List of violists
This is a list of Wikipedia articles on notable viola players. In cases where a violist has also achieved fame in another musical area, such as conducting or composing, this is noted.
Notable violists
A
- Tasso Adamopoulos
- Julia Rebekka Adler
- Adolfo Alejo, conductor
- Sir Hugh Allen, conductor
- Kris Allen
- Vladimir Altshuler, conductor
- Ruben Altunyan, composer, conductor
- Johann Andreas Amon
- B. Tommy Andersson, composer, conductor
- Paul Angerer, composer
- Steven Ansell
- Atar Arad, composer
- Cecil Aronowitz
- Dino Asciolla
- Jean-Marie Auberson, violinist, conductor
- Emilie Autumn
- Eddie Ayres
B
- Joseph Baber, composer
- Johann Aegidius Bach, organist
- Johann Sebastian Bach, composer
- Sigismund Bachrich, composer, violinist
- August Baeyens, composer
- Vladimir Bakaleinikov, conductor, composer
- Michael Balling, conductor
- Alain Bancquart, composer
- Rudolf Barshai, conductor
- Hans-Christian Bartel, composer
- Yuri Bashmet
- Cathy Basrak
- Natalie Bauer-Lechner
- Sally Beamish, composer
- Ludwig van Beethoven, composer
- Sviatoslav Belonogov
- Mitrofan Belyayev
- František Benda, composer
- Jiří Antonín Benda, composer
- Daniel Benyamini
- Wilhelm Georg Berger, composer
- Yehonatan Berick, violinist
- Harry Berly
- Lise Berthaud
- Vasily Bessel, music publisher
- Roger Best
- Mikhail Bezverkhny, violinist
- Franz Beyer, musicologist
- Hatto Beyerle, chamber musician, conductor
- Luigi Alberto Bianchi
- Benjamin Blake, composer, violinist
- Herbert Blendinger, composer
- Joseph von Blumenthal, violinist, composer
- Alexandre Pierre François Boëly
- Emil Bohnke, composer, conductor
- Vadim Borisovsky
- Jacques Borsarello
- York Bowen, composer, pianist
- Máximo Arrates Boza, composer
- Jolyon Brettingham Smith, composer, conductor
- Frank Bridge, composer
- Benjamin Britten, composer
- Carolyn Waters Broe, composer, conductor
- Sheila Browne
- František Brož, composer
- Gerard von Brucken Fock, composer
- Bjarne Brustad, composer, violinist
- Peter Bucknell
- Kenji Bunch
- Caleb Burhans, composer
C
- John Cale
- Helen Callus
- Bartolomeo Campagnoli, composer, violinist
- Giuliano Carmignola, violinist
- David Aaron Carpenter
- Henri Casadesus
- Gérard Caussé
- Eugenio Cavallini, violinist, conductor
- Alain Celo, composer
- Ladislav Černý
- Eugène Chartier, violinist, conductor
- Roger Chase
- André Hippolyte Chélard, composer, conductor
- Rebecca Clarke, composer
- Caroline Coade
- Eric Coates, composer
- Paul Coletti
- Anthony Collins, composer, conductor
- Serge Collot
- Carlton Cooley, composer
- Winifred Copperwheat, performer, teacher
- Paul Cropper
- Wayne Crouse
- John Curro, conductor
D
- David Dalton
- Harry Danks
- Steven Dann
- Gyula Dávid
- Tania Davis
- Brett Dean
- Christophe Desjardins
- Jack Delano, composer
- Alan de Veritch
- Brett Deubner
- Patrizia Di Paolo
- Roberto Díaz
- Viacheslav Dinerchtein
- Paul Doktor
- Demetrius Constantine Dounis, violinist, pedagogue
- Dimitris Dragatakis, composer
- Karen Dreyfus
- Duncan Druce, composer
- Fyodor Druzhinin
- Matthias Durst, violinist, composer
- Charles Dutoit, conductor
- Lawrence Dutton
- Antonín Dvořák, composer
E
- Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, violinist
- Ernest [van der Eyken], composer, conductor
F
- Ralph Farris
- Kristina Fialová
- Federigo Fiorillo, violinist, composer, pedagogue
- William Flackton, composer
- Richard Fleischman
- Watson Forbes
- Cecil Forsyth, composer
- Johannes Fritsch, composer
- Lillian Fuchs
- Arthur Furer, composer, violinist
- Paul Walter Fürst, composer
