- Yehudi Menuhin
Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin of Stoke d'Abernon, OM, KBE (April 22, 1916 – March 12, 1999) was an American violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in the United Kingdom. Though born in New York City, New York, he would later become a citizen of Switzerland in 1970, and in 1985, Great Britain. - Joshua Bell
Joshua Bell (born 9 December 1967) is an American Grammy Award-winning violinist. - Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven, (baptized December 17, 1770 - March 26, 1827) was a German composer. He is regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of music, and was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western classical music. His music and his reputation inspired — and in many cases intimidated — ensuing generations of composers, musicians, and audiences. - Jascha Heifetz
Jascha Heifetz (December 10, 1987) was a Lithuanian-born American violin virtuoso. - Hilary Hahn
Hilary Hahn is an American Grammy Award–winning violinist - John Mayer
John Mayer (b. Calcutta, Bengal, British India, October 28, 1930; d. United Kingdom, March 9, 2004) was an Indian composer known primarily for his fusions of jazz with Indian music. He was born into an Anglo-Indian family and, after studying with Phillipe Sandre in Calcutta and Melhi Mehta in Bombay, he won a scholarship to London's Royal Academy of Music in 1952, where he studied comparative music and religion in eastern and western cultures. - Fritz Kreisler
Fritz Kreisler was an Austrian (later American) violinist and composer, one of the most famous violinists of his day. Kreisler was noted for his uniquely sweet tone, and also for his expressive phrasing. He produced a characteristic sound, which was immediately recognizable as his own. His tone and phrasing were associated with the "gemütlich" lifestyle of pre-war Vienna. - Jean-Luc Ponty
Jean-Luc Ponty (born September 29, 1942, Avranches, France) is a virtuoso French violinist and jazz composer. - Mark O'Connor
Mark O'Connor (born August 5, 1961 in Seattle, Washington) is widely considered to be the most prominent fiddler of his generation, and a prolific composer of instrumental music.. As a teenager he won national championships on the guitar, mandolin as well as the fiddle. His mentors were Texas fiddler Benny Thomasson and Jazz violinist Stephane Grappelli. He has recorded solo albums for Rounder, Warner Bros. Records, Sony, and his own CD line OMAC Records. - Anne-Sophie Mutter
Anne-Sophie Mutter (born June 29, 1963 in Rheinfelden, Germany) is a German virtuoso violinist - Gidon Kremer
Gidon Kremer (born February 27, 1947) is a Latvian violinist and conductor. Kremer was born in Riga to parents of German-Jewish origin, his father being a Holocaust survivor. He began to play the violin at the age of four, receiving tuition from his father and his grandfather, who were both professional violinists. He went on to study at the Riga School of Music and with David Oistrakh at the Moscow Conservatory. - Sarah Chang
Sarah Chang (born December 10, 1980) is a Korean American violinist with Korean nationality. Chang was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania of Korean heritage. She asked her parents for a violin at the age of 3 and auditioned for the Juilliard School at 6 playing the Bruch Violin Concerto. She was admitted into the studio of Dorothy DeLay, violin teacher to some of the world's great violinists including Itzhak Perlman, Midori Goto, Gil Shaham, Shlomo Mintz and many others, … - Miri Ben-Ari
Miri Ben-Ari (born in 1978) is an Israeli Grammy-award winning classically trained violinist known primarily for her work on several hip-hop projects. She was discovered by former Fugees member Wyclef Jean. Some of her more well-known contributions are on "Overnight Celebrity" for Twista and "Fallin'" for Alicia Keys, in addition to "Jesus Walks" and "The New Workout Plan" from Kanye West's album "The College Dropout". - Lorin Maazel
Lolin Varencove Maazel is an American conductor, violinist and composer. At twelve he toured America to conduct major orchestras. He made his violin debut at the age of fifteen, and in 1960, he became the first American to conduct at Bayreuth. He was conductor of the Deutsche Oper Berlin from 1965 to 1971 and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1965 to 1975. In 1972, Maazel began his tenure as Music Director at the Cleveland Orchestra. - Gil Shaham
