List of conductors
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This is a list of conductors of music in the broad genre of classical music, including symphonies, operas, chamber music, and choral music, including music by modern composers considered within this genre. Many musicians primarily known as instrumental soloists or composers may be conductors, and vice versa. Inclusion on this list does not necessariy suggest conducting was their primary occupation or talent. The list is not intended to cover conductors of other genres, such as pop-song arrangements, jazz, or movie soundtracks, unless they also conducted classical music. As a list in progress, many omissions may be expected.
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[edit] A
- Eivind Aadland (also a violinist)
- Juhan Aavik (also a composer)
- Joseph Abaco (also a cellist and a composer)
- Boris Abalyan
- Claudio Abbado
- Roberto Abbado
- Hermann Abendroth
- Maurice Abravanel
- Salvatore Accardo (also a violinist)
- Jean-Baptiste Accolay (also a violinist and a composer)
- Adrian Adlam (also a violinist)
- Frederick Charles Adler
- Kurt Herbert Adler
- Peter Herman Adler
- Samuel Adler
- Henry Adolph
- Niklaus Aeschbacher
- Walther Gottlieb Aeschbacher (also a composer)
- Vasily Agapkin (also a composer)
- Lucio Agostini (also a composer)
- Ernani Aguiar
- Yuri Ahronovich
- Guido Ajmone-Marsan
- Kazuyoshi Akiyama
- Yasushi Akutagawa (also a composer
- Herbert Albert
- Werner Andreas Albert
- Gerd Albrecht
- Rinaldo Alessandrini
- Brady R. Allred
- Victor Nicholas Allesandro
- Ralph Allwood
- Antonio de Almeida (also a musicologist)
- Atso Almila (also a composer)
- Odón Alonso (also a composer)
- Conrad van Alphen
- Marin Alsop
- Petr Altrichter
- Kenneth Alwyn
- William Alwyn (also a composer)
- Levon Ambartsumian (also a violinist)
- Robert Ambrose
- Kenneth Amis (also a tuba player)
- David Amos
- Gilbert Amy (also a composer)
- Karel Ančerl (Karel Ancerl)
- Bengt Tommy Andersson (also a composer)
- Karsten Andersen
- Marc Andreae
- Volkmar Andreae (also a composer)
- Vladimir Andropov
- Leif Ove Andsnes (also a pianist)
- Paul Angerer
- Andrei Anikhanov
- Alexander Anissimov
- Henrik Annassian
- Lorenzo Anselmi
- Ernest Ansermet
- Mátyás Antal
- Alfredo Antonini
- Michael Antrobus
- Louis Applebaum (also a composer)
- Bruno Aprea
- Jesús Arámbarri
- Luigi Arditi (also a violinist and a composer)
- Ataúlfo Argenta
- Nurhan Arman
- Robert Armbruster
- Raffi Armenian (also a pianist and a composer)
- Anton Armstrong
- Donald Armstrong
- Sir Richard Armstrong
- Sir Thomas Armstrong (also an organist)
- Klaus Arp
- Takashi Asahina
- Enrique García Asensio
- Stefan Asbury
- Vladimir Ashkenazy (also a pianist)
- David Atherton
- Ivor Atkins (also an organist and a composer))
- Moshe Atzmon
- Jean-Marie Auberson (also a violinist)
- Tor Aulin (also a violinist and a composer)
- James Avery (also a pianist)
- John Avison (also a pianist)
- John Axelrod
- Gurer Aykal
[edit] B
- Jeremy Backhouse
- Ulrich Backofen
- Christian Badea
- Roland Bader
- Břetislav Bakala (Bretislav Bakala)(also a pianist and a composer)
- Kees Bakels
- Richard Baker (also a composer)
- Ovidiu Balan
- Virko Baley (also a composer and a pianist)
- Gabriel Balint
- Eldon Balko
- Attila Balogh
- Wolfgang Balzer
- Giuseppe Bamboschek (also a pianist)
- Matthias Bamert
- Chiara Banchini
- David Banney
- Sir John Barbirolli
- Lajos Bardos (also a composer)
- Daniel Barenboim (also a pianist)
