List of women classical guitarists
The following is a list of women classical guitarists by nationality – notable women who are well known for their work in the field of classical music.
Argentina
- María Luisa Anido, classical guitarist and composer
- Delia Estrada, classical guitarist, educator, author of guitar method, has lived since 1977 in Paris
- Celia Salomón de Font, classical guitarist and educator
- María Isabel Siewers, international performer and soloist, educator
Australia
- Milica Davies, Yugoslav-born Australian classical guitarist and recording artist, now based in London
- Isolde Schaupp, German-Australian classical guitarist, educator, author of two guitar methods
- Karin Schaupp, German-Australian classical guitarist and actress, member of the Saffire quartet, recording artist
Austria
- Caroline Auer, classical guitarist, was member of the female guitar quintet "Gitarrissima"
- Marga Bäuml, classical guitarist, gave concerts as a soloist and in a duo with her husband Walter Klasinc
- Johanna Beisteiner, international soloist
- Maria Benischek, classical guitarist, was member of the female guitar quintet "Gitarrissima"
- Luise Walker, prominent classical guitarist and composer
Belgium
- Ilse Alfonso, classical guitarist and educator
- Raphaella Smits, classical guitarist and educator
Brazil
- Olga Praguer Coelho, classical guitarist and folk singer
- Maria Lívia São Marcos, classical guitarist, international performer, and educator
Canada
- Liona Boyd, British-born Canadian classical guitarist, recording artist, and writer
- Emily Alice Shaw, classical guitarist and educator
- Laura Young, international soloist, chamber musician, recording artist, and educator
China
- Chen Shanshan, guitarist, sometimes performing with other female guitarists as one of the Four Angels
- Li Jie, classical guitarist performing with God's Favored Girls Super Trio and with the Four Angels quartet
- Su Meng, classical guitarist performing as a soloist and as one of the Four Angels female guitar quartet
- Wang Yameng, classical guitarist, performing with the Four Angels female guitar quartet
- Xuefei Yang, awarding-winning classical guitarist, international performer, recording artist
Croatia
- Ana Vidović, classical guitarist, international performer, and educator
Cuba
- Marta Cuervo, prominent Cuban classical guitarist and educator
- Clara (Cuqui) Nicola, prominent classical Cuban guitarist and educator
- Clara Romero de Nicola, prominent Cuban classical guitarist and educator
France
- Tania Chagnot, classical guitarist and music educator
- Madeleine Cottin, classical guitarist, mandolinist, composer and music educator, sister of Alfred Cottin and Jules Cottin
- Colette Mourey, classical guitarist, music educator, musicologist, and composer
- Ida Presti, child prodigy, prominent classical guitarist and composer, duos with her husband Alexandre Lagoya
- Jeanne Ricada-Mathorez, classical guitarist, mandolinist, conductor, arranger, and music educator
- Gaëlle Solal, international performer, chamber musician, and educator
Germany
- Margarete Buch, classical guitarist, arranger and music educator, member of the "Buch-Terzett" in Leipzig
- Annette Degenhardt, classical guitarist, recording artist, music educator, lived in Ireland
- Ida Faber-Gille, classical guitarist and music educator
- Else Goguel, classical guitarist and music educator, member of the "Buch-Terzett" in Leipzig and the "Gitarrenensemble Bruno Henze" in Berlin
- Maria Kämmerling, specializing in contemporary classical guitar music, educator in Denmark
- Ursula Kurze, classical guitarist, singer, composer and music educator, now based in Dresden
- Heike Matthiesen, international soloist and chamber musician, specializing in female composers
- Giulia Pelzer, classical guitarist, sister of Catharina Pratten
- Catharina Pratten, classical guitarist, sister of Giulia Pelzer, has lived in London since 1829
- Barbara Richter-Rumstig, classical guitarist, also as Duo with her husband Dieter Rumstig, recording artist and educator
- Monika Rost, classical guitarist, lute player, musicologist, Professor at the Hochschule für Musik in Weimar
- Evelyne Schönfeld, classical guitarist and educator
- Inge Wilczok-Stahl, classical guitarist, Professor at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin
Greece
- Antigoni Goni, international performer and educator, now based in Brussels
- Liza Zoi, classical guitarist and educator
Hungary
- Krisztina Groß Dobó, classical guitarist, was member of the female guitar quintet "Gitarrissima"
Italy
- Simona Boni, classical guitarist, musicologist, and author
- Rita Brondi, classical guitarist, lutenist, singer, composer, and music historian
- Francesca Caccini was an Italian composer, singer, lutenist, Guitarist, poet, and music teacher of the early Baroque era.
