List of contemporary classical violinists

This is a list of notable contemporery classical violinists.

For the names of notable violinists of all classical music eras see List of Classical Violinists.

Classical violinists

* Salvatore Accardo (born 1941)
* Gilles Apap (born 1963)
* Joshua Bell (born 1967)
* Nicola Benedetti (born 1987)
* Gabriel Bolkosky (born 1973) also a jazz violinist
* Linda Brava (born 1970)
* Anshel Brusilow (born 1928)
* Sarah Chang (born 1980)
* Jiafeng Chen (born 1987)
* Ray Chen (born 1989)
* Kyung Wha Chung (born 1948)
* Carlos Damas (born 1973)
* [http://www.sacconi.com/biographies Hannah Dawson]
* Glenn Dicterow (born 1948)
* Ray Dotoratos (born 1961)
* Renate Eggebrecht (born 1944)
* James Ehnes (born 1976)
* Julia Fischer (born 1983)
* William Fitzpatrick (born 1949)
* Eugene Fodor (born 1950)
* Annar Folleso (born 1972)
* Pamela Frank (born 1967)
* Ivry Gitlis (born 1922)
* Jack Glatzer (born 1939)
* Malcolm Goldstein (born 1936)
* Midori Goto (born 1971)
* Mario Gotoh (born 1985)
* Philippe Graffin (born 1964)
* Salvatore Greco (born 1964)
* Augustin Hadelich (born 1984)
* Ida Haendel (born 1928)
* Viviane Hagner (born 1977)
* Hilary Hahn (born 1979)
* Hahn-Bin (born 1987)
* Ben Hancox
* Chloe Hanslip (born 1987)
* Sidney Harth (born 1925)
* Katt Hernandez (born 1974)
* Frank Huang (born 1978)
* Alina Ibragimova (born 1985)
* Janine Jansen (born 1978)
* Leila Josefowicz (born 1977)
* Suna Kan (born 1936)
* Ani Kavafian (born 1948)
* Ida Kavafian (born 1952)
* Leonidas Kavakos (born 1967)
* Nigel Kennedy (born 1956)
* Sergey Khachatryan (born 1985)
* Ustad Dilshad Hussain Khan (born 1950)
* Brian Kim (born 1993)
* Soovin Kim (born 1976)
* Rudolf Koelman (born 1959)
* Jennifer Koh (born 1976)
* Herman Krebbers (born 1923)
* Gidon Kremer (born 1948)
* Yevgeny Kutik (born 1985)
* Pekka Kuusisto (born 1976)
* Fredell Lack (born 1922)
* Susanne Lautenbacher (born 1932)
* Cho-liang Lin (born 1960)
* Jessica Linnebach (born 1983)
* Robert Lipsett (born 1947)
* Tasmin Little (born 1965)
* Catherine Manoukian (born 1981)
* Alexander Markov (born 1963)
* Shlomo Mintz (born 1957)
* Philip Mortimer (born 1925)
* Viktoria Mullova (born 1959)
* Anne-Sophie Mutter (born 1963)
* Florin Niculescu (born 1967)
* Domenico Nordio (born 1971)
* Igor Oistrakh (born 1931)
* Elmar Oliveira (born 1950)
* Michaela Paetsch (born 1961)
* Tedi Papavrami (born 1971)
* György Pauk (born 1936)
* Itzhak Perlman (born 1945)
* Jennifer Pike (born 1989)
* Elizabeth Pitcairn (born 1973)
* Alina Pogostkina (born 1983)
* Ruth Posselt (born 1914)
* Julian Rachlin (born 1974)
* Vadim Repin (born 1971)
* Ruggiero Ricci (born 1918)
* André Rieu (born 1949)
* Shahrdad Rohani
* Aaron Rosand (born 1927)
* Eric Rosenblith (born 1920)
* Lara St. John (born 1971)
* Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (born 1961)
* Stephanie Sant'Ambrogio (born 1960)
* Albert Saparoff (born 1914)
* Lynnette Seah (born 1957)
* Gil Shaham (born 1971)
* Hagai Shaham (born 1966)
* Sayaka Shoji (born 1983)
* Joseph Silverstein (born 1932)
* Alexander Sitkovetsky (born 1983)
* Dmitry Sitkovetsky (born 1954)
* Steven Staryk (born 1932)
* Arabella Steinbacher (born 1981)
* Josef Suk (born 1929)
* Akiko Suwanai (born 1972)
* Martynas Švgžda von Bekker (born 1967)
* Vilmos Szabadi (born 1959)
* Kyoko Takezawa (born 1970)
* Christian Tetzlaff (born 1966)
* Richard Tognetti (born 1965)
* Roman Totenberg (born 1911)
* Viktor Tretyakov (born 1946)
* Lana Trotovsek (born 1983)
* Uto Ughi (born 1944)
* Vanessa-Mae (born 1978)
* Maxim Vengerov (born 1974)
* Emmy Verhey (born 1949)
* Zino Vinnikov (born 1943)
* Jean-Pierre Wallez (born 1939)
* Daja Yavasharian (born 1981)
* Diana Yukawa (born 1985) first 2 albums were classical
* Frank Peter Zimmermann (born 1965)
* Pinchas Zukerman (born 1948)
* Jaap van Zweden (born 1960)

Baroque violinists

* Chiara Banchini (born 1946)
* Fabio Biondi (born 1961)
* Giuliano Carmignola
* Lucy van Dael (born 1946)
* Enrico Gatti (born 1955)
* Reinhard Goebel (born 1952)
* Gottfried von der Goltz
* John Holloway
* Monica Huggett (born 1953)
* Sigiswald Kuijken (born 1944)
* Jeanne Lamon (born 1949)
* Andrew Manze (born 1965)
* Eduard Melkus
* Enrico Onofri
* Rachel Podger (born 1968)
* Hélène Schmitt
* Jaap Schröder (born 1925)
* Simon Standage (born 1941)
* Elizabeth Wallfisch (born 1952)

External links

* [http://www.thirteen.org/publicarts/violin/index.html Legendary Violinists] (a public arts website)
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/8/8/14884/14884-h/14884-h.htm Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday] by Henry C. Lahee, an 1889 publication at Project Gutenberg
* [http://beststudentviolins.com/violinistsontheweb.html Violinists and Violists on the Web] Alphabetical listings of web pages on string players, past and present.