- Vernon Barford (also an organist)
- Howard Barlow
- Stephen Barlow
- Joseph Barnby (also a composer)
- Uri Barnea
- Robert M. Barr
- Rudolf Barshai
- Jean Ashworth Bartle
- Bruno Bartoletti
- Leon Barzin
- Pippo Barzizza
- Elena Bashkirova (also a pianist)
- Enrique Batiz
- Serge Baudo
- Rudolf Baumgartner (also a violinist)
- Peter Bay
- Jean-Marie Beaudet
- Steuart Bedford
- Sir Thomas Beecham
- Ludwig van Beethoven (also a composer)
- Eduard van Beinum
- Heribert Beissel
- Frieda Belinfante (also a cellist)
- Gabriele Bellini
- Piero Bellugi
- Jiří Bělohlávek (Jiri Belohlavek)
- Christian Benda (also a cellist and a composer)
- Gisèle Ben-Dor
- Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli (brother of piano soloist Arturo)
- Julius Benedict (also a composer)
- Paul Ben-Haim (also a composer)
- Sven Bengtson
- Roberto Benzi
- Ingar Bergby
- Paul Bergé
- Erich Bergel
- Wilhelm Georg Berger (also a composer and a violist)
- Hector Berlioz (also a composer)
- Paavo Berglund
- Karl-Friedrich Beringer
- Mario Bernardi
- Massimo De Bernart
- Robert Bernhardt
- Frieder Bernius
- Luciano Berio (also a composer)
- Robert Bernhardt
- Leonard Bernstein (also a composer)
- Umberto Berrettoni
- Mary Berry (Sister Thomas More)
- Gary Bertini
- Loic Bertrand
- Matthew Best
- Luciano Bettarini
- Hans Michael Beuerle
- Harry Bicket
- Tomasz Biernacki
- Eugène Bigot (also a composer)
- Bertrand de Billy
- Fabio Biondi
- John Bishop
- Nicola Bisson (also a pianist and an oboist)
- Leif Bjaland
- Ulf Björlin
- Jerry Blackstone
- Luis Biava
- Leo Blech
- Julien Paul Blitz
- Herbert Blomstedt
- Dominik Blum (also a pianist and a composer)
- Artur Bodanzky
- Wilfried Boettcher
- Boris Böhmann
- Karl Böhm
- Jorge Bolet (also a pianist)
- Robert Boardman
- Heinz Bongartz (also a composer)
- Richard Bonynge
- Leo Borchard
- Andrey Boreyko
- Willi Boskovsky (also a violinist)
- Leon Botstein
- Martin Böttcher (also a composer)
- Károly Botvay
- Nadia Boulanger (also a composer and teacher)
- Pierre Boulez (also a composer)
- Sir Adrian Boult
- Ernest Bour
- Rosario Bourdon
- William Boughton
- Geraint Bowen (also an organist)
- Peter Boyer
- Martyn Brabbins
- Richard Bradshaw
- Geoffrey Brand
- Nir Brand
- Dalibor Brazda (also a composer)
- Karel Brazda
- Peter Breiner (also a pianist)
- Paul Breisach
- Giovanni Bria
- Andy Brick
- Antonia Brico (also a pianist)
- Benjamin Britten (also a composer)
- Brian Brockless (also a composer and an organist)
- Paige Brook (also a flautist)
- Boris Brott
- Hine Arthur Brown (usually known as H. Arthur Brown)
- Iona Brown
- Jordon Brown
- Charles Bruck
- Max Bruch (also a composer)
- Charles Bruffy
- Frans Brüggen (also a recorder player)
- Anshel Brusilow (founder of the Chamber Symphony of Philadelphia)
- Helmut Bucher
- Emerson Buckley
- Jürgen Budday
- Hans von Bülow
- Carl-August Bunte (also a composer)
- David Burge (also a pianist and a composer)
- Geoffrey Burgon
- Rebecca Burkhardt
- Stephen Burns (also a trumpeter)
- Fritz Busch
- Ferruccio Busoni (also a composer and a pianist)
- Henri Büsser (also a composer)
- Yondani Butt
- Semyon Bychkov
- Steven Byess
- George Byng
[edit] C
- Howard Cable
- Donato Cabrera
- Oleg Caetani
- Jan Caeyers
- Sarah Caldwell
- Constantine Callinicos (often spelled Constantin Callinicos or Kallinikos)
- Sylvain Cambreling
- Basil Cameron
- Guido Cantelli
- Cesare Cantieri
- Pierre Cao
- Gennaro Cappabianco
- Franco Caracciolo
- Miltiades Caridis