- Carmen Lenzi Mozzani, classical guitarist, composer, and educator, granddaughter of Luigi Mozzani
- Carla Minen, classical guitarist
- Filomena Moretti, classical guitarist, recording artist and broadcaster, performances throughout Europe
- Teresa de Rogatis, classical guitarist, pianist, composer, and music teacher
- Sara Stegani, classical guitarist
- Regina Strinasacchi, classical guitarist, violinist, and composer
- Eli Tagore, classical guitarist and educator, grandniece of Rabindranath Tagore
- Marina Tomei, international concert classical guitarist
Japan
- Keiko Fujiie, guitarist and composer
- Ako Ito, classical guitarist, also Duo with her husband Henri Dorigny, and educator
- Kaori Muraji, classical guitarist and recording artist
- Kanahi Yamashita, classical guitarist and recording artist
- Naoko Yamashita, classical guitarist and recording artist
Mexico
- Corazón Otero, classical guitarist and author
Netherlands
- Olga Franssen, classical guitarist and educator, member of the Amsterdam Guitar Trio
- Nelly de Hilster, classical guitarist and educator
- Annette Kruisbrink, classical guitarist and composer
Paraguay
- Berta Rojas, international performer, artistic director, broadcaster, and recording artist
Russia
- Anastasia Bardina, virtuoso guitarist, also of seven- and twelve-string guitars
- Irina Kulikova, international soloist, now based in the Netherlands
Serbia
- Sabrina Vlaškalić, concert classical guitarist and educator, died in a traffic accident in Groningen
South Korea
- Kyuhee Park, international concert classical guitarist
Spain
- Laura Almerich, Catalan guitarist associated with the Nova Cançó movement
- Emilia Corral Sancho, classical guitarist, third wife of Andrés Segovia
- Matilde Cuervas, classical and flamenco guitarist and educator, first wife of Emilio Pujol
- Margarita Escarpa, classical guitarist specializing in Bach and chamber music recitals, educator
- Rosa Gil Bosque, classical guitarist and educator
- Carmen Marina, classical guitarist and educator
- Anabel Montesinos, classical guitarist and educator
- Josefina Robledo, classical guitarist and educator
- Pepita Roca, classical guitarist and educator
- Mariángeles Sánchez Benimeli classical guitarist, educator and composer
- Renata Tarragó, Catalan classical guitarist, international performer, and educator
Switzerland
- Deborah Mariotti, classical guitarist, recording artist, and educator
United Kingdom
- Rose Andresier, classical guitarist and educator
- Nicola Hall, award-winning guitarist who has recorded her own guitar transcriptions of classical works
- Victoria Kingsley, classical guitarist, toured the world singing to the accompaniment of her guitar
- Alexandra Whittingham, classical guitarist and educator
United States
- Lily Afshar, Iranian-born American classical guitarist, recording artist, and educator
- Mary Akerman, classical guitarist and educator
- Muriel Anderson, classical, fingerstyle and harp guitarist, composer, and recording artist
- Anisa Angarola, international performer, founder of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
- Alice Artzt, international concert guitarist
- AnnaMaria Cardinalli, classical guitarist, operatic contralto, investigative researcher, and educator
- Charo, Spanish-American guitarist, actress, and broadcaster
- Sharon Isbin, prominent soloist with some 200 orchestras, recording artist, and educator
- Chaconne Klaverenga, international classical guitarist, recording artist
- Martha Masters, classical guitarist, recording artist, and educator
- Vahdah Olcott-Bickford, founder of the American Guitar Society in Los Angeles, educator
- Gohar Vardanyan, classical guitarist, recording artist, and educator
- Ana Vidović, Croatian-American classical guitarist, child prodigy, recording artist
Uruguay
- Adriana Balboa, classical guitarist, recording artist and educator, has lived since 1993 in Berlin
- Olga Pierri, classical guitarist and educator. She is the aunt of Alvaro Pierri.