List of cellists
A person who plays the cello is called a cellist. Notable cellists include:
=B
- Zuill Bailey
- Stephen Balderston, [1]
- Sarah Balliet, cellist of Murder by Death
- Franz Bartolomey
- Felix Battanchon (1814-1893)
- Charles Baudiot
- Paul Bazelaire (1886-1958)
- Thomas Batuello
- Hugo Becker
- Richard C. Beidel
- Maya Beiser
- Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) (also a classical composer)
- Gaetano Braga (1829-1907) (also a composer)
- Jean-Baptiste Breval
- Carter Brey, principal, New York Philharmonic [2]
- Matthew Brubeck, member of Cheryl Crow's band [3]
- Christopher Bunting, soloist [4]
- Anner Bylsma (baroque cellist)
=C
- Isobel Campbell
- Gautier Capuçon
- Marissa Caranna
- Colin Carr
- Phoebe Carrai
- Pablo Casals (1876-1973)
- Carles Cases (also a pianist)
- Gaspar Cassadó
- Han-Na Chang
- Josh Chang
- Donald Chifamba
- Myung-Wha Chung
- Giovanni Battista Cirri (also a composer)
- Lluis Claret
- Natalie Clein
- Robert Cohen
- Gretta Cohn
- Christophe Coin (1958-) (also plays viol and heads an orchestra[5])
- Orlando Cole
- Tom Cora
- Bernhard Cossmann
- Melora Creager
- Michael Croitoru-Weissman
- Jean-Baptiste Cupis
=D
- Caroline Dale
- Robert Dauber (composer persecuted by Nazi Germany)
- Karl Davidov (1838-1889)
- Sunny Davis (Electric Cellist, The Stiletto Formal)
- Stephen De'ak (1897-1975) (Hungarian-born American cellist, composer and teacher)
- Peter Devos (Belgian, cellist and teacher)
- Rohan de Saram
- Valter Despalj
- Andrés Diaz
- Roel Dieltiens
- Kate Dillingham
- Friedrich Dotzauer
- Jean-Louis Duport (1749-1819) (French; brother of Jean-Pierre Duport)
- Jean-Pierre Duport (1741-1818)
- Jacqueline du Pré (1945-1987) (legendary career cut short by multiple sclerosis)
=F
- Yosif Feigelson
- Dmitri Freschtman
- Emanuel Feuermann (1902-1942)
- Rocco Filippini
- David Finckel
- Mina Fisher
- Beckie Foon (A Silver Mt. Zion)
- Pierre Fournier (1906-1986) ("the aristocrat of cellists")
- Auguste Franchomme (1808-1884)
- Gideon Freudmann
- Carl Fuchs
- Michaela Fukačová
=G
- Domenico Gabrielli
- Raya Garbousova (1909-1997)
- Stephen Geber
- Maurice Gendron
- David Geringas
- Emily Giles ; also known as June Emily Giles
- Tim Gill
- Clive Gillinson
- Rudolf Gleißner
- Georg Goltermann
- Julius Goltermann
- Leonid Gorokhov
- Bernard Greenhouse (founding member of the Beaux Arts Trio)
- Matthew Greswell
- Friedrich Grützmacher (1832-1903)
- Natalia Gutman
=H
- Matt Haimovitz
- Bonnie Hampton
- David Hardy (Principal cellist of the National Symphony Orchestra)
- Alan Harris
- Beatrice Harrison (1892-1965) (English cellist)
- Richard Harwood
- Ofra Harnoy
- Lynn Harrell
- Stjepan Hauser
- Ulrich Heinen
- Frans Helmerson
- Victor Herbert (1859-1924) (also composer)
- Guillaume Hesse
- Desmond Hoebig (Principal cellist of Cleveland Orchestra)
- Janet Horvath (Assosiate principal cellist of the Minnesota Orchestra)
- Ivan Hussey
=J
- Antonio Janigro (1918-1989) (Italian cellist)
- Joan Jeanrenaud, former cellist for the Kronos Quartet
- Michael Kevin Jones
- Jorane
=K
- Anssi Karttunen
- Paul Katz
- Zoë Keating
- Julia Kent
- Ralph Kirshbaum
- Perttu Kivilaakso
