List of cellists

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

A

• Claus Adam
• Diran Alexanian
• Jennifer Adams, cellist with the duo Montana Skies
• Jérémie Arcache, cellist and singer with Revolver
• Tanya Anisimova
• Julian Armour

B

• Michael Bach (inventor of the BACH.Bogen)
• Zuill Bailey
• Alexander Baillie
• David Baker
• Sarah Balliet, cellist of Murder by Death
• Jiří Bárta
• Felix Battanchon (1814–1893)
• Mario Brunello (1960 - Italian cellist)
• Paul Bazelaire (1886–1958)
• Thomas Batuello
• Hugo Becker
• Maya Beiser
• Emmanuelle Bertrand
• Coenraad Bloemendal
• Luigi Boccherini (1743–1805) (also a classical composer)
• Rachel Bor, member of Dolly Mixture
• Gaetano Braga (1829–1907) (also a composer)
• Jean-Baptiste Bréval
• Carter Brey (New York Philharmonic)
• František Brikcius, Czech Cellist
• Denis Brott
• Matt Brubeck
• Christopher Bunting, soloist
• Anner Bylsma (baroque cellist)

C

• Isobel Campbell
• Gautier Capuçon
• Caroline Lavelle
• 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
• Robert Cohen (cellist of the Fine Arts Quartet, 2012-current)
• Gretta Cohn
• Orlando Cole
• Emilio Colón
• Tom Cora
• Bernhard Cossmann
• Melora Creager
• Douglas Cummings

D

• Caroline Dale
• Karl Davydov (1838–1889)
• Sunny Davis (Electric Cellist, The Stiletto Formal)
• Jules Delsart (1844–1900), French cellist
• Robert deMaine (American)
• Jean Deplace
• William De Rosa
• Rohan de Saram
• Roel Dieltiens
• Enrico Dindo (it)
• Denise Djokic
• 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)
• David Finckel (Emerson String Quartet)
• Norman Fischer of the Concord String Quartet and Fischer Duo
• Wilhelm Fitzenhagen
• Beckie Foon (Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band)
• Amanda Forsyth
• 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
• Károly Garam (born 1941, Hungarian-Finnish)
• Raya Garbousova (1909–1997)
• Anne Gastinel (fr)
• Igor Gavrish
• Maurice Gendron
• Alban Gerhardt
• David Geringas
• Clive Gillinson
• Rudolf Gleißner
• Georg Goltermann
• Kristin von der Goltz
• Bernard Greenhouse (founding member of the Beaux Arts Trio)
• Friedrich Grützmacher (1832–1903)
• Lani Groves
• 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
• Laura van der Heijden (winner, BBC Young Musician, 2012)
• Frans Helmerson (sv)
• Svante Henryson
• Victor Herbert (1859–1924) (also composer)
• Desmond Hoebig
• Louise Hopkins
• Ofra Harnoy
• Ivan Hussey

I

• Kristin Isaacson
• Steven Isserlis
• Sergei Istomin
• Yuki Ito
• Alexander Ivashkin

J

• Antonio Janigro (1918–1989) (Italian cellist)
• Joan Jeanrenaud (1956- ), former cellist for the Kronos Quartet
• Nicasio Jiménez (1849–1891) Afro-Cuban cellist and professor at the Conservatory of Tours.
• Walter Joachim[1]
• Guy Johnston
• Jorane

K

• Anssi Karttunen (born 1960, Finnish)
• Fred Katz (born 1919), described as "the first real jazz cellist."
• Paul Katz
• Zoë Keating
• John Kennedy
• Lauri Kennedy
• Julia Kent
• Ralph Kirshbaum
• Perttu Kivilaakso (born 1978, Finnish, from cello metal band Apocalyptica)
• Julius Klengel (1859–1933)
• Maria Kliegel
• Friedrich Kleinhapl (de)
• Alexander Kniazev
• Sviatoslav Knushevitsky
• Otto van Koppenhagen
• Jacob Koranyi
• Nina Kotova
• Dmitry Kouzov[2] of the Manhattan Piano Trio
• Antonín Kraft (1749–1820)
• Anatoli Krastev
• Josef Krecmer
• Joel Krosnick
• Wieland Kuijken
• Friedemann Kupsa
• Brent Kutzle (cellist for band OneRepublic)
• Aage Kvalbein
• Rafał Kwiatkowski[3]

