List of cellists
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A person who plays the cello is called a cellist. Notable cellists include:
A
- Claus Adam
- John Addison, Australian cellist 1
- Diran Alexanian
- Jennifer Adams, cellist with the duo Montana Skies
- Jérémie Arcache, cellist and singer with Revolver
B
- J.S. Bach
- Zuill Bailey
- Alexander Baillie
- Sarah Balliet, cellist of Murder by Death
- Felix Battanchon (1814-1893)
- Mario Brunello (1960 - Italian cellist)
- 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 Bréval
- Carter Brey (New York Philharmonic)
- František Brikcius, Czech Cellist
- 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
- Young-Chang Cho
- Chu Yibing
- 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
- Nicholas (Mutha Effin) Dawson (Contemporary Cellist; Master Composer)
- Caroline Dale
- Karl Davydov (1838-1889)
- Sunny Davis (Electric Cellist, The Stiletto Formal)
- Robert deMaine (American)
- Rohan de Saram
- Friedrich Dotzauer
- Jean-Louis Duport (1749-1819) (French; brother of Jean-Pierre Duport)
- Jean-Pierre Duport (1741-1818)
- Jacqueline du Pré (1945-1987) (English)
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
- Eugene Friesen (1952 - ) (Grammy award-winning jazz/improvisational cellist)
- Michaela Fukačová
G
- Sol Gabetta
- Domenico Gabrielli
- Raya Garbousova (1909-1997)
- Mikhail Gelfandbein
- Maurice Gendron
- Alban Gerhardt
- 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)
- Andrew Hamilton
- 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
- Jay Humeston (former principal cellist of the Hong Kong Philharmonic
- Ivan Hussey
I
J
- Antonio Janigro (1918-1989) (Italian cellist)
- Joan Jeanrenaud (1956- ), former cellist for the Kronos Quartet
- Guy Johnston
- Jorane
- John Paul Jones (of Led Zeppelin)
- Jovanovic, Milica Mima
K
- Anssi Karttunen
- Paul Katz
- Zoë Keating
- John Kennedy
- Lauri Kennedy
- Julia Kent
- Perttu Kivilaakso (from cello metal band Apocalyptica)
- Kanon Wakeshima (Wakeshima Kanon)
- Julius Klengel (1859–1933)
- Maria Kliegel
- Alexander Kniazev
- Otto van Koppenhagen
- Nina Kotova
- Antonín Kraft (1749-1820)
- Anatoli Krastev
- Josef Krecmer
- Joel Krosnick
- Friedemann Kupsa
L
- David Lale (Australian cellist)
- David Lale (British cellist)
- Gerard Le Feuvre
- Tony Levin
- 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
- Antonio Meneses
- Frank Miller
- 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
- Johann Sebastian Paetsch
- Aldo Parisot
- Siegfried Palm
- Vito Paternoster
- David Pereira (Australian cellist)
- Maaike Peterse (Cellist with Kingfisher Sky)
- Oscar Pettiford (1922-1960) Bebop
- Kristen Pfaff
- 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 Pré)
- David Popper (1843-1913)
- Andrei Pricope
- Carlos Prieto
Q
R
- Ernst Reijseger (improvising cellist)
- Gabor Rejto
- 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
S
- 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 François Servais
- Daniil Shafran
- Natalia Shakhovskaya
- Philip Sheppard (also a composer)
- Benyamin Sönmez
- Andrew Shulman (also a conductor and composer)
- František Sláma (cellist) and publicist
- Vedran Smailović
- 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
- Martin Tillman
- Eicca Toppinen (from cello metal band Apocalyptica)
- Paul Tortelier
- Arturo Toscanini
- Sulkhan Tsintsadze (also a composer)
U
V
- Laszlo Varga
- Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887–1959) (also a Brazilian composer)
W
- Raphael Wallfisch
- Jian Wang
- Graham Waterhouse (also a composer)
- Julian Lloyd Webber
- Terence Weil
- Gay-Yee Westerhoff
- Donald Whitton
- Peter Wiley
- Dominique de Williencourt
- Pieter Wispelwey
- Wakeshima Kanon(Kanon Wakeshima)