List of cellists

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

A

*Richard Aaron (1960- ), faculty at University of Michigan, The Juilliard School
*Claus Adam
*Diran Alexanian

B

*Zuill Bailey
*Sarah Balliet, cellist of Murder by Death
*Felix Battanchon (1814-1893)
*Paul Bazelaire (1886-1958)
*Thomas Batuello
*Hugo Becker
*Maya Beiser
*Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) (also a classical composer)
*Gaetano Braga (1829-1907) (also a composer)
*Jean-Baptiste Breval
*Christopher Bunting, soloist
*Anner Bylsma (baroque cellist)

C

*Isobel Campbell
*Gautier Capuçon
*Colin Carr
*Phoebe Carrai
*Pablo Casals (1876-1973)
*Carles Cases (also a pianist)
*Gaspar Cassadó
*Han-Na Chang
*Giovanni Battista Cirri (also a composer)
*Lluís Claret
*Natalie Clein
*Gretta Cohn
*Orlando Cole
*Emilio Colón
*Tom Cora
*Bernhard Cossmann
*Melora Creager
*Douglas Cummings

D

*Caroline Dale
*Karl Davidov (1838-1889)
*Sunny Davis (Electric Cellist, The Stiletto Formal)
*Robert deMaine (American)
*Roel Dieltiens
*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 - )

F

*Yosif Feigelson
*Emanuel Feuermann (1902-1942)
*Wilhelm Fitzenhagen
*Beckie Foon (Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band)
*Pierre Fournier (1906-1986) ("the aristocrat of cellists")
*Auguste Franchomme (1808-1884)
*Gideon Freudmann
*Erik Friedlander
*Michaela Fukačová

G

*Domenico Gabrielli
*Raya Garbousova (1909-1997)
*Maurice Gendron
*David Geringas
*Tim Gill
*Clive Gillinson
*Rudolf Gleißner
*Georg Goltermann
*Kristin von der Goltz
*Bernard Greenhouse (founding member of the Beaux Arts Trio)
*Friedrich Grützmacher (1832-1903)
*Natalia Gutman

H

*Clemens Hagen (1966- ) (cellist of the Hagen Quartet)
*Matt Haimovitz
*Beatrice Harrison (1892-1965) (English cellist)
*Richard Harwood
*Ofra Harnoy
*Lynn Harrell
*Melissa Hasin
*Stjepan Hauser
*Victor Herbert (1859-1924) (also composer)
*Louise Hopkins (cellist)
*Ivan Hussey

I

*Steven Isserlis

J

*Antonio Janigro (1918-1989) (Italian cellist)
*Joan Jeanrenaud (1956- ), former cellist for the Kronos Quartet
*Jorane
*John Paul Jones (of Led Zeppelin)

K

*Anssi Karttunen
*Paul Katz
*Zoë Keating
*Julia Kent
*Ralph Kirshbaum
*Perttu Kivilaakso (from cello metal band Apocalyptica)
*Julius Klengel (1859–1933)
*Maria Kliegel
*Alexander Kniazev
*Otto van Koppenhagen
*Nina Kotova
*Antonín Kraft (1749-1820)
*Anatoli Krastev
*Joel Krosnick
*Friedemann Kupsa

L

*David Lale (Australian cellist)
*David Lale (British cellist)
*Gerard Le Feuvre
*Mats Lidström
*Max Lilja, cellist of Hevein
*Jaap ter Linden
*Gavriel Lipkind (*1977)
*Julian Lloyd Webber
*Fred Lonberg-Holm
*Paavo Lötjönen (from cello metal band Apocalyptica)
*Andrés Rodrigo López

M

*Yo-Yo Ma
*Mischa Maisky
*Antero Manninen
*Rudolf Matz (1901-1988)
*Martin McCarrick
*Alain Meunier
*Frank Miller
*Aaron Minsky
*Georges Miquelle
*Víctor Mirecki Larramat
*Truls Mørk
*Charlotte Moorman
*John Moran
*Johannes Moser

N

*André Navarra (1911-1988)
*Zara Nelsova

O

*Jacques Offenbach (also a composer)

P

*Saerom Park
*Kristen Pfaff
*Johann Sebastian Paetsch
*Aldo Parisot
*Vito Paternoster
*Oscar Pettiford (1922-1960) Bebop
*Gregor Piatigorsky (1903-1976)
*Alfredo Piatti (1822-1901)
*Rosamund Pike
*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)
*Andrei Pricope
*Carlos Prieto

Q

*Jean-Guihen Queyras

R

*Ernst Reijseger (improvising cellist)
*Gabor Reijto
*Giovanni Ricciardi
*Hank Roberts
*Sharon Robinson
*Joshua Roman
*Bernhard Romberg
*Leonard Rose (1918–1984)
*Nathaniel Rosen
*Mstislav Rostropovich (1927–2007 ) (known as Slava; great Russian cellist and conductor)
*Arthur Russell

*Karel Pravoslav Sádlo (1898-1971), also an internationally renown cello pedagogue
*Felix Salmond
*John Sant’Ambrogio
*Sara Sant'Ambrogio
*Jane Scarpantoni
*Heinrich Schiff
*Franz Schmidt (also a pianist and composer)
*Georg Schnéevoigt (also a conductor)
*Eleonore Schoenfeld (1925-2006) Soloist and internationally renown cello pedagogue.
*Joseph Schuster
*Inbal Segev
*Adrien Francois Servais
*Daniil Shafran
*Natalia Shakhovskaya
*Philip Sheppard (also a composer)
*Andrew Shulman (also a conductor and composer)
*Anna Shuttleworth
*František Sláma (cellist) and publicist
*Giovanni Sollima (also a composer)
*David Soyer Founding cellist of the Guarneri Quartet.
*William Henry Squire (1871-1963)
*Mark Summer Cellist for the Turtle Island String Quartet, which does jazz and occasional covers of rock songs.
*János Starker
*Guilhermina Suggia
*Saskia Rao-de Haas
*Benyamin Sönmez

T

*Fiona Thompson
*Eicca Toppinen (from cello metal band Apocalyptica)
*Paul Tortelier
*Arturo Toscanini

U

*Frances-Marie Uitti

V

*Laszlo Varga
*Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887–1959) (also a Brazilian composer)

W

*Raphael Wallfisch
*Jian Wang
*Gay-Yee Westerhoff
*Donald Whitton
*Peter Wiley
*Dominique de Williencourt
*Pieter Wispelwey
*Kanon Wakeshima

XYZ

*Alexander Zhiroff
*Terry Zwigoff