Virtuoso
A virtuoso (from the Latin virtus meaning: skill, manliness, excellence) is an individual who possesses outstanding mechanical ability at operating a musical instrument. The plural form is virtuosi. Virtuosi are often musical composers as well. During the age of Baroque music many, if not most, composers were also virtuosi on their respective instruments.
List of virtuosi
Drums
- Tommy Aldridge
- Carmine Appice
- Vinny Appice
- Ginger Baker
- Art Blakey
- John Bonham
- Terry Bozzio
- Bill Bruford
- Danny Carey
- Billy Cobham
- Vinnie Colaiuta
- Virgil Donati
- Steve Gadd
- Yoshiki Hayashi
- Raymond Herrera
- Elvin Jones
- Mike Mangini
- Mitch Mitchell
- Keith Moon
- Ian Paice
- Neil Peart
- Mike Portnoy
- Cozy Powell
- Buddy Rich
- Max Roach
- Zak Starkey
- Dave Weckl
- Richard Christy
- Gene Hoglan
- Sean Reinhart
- Flo Mounier
Banjo
Bass Guitar
- Jeff Berlin
- Jack Bruce
- Stanley Clarke
- Les Claypool
- Avishai Cohen
- Bootsy Collins
- Bill Dickens
- John Entwistle
- Flea
- Larry Graham
- Charlie Haden
- Stuart Hamm
- James Jamerson
- John Paul Jones
- Scott LaFaro
- Dave LaRue
- Geddy Lee
- Tony Levin
- Michael Manring
- Paul McCartney
- Edgar Meyer
- Charlie Mingus
- John Myung
- Jaco Pastorius
- John Patitucci
- Billy Sheehan
- Victor Wooten
- Steve DiGiorgio
- Kelly Conlon
Cello
Fiddle
Flute
Guitar
- Michael Angelo Batio
- Tony MacAlpine
- Jason Becker
- Nuno Bettencourt
- Ritchie Blackmore
- Eric Johnson
- Al Di Meola
- Paul Gilbert
- Eddie Van Halen
- Kaki King
- Chuck Schuldiner
- Jake E. Lee
- Tony MacAlpine
- Yngwie J. Malmsteen
- Michael Romeo
- John Petrucci
- Django Reinhardt
- Randy Rhoads
- Uli Jon Roth
- Joe Satriani
- Steve Vai
Slide Guitar
Harp
Harpsichord
Keyboard
- Don Airey
- Chick Corea
- Joey DeFrancesco
- Keith Emerson
- Orlando Gibbons
- Jan Hammer
- Herbie Hancock
- Jon Lord
- Ray Manzarek
- Lyle Mays
- John Medeski
- Kevin Moore
- Jordan Rudess
- Jimmy Smith
- Janne Wirman
- Rick Wakeman
- Joe Zawinul
Keyboard (Carnatic)
Lute
Mandolin
Organ
Piano
- Arthur Rubinstein
- Vladimir Horowitz
- Sviatoslav Richter
- Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Franz Liszt
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Frédéric Chopin
- Charles-Valentin Alkan
- Kenneth Allen
- Martha Argerich
- Claudio Arrau
- Vladimir Ashkenazy
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Jorge Bolet
- Johannes Brahms
- Alfred Brendel
- Van Cliburn
- Alfred Cortot
- Georges Cziffra
- Bill Evans
- Leopold Godowsky
- Glenn Gould
- Friedrich Gulda
- Marc-André Hamelin
- Yoshiki Hayashi
- Józef Hofmann
- Keith Jarrett
- Evgeny Kissin
- Li Yundi
- Franz Liszt
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Ignacy Jan Paderewski
- Maurizio Pollini
- Bud Powell
- Anton Rubinstein
- Jordan Rudess
- Clara Schumann
- Rudolph Serkin
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Art Tatum
- Arcadi Volodos
- Krystian Zimerman
Saxophone
Sitar
Ukulele
Viola
Violin
- Niccolň Paganini
- Yehudi Menuhin
- Itzhak Perlman
- Jascha Heifetz
- Yang Lui
- Pablo de Sarasate
- Henri Wieniawski
- Joshua Bell
- Lalgudi Jayaraman
- Joseph Joachim
- Pietro Locatelli
- David Oistrakh
- Isaac Stern
- Maxim Vengerov
- Antonio Vivaldi
- Eugčne Ysa˙e
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