This is an alphabetized list of notable solo

pianist A pianist ( , ) is a musician who plays the piano. A pianist's repertoire may include music from a diverse variety of styles, such as traditional classical music, jazz piano, jazz, blues piano, blues, and popular music, including rock music, ...

s who play (or played)

classical music Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be #Relationship to other music traditions, distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions. It is sometimes distinguished as Western classical mu ...

on the

piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

. For those who worked with other pianists as piano duos, see List of classical piano duos (performers). For a list of recorded classical pianists, see List of classical pianists (recorded).

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Ab-Am

* Behzod Abduraimov * Ludwig Abeille * Jacques Abram * Adolovni Acosta * Armenta Adams * Daniel Adni * Adrian Aeschbacher * Valery Afanassiev * Guido Agosti * Pierre-Laurent Aimard * Webster Aitken * Nelly Akopian-Tamarina * Giuseppe Albanese * Isaac Albéniz * Pedro Albéniz * Eugen d'Albert * Charlie Albright * Dmitri Alexeev *

Charles-Valentin Alkan Charles-Valentin Alkan (; 30 November 1813 – 29 March 1888) was a French composer and virtuoso pianist. At the height of his fame in the 1830s and 1840s he was, alongside his friends and colleagues Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt, amon ...

* Victor Aller * Ilse von Alpenheim * Louis Demetrius Alvanis * Stefan Ammer * Carl Arnold

An-Az

Géza Anda Géza Anda (; 19 November 192113 June 1976) was a Swiss- Hungarian pianist. A celebrated interpreter of classical and romantic repertoire, particularly noted for his performances and recordings of Mozart, he was also considered to be a tremendous ...

* Piotr Anderszewski * Leif Ove Andsnes * Nicholas Angelich * Agustin Anievas * Eteri Andjaparidze * Charles-François Angelet * Conrad Ansorge * Jean-François Antonioli * Mireya Arboleda *

Anton Arensky Anton Stepanovich Arensky (; – ) was a Russian composer of Romantic classical music, a pianist and a professor of music. Biography Arensky was born into an affluent, music-loving family in Novgorod, Russia. He was musically precocious and ha ...

Martha Argerich Martha Argerich (; ; born 5 June 1941) is an Argentine classical concert pianist. Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argerich gave her debut concert at the age of eight before receiving further piano training in Europe. At an early age, she won sev ...

* Kit Armstrong *

Yvonne Arnaud Germaine Yvonne Arnaud (20 December 1890 – 20 September 1958) was a French-born pianist, singer and actress, who was well known for her career in Britain, as well as her native land. After beginning a career as a concert pianist as a child, Ar ...

Claudio Arrau Claudio Arrau León (; February 6, 1903June 9, 1991) was a Chilean and American pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning the baroque music, baroque to 20th-century classical music, 20th-century composers, especially B ...

* Lydia Artymiw * Şahan Arzruni * Vladimir Ashkenazy *

Stefan Askenase Stefan Askenase (10 July 189618 October 1985) was a Polish-Belgian Classical music, classical pianist and Piano pedagogy, pedagogue. Biography Askenase was born in Lviv, then known as Lemberg, into a Jewish family. At the age of five he began ...

Lola Astanova Lola Astanova () is an Uzbekistan, Uzbek-born American pianist. Early life Astanova was born in Tashkent, USSR. Her mother was a piano teacher and her father was a Mechanical engineering, mechanical engineer. At age six, Astanova entered the V. U ...

* Ebba d'Aubert * Lera Auerbach * Adele aus der Ohe * Myriam Avalos * Yulianna Avdeeva * Valda Aveling * Emanuel Ax * Nadia Azzi

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Bab-Ban

* Sergei Babayan *

Stanley Babin Stanley Babin (1932–2010) was a composer and pianist. Life Babin was born in 1932 to Lydia and David Babin, a rabbi. He had four siblings. The family emigrated to Tel Aviv in 1933 where he studied music with Frank Pelleg and made his official ...

* Victor Babin *

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (8 March 1714 – 14 December 1788), also formerly spelled Karl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, and commonly abbreviated C. P. E. Bach, was a German composer and musician of the Baroque and Classical period. He was the fifth ch ...

Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (German: Help:IPA/Standard German, �joːhan zeˈbasti̯an baχ ( – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque music, Baroque period. He is known for his prolific output across a variety ...

* Gina Bachauer * Walter Bache * Agathe Backer-Grøndahl * Fridtjof Backer-Grøndahl * Wilhelm Backhaus * Farhad Badalbeyli * Paul Badura-Skoda * Ryszard Bakst *

Mily Balakirev Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev ( , ; ,BGN/PCGN romanization of Russian, BGN/PCGN romanization: ; ALA-LC romanization of Russian, ALA-LC system: ; ISO 9, ISO 9 system: . ; – )Russia was still using Adoption of the Gregorian calendar#Adoption in E ...

* Dalton Baldwin * Ernő Balogh * Artur Balsam * Joseph Banowetz

Bar-Bay

Daniel Barenboim Daniel Moses Barenboim (; born 15 November 1942) is an Argentines, Argentine-Israeli classical pianist and conductor based in Berlin, who also has Spain, Spanish and State of Palestine, Palestinian citizenship. From 1992 until January 2023, Bare ...

* Simon Barere * David Bar-Illan * Trevor Barnard * Inon Barnatan * Rami Bar-Niv * Nerine Barrett * Karl Heinrich Barth * Martin James Bartlett *

Béla Bartók Béla Viktor János Bartók (; ; 25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as Hunga ...

