
Ladislav Vycpálek (1882–1969), composer, violinist

W

Louis van Waefelghem (1840–1908)
Ernst Wallfisch (1920–1979)
Geraldine Walther (b. 1950)
Johann Baptist Wanhal (1739–1813)
Harry Waldo Warner (1874–1945), composer
Melia Watras
John Webb (b. 1969), composer
Hieronymus Weickmann (1825–1895)
Justus Weinreich (1858–1927), composer
Franz Weiss (1778–1830)
Henryk Wieniawski (1835–1880), violinist
Emanuel Wirth (1842–1923), violinist
Mark Wood

X

Hong-Mei Xiao (b. 1963)
Pierre-Henri Xuereb (b. 1959)

Y

Eugène Ysaÿe (1858–1931), violinist

Z

Bernard Zaslav (1926–2016)
Wen Xiao Zheng (b. 1981)
Grigori Zhislin (1945–2017), violinist
Lev Zhurbin (b. 1978), composer
Tabea Zimmermann (b. 1966)
Fidelis Zitterbart (1845–1915), composer
Đuro Živković (b. 1975), composer, violinist
León Zuckert (1904–1992), composer, violinist
Pinchas Zukerman (b. 1948), violinist

List of violists

Notable violists

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

See also