- female, 46 years old
- Wu Man (born 1963 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China) is a Chinese pipa and ruan player. She is an exponent of the Pudong School of pipa playing. She...
- male, 64 years old
- David Grisman is an acclaimed mandolin player. As a teenager, David met and studied with mandolinist/folklorist, Ralph Rinzler. He learned to play...
- male, 45 years old
- Kimmo Pohjonen (born August 16, 1964) is a Finnish accordionist, whose music can be said to stretch from Finnish folk music to rock and improvised...
- male, 60 years old
- Kevin Volans is a composer associated with the post-minimalist movement in contemporary composition. He was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa...
- male, deceased (2006)
- Hamza El Din (b. Toshka, Egypt, July 10, 1929; d. Berkeley, California, May 22, 2006), was a Nubian oud player, "tar" player, and vocalist. Born in...
- male, 52 years old
- David Lang (born January 8, 1957 in Los Angeles, California) is an American composer. Together with Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon, Lang co-founded...
- male
- Foday Musa Suso (b. Sarre Hamadi Village, Wuli District, in the Upper River Division of eastern Gambia) is a musician and composer from the West...
- female
- Franghiz Ali-Zadeh (Azerbaijani Firəngiz Əlizadə, Russian Франгиз Али-Заде; born 29 May 1947, Baku) is an Azerbaijani composer and pianist, currentl...
- male, 79 years old
- Muhal Richard Abrams is a pianist, composer, and cofounder of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), the influential...
- male, deceased (2004)
- Carlos Paredes, <small>ComSE</small>, pron., (February 16 1925-July 23 2004) was a Portuguese guitar player, born in Coimbra, son to the equally...
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