* Marmaduke Barton * Dmitri Bashkirov * Leon Bates * Harold Bauer * Paul Baumgartner * Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

Beb-Beu

* Betty Humby Beecham *

Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He is one of the most revered figures in the history of Western music; his works rank among the most performed of the classical music repertoire ...

* Victor Bendix * William Sterndale Bennett * Nelly Ben-Or * Boris Berezovsky * Martin Berkofsky *

Ludmila Berlinskaya Ludmila Valentinovna Berlinskaya (; 1960, Moscow) is a Russian pianist and actress born in 1960 in Moscow. She is the daughter of cellist Valentin Berlinsky, founder of the Borodin Quartet. Life Berlinskaya is the daughter of a lawyer mother ...

* Bart Berman * Boris Berman * Lazar Berman * Yara Bernette *

Leonard Bernstein Leonard Bernstein ( ; born Louis Bernstein; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian. Considered to be one of the most important conductors of his time, he was th ...

* Henri Bertini * Raffi Besalyan * Stephen Beus

Bi-Bl

* Philippe Bianconi * Fabio Bidini * Malcolm Bilson * Malcolm Binns * İdil Biret * Tessa Birnie * Hans Bischoff * Jonathan Biss *

Georges Bizet Georges Bizet (; 25 October 18383 June 1875) was a French composer of the Romantic music, Romantic era. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, ''Carmen'', w ...

William Black William Black may refer to: Politicians * William Black (Ontario politician) (1867–1944), speaker of the Legislature of Ontario and Conservative MLA * William Black (Canadian politician) (1869–1930), Progressive party member of the Canadian Hou ...

Rafał Blechacz Rafał Blechacz (; born 30 June 1985) is a Polish classical pianist who rose to fame after winning the XV International Chopin Piano Competition in 2005. Biography Blechacz began piano lessons at the age of five, and enrolled in the National ...

* Aline Reese Blondner *

Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler (July 16, 1863 – August 20, 1927) was an Austrian-born American pianist. Biography Zeisler was born Fannie Blumenfeld on July 16, 1863, in Bielitz, Austrian Silesia, to Jewish parents. She emigrated to the United St ...

* Felix Blumenfeld * Felicja Blumental * Daniel Blumenthal

Bo

* Mary Louise Boehm * Gergely Bogányi * Jorge Bolet *

Stefano Bollani Stefano Bollani (born 5 December 1972) is an Italian composer, pianist and singer, also active as a writer and a television presenter. He has worked with such musicians as Gato Barbieri, Chick Corea, Bill Frisell, Sol Gabetta, Richard Gallia ...

* Marie-Léontine Bordes-Pène *

Victor Borge Børge Rosenbaum (; 3 January 1909 – 23 December 2000), known professionally as Victor Borge ( ), was a Danish and American actor, comedian, and pianist who achieved great popularity in radio and television in both North America and Europe. Hi ...

* Sergei Bortkiewicz * Leonard Borwick * Coenraad V. Bos * Geir Botnen *

Nadia Boulanger Juliette Nadia Boulanger (; 16 September 188722 October 1979) was a French music teacher, conductor and composer. She taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the 20th century, and also performed occasionally as a pianist and organis ...

* Hendrik Bouman * Andreas Boyde * Emma Boynet

Bra-Bru

* Vera Bradford * Alexander Braginsky *

Johannes Brahms Johannes Brahms (; ; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period (music), Romantic period. His music is noted for its rhythmic vitality and freer treatment of dissonance, oft ...

* Alexander Brailowsky * Frank Braley * Natan Brand * Louis Brassin * Jens Harald Bratlie * Elisabeth Brauss * Ronald Brautigam * Alice Verne-Bredt * Alfred Brendel *

Jim Brickman James Merrill Brickman (born November 20, 1961) is an American pop songwriter, pianist and radio host. Brickman has earned two Grammy nominations for his albums ''Peace'' (2003) for Best Instrumental, and ''Faith'' (2009) for Best New Age Album. ...

Benjamin Britten Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, o ...

* Kenny Broberg * Yefim Bronfman * Edwin Orion Brownell * John Browning * Bruce Brubaker * Theo Bruins * Ignaz Brüll

Bu-By

* Rudolf Buchbinder * Sara Davis Buechner * Richard Buhlig *

Hans von Bülow Freiherr Hans Guido von Bülow (; 8 January 1830 – 12 February 1894) was a German conductor, pianist, and composer of the Romantic era. As one of the most distinguished conductors of the 19th century, his activity was critical for establishi ...

* Josef Bulva * Khatia Buniatishvili * Stanislav Bunin * Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller * Geoffrey Burleson * Winifred Burston * Ammiel Bushakevitz *

Ferruccio Busoni Ferruccio Busoni (1 April 1866 – 27 July 1924) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and teacher. His international career and reputation led him to work closely with many of the leading musicians, artists and literary ...

* Winifred Byrd

C

* Sofia Cabruja * Sarah Cahill * Michele Campanella * Rose Cannabich * Bruno Canino * John Carmichael *

Roberto Carnevale Roberto Carnevale (born 15 June 1966) is an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic teacher. Biography and career Born in Catania, he started studying piano at the age of seven. He took a degree in Arts at the University of Catania ...

Teresa Carreño María Teresa Gertrudis de Jesús Carreño García (December 22, 1853June 12, 1917) was a Venezuelans, Venezuelan pianist, composer, soprano, and conductor. Over the course of her 54-year concert career, she became an internationally renowned v ...