- Joana Carneiro
- Roberto Carnevale
- Jonathan Carney
- Gary Carpenter
- Felix Carrasco
- Ronaldo Carrillo
- Eleazar de Carvalho
- Pablo Casals (also a cellist)
- Joan Casas
- Juan Castelao
- Eugene F. Castillo
- Eugene Mariano Castillo
- Catterino Cavos (also a composer and an organist)
- Aldo Ceccato
- Ludvík Čelanský
- Sergiu Celibidache
- Renato Cellini
- Friedrich Cerha
- Riccardo Chailly
- Zdenek Chalabala
- Stuart Challender
- Chan Tze Law (also a violinist)
- Helen Cha-Pyo (also an organist)
- Eugène Chartier (also a violinist and a violist)
- Frederic Chaslin
- Chen Xieyang
- Vladislav Chernushenko Vladislav Tchernushenko
- Camille Chevillard (also a composer)
- Giancarlo Chiaramello
- Eric Chisholm (also a composer)
- Choo Hoey
- F. Melius Christiansen
- Paul J. Christiansen
- Michael Christie
- William Christie
- Nikos Christodoulou (also a composer)
- Harry Christophers
- Myung-Whun Chung (also a pianist)
- Carlo Felice Cillario
- Herbert L. Clarke (also a cornetist and a composer)
- Keith Clark
- Richard Aulden Clark
- René Clausen
- Jozef Cleber (also a composer)
- Nicholas Cleobury
- Stephen Cleobury
- Fausto Cleve
- Gustav Cloëz
- André Cluytens
- Albert Coates
- Jan Cober (also a clarinetist)
- Luis Cobos (also a composer)
- Jerome Cohen
- Maurizio Colasanti
- Michel Colombier (also a composer)
- Édouard Colonne (also a violinist)
- Catherine Comet
- Sergiu Comissiona
- Graziella Concas
- Richard Condie
- James Conlon
- David Connell
- William Connor
- Marius Constant (also a composer)
- Fiora Contino
- Aaron Copland (also a composer)
- Piero Coppola
- Michel Corboz
- Ronald Corp
- Eugene Corporon
- Alfred Cortot (also a pianist)
- Michael Costa (music) (also a composer)
- Marcel Couraud
- Robert Craft
- Thomas Crawford
- Gordon Cree (also a composer)
- Marcus Creed
- David Cripps (also a horn player)
- Giorgio Croci
- John Crosby
- José Cura (also a tenor)
- David Currie
- John Curro
- William George Cusins (also a pianist and a composer)
- Gary Cutt
- Krzysztof Czerwinski (also an organist)
- György Cziffra, Jr.
[edit] D
- Misha Damev
- Frank Damrosch
- Leopold Damrosch
- Paul Daniel
- Oscar Danon
- Franz Ignaz Danzi (also a cellist and a composer)
- Charles Darden
- Jonathan Darlington
- Thurston Dart (also a harpsichordist)
- Thomas Dausgaard
- Francesco d'Avalos
- Dennis Russell Davies
- Sir Andrew Davis
- Sir Colin Davis
- Meredith Davies
- John Deathridge
- John Debney (also a composer)
- Franz-Paul Decker
- Désiré Defauw
- Henri Défosse
- Edouard Deldevez (also a violinist and a composer)
- Andreas Delfs
- Alfred Deller (also a counter-tenor)
- Norman Del Mar
- Gaetano Delogu (also a baritone)
- John DeMain
- Stéphane Denève
- James DePreist
- Pierre Dervaux
- Roger Désormière
- Felix Otto Dessoff
- Adolph Deutsch (also a composer)
- Hugo Diez
- Suzi Digby
- Georgi Dimitrov
- Enrico Dindo
- Richard Divall
- Dean Dixon
- James Dixon
- Plamen Djurov
- Alexander Dmitriev
- Issay Dobrowen
- Christoph von Dohnányi
- Erno Dohnányi (Ernst von Dohnányi) (also a composer and a pianist)
- Oliver Dohnányi
- Juozas Domarkas
- Plácido Domingo (also a tenor)
- Leonard Dommett (also a violinist)
- Antal Doráti
- Heinrich Dorn
- Sir Edward Downes
- Carmen Dragon
- Bela Drahos
- Per Dreier
- Riccardo Drigo
- Matthew Dubourg (also a violinist and a composer)
- Agnieszka Duczmal
- Gustavo Dudamel
- Richard Dufallo
- Philip Duffy
- Lorenz Duftschmid
- Paul Dunkel
- Howard Dunn
- Charles Dutoit
- Eugen Duvier