Gil Shaham (born February 19, 1971) is an award-winning violinist of Israeli descent. Born in Urbana, Illinois, he moved to Israel at the age of 2 with his parents, both scientists, Jacob Shaham and Meira Diskin. At age 10, he made debuts with the Jerusalem Symphony and Israel Philharmonic orchestras, and was admitted to Juilliard, where he studied with the famed Dorothy DeLay and Hyo Kang. Both he and his sister, the pianist Orli Shaham, attended Columbia University. - Maxim Vengerov
Maxim Vengerov (born August 20, 1974 in Novosibirsk) is a Russian violinist virtuoso of Jewish origin. Vengerov was five when he received his first violin lessons from Galina Turtschaninova and later at the Royal Academy of Music in London (Junior Department). He later studied with the legendary violin teacher Zakhar Bron and was still only ten when he won the Junior Wieniawski Competition in Poland. Recital engagements in Moscow and Leningrad (St.Petersburg) followed, … - Vanessa-Mae
Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson, known onstage as Vanessa-Mae (in Chinese: 陳美, Chén Měi) is an internationally known British classical and pop musician, especially noted for her violin skills. Her music style is self-described as "violin techno-acoustic fusion", as several of her albums prominently feature the techno style. In April 2006, Vanessa-Mae was ranked as the wealthiest young entertainer under 30 in the UK in the Sunday Times Rich List 2006. - Joseph Joachim
Joseph Joachim (June 28, 1831 - August 15, 1907) (pronounced YO-a-chim) was a Hungarian violinist, conductor, composer and teacher. He is regarded as one of the most influential violinists of all time. - Julia Fischer
Julia Fischer (born 15 june 1983) is a German violinist. - James Ehnes
James Ehnes (born January 27, 1976 in Brandon, Manitoba) is a Canadian concert violinist. The son of Alan Ehnes, a trumpeter and music teacher, James Ehnes began playing violin by the age of five. He won numerous competitions in Canada as a teen and in 2001, he won the Juno Award for Best Classical Album. In January 2002 Ehnes was named Young Artist of the Year at the Cannes Classical Awards in Cannes, France. - Laurie Anderson
Laurie Anderson (born Laura Phillips Anderson, on June 5 1947, in Glen Ellyn, Illinois) is an American experimental performance artist and musician. She is the inventor of the tape-bow violin, which has a tape head in place of strings, and a strip of magnetic tape in place of the hairs on a bow. - Marian McPartland
Marian McPartland (b. March 20, 1918), born Margaret Marian Turner, is a jazz pianist, violinist and host of Mary McPartland's Piano Jazz on National Public Radio born in Slough, England. High-profile jazz critic Scott Yanow has said that McPartland is "...a harmonically sophisticated improviser, open to the influence of later stylists including Bill Evans." - Rachel Barton
Rachel Barton Pine (born October 11, 1974) is a violinist from Chicago. Considered a child prodigy at the violin, she started playing at 3 and a half, and played at many renowned venues through her child and teen years. She regularly plays with the Chicago Symphony and on her own, tours worldwide, and has an active recording career. On January 16, 1995, Barton was severely injured in a train accident. As she was exiting a Metra commuter train in the suburb of Winnetka, … - Nathan Milstein
Nathan Mironovich Milstein was a Ukrainian-born violinist who took United States citizenship in 1942 after spending much of his life there. He was born in Odessa. As a child, he was forced by his mother to take violin lessons to keep him out of mischief and studied with Piotr Stolyarsky (also David Oistrakh's teacher). When he was 11, Leopold Auer invited him to become one of his students at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. - Leopold Mozart
Johann Georg Leopold Mozart was a composer, music teacher and violinist. He was born in the city of Augsburg (Germany), and was legally a citizen of the Diocese of Salzburg (now in Austria), but spent much of his time in Vienna, Austria, (all within the Holy Roman Empire). He is best known today for being the father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as well as writing the well-known book, "Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule", but in his time, … - Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (born Rome, Italy, January 10, 1961) is an Italian-born classical violinist, author, and teacher. She is a United States citizen. - Tasmin Little
Tasmin Little (born 13 May 1965) is an English violinist. She was born in London, where she studied under Pauline Scott at the Yehudi Menuhin School and later at the Guildhall School of Music. She came to prominence when she was a string section finalist in the "BBC Young Musician of the Year" competition in 1982. Her father is George Little, the English TV actor. In 1988 she made her professional solo debut with the Halle Orchestra. - Mark Feldman