* Gaby Casadesus * Jean Casadesus *

Robert Casadesus Robert Marcel Casadesus (; 7 April 1899 – 19 September 1972) was a renowned 20th-century France, French pianist and composer. He was the most prominent member of a Casadesus, distinguished musical family, being the nephew of Henri Casadesus an ...

* Gianluca Cascioli * Ricardo Castro * Boris Cepeda

Ch-Cl

* Bertrand Chamayou * Cécile Chaminade * Angelin Chang * Fenia Chang * Nellie Chaplin * Abram Chasins * Chen Sa * Angela Cheng * Cheng Wai *

Shura Cherkassky Shura Cherkassky (; 7 October 1909 – 27 December 1995) was a Russian-American concert pianist known for his performances of the romantic repertoire. His playing was characterized by a virtuoso technique and singing piano tone. For much of h ...

* Milana Chernyavska * Rachel Cheung * Jan Chiapusso * Joan Chissell * Gian Paolo Chiti * Seong-Jin Cho *

Frédéric Chopin Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; 1 March 181017 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period who wrote primarily for Piano solo, solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown ...

* Daniel Chorzempa * Chow Ching Lie * Winifred Christie * Alton Chung Ming Chan *

Marcel Ciampi Marcel Paul Maximin Ciampi (29 May 1891 – 2 September 1980) was a French pianist and teacher. He held the longest tenure in the history of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris and also became head of piano classes at the ...

* Dino Ciani * Aldo Ciccolini * Tamara Anna Cislowska * Wilhelmine Clauss-Szarvady *

Muzio Clementi Muzio Filippo Vincenzo Francesco Saverio Clementi (23 January 1752 – 10 March 1832) was an Italian-British composer, virtuoso pianist, pedagogue, conductor (music), conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer, who was mostly ac ...

Van Cliburn Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn Jr. (July 12, 1934February 27, 2013) was an American pianist. At the age of 23, Cliburn achieved worldwide recognition when he won the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958 during the Cold ...

* France Clidat

Coa-Cop

* Theodor Coccius * Julian Cochran * Arnaldo Cohen * Harriet Cohen * Naida Cole * Jean-Philippe Collard * Stephen Colletti * Graziella Concas * Claudio Constantini * Sylvia Constantinidis * John Contiguglia * Richard Contiguglia * Stephen Coombs *

Gary Cooper Gary Cooper (born Frank James Cooper; May 7, 1901May 13, 1961) was an American actor known for his strong, silent screen persona and understated acting style. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice and had a further three nominations, ...

* Imogen Cooper *

Aaron Copland Aaron Copland (, ; November 14, 1900December 2, 1990) was an American composer, critic, writer, teacher, pianist, and conductor of his own and other American music. Copland was referred to by his peers and critics as the "Dean of American Compos ...

Cor-Cz

* Alfred Cortot *

Romola Costantino Romola Helen Louise Costantino, Mrs Enyi, (14 September 1930November 1988) was an Australian pianist, accompanist and teacher, who also worked as a music, film and theatre critic. Biography Costantino was the daughter of Napoleone Costantino (1 ...

* Henry Cowell * Johann Baptist Cramer * Patrick Crommelynck * Tan Crone * Jill Crossland * Lamar Crowson * Adlan Cruz * José Cubiles * Richard Cudmore * Sir Clifford Curzon * Halina Czerny-Stefańska * Carl Czerny * György Cziffra

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Da-De

* Dang Thai Son * Edward Dannreuther * Jeanne-Marie Darré * Fanny Davies * Bella Davidovich * Ivan Davis * Karin Dayas * William Dayas * Jozef De Beenhouwer *

Claude Debussy Achille Claude Debussy (; 22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionism in music, Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influe ...

* Sylviane Deferne * Cor de Groot * Steven De Groote * Élie-Miriam Delaborde * Eduardo Delgado * Adelina de Lara *

Jörg Demus Jörg Wolfgang Demus (2 December 1928 – 16 April 2019) was an Austrian classical pianist who appeared internationally and made many recordings. He was also a composer and a lecturer at music academies. In composition and playing, he focused on ...

* Jeremy Denk * Alicia de Larrocha * Vladimir de Pachmann * Nikolai Demidenko * William Denis Browne

Di-Du

* Anthony di Bonaventura * Misha Dichter *

Louis Diémer Louis Joseph Diémer (14 February 1843 – 21 December 1919) was a French pianist and composer. He was the founder of the Société des Instruments Anciens in the 1890s, and also gave recitals on the harpsichord. His output as a composer was exten ...

* Simone Dinnerstein * Paul Doguereau *

Ernő Dohnányi Ernő or Erno is a Finnish language, Finnish and Hungarian language, Hungarian masculine given name. Notable people with the name include: *Ernő Balogh (1897-1989), Hungarian pianist, composer, editor, and educator *Ernő Bánk (1883-1962), Hunga ...

* Peter Donohoe * Ania Dorfmann * Barry Douglas * Marylène Dosse * Alexander Dreyschock * Danny Driver * Zbigniew Drzewiecki * Jean Dubé * Florence Kirsch Du Brul * François-René Duchâble * Jan Ladislav Dussek

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Ec-Em

* Severin von Eckardstein * Bracha Eden * Richard Egarr * Pavel Egorov * Youri Egorov * Violetta Egorova * Severin Eisenberger * Detlev Eisinger * Abdel Rahman El Bacha * Dror Elimelech

En-Ez

* Michael Endres * Per Enflo * Karl Engel * Philippe Entremont * Julius Epstein * Tzvi Erez *

Christoph Eschenbach Christoph Eschenbach (; born 20 February 1940) is a German pianist and conductor. Early life Eschenbach was born on 20 February 1940 in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) as Christoph Ringmann. His parents were Margarethe (née Jaross), a ...

