List of classical guitarists
- This article is a list of notable classical guitarists. For a complete list see the Category classical guitarists.
Classical guitarists generally perform on classical guitars with classical guitar technique. They perform both classical guitar music and transcriptions of European classical music written for other instruments.
Baroque (XVII & XVIII century)
- François Campion (ca 1688-1748)
- Antoine Carré
- Francesco Corbetta (ca 1615-1681)
- Nicolas Desrosiers
- Giovanni Paolo Foscarini
- Henri Grenerin
- Giovanni Battista Granata
- Francisco Guerau
- Louis Jourdan de La Salle
- Girolamo Montesardo
- Alonso Mudarra (1510-1580)
- Santiago de Murcia (Around 1682 or 1685-1732) (Spain)
- Gaspar Sanz (1640-1710) (Spain)
- Robert de Visée (ca 1658-1725) (France)
XIX century
- Francois de Fossa (1775-1849) (Spain-France)
- Dionisio Aguado (1784-1849) (Spain)
- Matteo Carcassi (1792-1853) (Italy)
- Ferdinando Carulli (1770-1841) (Italy)
- Napoléon Coste (1806-1883) (France)
- Adam Darr (1811-1866) (Germany)
- José Ferrer (1835-1916)
- Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829) (Italy)
- Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806-1856) (Austrian-based, born in Slovakia.)
- Francesco Molino (1775–1847)
- Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840) (Italian)
- Giulio Regondi (Italian)
- Fernando Sor (1778-1839) (Spanish)
- Andrei Osipovich Sychra (1773 or 1776 - 1850) (Russia)
- Francisco Tárrega (1852—1909) Spanish)
XX century
- This article is a list of notable classical guitarists. For a complete list see the Category classical guitarists.
- Laurindo Almeida (1917-1995)
- María Luisa Anido (1907-1996) (Argentina, Spain)
- Agustín Barrios (Agustín Pió Barrios) (1885-1944)
- Agustín Barrios Mangoré (1885-1944)
- Abel Carlevaro
- Leif Christensen 1950-1988
- Alirio Diaz (*1923)
- Dimitri Fampas (1921-1996)
- Sila Godoy 1919-1949
- Alexandre Lagoya (1929-1999)
- Antonio Lauro (1917-1986)
- Miguel Llobet (1878-1938)
- Gustavo Lopez 1920-1979
- Godelieve Monden
- Sergei Orekhov (1935–1998)
- Julio Martinez Oyanguren (Uruguay)
- Emilio Pujol (1886-1980)
- Ida Presti (1924-1967)
- Celedonio Romero (1913-1996)
- Regino Sainz de la Maza (1896-1981, Spain)
- Andrés Segovia (1893-1987, Spain)
- José Tomás (1934-2001)
- José Rey de la Torre (Cuba, USA)
- Joseph Tomo
- Dimitris Fampas (1921-1996)
- Narciso Yepes (1927-1997)
Contemporary
- This article is a list of notable classical guitarists. For a complete list see the Category classical guitarists and its subcategories.