- Balys Dvarionas (also a composer and pianist)
- Jaroslav Dvorak (also a composer)
- David Dworkin (also a clarinetist)
- Howard Dyck (also a broadcaster)
[edit] E
- Benjamin Juarez Echenique
- William Eddins (also a pianist)
- Noel Edison
- Richard Edlinger
- Morna Edmundson
- Huw Edwards
- Iwan Edwards
- Peter Randolph Edwards
- David Effron
- Richard Egarr (also a keyboardist)
- Werner Ehrhardt
- Sixten Ehrling
- Christian Ehwald
- José Eibenschütz
- Kurt Eichhorn
- Mark Elder
- Karl Elmendorff
- Ahmed Elsaedi
- Olari Elts
- Karl Engel
- Bjarte Engeset
- Philippe Entremont (also a pianist)
- Peter Eötvös (also a composer)
- Angelo Ephrikian
- Miklós Erdélyi
- Erol Erdinç
- Alberto Erede
- Marco Erede
- Eric Ericson
- Mark Ermler
- Michael Erxleben (also a violinist)
- Christoph Eschenbach
- Heribert Esser
- Jesus Etcheverry
- Antiochos Evangelatos (also a composer)
- Jack Everly
- Joseph Leopold Eybler (also a composer)
[edit] F
- Oliviero De Fabritiis
- Harold Farberman (also a composer and a percussionist)
- Oliviero De Fabritiis (also a composer)
- Jorg Faerber
- Barry Faldner
- Peter Falk
- JoAnn Falletta
- Harold Farberman (also a composer)
- Charles Farncombe
- Robert Farnon (also a composer)
- Arthur Farwell (also a composer)
- Renato Fasano (also a composer)
- Vladimír Fedosejev
- Viktor Fedotov
- Victor Feldbrill (also a violinist)
- Eric Fenby
- Frederick Fennell
- János Ferencsik
- Franco Ferrara
- Franco Ferraris
- John Ferritto (also a composer)
- Gabriele Ferro
- Arthur Fiedler
- Max Fiedler (also a composer)
- Christopher Finzi
- António Fortunato de Figueiredo (also a violinist)
- Adám Fischer
- Edwin Fischer (also a pianist)
- Iván Fischer
- Thierry Fischer (also a flautist)
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (also a baritone)
- Martin Fischer-Dieskau
- Anatole Fistoulari
- Grzegorz Fitelberg (also a composer and a violinist)
- Øivin Fjeldstad
- Arvid Fladmoe (also a composer)
- Eduard Flipse (also a composer)
- Claus Peter Flor
- Charles Floyd
- Joseph Flummerfelt
- Patrick Flynn (also a composer)
- George Foreman
- Gene Forrell (also a composer)
- Karl Forster
- John Forsyth
- Lukas Foss (also a composer and a pianist)
- Lawrence Foster
- Nils-Eric Fougstedt
- Jean Fournet
- Nicolette Fraillon
- Hal France
- Alun Francis
- Mikko Franck
- Gábor Franek
- Hans-Peter Frank
- Justus Franz (also a pianist)
- Massimo Freccia
- Paul Freeman
- Louis Frémaux
- Heinz Fricke
- Ferenc Fricsay
- August Fries
- Louis de Froment
- Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
- Sten Frykberg
- Thomas Furi
- János Fürst
- Wilhelm Furtwängler (also a composer)
[edit] G
- Ossip Gabrilowitsch (also a pianist)
- James Gaffigan
- Dom Joseph Gajard
- Alceo Galliera
- Patrick Gallois (also a flautist)
- Romano Gandolfi
- Rudolph Ganz (also a pianist and a composer)
- Carl von Garaguly (also a violinist)
- Lamberto Gardelli
- Sir John Eliot Gardiner
- Edward Gardner
- David Garforth
- Daniele Gatti
- Philippe Gaubert (also a flautist and a composer)
- Aleksandr Gauk
- Alfred R. Gaul (also a composer)
- Gianandrea Gavazzeni
- Yuriy Geletyuk (also a composer)
- Gianluigi Gelmetti
- Vance George
- John Georgiadis (also a violinist)
- Valery Gergiev
- Charles Gerhardt
- Wilhelm Gericke
- David Geringas (also a cellist)
- Friedrich Gernsheim (also a composer and a pianist)
- Franco Ghione
- Alexander Gibson
- Michael Gielen
- Alan Gilbert
- Richard Gill
- Reynald Giovaninetti
- Errol Girdlestone
- Carlo Maria Giulini