Mark Feldman (born 1955 in Chicago, Illinois, United States) is a jazz violinist. Feldman worked in Chicago from 1973 to 1980, then in Nashville Tennessee from 1980 to 1986. He worked in New York City and Western Europe from 1986. Feldman often worked with John Zorn, Sylvie Courvoisier, John Abercrombie, Dave Douglas, Uri Caine, and Billy Hart. He played on recordings by Michael Brecker, Lee Konitz, Joe Lovano, Chris Potter. - Rachel Barton Pine
Rachel Barton Pine (born October 11, 1974) is a violinist from Chicago. Considered a child prodigy at the violin, she started playing at the age of 3 and a half. She played at many renowned venues through her child and teen years. She currently resides in Chicago with her husband Greg, plays regularly with the Chicago Symphony and on her own, tours worldwide, and has an active recording career. - Joe Venuti
Giuseppe (Joe) Venuti (September 16, 1903 - August 14, 1978) was a U.S. jazz musician and violinist. Venuti claimed to have been born aboard a ship as his parents emigrated from Italy, though many believe he was simply born in Philadelphia. Considered the father of jazz violin, he pioneered the use of string instruments in jazz along with the guitarist Eddie Lang, a childhood friend of his. Through the 1920s and early 1930s, Venuti produced many recordings. - Leonidas Kavakos
Leonidas Kavakos (born in 1967) is a Greek violinist. He has established himself as one of the most sought after young virtuoso violinists and appears regularly with leading orchestras and in recital throughout the world. - Jaime Laredo
Jaime Laredo (born June 7, 1941 in Cochabamba, Bolivia) is a violinist and conductor. Currently the conductor and Music Director of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, he began his musical career when he was five years old. In 1948 he came to North America and took lessons from Antonio DeGrass. He also studied with Frank Houser before moving to Cleveland, Ohio, to study under Josef Gingold in 1953. - Nicola Benedetti
Nicola Benedetti (born July 1987 West Kilbride, North Ayrshire) is a Scottish violinist. - Neville Marriner
Sir Neville Marriner (born April 15, 1924) is an English conductor and violinist. Marriner was born in Lincoln and studied at the Royal College of Music and the Paris Conservatoire. He played the violin in the Philharmonia and London Symphony Orchestra and formed the Jacobean Ensemble with Thurston Dart before going to Hancock, Maine, in the United States to study conducting with Pierre Monteux at his school there. In 1959 he founded the Academy of St. - Nikolaj Znaider
Nikolaj Znaider (born July 5 1975) is a Danish violinist, celebrated as one of the foremost violinists of today. Nikolaj Znaider is regularly invited to work with the world's leading orchestras. - Billy Bang
Billy Bang (b. William Vincent Walker, Mobile, Alabama, September 20, 1947), is an American free jazz violinist and composer. - Vadim Repin
Vadim Repin (born Novosibirsk, Western Siberia, 31 August 1971) is a Russian violinist. In his youth Repin studied with Zakhar Bron and was revered throughout Russia as a child prodigy. At the age of 17, he became the youngest winner of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels, the world's premier violin competition. Vadim Repin played under such leading conductors as Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Pierre Boulez, Riccardo Chailly, Charles Dutoit, Michael Tilson Thomas, … - Chris Buck
Chris Buck is a violin virtuoso and teacher. He lost his hearing due to latent radiation damage; radiation was part of the cancer therapy he had to endure nearly 14 years ago for a rare adult brain tumor. - Fred Frith
Fred Frith (born February 17, 1949) is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer and improvisor. Probably best-known for his guitar work, Frith first came to attention as one of the founding members of the English avant-garde rock group Henry Cow. Frith was also a member of Art Bears, Massacre and Skeleton Crew. He has collaborated with a number of prominent musicians, including Robert Wyatt, Brian Eno, Lars Hollmer, The Residents, Lol Coxhill, John Zorn, Bill Laswell, … - Stuff Smith
Hezekiah Leroy Gordon Smith, better known as Stuff Smith, was a jazz violinist. Smith was, along with Stéphane Grappelli and Joe Venuti, one of jazz music's preeminent violinists of the swing era. He was born in Portsmouth, Ohio in 1909 and studied violin with his father. Smith cited Louis Armstrong as his primary influence and inspiration to play jazz, and like Armstrong, was a vocalist as well as instrumentalist.
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