- Emil Klein (1955-2004)
- Julius Klengel (1859–1933)
- Maria Kliegel
- Jonathan Koh
- Nina Kotova
- Antonín Kraft (1749-1820)
- Jeffrey Krieger
- Joel Krosnick
- Friedrich August Kummer
- Friedemann Kupsa
=L
- Sebastian Lee (1805-1887)
- Gerard Le Feuvre
- Laurence Lesser
- Katie Lettall
- Peter Lewy
- Max Lilja, cellist of Hevein
- Jonathan Linford
- Gavriel Lipkind (*1977)
- Julian Lloyd Webber
- Paavo Lötjönen
- Andrés Rodrigo López
- Jonathan Liu
=M
- Yo-Yo Ma
- Linday Mac
- Tibor de Machula (1912-1982)
- Fritz Magg
- Mischa Maisky
- Antero Manninen
- Gerhard Mantel
- Dmitri Markevitch
- Rudolf Matz (1901-1988)
- Angelica May
- Martin McCarrick
- Joe McQuerrey
- Maurice Maréchal
- Antonio Meneses
- Derek Menchan
- Alain Meunier
- Tyme Mientka
- Kazimierz Michalik
- Sarah Milne Das
- Frank Miller
- Aaron Minsky
- Mari Paskin
- Georges Miquelle
- Víctor Mirecki Larramat
- Miloš Mlejnik
- Ivan Monighetti
- Kermit Moore
- Truls Mørk
- Charlotte Moorman
- John Moran
- Natalie Mujica-Schwahn
- May Mukle (1880-1963)
- Daniel Müller-Schott
=P
- Siegfried Palm
- Johann Sebastian Paetsch
- Aldo Parisot
- Vito Paternoster
- Miklos Perenyi
- Boris Pergamenschikow
- Oscar Pettiford (1922-1960) Bebop
- Gregor Piatigorsky (1903-1976)
- Alfredo Piatti (1822-1901)
- Zachary Pierce (also conductor, teacher)
- 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)
- Frederick Preston
- Andrei Pricope
- Carlos Prieto
- Darius Pylvainen
=R
- Ernst Reijseger (improvising cellist)
- Gabor Reijto
- Tanya Remenikova
- Giovanni Ricciardi
- Hank Roberts
- Hannah Roberts
- Sharon Robinson
- Rohan de Saram
- Joshua Roman
- Bernhard Romberg
- Leonard Rose (1918–1984)
- Nathaniel Rosen
- Mstislav Rostropovich (1927–2007 ) (known as Slava; great Russian cellist and conductor)
- Margaret Rowell
- Martin Rummel
- Arthur Russell
=S
- Felix Salmond [7]
- John Sant’Ambrogio
- Sara Sant'Ambrogio
- Zachary Sakaan
- Jane Scarpantoni
- Nasim Saad
- Heinrich Schiff
- Franz Schmidt (also a pianist and composer)
- Georg Schnéevoigt (also a conductor)
- Eleonore Schoenfeld (1925-2006) Soloist and internationally renown cello pedagogue.
- Karl Schröder (1848-1935)
- Joseph Schuster
- Adrien Francois Servais
- Daniil Shafran
- Natalia Shakhovskaya
- Irene Sharp
- John Sharp
- Matthew Sharp
- Suzanne Shelton
- Andrew Shulman
- Luigi Silva (1903-1961)
- Ciril Škerjanec
- Kenneth Slowik
- Giovanni Sollima (also a composer)
- Mark Summer Cellist for the Turtle Island String Quartet, which does jazz and occasional covers of rock songs.
- János Starker
- Leo Stern
- Guilhermina Suggia
- Saskia Rao-de Haas
=T
- Marina Tarasova
- Torleif Thedéen
- Werner Thomas-Mifune
- Fiona Thompson
- Auguste Tolbecque
- Eino Toppinen (pioneer of so-called cello rock; also known as Eicca Toppinen)
- Paul Tortelier
- Arturo Toscanini
- Bion Tsang
=W
- Raphael Wallfisch
- Jian Wang (cellist)
- Michael Weintraub
- Gay-Yee Westerhoff
- Sonia Wieder-Atherton
- Hanus Wihan
- Peter Wiley
- Sandy Walsh-Wilson
- Bryan Charles Wilson
- Harry Wimmer
- Ethan Winer (Kind of a composer as well; he created A cello rondo)
- Pieter Wispelwey
XYZ
- Ladislav Zélenka
- Hillel Zori