* Morton Estrin * Róża Etkin-Moszkowska * Lindley Evans

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Fa-Fl

* Mikhaïl Faerman * Joel Fan * Edith Farnadi * Richard Farrell * Iain Farrington * Anna Fedorova * José Feghali * Samuil Feinberg * Till Fellner * Vladimir Feltsman * Albert Ferber * Arthur Ferrante * Jacques Février * Janina Fialkowska *

John Field John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Ep ...

* James Henry Fields * Margaret Fingerhut * Sergio Fiorentino * Rudolf Firkušný * Annie Fischer * Edith Fischer * Caroline Fischer * Edwin Fischer * Norma Fisher * Philip Edward Fisher * Graham Fitch * Leon Fleisher * Yakov Flier *

Ingrid Fliter Íngrid Fliter (born September 23, 1973, Buenos Aires) is an Argentinian pianist. She began her piano studies with Lolita Lechner and Elizabeth Westerkamp. Her first public appearance in recital was at age 11, and she made her concerto debut ...

Fo-Fu

* Andor Földes * Grace Fong *

Julian Fontana Julian (or Jules) Fontana (31 July 1810 — 23 December 1869) was a Polish pianist, composer, lawyer, author, translator, and entrepreneur, best remembered as a close friend and musical executor of Polish people, Polish composer Frédéric Chopin ...

* Bengt Forsberg * W. O. Forsyth * Fou Ts'ong * Felix Fox * Malcolm Frager * Homero Francesch * Samson François *

Massimiliano Frani Massimiliano Frani (10 January 1967 – 31 March 2023) was an Italian pianist, composer and music pedagogue. He founded the project MET – Music Education Therapy and was director of the Armoniæ Centro Internazionale di Musica e Cultura. He als ...

* Claude Frank * Peter Frankl * Justus Frantz * David Fray *

Nelson Freire Nelson José Pinto Freire (; 18 October 19441 November 2021) was a Brazilian classical pianist. Regarded as one of the greatest pianists of his generation, he was noted for his "decorous piano playing" and "interpretive depth". His extensive di ...

* Etelka Freund * Carl Friedberg * Arthur Friedheim * Ignaz Friedman * Mao Fujita * Margarita Fyodorova

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Ga-Gl

* Ossip Gabrilowitsch * Henriette Gaertner * Neil Galanter * Rudolph Ganz * Umi Garrett * Mark Gasser * Ivana Gavrić * Andrei Gavrilov * Alexander Gavrylyuk * Heinrich Gebhard *

Kemal Gekić Kemal Gekić (born February 16, 1962, in Split, Croatia, then Yugoslavia) is a Croatian-born American concert pianist and Full Professor of Piano Performance at Florida International University in Miami, Florida, USA. Early life Kemal Gekić was bo ...

* Bruno Leonardo Gelber * Ingrid Fuzjko V. Georgii-Hemming * Kirill Gerstein * Carmen Geutjes *

Alexander Ghindin Alexander Sheftelyevich Ghindin (; born 17 April 1977, Moscow) is a Russian pianist. He won first prize at the Cleveland International Piano Competition in 2007. A student of Mikhail Sergeyevich Voskresensky. He became a laureate of the Tchaikov ...

* Jack Gibbons * Walter Gieseking *

Emil Gilels Emil Grigoryevich Gilels (19 October 191614 October 1985, born Samuil) was a Soviet pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest pianists of all time. His sister Elizabeth, three years his junior, was a violinist. His daughter Elena ...

* Rhondda Gillespie * Boris Giltburg *

Jakob Gimpel Jakob Gimpel (April 16, 1906March 12, 1989) was a Polish-American concert pianist and educator. Jakob Gimpel was born in Lviv, Lwów (then in Polish Galicia, part of Austria Hungary, and now Lviv, Ukraine) to a Jewish family. Gimpel's younger b ...

* Pavel Gintov * Grigory Ginzburg * Katrine Gislinge * Frank Glazer * Reinhold Glière *

Marija Gluvakov Marija Gluvakov – Medenica (Serbian Cyrillic: Марија Глуваков – Меденица) (born 3 April 1973), is a Serbian pianist and piano teacher. Education Gluvakov was born in Senta, Serbia, formerly Yugoslavia. She received her ...

Go

* Arabella Goddard *

Leopold Godowsky Leopold Mordkhelovich Godowsky Sr. (13 February 1870 – 21 November 1938) was a virtuoso pianist, composer and teacher, born in what is now Lithuania to Jewish parents, who became an United States of America, American citizen in 1891. He ...

* Mona Golabek * Edward Gold * Alexander Goldenweiser * Rubin Goldmark * Robert Goldsand * Stefano Golinelli * Alexis Golovin * David Golub * Richard Goode * Isador Goodman * Judith Gordon * Daniel Gortler * Ralf Gothóni * Louis Moreau Gottschalk * Glenn Gould * Anna Gourari

Gr-Gu

* Enrique Graf * Gary Graffman * Alasdair Graham *

Percy Grainger Percy Aldridge Grainger (born George Percy Grainger; 8 July 188220 February 1961) was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist who moved to the United States in 1914 and became an American citizen in 1918. In the course of a long and ...

Enrique Granados Pantaleón Enrique Joaquín Granados Campiña (27 July 1867 – 24 March 1916), commonly known as Enrique Granados in Spanish or ''Enric Granados'' in Catalan, was a Spanish composer of classical music, and concert pianist from Cat ...