- Derek Gleeson
- Jane Glover
- Hanspeter Gmür
- Isidore Godfrey
- George de Godzinsky
- Reinhard Goebel (also a violinist)
- Walter Goehr (also a composer)
- Rengim Gökmen
- Szymon Goldberg
- Friedrich Goldmann (also a composer)
- Nicholas Goldschmidt
- Jerry Goldsmith (also a composer)
- Nikolay Golovanov
- Igor Golovschin (also called Igor Golovchin)
- Vladimir Golschmann
- Gottfried von der Goltz (also a violinist)
- David Golub (also a pianist)
- Stephanie Gonley (also a violinist)
- Sir Reginald Goodall
- William Goodchild
- Roy Goodman
- Ron Goodwin
- Sir Eugene Goossens
- Mark Gorenstein
- Johannes Goritzki
- Stanislav Gorkovenko
- Predrag Gosta
- Ralf Gothóni
- Jakov Gotovac (also a composer)
- Morton Gould (also a pianist)
- Hans Graf
- Gearóid Grant
- Izhak Graziani
- Elizabeth Green
- Mary Woodmansee Green
- Bohumil Gregor
- Nils Grevillius
- Thomas-Michael Gribow
- Edvard Grieg (also a composer)
- Howard Griffiths
- Edouard Grikurov
- Uwe Grodd (also a flautist)
- Launy Grøndahl (also a composer)
- Wilhelm Grosz (aka: Hugh Williams) (also a composer and a pianist)
- Sir Charles Groves
- Gabriel Grovlez (also a composer)
- Arthur Gruber
- Odd Grüner-Hegge
- Anton Guadagno
- Camargo Guarnieri (also a composer)
- Bernhard Gueller (also known as Bernhard Guller)
- Giancarlo Guerrero
- Vittorio Gui
- Joseph Gungl (also a composer)
- Stephen Gunzenhauser
- Manfred Gurlitt real name: Alwin Oskar Pinkus
- Theodor Guschlbauer
- Peter Guth
[edit] H
- Jacob de Haan (also a composer)
- Karl Haas (also a music broadcaster and a pianist)
- John B. Haberlen
- Henry Hadley (also a composer)
- Hartmut Haenchen
- Hans Hagen
- Leopold Hager
- Klaus-Peter Hahn (also a cellist)
- Reynaldo Hahn (also a composer)
- Emmanuelle Haïm
- Bernard Haitink
- Michael Halasz
- Anthony Halstead
- Johan Halvorsen (also a violinist and a composer)
- William D. Hall
- Sir Charles Hallé
- Simon Halsey
- Anthony Halstead
- Johan Halvorsen (also a composer)
- Han Zhongjie
- David Händel
- Maurice Handford
- Vernon Handley
- Michael Hankinson
- Tauno Hannikainen
- George Hanson
- Howard Hanson (also a composer)
- Daniel Harding
- David Harman
- Nikolaus Harnoncourt
- Wally Harper (also a composer)
- Anne Harrigan
- Colin Harris (brass bands)
- Frederick Harris
- Bernhard Hartog
- Sir Hamilton Harty
- Ketil Haugsand (also a harpsichordist)
- Siegmund von Hausegger (also a composer)
- Franz Josef Haydn (also a composer)
- Richard Hayman
- John Michael Hearne (also a composer)
- Fenno Heath (also a composer)
- Daniel Hege
- Robert Heger
- Harald Heide
- Sir Bernard Heinze
- Joseph Hellmesberger (also a violinist)
- Joseph Hellmesberger Jr. (also a composer and a violinist)
- Eskil Hemberg (also a composer)
- Walter Hendl
- Thomas Hengelbrock
- Richard Henneberg
- George Henschel (also a baritone)
- Maurice F. Hentschel
- Lee Hepner
- Victor Herbert (also a composer and a cellist)
- Gunther Herbig
- Philippe Herreweghe
- Alfred Hertz
- Heinrich von Herzogenberg (also a composer)
- Pierre Hétu
- Leslie Heward (also a composer)
- Peyton Hibbitt (also a noted voice teacher and founder of Tri-Cities Opera)
- Richard Hickox
- Edward Higginbottom (also an organist)
- David Higgins (also a composer)
- Alfred Hill (also a composer)
- Ureli Corelli Hill
- Margaret Hillis
- Junichi Hirokami
- Libor Hlavácek Libor Hlavacek (also a violinist)
- Georg Høeberg (also a composer)
- Irwin Hoffman
- Gerard Hoffnung (also a composer)
- Christopher Hogwood (also a harpsichordist)
