List of women classical cellists
The following is a list of women classical cellists by nationality – notable women who are well known for their work in the field of classical music.
Argentina
- Sol Gabetta, classical cellist, orchestral performer, recording artist and educator, now resident in Switzerland
Australia
- Christine Jackson, British-born Australian cellist, member of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, played didgeridoo duos
Belgium
- Flavie Van den Hende, Belgian-born and -trained cellist, worked and died in the US
Canada
- Soo Bae, Korean-born Canadian cellist now in New York
- Gisela Depkat Canadian cellist, recitalist, instructor, recording artist. Recently wrote in Strad Magazine about her famous instructor Georg Neikrug.
- Denise Djokic, cellist, soloist and recitalist
- Suzette Forgues Halasz, cellist and musical educator, orchestral principal cellist
- Amanda Forsyth, recitalist, soloist and chamber musician
- Ofra Harnoy, prominent Israeli-born Canadian cellist, award-winning soloist and recording artist
- Dorothy Lawson, cellist, chamber musician and composer based in New York City
- Dáirine Ní Mheadhra, Irish-born Canadian cellist, conductor and opera producer
- Zara Nelsova, cellist from Winnipeg
- Shauna Rolston, child prodigy, recitalist and soloist, educator
China
- Jiaxin Cheng, soloist, recitalist and recording artist now based in London, married Julian Lloyd Webber
- Tina Guo, Chinese-American cellist, practising classical and modern genres, soloist and recording artist
- Ma Siju, pianist and cellist, recognized educator, retired in 1986
Czech Republic
- Michaela Fukačová, award-winning classical cellist
Ecuador
- Teodelinda Terán Hicks, Ecuadorian cellist, trained in London, based in California
France
- Valérie Aimard, concert cellist, chamber musician and recording artist
- Martine Bailly, classical cellist, first cello of the Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris
- Emmanuelle Bertrand, award-winning soloist and recording artist
- Lisa Cristiani, classical cellist, one of the first professional female cellists in Europe
- Reine Flachot, international cellist and educator
- Ophélie Gaillard, cellist, chamber musician and educator
- Anne Gastinel, international cellist, performances from the age of 12, educator
- Astrig Siranossian, child prodigy, concert performed, chamber musician and recording artist
- Mathilde Sternat, chamber musician and arranger
- Agnès Vesterman, duet performer, recording artist and educator
- Sonia Wieder-Atherton, Franco-American orchestral soloist, chamber musician and recording artist
Germany
- Kristin von der Goltz, German-Norwegian cellist, specializing in baroque, chamber musician
- Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, award-winning young cellist
- Eva Heinitz, cellist, violist and educator who settled in the United States
- Bettina Hoffmann, viola da gambist, cellist, musicologist and educator
- Maria Kliegel, cellist, recording artist and educator
- Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, cellist, surviving member of the Women's Orchestra in Auschwitz
- Margarethe Quidde, Prussian-born cellist, writer, pacifist in Munich
- Eleonore Schoenfeld, influential 20th-century cellist, recording artist and educator
Hungary
- Rozsi Varady, concert cellist popular in the United States and Europe
Ireland
- Ailbhe McDonagh, soloist, chamber musician and composer
Lithuania
- Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė, founding member of the Kremerata Baltica chamber orchestra, orchestral concert performer
Luxembourg
- Françoise Groben, cellist playing with many notable orchestras, chamber musician and recording artist
Netherlands
- Josephine van Lier, performing cellist specialized in baroque, contemporary and chamber music, residing in Canada
- Mayke Rademakers, recitalist, soloist and chamber musician, recording artist
Norway
- Birgitta Elisa Oftestad, soloist, chamber musician
Portugal
- Guilhermina Suggia, worked with Pablo Casals in Paris, toured internationally, also chamber musician
Russia
- Tanya Anisimova, cellist and composer
- Natalia Gutman, soloist, chamber musician, interested in contemporary music
- Nina Kotova, recitalist and soloist with major orchestras, educator and recording artist
- Anna Luboshutz, major career in Russia as a soloist and chamber musician
- Natalia Shakhovskaya, award-winning international cellist and educator
- Tatjana Vassiljeva, award-winning Russian cellist, appeared with many notable orchestras and toured widely
Serbia
- Maja Bogdanović, classical cellist now based in Paris
- Jelena Mihailović, classical and contemporary cellist based in Belgrade and Los Angeles
South Korea
- Myung-wha Chung, concert cellist, chamber musician and educator, now based in New York City
- Han-na Chang, conductor and cellist
- Su-a Lee, cellist, member of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, recording artist
- Hee-Young Lim, award-winning classical cellist, principal solo cellist with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
- Meehae Ryo, international soloist and educator
Sweden
- Walborg Lagerwall, toured Scandinavia, cellist at the Royal Swedish Opera
Switzerland
- Anna Kull, first generation of female concert cellists, only performed until age of 19 - see: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Kull
- Irene Güdel, classical concert cellist, taught at Hochschule für Musik Detmold - see: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Güdel
United Kingdom
- Natalie Clein, classical cellist, chamber musician and recording artist
- Caroline Dale, cellist and recording artist
- Marie Dare, Scottish cellist and composer for cello
- Jacqueline du Pré, prominent cellist performing internationally with numerous orchestras, career cut short by multiple sclerosis
- Amaryllis Fleming, classical cellist, chamber musician, Baroque cello performer and educator
- Olga Hegedus, cellist, co-principal of the English Chamber Orchestra
- Louise Hopkins, international soloist, broadcaster and educator
- Peggie Sampson, cellist, viola da gambist and educator
- Anna Shuttleworth, cellist and educator
- Amanda Truelove, cellist and educator
United States
- Eleanor Aller, cellist, chamber musician and principal cellist in the Warner Bros Studio Orchestra
- Cecylia Barczyk, Polish-born American cellist and educator
- Maya Beiser, Israeli-born American cellist and producer
- Evangeline Benedetti, first female cellist of the New York Philharmonic
- Phoebe Carrai, cellist, chamber musician and educator
- Alison Chesley, cellist, composer and recording artist
- Kristina Reiko Cooper, cellist, solo artist, chamber musician and recording artist
- Nadine Deleury, French-born American cellist, chamber opera performer and educator
- Kate Dillingham, cellist, soloist and chamber musician
- Eileen Folson, composer and cellist
- Raya Garbousova, cellist and educator
- Sarah Gurowitsch, Russian-born American cellist
- Elsa Hilger, Austrian-born American cellist who gave recitals until she was 95
- Mimi Hwang, cellist and chamber musician
- Joan Jeanrenaud, cellist and recording artist
- Maureen May, cellist and conductor
- Zara Nelsova, Canadian-born American orchestral cellist and chamber musician who performed from an early age
- Maxine Neuman, chamber musician, orchestral cellist and educator
- Sharon Robinson, cellist, concert solo artist, chamber musician and recording artist
- Marcy Rosen, concerto cellist, chamber musician and educator
- Sara Sant'Ambrogio, chamber musician, member of the Eroica Trio, interested in contemporary composers
- Eleonore Schoenfeld, one of the 20th century's most influential cellists
- Eleonore Schoenfeld, cellist and concert performer
- Frances-Marie Uitti, cellist known for performing contemporary classical music
- Christine Walevska, international classical cellist, recording artist and educator
- Wendy Warner, international orchestral cellist, chamber musician and educator
- Alisa Weilerstein, classical cellist, soloist and chamber musician
- Olga Zilboorg, Mexican-born American cellist and educator