* Jeffrey Grice *

Edvard Grieg Edvard Hagerup Grieg ( , ; 15 June 18434 September 1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the leading Romantic music, Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwid ...

Hélène Grimaud Hélène Rose Paule Grimaud (born 7 November 1969) is a French classical pianist and the founder of the Wolf Conservation Center in South Salem, New York. Early life and education Grimaud was born in Aix-en-Provence, France, the daughter of te ...

* Maria Grinberg * Bonnie Gritton * Samuel Grodin * Andreas Groethuysen *

Benjamin Grosvenor Benjamin Grosvenor (born 8 July 1992) is a British classical pianist. Education Grosvenor was born and brought up in Westcliff-on-Sea, Southend-on-Sea, Essex. He is the youngest of five brothers. His father is an English and Drama teacher, a ...

* Shengying Gu * Alberto Guerrero * Friedrich Gulda * Youra Guller * Horacio Gutiérrez * Nino Gvetadze * László Gyimesi (pianist), László Gyimesi

H

Ha

* Monique Haas * Werner Haas (pianist), Werner Haas * Ingrid Haebler * Andreas Haefliger * Reynaldo Hahn * Charles Hallé, Sir Charles Hallé * Adolph Hallis * Mark Hambourg * Leonid Hambro * Marc-André Hamelin * Ambre Hammond * Adam Harasiewicz * Frits Hartvigson * Michael Kieran Harvey * Clara Haskil * Joyce Hatto * Walter Hautzig * Joseph Haydn

He-Hi

* Inna Heifetz * Claude Helffer * David Helfgott * Stephen Heller * Martin Helmchen * Gerard Hengeveld * Dennis Hennig * Adolf von Henselt * Henri Herz * Myra Hess, Dame Myra Hess * Barbara Hesse-Bukowska * Angela Hewitt * Peter Hill (pianist), Peter Hill * Eric Himy

Ho-Hu

* Rex Hobcroft * Ian Hobson * Josef Hofmann * Margarita Höhenrieder * Lorin Hollander * Otakar Hollmann * Vladimir Horowitz * Mieczysław Horszowski * Andrej Hoteev * Stephen Hough * Alan Hovhaness * Leslie Howard (musician), Leslie Howard * Philip Howard (pianist), Philip Howard * Daniel Hsu * Ching-Yun Hu * Yvonne Hubert * Johann Nepomuk Hummel * Bruce Hungerford * Anastasia Huppmann

I

* Valentina Igoshina * Konstantin Igumnov * Ivan Ilić (pianist), Ivan Ilić * Jos Van Immerseel * Ingmar Piano Duo * Stanislav Ioudenitch * Clelia Iruzun * Yoram Ish-Hurwitz * Eugene Istomin * Kei Itoh * Amparo Iturbi * José Iturbi * Antonio Iturrioz * Christian Ivaldi * Andrei Ivanovitch

J

Ja-Je

* Peter Jablonski * Paul Jacobs (pianist), Paul Jacobs * Katarzyna Jaczynowska * Zoran G. Jančić * Jenő Jandó * Byron Janis * Tasso Janopoulo * Rudolf Jansen * Gintaras Januševičius * Adolf Jensen * José Manuel Jiménez Berroa

Jo-Ju

* Grant Johannesen * Gunnar Johansen * Jovianney Emmanuel Cruz * Graham Johnson (musician), Graham Johnson * Henry Jolles * Maryla Jonas * Rafael Joseffy * Bradley Joseph * William Joseph (musician), William Joseph * Geneviève Joy * Eileen Joyce * Scott Joplin * Terence Judd * Joonatan Jürgenson

K

Ka

* Ilona Kabos * Jeffrey Kahane * Percy Kahn * Joseph Kalichstein * Gilbert Kalish * Friedrich Kalkbrenner * William Kapell * David Kaplan (pianist), David Kaplan * Richard Kapp * Jozef Kapustka * Danae Kara * Natalia Karp * Yakov Kasman * Andrey Kasparov * Julius Katchen * Peter Katin * Cyprien Katsaris * Amir Katz * Martin Katz (pianist), Martin Katz * Mindru Katz

Ke-Kl

* Constance Keene * Simone Keller * Freddy Kempf * Wilhelm Kempff * Sean Kennard * Kevin Kenner * Louis Kentner * Olga Kern * Mikhail Kerzelli * Minuetta Kessler * Eugène Ketterer * Stanislav Khegai * Frederick B. Kiddle * Edward Kilenyi * Gary Kirkpatrick * John Kirkpatrick (pianist), John Kirkpatrick * Anatole Kitain * Margaret Kitchin * Evgeny Kissin * Dmitri Klebanov * Elisabeth Klein * Jacques Klein * Walter Klien * Paul Klengel

Ko-Kr

* Aimi Kobayashi * Alexander Kobrin * Tobias Koch (pianist), Tobias Koch * Zoltán Kocsis * Raoul Koczalski, Raoul (von) Koczalski * Mari Kodama * Alan Kogosowski * Lubka Kolessa * Aloys and Alfons Kontarsky, Alfons Kontarsky * Aloys and Alfons Kontarsky, Aloys Kontarsky * Anton de Kontski * Alexander Korsantia * Michael Korstick * Jason Kouchak * Giorgio Koukl * Stephen Kovacevich * Leopold Koželuch * Vladimir Krainev * Lili Kraus * Martin Krause * Anna Kravtchenko * Gustav Kross * Vladimir Krpan

Ku-Ky

* Antonín Kubálek * Anton Kuerti * Friedrich Kuhlau * Theodor Kullak * Miroslav Kultyshev * Eduard Kunz * Vilém Kurz * Elena Kuschnerova * Christiaan Kuyvenhoven * Leonid Kuzmin * Radoslav Kvapil * Rena Kyriakou