- Joseph Holbrooke (also a composer and a pianist)
- Anthony Holland (also a composer)
- Heinrich Hollreiser
- David Holsinger (also a composer)
- Iver Holter
- Miroslav Homolka
- Manfred Honeck
- David Hönigsberg (also a composer)
- John Hopkins
- Jascha Horenstein
- Oleksander Horilyj
- Milan Horvat
- Elgar Howarth
- Ken Hsieh
- John Hsu
- Hu Bingxu
- Samo Hudab
- William Hudson
- Monica Huggett
- Arwel Hughes (also a composer)
- Owain Arwel Hughes
- Fionnuala Hunt
- George Hurst
- Hugo Jan Huss
- Johan Hye-Knudse
[edit] I
- Anthony Iannaccone (also a composer)
- Eliahu Inbal
- Kjell Ingebretsen (also a pianist)
- Désiré-Emile Inghelbrecht (also a composer)
- Anthony Inglis
- Sarah Ioannides
- Robert Irving
- Elmer Iseler
- Jose Iturbi (also a pianist)
- Adam Itzel, Jr. (also a composer)
- Borislav Ivanov
- Konstantin Ivanov
- Hiroyuki Iwaki
[edit] J
- Isaiah Jackson
- René Jacobs (also a counter-tenor)
- Didier Jacquin
- Elli Jaffe
- Mladen Jagusht
- Wilhelm Jahn
- Antal Jancsovics
- Marek Janowski
- Baptiste Janson
- Arvid Jansons
- Mariss Jansons
- Werner Janssen (also a composer)
- Armas Järnefelt (also a composer)
- Kristjan Järvi
- Neeme Järvi
- Paavo Järvi
- Kenneth Jean
- Barry Jekowsky
- Graeme Jenkins
- Thomas Jensen
- Craig Jessop
- Karel Boleslav Jirák (also a composer)
- Eugen Jochum
- Georg Ludwig Jochum
- Dirk Joeres
- Donald Johanos
- Robert Johnson
- Thor Johnson
- Leslie Jones
- William Ifor Jones
- Arpad Joó
- Enrique Jordá
- Vakhtang Jordania
- Armin Jordan
- James Mark Jordan
- Philippe Jordan
- James Judd
- Louis Antoine Jullien
- Jerry Junkin
- Michail Jurowski
[edit] K
- Dmitri Kabalevsky (also a composer)
- Oswald Kabasta
- Miloslav Kabeláč (also a composer)
- Vato Kahi
- Robert Kajanus
- Tõnu Kaljuste
- Carlos Kalmar
- Karl Kamper
- Okko Kamu
- Juha Kangas
- Shigeru Kan-no (also a composer)
- Alexander Kantorov
- Jean-Jacques Kantorow (also a violinist)
- David L. Kaplan
- Gilbert Kaplan
- Richard Kapp
- Isaac Karabtchevsky
- Ivan Karabyts (also a composer)
- Herbert von Karajan
- Steven Karidoyanes
- Loukas Karytinos
- Milton Katims (also a violist)
- Cyprien Katsaris
- Simon Katz
- Richard Kaufman
- Walter Kaufmann
- Hugo Wilhelm Ludwig Kaun (also a composer)
- Hugh Keelan
- Dennis Keene
- Herbert Kegel
- Günter Kehr
- Joseph Keilberth
- Olav Kielland
- Rudolf Kempe
- Paul van Kempen
- Donald M. Kendrick
- Kobayashy Kenichiro (also: Kobayashy Ken-Ichiro)
- Istvan Kertesz
- Willem Kes (also a violinist)
- Lajos Kevehazy
- Aram Khachaturian )also a composer)
- Boris Emmanuilovich Khaikin
- Kenneth Kiesler
- Hans Kindler (also a cellist)
- Robert King
- Norbert Kirchmann
- Dmitri Kitajenko (also: Dmitrij Kitajenko)
- Eri Klas
- Carlos Kleiber
- Erich Kleiber
- Olav Kielland (also a composer and a pianist)
- Bernhard Klee
- Otto Klemperer
- Paul Kletzki (also a composer)
- Pavel Klinichev
- Berislav Klobucar
- Erich Kloss
- František Kmoch (also a composer)
- Hans Knappertsbusch
- Oliver Knussen (also a composer)
- Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi
- Zoltán Kocsis
- Lutz Kohler
- Eugene Kohn
- Kazuhiro Koizumi
- Camilla Kolchinsky
- Chosei Komatsu
- Vilmos Komor
- Kiril Kondrashin
- Hidemaro Konoye (also a composer)
- Franz Konwitschny
- Ton Koopman (also an organist and a harpsichordist)
- Adam Kopyciński (also a composer)
- Alexander Kopylov
- Leo Korchin
- Kazimierz Kord
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold
- Andras Korodi
- Oleksander Koshetz (also a composer)