- Kenji Fusé, composer
G
- Grigori Gamburg, composer, conductor
- John Garvey, conductor
- Ottmar Gerster, composer, conductor
- Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor
- Bruno Giuranna
- Donald A. Glaser, Nobel Prize–winning physicist
- Roland Glassl
- Rosemary Glyde, composer
- Rivka Golani
- Richard Goldner
- Jonny Greenwood, lead guitarist of Radiohead
- Ebbe Grims-land
- Amihai Grosz
- Guido Guerrini, composer, conductor
H
- Veronika Hagen
- Dietmar Hallmann
- Hope Hambourg
- Harutyun Hanesyan, composer
- John Harbison, composer
- Kenneth Harding, composer
- Joseph Haydn, composer
- Donald Heins, violinist, conductor, composer
- Jiří Herold
- Willy Hess, violinist
- Raphael Hillyer
- Paul Hindemith, composer
- Alfred Charles Hobday
- Manfred Honeck, conductor
- Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, mezzo-soprano
I
- Nobuko Imai
- Yuko Inoue
J
- Hanoch Jacoby, composer
- Baudime Jam, composer
- Janine Jansen, violinist
- Leroy Jenkins
- Raymond Jeremy
- Otto Joachim, composer
- Matthew Jones, violinist
K
- Jiří Kabeš, singer, songwriter
- Thomas Kakuska
- Jan Karlin, producer, administrator
- Jurgis Karnavičius, composer
- Gilad Karni
- Kim Kashkashian
- Milton Katims, conductor
- Martha Strongin Katz
- Hugo Kauder, composer, violinist
- Nigel Keay, composer
- Nigel Kennedy, violinist
- Louise Lincoln Kerr, composer
- Isabelle van Keulen, violinist
- Volker David Kirchner, composer
- Dmitri Klebanov
- Paul Klengel, violinist, pianist
- Garth Knox
- Ulrich Koch
- Vesko Kountchev
- František Kočvara, composer
- Katalin Kokas, violinist
- Johann Král, also played viola d'amore
- Tosca Kramer
- Alison Krauss
- Emil Kreuz
- Milan Křížek, composer
- Boris Kroyt
- Theodore Kuchar, conductor
- Ferdinand Küchler, violinist, composer
- Michael Kugel
- Sigiswald Kuijken, violinist, conductor
L
- Michelle LaCourse
- Théophile Laforge
- Édouard Lalo, composer
- Anne Lanzilotti, composer
- Jaime Laredo, violinist
- Victor Legley, composer
- Pierre Lénert
- Harold Levin
- Avri Levitan
- Jodi Levitz
- Teng Li
- Ingvar Lidholm, composer
- Samuel Lifschey
- Lim Soon Lee, conductor
- Alfred Lipka
- Ernest Llewellyn, violinist, conductor
- Lloyd Loar instrument designer, composer, played viola alta
- James Lockyer
- James Lowe, conductor
- Lydia Luce, singer-songwriter
- Pál Lukács
M
- Jef Maes, composer
- Virginia Majewski
- Sergey Malov, violinist
- Mat Maneri, composer, violinist
- Michael Mann, violinist
- Jethro Marks
- Carlo Martelli, composer
- Tatjana Masurenko
- Uri Mayer, conductor
- Donald McInnes
- Eduard Melkus, violinist
- Felix Mendelssohn, composer
- Vladimir Mendelssohn, composer
- Yehudi Menuhin, violinist
- John Metcalfe
- Michel Michalakakos
- Miroslav Miletić, composer
- Shlomo Mintz, violinist
- Marco Misciagna, violinist, educator
- Alexander Mishnaevski
- Roberto Molinelli, composer, conductor
- Nils Mönkemeyer
- Pierre Monteux, conductor
- Arie [Van de Moortel], composer
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer
- Janee Munroe
- Henry Myerscough
N
- Philipp Naegele, violinist
- Naruhito, Emperor of Japan
- Oskar Nedbal, composer
- Paul Neubauer
- Václav Neumann, conductor
- Maria Newman, violinist, composer
- Casimir Ney
- Nokuthula Ngwenyama
O
- Heiichiro Ohyama
- David Oistrakh, violinist
- Raphaël Oleg, violinist
- Martin Outram
P
- Niccolò Paganini, composer, violinist
- Johannes Palaschko, violinist, composer
- Úna Palliser, vocalist, violinist
- Ian Parrott, composer
- Harry Partch, composer
- Ödön Pártos, composer
- Joseph de Pasquale
- Bruno Pasquier