L

La

* Katia and Marielle Labèque, Katia Labèque * Katia and Marielle Labèque, Marielle Labèque * Carl Lachmund * Carles and Sofia piano duo, Carles Lama * Frederic Lamond (pianist), Frederic Lamond * Geoffrey Lancaster * Rawicz and Landauer, Walter Landauer * Wanda Landowska * Piers Lane * Lang Lang * Milan Langer * Cosimo Damiano Lanza * Ruth Laredo * Ervin László * Jacob Lateiner * Risto Lauriala * Franz Lauska * Horacio Lavandera * Ingmar Lazar * George-Emmanuel Lazaridis * Igor Lazko

Le

* Colleen Lee, Ka Ling Colleen Lee * Denoe Leedy * Reinbert de Leeuw * Ralph Leopold * Christian Leotta * Theodor Leschetizky * Daniel Lessner * Ray Lev * Eric Le Van * Oscar Levant * Beth Levin (musician), Beth Levin * Robert Levin (Norwegian pianist), Robert Levin * Robert D. Levin * James Levine * Igor Levit * Mischa Levitzki * Daniel Levy (pianist), Daniel Levy * Ernst Levy * Raymond Lewenthal * Paul Lewis (pianist), Paul Lewis

Lh-Li

* Josef Lhévinne * Rosina Lhévinne * George Li * Ming-Qiang Li, Ming Qiang Li * Li Yundi * Liberace * Cecile Licad * John Lill * Yunchan Lim * Arthur Moreira Lima * Christiana Lin * Jenny Lin * Dinu Lipatti * Jan Lisiecki * Valentina Lisitsa * James Lisney * Eugene List * Barbara Lister-Sink * Franz Liszt * Bruce Liu * Kate Liu

Lo

* Peter Lockwood * Nicolai Lomov * Kathleen Long * Marguerite Long * Thomas Lorango * Roger Lord * Wolfram Lorenzen * Yvonne Loriod * Louis Lortie * Iris Loveridge * Anne Lovett (musician), Anne Lovett * Jerome Lowenthal

Lu-Ly

* Alexei Lubimov * Nikolai Lugansky * Jean-Marc Luisada * Radu Lupu * Witold Lutosławski * Sergei Lyapunov * Moura Lympany * Charles Lynch (pianist), Charles Lynch * Clive Lythgoe

M

Maa-Mal

* Edward MacDowell * Joanna MacGregor * Geoffrey Douglas Madge * Aleksandar Madžar (musician), Aleksandar Madžar * Nikita Magaloff * Frederik Magle * Désiré Magnus * Petronel Malan * Krzysztof Malek * Anna Malikova * Witold Małcużyński

Mar–Maz

* Rosario Marciano * Adele Marcus * Irén Marik * Richard Markham * Ozan Marsh * Oleg Marshev * Philip Martin (pianist), Philip Martin * Malcolm Martineau * João Carlos Martins * Giuseppe Martucci * Jean-Pierre Marty * Eduard Marxsen * William Mason (composer), William Mason * William Masselos * Draga Matković * Denis Matsuev * Colette Maze

Mc-Mi

* Edwin McArthur * Stephanie McCallum * Leon McCawley * Anne-Marie McDermott * Murray McLachlan (musician), Murray McLachlan * Nikolai Medtner * Hephzibah Menuhin * Yaltah Menuhin * Susan Merdinger * Yolanda Mero * Janne Mertanen * Victor Merzhanov * Noel Mewton-Wood * Marcelle Meyer * Stefano Miceli * Aleksander Michałowski * Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli * Miloš Mihajlović * Karol Mikuli * Kenneth G. Mills * Hamish Milne * Martha Mier

Mo-Mu

* Benno Moiseiwitsch * Gabriela Montero * Sergio Monteiro * Emánuel Moór * Gerald Moore * Ivan Moravec * Harold Morris (composer), Harold Morris * Ignaz Moscheles * Jurij Moskvitin * Moritz Moszkowski * Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart * Ian Munro (pianist), Ian Munro * Mieczysław Munz * William Murdoch * Julien Musafia * Olli Mustonen

N

Na-Ne

* Jon Nakamatsu * Aleksey Nasedkin, Alexei Nasedkin * Soheil Nasseri * Yves Nat * Eldar Nebolsin * Anton Nel * Pascal Nemirovski * Heinrich Neuhaus * Edmund Neupert * Ethelbert Nevin * Anthony Newman (musician), Anthony Newman * Elly Ney

Ni-Ny

* Reid N. Nibley, Reid Nibley * Francesco Nicolosi * Stanislas Niedzielski * Mitja Nikisch * Tatiana Nikolayeva * Andrei Nikolsky * David Owen Norris * Eunice Norton * Gustav Nottebohm * Guiomar Novaes * Marie Novello * Theodosia Ntokou * Ervin Nyiregyházi

O

* Lev Oborin * John O'Conor * John Ogdon * Garrick Ohlsson * Santos Ojeda * David Ezra Okonşar * Janusz Olejniczak * Önder Sisters, Ferhan Önder * Önder Sisters, Ferzan Önder * Bart van Oort * Ursula Oppens * Gerhard Oppitz * Christopher O'Riley * Nikolai Orlov (pianist), Nikolai Orlov * József Örmény * Leo Ornstein * Rafael Orozco (pianist), Rafael Orozco * Cristina Ortiz * Steven Osborne (pianist), Steven Osborne * Alexander Osminin * Clio-Danae Othoneou * Henrique Oswald * Cécile Ousset * Vladimir Ovchinnikov (pianist), Vladimir Ovchinnikov