- Zdeněk Košler Zdenek Kosler
- Evgeni Kostitsyn
- Pavel Kotla
- Serge Koussevitzky
- Lászlo Kovács (also a trombonist)
- Karel Kovarovic (also a composer)
- Volodymyr Kozhukhar
- Nicholas Kraemer (also a harpsichordist)
- Robert Kraft
- Herbert Kraus
- Richard Kraus
- Clemens Krauss
- Jaroslav Krcek
- Yakov Kreizberg
- Gidon Kremer (also a violinist)
- Jan Krenz
- Josef Kreutzer
- Henry Krips
- Josef Krips
- Emmanuel Krivine
- Petar Krstic (also a composer)
- Rafael Kubelík
- Theodore Kuchar
- Sigiswald Kuijken
- Janos Kulka
- Arthur Kulling
- Luigi von Kunits (also a violinist and a composer)
- Matthias Kuntzsch
- Erich Kunzel
- Efrem Kurtz
- William Kushner (also a clarinetist)
- Rainer Kussmaul
- Andrew Kuster
- Toivo Kuula (also a composer)
[edit] L
- August Labitzky (also a composer)
- Franz Paul Lachner (also a composer)
- Uros Lajovic
- Odaline de La Martinez
- Jeanne Lamon
- Charles Lamoureux (also a violinist)
- Geoffrey Lancaster (also a pianist)
- John Lanchbery
- Siegfried Landau
- Andrew Lane
- Louis Lane
- Lan Shui
- Gordon Langford
- Jaime Laredo (also a violinist)
- Patrick Larley (also a composer)
- Lewis Henry Lavenu (also a composer)
- Brian Law
- Scott Lawton
- Stephen Layton
- Alexander Lazarev
- Ramon Lazkano (also a composer)
- Adrian Leaper
- Wilfred Lehmann
- Rauno Lehtinen (also a composer)
- René Leibowitz
- Alexander Liebreich
- Erich Leinsdorf
- Konrad Leitner
- Ferdinand Leitner
- Karla Lemon
- Ondrej Lenárd
- Lawrence Leonard
- Gustav Leonhardt
- Raymond Leppard
- Hermann Levi
- Yoel Levi
- Harold Levin (also a violist and a composer)
- Gilbert Levine
- James Levine
- Li Delun
- Li Xincao
- Andrea Licata
- Sigurd Lie (also a composer)
- András Ligeti
- Enoch Light (also a violinist)
- Jahja Ling
- Ivo Lipanovic
- Rolf Lislevand
- Franz Litschauer
- Andrew Litton
- Carol Litvin
- Alberto Lizzio
- David Lloyd-Jones
- Keith Lockhart
- David Lockington
- Jesús López-Cobos
- Giancarlo De Lorenzo
- James Loughran
- Ferdinand Löwe
- Hans Löwlein
- Lu Jia
- Otto Lübert
- Leopold Ludwig (also a pianist)
- Natalia Luis-Bassa
- Fabio Luisi
- Nicola Luisotti
- Mathias Lundholm (also a violinist)
- Boris Lyatoshynsky (also a composer)
[edit] M
- Peter Maag
- Lorin Maazel
- Zdenek Macal
- Francesco Macci
- Sir Alexander Campell Mackenzie (also a composer and a violinist)
- Sir Charles Mackerras
- Ernest MacMillan
- Ben Macpherson
- Amadeus Wolfgang Maczewsky
- Bruno Maderna
- Paul Mägi
- Leone Magiera (also a pianist)
- Gustav Mahler (also a composer)
- László Makláry
- George Malcolm (also a harpsichordist and a choir trainer)
- Susanna Mälkki
- Nikolai Malko
- Kevin Mallon
- Jean-Yves Malmasson (also a composer)
- Milan Malý
- Paul Mann
- David Mannes (also a violinist)
- Peter Manning (also a violinist)
- Franco Mannino
- Peter Mansfield (also a composer and a pianist}
- Fuat Mansurov
- Annunzio Paolo Mantovani
- Andrew Manze (also a violinist)
- Alessandro de Marchi
- Andrea Marcon
- Jahni Mardjani
- Dario Marianelli
- Ion Marin (also a composer and a pianist)
- Igor Markevitch
- Gerhard Markson
- Sir Neville Marriner
- Carolann Martin
- Miguel Angel Gómez Martínez
- Alberto Martini
- Jean Martinon
- Ravil Martinov
- Eduardo Marturet
- Jameson Marvin
- Diego Masson
- Kurt Masur
- Eduardo Mata
- Lovro von Matacic
- Muir Mathieson
- Willy Mattes
- Appleby Matthews
- John Mauceri
- Colin Mawby (also an organist and a composer)
- Jonathan May
- Henry Mayer
- Uri Mayer
- Michael McCarthy