L

• Alexandra Lawn (from indie rock band Ra Ra Riot)
• David Lale (Australian cellist)
• David Lale (British cellist)
• Wolfgang Laufer (cellist of the Fine Arts Quartet from 1979 to 2011)
• Gerard Le Feuvre
• Trey Lee Chui-yee
• Ana Lenchantin (from Progressive Rock band Into the Presence)
• Mats Lidström
• Max Lilja, cellist of Hevein
• Jaap ter Linden
• Gavriel Lipkind (born 1977)
• Julian Lloyd Webber
• Fred Lonberg-Holm
• Paavo Lötjönen

M

• Yo-Yo Ma
• Mischa Maisky
• Jussi Makkonen (born 1979, Finnish)
• Brian Manker
• Antero Manninen
• Maurice Maréchal (fr)
• Rudolf Matz (1901–1988)
• Martin McCarrick
• Alain Meunier
• Antonio Meneses
• Frank Miller
• Georges Miquelle
• Víctor Mirecki Larramat
• Ivan Monighetti (pl)
• Truls Mørk
• Charlotte Moorman
• John Moran
• Johannes Moser
• Philippe Muller
• Daniel Müller-Schott
• Lorne Munroe

N

• André Navarra (1911–1988)
• Steven Sharp Nelson (born 1977)
• Zara Nelsova
• Arto Noras

O

• Jacques Offenbach (also a composer)

P

• Saerom Park
• Johann Sebastian Paetsch
• Aldo Parisot
• Siegfried Palm
• Vito Paternoster
• Samuli Peltonen (born 1981, Finnish)
• David Pereira (Australian cellist)
• Miklós Perényi
• 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)
• Russell Powell (also a composer)
• Petr Prause of the Talich Quartet
• Andrei Pricope
• Carlos Prieto

Q

• Jean-Guihen Queyras
• Misha Quint

R

• Saskia Rao-de Haas
• Shauna Rolston
• Ernst Reijseger (improvising cellist)
• Gabor Rejto
• Giovanni Ricciardi
• Hank Roberts
• Sharon Robinson
• (Kyril) Kirill Rodin
• Joshua Roman
• Alexei Romanenko
• Bernhard Romberg
• Leonard Rose (1918–1984)
• Nathaniel Rosen
• Mstislav Rostropovich (1927–2007) Russian cellist and conductor
• Martti Rousi (born 1960, Finnish)
• Arthur Russell

S

• Karel Pravoslav Sádlo (1898–1971)
• Miloš Sádlo
• Felix Salmond
• John Sant’Ambrogio
• Sara Sant'Ambrogio
• Jane Scarpantoni
• Heinrich Schiff
• Franz Schmidt (also a pianist and composer)
• Georg Schnéevoigt (1872-1947, Finnish, also a conductor)
• Eleonore Schoenfeld (1925–2007), soloist and internationally renowned cello pedagogue.
• Joseph Schuster
• Inbal Segev
• Adrien François Servais
• Daniil Shafran
• Natalia Shakhovskaya
• Philip Sheppard (also a composer)
• Fred Sherry
• Andrew Shulman (also a conductor and composer)
• Anna Shuttleworth
• František Sláma (cellist) and publicist
• Vedran Smailović
• Ben Sollee
• Giovanni Sollima (also a composer)
• Benyamin Sönmez (1983–2011)
• George Sopkin (cellist of the Fine Arts Quartet from 1946 to 1979)
• David Soyer, founding cellist of the Guarneri Quartet.
• William Henry Squire (1871–1963)
• János Starker
• Pierre Strauch
• Peter Stumpf
• Guilhermina Suggia
• Mark Summer, cellist for the Turtle Island String Quartet, which does jazz and occasional covers of rock songs.
• Luka Šulić

T

• Torleif Thedéen (sv)
• Ronald Thomas
• Fiona Thompson
• Martin Tillman
• Eicca Toppinen (from cello metal band Apocalyptica)
• Paul Tortelier
• Arturo Toscanini
• Bion Tsang
• Sulkhan Tsintsadze (also a composer)

U

• Frances-Marie Uitti

V

• Laszlo Varga
• Aleksandr Verzhbilovich
• Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887–1959) (also a Brazilian composer)

W

• Kanon Wakeshima (Wakeshima Kanon, also a vocalist)
• Raphael Wallfisch
• Jian Wang
• Wendy Warner
• Graham Waterhouse (also a composer)
• Paul Watkins
• Julian Lloyd Webber
• Terence Weil
• Alisa Weilerstein
• Gay-Yee Westerhoff of bond
• Sonia Wieder-Atherton (fr)
• Donald Whitton
• Peter Wiley
• Dominique de Williencourt
• Pieter Wispelwey

XYZ

• Sung-Won Yang
• Alexander Zhiroff
• Terry Zwigoff