P

Pa

* Enrico Pace * Vladimir de Pachmann * Ignacy Jan Paderewski * Kun-Woo Paik * Natasha Paremski * Jon Kimura Parker * Natalya Pasichnyk * Ernst Pauer * Victor Paukstelis

Pe-Pi

* Pekinel sisters, Güher Pekinel * Pekinel sisters, Süher Pekinel * Bruno Peltre * Leonard Pennario * Murray Perahia * Henriette von Pereira-Arnstein * Neal Peres Da Costa * Alfredo Perl * Vlado Perlemuter * Vincent Persichetti * Yella Pessl * Egon Petri * Christina Petrowska-Quilico * Carlos Alfredo Peyrellade * Isidor Philipp * Andrzej Pikul * Cecilia Pillado * George Pinto (composer), George Pinto * Maria João Pires * Johann Peter Pixis * Artur Pizarro

Pl-Po

* Francis Planté * Mikhail Pletnev * Ignaz Pleyel * Jonathan Plowright * Leo Podolsky * Ivo Pogorelić * François-Xavier Poizat * Daniel Pollack * Francesco Pollini * Maurizio Pollini *Jean-Bernard Pommier * Antonio Pompa-Baldi * Michael Ponti * Roland Pöntinen * Tiffany Poon * Stephen Portman * Paul Posnak * Viktoria Postnikova * Cipriani Potter * Harrison Potter * Leff Pouishnoff * Francis Poulenc * Jonathan Powell (musician), Jonathan Powell * Lloyd Powell

Pr-Pu

* Awadagin Pratt * Menahem Pressler * André Previn * Vassily Primakov * Paul Procopolis * Sergei Prokofiev * Roland Pröll * Roberto Prosseda * Svetla Protich * Raoul Pugno

Q

* Anne Queffélec

R

Ra-Re

* Alexander Raab * Roman Rabinovich * Valentin Radu * Sergei Rachmaninoff * Ezra Rachlin * Thomas Rajna * Beatrice Rana * Dezső Ránki * Siegfried Rapp * Michael Raucheisen * Maurice Ravel * Rawicz and Landauer, Marjan Rawicz * Alexander Raytchev * Walter Rehberg * Carl Reinecke * Julius Reubke * Lívia Rév * Eliane Reyes

Ri

* Sviatoslav Richter * Hans Richter-Haaser * Ferdinand Ries * Herman Rietzel * Riopy * Bernard Ringeissen * Diana Ringo * Édouard Risler * Anastasia Rizikov

Ro-Rz

* Bernard Roberts * Santiago Rodriguez (pianist), Santiago Rodriguez * Pascal Rogé * Michael Roll (pianist), Michael Roll * Helmut Roloff * Aleksandra Romanić * Marcel Rominger * Landon Ronald, Sir Landon Ronald * Julius Röntgen * Martin Roscoe * Jerome Rose * Charles Rosen * Carol Rosenberger * Moriz Rosenthal * Nicholas Roth * Jacques Rouvier * Mūza Rubackytė * Anton Rubinstein * Arthur Rubinstein * Nikolai Rubinstein * Bernhard Ruchti * Mikhail Rudy * James Russo * Frans van Ruth * Frederic Rzewski

S

Sa

* Geoffrey Saba * Vasily Safonov * Camille Saint-Saëns * Anton Salnikov * Pnina Salzman * Olga Samaroff * Adnan Sami * Harold Samuel * György Sándor * Victor Sangiorgio * Jesús María Sanromá * Arthur Napoleão dos Santos * Wassily Sapellnikoff * Erik Satie * Emil von Sauer * Amandine Savary * Jean-Marc Savelli * Marko Savić (pianist), Marko Savić * Fazıl Say

Sca-Schm

* Domenico Scarlatti * Irene Scharrer * Xaver Scharwenka * Konstantin Scherbakov * Ann Schein Carlyss * Olga Scheps * Valentin Schiedermair * András Schiff * Madeline Schiller * Victor Schiøler * Steffen Schleiermacher * Burkard Schliessmann * Peter Schmalfuss * Helmut Schmidt * Johan Schmidt * E. Robert Schmitz

Schn-Schw

* Artur Schnabel * Karl Ulrich Schnabel * Andre-Michel Schub * Franz Schubert * Clara Schumann * Robert Schumann * Ludwig Schuncke * Arminda Schutte

Sci-Sg

* Giacomo Scinardo * Hazel Scott * Alexander Scriabin * Isidor Seiss * Kathryn Selby * Blanche Selva * Peter Serkin * Rudolf Serkin * Dimitris Sgouros * Timur Selçuk

Sh-Si

* Regina Shamvili * Barbara Shearer * Harrison Sheckler * Mordecai Shehori * Howard Shelley * Anatoly Sheludyakov * Roy Shepherd (pianist), Roy Shepherd * Russell Sherman * Norman Shetler * Dmitry Shishkin * Dmitri Shostakovich * Bella Shteinbuk * Leonard Shure * Clara Isabella Siegle * Valery Sigalevitch * Antti Siirala * Béla Síki * Alexander Siloti * Abbey Simon * Leo Sirota * Larry Sitsky