- Pemi Paull
- Pierre Pasquier
- Clara Petrozzi, violinist, composer
- Allan Pettersson, composer
- Cynthia Phelps
- Robert Pikler, violinist
- Ashan Pillai
- Enrico Polo, violinist
- Jocelyn Pook, composer
- Diemut Poppen
- Rita Porfiris
- Ari Poutiainen
- Lawrence Power
- William Presser, composer, violinist
- Milton Preves
- Joseph Primavera, conductor
- William Primrose
Q
- Karl Traugott Queisser
R
- Julian Rachlin, violinist
- Mary Ramsey, violinist, singer, songwriter
- Wilhelm Ramsøe, composer, conductor, violinist
- Émile Pierre Ratez, composer
- Mary Ruth Ray
- Adolf Rebner
- Ottorino Respighi, composer
- Sophia Reuter, violinist
- Allard de Ridder, conductor, composer
- Frederick Riddle
- Timothy Ridout
- Joaquín Riquelme García
- Karen Ritscher
- Hermann Ritter
- Carol Rodland
- Jean Rogister, composer
- Hartmut Rohde
- Alessandro Rolla, composer
- Antonio Rolla, violinist, composer
- Paul Rolland
- Max Rostal, violinist
- Simon Rowland-Jones
- Vincent Royer
- Miklós Rózsa, composer
- Thomas Ryan
- Maxim Rysanov
S
- Pauline Sachse
- Luigi Sagrati
- Philip Sainton, composer, conductor
- Matthias Sannemüller
- Stephanie Sant'Ambrogio, violinist
- Guido Santórsola, composer
- Hermann Scherchen, conductor
- Peter Schidlof
- Ervin Schiffer
- Hanning Schröder, composer
- Franz Schubert, composer
- Joseph Schubert, composer, violinist
- Rudolf Schwarz, conductor
- Leif Segerstam, conductor, composer, violinist
- Albert Seitz, composer
- Konstantin Sellheim
- Tibor Serly, composer
- William Shield
- Bernard Shore
- Gilbert Shufflebotham, violinist
- Oscar Shumsky, violinist, conductor
- Paul Silverthorne
- Robert Siohan, composer, conductor
- Nadia Sirota
- Hans Sitt
- Scott Slapin, composer
- Kay Slocum
- Peter Slowik
- Carolyn Sparey, composer
- Anton Stamitz, composer
- Carl Stamitz, composer
- Johann Stamitz, composer
- Helen Camille Stanley, composer
- Jean Stewart
- Scott St. John
- Nathaniel Stookey, composer
- Simon Streatfeild, conductor
- Jennifer Stumm
- Josef Suk, violinist
- Jean Sulem
- Louis Svećenski
- Gusztáv Szerémi, composer
T
- Robert Talbot, conductor, composer, violinist
- Václav Talich, conductor, violinist
- Antoine Tamestit
- Will Taylor
- Jan Tausinger, composer, conductor
- Arve Tellefsen,, violinist
- Yuri Temirkanov, conductor
- Mela Tenenbaum, violinist
- Lionel Tertis
- Xaver Paul Thoma, composer
- Marcus Thompson
- Katia Tiutiunnik, composer
- Lars Anders Tomter
- Giuseppe Torelli, pedagogue, composer
- Sabine Toutain
- Jacqueline Townshend, pianist, violinist
- Walter Trampler
- Michael Tree
- Anahit Tsitsikian, violinist, musicologist
- Karen Tuttle
U
- Åke Uddén, composer, conductor
- Alfred Uhl
- Chrétien Urhan
V
- Nancy Van de Vate, composer, pianist
- Léon van Hout
- Roland Vamos
- Emanuel Vardi
- Maxim Vengerov, violinist
- Robert Vernon
- Maurice Vieux
- Johann Georg Hermann Voigt, composer
- Hermann Voss
- Ladislav Vycpálek, composer, violinist
W
- Louis van Waefelghem
- Ernst Wallfisch
- Geraldine Walther
- Johann Baptist Wanhal
- Maurice Ward
- Harry Waldo Warner, composer
- Melia Watras
- John Webb, composer
- Hieronymus Weickmann
- Justus Weinreich, composer
- Franz Weiss
- Henryk Wieniawski, violinist
- Emanuel Wirth, violinist
- Lena Wood
- Mark Wood
X
- Hong-Mei Xiao
- Pierre-Henri Xuereb
Y
- Eugène Ysaÿe, violinist
Z
- Bernard Zaslav
- Wen Xiao Zheng
- Grigori Zhislin, violinist
- Lev Zhurbin, composer
- Tabea Zimmermann
- Fidelis Zitterbart, composer
- Đuro Živković, composer, violinist
- León Zuckert, composer, violinist
- Pinchas Zukerman, violinist