- Lily Afshar (*19--) (Iran / USA)
- Magnus Andersson (*1955) (Sweden)
- Odair Assad (*1956) (Brazil)
- Sergio Assad (*1952) (Brazil)
- Roberto Aussel (*1954) (Argentina)
- Carlos Barbosa-Lima 1944-
- Manuel Barrueco (*1952) (Cuba)
- Paulo Bellinati (*1950) (Brazil)
- Gilbert Biberian 1944-
- Dušan Bogdanović (*1955) (Yugoslavia now Serbia / USA)
- Ben Bolt (*1953) (USA)
- Liona Boyd 1949-
- Julian Bream (*1933) (United Kingdom)
- Leo Brouwer (*1939) (Cuba / Spain)
- Charo (*1951) (Spain)
- Dan Cosley (*1979) (USA)
- Flavio Cucchi (Italy)
- Il-Ryun Chung
- Máximo Diego Pujol
- Carlo Domeniconi (*1947) (Italy)
- Zoran Dukic (*1969) (Croatia)
- Roland Dyens (*1955) (France)
- Gabriel Estarellas (Spain)
- Eva Fampas (*1964) (Greece)
- Oliver Fartach-Naini (*1964) (Germany)
- Eliot Fisk (*1958) (USA / Austria)
- Yorgos Foudoulis (Greece)
- Shin-Ichi Fukuda (Japan)
- Jose Gonzalez (Sweden)
- Kostas Grigoreas (*1957) (Greece)
- Adam Holzman 1960-
- Tilman Hoppstock (*1961) (Germany)
- Sharon Isbin (*1956) (USA)
- Gilbert Isbin(*1953) (Belgium)
- Ólavur Jakobsen (*1964) Faroe Islands
- Maria Kämmerling 1946-
- Adam Khan (*1974)
- Nikita Koshkin (*1956) (Russia)
- Roberto Legnani 1959 (Germany / France)[1]
- David Leisner (*1953) (USA)
- Stephen Marchionda 1967 (USA / Spain)
- Pablo Márquez (*1967) (Argentina)
- Matteo Mela (*1971) (Italy) [2]
- Lorenzo Micheli (*1975) (Italy) [3]
- Jaime Mirtenbaum Zenamon
- Carlos Molina (*1946) (b.Cuba, lives in US) [4]
- Jorge Morel (*1931)
- Tony Morris (*1962) Performer & national public radio producer
- Erling Møldrup 1943-
- Thomas Müller-Pering (*1958) Member of World Guitar Ensemble
- Gordon O'Brien 1966-
- Silvia Ocougne (*1957) Contemporary music performer and composer. Brasilian, lives in Berlin, Germany.
- Mesut Özgen (*1960), (Turkey / USA)
- Christopher Parkening (*1947)
- Marco Pereira
- Robert Phillips (*1953) (USA)
- Alvaro Pierri (Uruguay)
- Alberto Ponce (*1935), (Spain / France)
- Stanko Prek
- David Qualey (*1947) Grammy-nominated composer
- Štěpán Rak *(1945) (Czech Republic)
- Alan Rinehart *(1948) (Canada)
- Mark D. Roberts
- Angel Romero (*1946) (Spain)
- Pepe Romero (*1944) (Spain)
- David Russell (*1953) (United Kingdom (Scotland))
- Stephan Schmidt (Germany / Switzerland based)
- John Schneider
- Göran Söllscher
- David Starobin (*1951) (USA)
- Pavel Steidl (*1961), (Czechoslovakia (now in the Czech Republic), / The Netherlands)
- David Tanenbaum (*1956) (USA)
- Ana Vidović (* 1980) (Croatia)
- John Williams (*1941) (Australia)
- Peter Xifaras (*1960) (USA)
- Kazuhito Yamashita (*1961) (Japan)
- Andrew York
- Laura Young
- Victor Zinchuk (*1958) (Russia)
- Erkan Ogur (*1954) (Turkey)
Promising talents
- Gabriel Bianco (* 1988) (France)
- John Couch (*1976) (New Zealand)
- Andras Csaki (* 1981) (Hungary)
- Marcin Dylla (* 1976) (Poland)
- Nutavut Ratanakarn (* 1981) (Thailand) [5]
- Slava Grigoryan (*1976) (Australia)
- Dimitri Illarionov (* 1979) (Russia)
- Ekachai Jearakul (* 1987) Thailand
- Goran Krivokapić (* 1979) (Montenegro)
- Li Jie [6] (* 1981) China
- Ananiah McCarrell (Guitarist for Sinai 48)
- Terrence McManus (* 1977) (United States)
- Matteo Mela (*1971) (Italy) [7]
- Su Meng (* 1988) China
- Lorenzo Micheli (*1975) (Italy) [8]
- Filomena Moretti (* 1973) (Italy)
- Yang Xuefei (* 1977) (China)
- Igor Dedusenko(* 1990) (Belarus) http://www.guitarfestivalmikulov.com/GFM06/concerts/dedusenko.htm
- Esther Lerma (1959) (Mexico)