Sl-Sr

* Heather Slade-Lipkin * Ruth Slenczynska * Alexander Slobodyanik * Lindsay Sloper * Sigurd Slåttebrekk * Regina Smendzianka * Jan Smeterlin * Leo Smit (Dutch composer), Leo Smit * Cyril Smith (pianist), Cyril Smith * Ronald Smith (musician), Ronald Smith * Sydney Smith (composer), Sydney Smith * Wibi Soerjadi * Vladimir Sofronitsky * Grigory Sokolov * Ivan Sokolov (composer), Ivan Sokolov * Juan María Solare * Solomon (pianist), Solomon * Yeol Eum Son * Wonny Song * Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji * Gonzalo Soriano * Jaap Spaanderman * Pietro Spada * Dubravka Tomšič Srebotnjak

St

* Peter Stadlen * Martin Stadtfeld * Andreas Staier * Fanny Stål * Camille-Marie Stamaty * Susan Starr * Bernhard Stavenhagen * Daniel Steibelt * Pavel Štěpán * Ilona Štěpánová-Kurzová * Edna Stern * Eduard Steuermann * Ronald Stevenson * Johanne Stockmarr * Zygmunt Stojowski * Kathryn Stott * August Stradal * Soulima Stravinsky

Su-Sz

* Szuyu Rachel Su * Evelyn Suart * Yevgeny Sudbin * Iyad Sughayer * Grete Sultan * Alexei Sultanov * Mei-Ting Sun, Sun Meiting * Yingdi Sun, Sun Yingdi * Yekwon Sunwoo * Rose and Ottilie Sutro * Alexander Sverjensky * Yevgeny Svetlanov * Ruslan Sviridov * David Syme (pianist), David Syme * Roberto Szidon * Balázs Szokolay * Władysław Szpilman

T

Ta-Th

* Gabriel Tacchino * Duo Tal & Groethuysen, Yaara Tal * Magda Tagliaferro * Mark Taimanov * Bracha Eden and Alexander Tamir, Alexander Tamir * Alexandre Tansman * Sergei Tarnowsky * Karl Tausig * Christopher Taylor (pianist), Christopher Taylor * Simon Tedeschi * Louis Teicher * Gerardo Teissonniere * Thomas Tellefsen * Alfred Teltschik * Per Tengstrand * Sigismond Thalberg * Károly Thern * Willi and Louis Thern, Louis Thern * Willi and Louis Thern, Willi Thern * Jean-Yves Thibaudet * François-Joël Thiollier * Penelope Thwaites

Ti-Ty

* Ignaz Tiegerman * Sergio Tiempo * Vera Timanova * James Tocco * Václav Tomášek * Alexander Toradze * Donald Tovey * Geoffrey Tozer * Max Trapp * Daniil Trifonov * Simon Trpčeski * Valerie Tryon * Richard Aaker Trythall * Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou * Nobuyuki Tsujii * David Tudor * Józef Turczyński * Ronald Turini * Rosalyn Tureck * Tarja Turunen * Anderson Tyrer * Hélène Tysman

U

* Mitsuko Uchida * Ayako Uehara (pianist), Ayako Uehara * Emilia Uggla * Alexander Uninsky * Rem Urasin * Roberto Urbay

V

Va-Ve

* Mariangela Vacatello * Vladimir Valjarević * John Vallier * Nick van Bloss * Arie Vardi * Tamás Vásáry * Duo Vela, Ester Vela * Duo Vela, Eulalia Vela * Giovanni Velluti (pianist), Giovanni Velluti * Ilana Vered * Adela Verne * Mathilde Verne * Matthijs Verschoor

Vi-Vr

* José Vianna da Motta * Vladimir Viardo * Roger Vignoles * Ivan Vihor * Joseph Villa * Ricardo Viñes * Anastasia Virsaladze * Eliso Virsaladze * Stefan Vladar * Pancho Vladigerov * Oleg Volkov * Alexei Volodin * Arcadi Volodos * Andrew von Oeyen * Franz Vorraber * Ralph Votapek * Vronsky & Babin, Vitya Vronsky

W

Wa

* Elena Waiss * Althea Waites * Émile Waldteufel * Ernest Walker (composer), Ernest Walker * William Vincent Wallace * Peter Wallfisch * Bruno Walter * Yuja Wang * Andrzej Wasowski * Huw Watkins * André Watts

We-Wn

* Beveridge Webster * Nancy Weir * Alan Weiss (musician), Alan Weiss * Orion Weiss * Alexis Weissenberg * Chris Mary Francine Whittle * Ueli Wiget * Earl Wild * Gerard Willems * Llŷr Williams * Michael Glenn Williams * Malcolm Williamson * Walburga Willmann * Paul Wittgenstein * Daniel Wnukowski

Wo-Wu

* Galina Werschenska * Joseph Wölfl * Ernst Victor Wolff * Joseph Wölfl * Eleanor Wong (musician), Eleanor Wong * Roger Woodward * Bolesław Woytowicz * Roger Wright (pianist), Roger Wright * Ingolf Wunder * Friedrich Wührer

X

* Di Xiao

Y

* Oxana Yablonskaya * Marina Yakhlakova * Ivan Yanakov (pianist), Ivan Yanakov * Anna Yesipova * Ramzi Yassa * Christine Yoshikawa * Jeanne You * Avan Yu * Maria Yudina * Yanni * Yiruma * Yoshiki Hayashi

Z

* Franciszek Zachara * Yakov Zak * Berenika Zakrzewski * Evgeny Zarafiants * Carlo Zecchi * Dieter Zechlin * Mark Zeltser * Zhu Xiao-Mei * Igor Zhukov * Lilya Zilberstein * Krystian Zimerman * Tadeusz Żmudziński * Zhang Zuo (pianist), Zhang Zuo * Nikolai Zverev * Wojciech Żywny

References

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