- Patrick McCarthy (also a tenor)
- Peter McCoppin (also an organist)
- Paul McCreesh
- Brock McElheran
- Bobby McFerrin (also a singer)
- Nicholas McGegan (also a harpsichordist and a flutist)
- Frank McNamara (also a pianist, arranger and composer)
- Jonathan McPhee
- David Measham
- Fabio Mechetti
- Ádám Medveczky
- Mehli Mehta (also a violinist)
- Zubin Mehta
- Johan de Meij (also a trombonist and a composer)
- Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński (also a composer and a pianist)
- Alexander Melik-Pashayev
- Amos Meller
- Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (also a composer)
- Christian Mendoze
- Gergely Ménesi
- Israel Menezes
- Willem Mengelberg
- Lord Yehudi Menuhin (also a violinist)
- Steven Mercurio (also a composer)
- Alberto Merenzon (also a bassoonist)
- André Messager (also a composer)
- Ingo Metzmacher
- František Václav Míča (also a composer)
- Carl Michalski
- Alexander Mickelthwate
- Terje Mikkelsen
- Carl Mikuli (also a pianist and a composer)
- Rossen Milanov
- David Allan Miller
- Joe Miller
- Tania Miller
- Miloje Milojevic (also a composer and a pianist)
- Nicholas Milton (also a violinist)
- Marc Minkowski
- Meir Minsky
- Shlomo Mintz (also a violinist)
- Clyde Mitchell
- Howard Mitchell (also a cellist)
- Dimitri Mitropoulos
- Johannes Moesus
- Andrew Mogrelia
- Lorenzo Molajoli
- Bernardino Molinari
- Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
- Christopher J. Monckton (also a singer and an organist)
- Amedeo Monetti
- Stanisław Moniuszko (also a composer)
- Pierre Monteux
- Rudolf Moralt
- Enrico de Mori
- Tadashi Mori (also a flautist)
- John Moriarty
- Ennio Morricone
- Wyn Morris
- Felix Josef Mottl (also a composer)
- Eli-Eri Moura
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (also a composer)
- Evgeny Mravinsky
- Karl Muck
- Helmut Müller-Brühl
- Rei Munakata
- Charles Munch
- Karl Munchinger
- Heribert Munchner
- Marko Munih
- Paul Murphy
- Ilya Musin (also a renowned teacher)
- Olli Mustonen (also a pianist)
- Riccardo Muti
- Anne-Sophie Mutter (also a violinist)
[edit] N
- Malcolm Nabarro
- Kent Nagano
- Anton Nanut
- Eduard Nápravník (also a composer)
- Pierre Narrato
- Bongani Ndodana (also a composer)
- Vassili Nebolsin
- Oskar Nedbal (also a violist and a composer)
- Boyd Neel
- Vittorio Negri
- John Nelson
- Gyula Nemeth
- John Neschling
- Uriel Nespoli
- Tomas Netopil
- Horst Neumann
- Peter Neumann
- Václav Neumann
- Ignaz Neumark
- Anthony Newmann (also an organist)
- Roy Newsome
- Yannick Nézet-Séguin
- Carter Nice
- Arthur Nikisch
- Weston Noble
- Sir Roger Norrington
- Gianandrea Noseda
- Jonathan Nott
- Jasmina Novokmet
- Grzegorz Nowak
- Jens Nygaard
[edit] O
- Georges Octors
- Paul O'Dette (also a lutenist)
- Heiichiro Ohyama (also a violist)
- David Oistrakh (also a violinist)
- John Oliver
- Ole Olsen (also an organist and a composer)
- Melinda O'Neal
- Kazushi Ono
- Sakari Oramo
- Constantine Orbelian
- William Arundel Orchard (also a composer and a keyboardist)
- Daniel Oren
- Eugene Ormandy
- Gerard Oskamp
- Jean-Yves Ossonce
- Karl Österreicher
- Arnold Ostman
- Tadaaki Otaka
- Willem van Otterloo (also known as a composer)
- Jerold Ottley
- Fernand Oubradous (also a composer)
- Eiji Oue
- Peter Oundjian
- Edwin Outwater
- Kurt Overhoff (also a composer)
- Seiji Ozawa
- Naci Özgüç
[edit] P
- Nick Page (also a composer)
- Vello Pähn
- Jean-François Paillard
- Carlos Païta
- Zbigniew Paleta (also a violinist and a composer)
- Michael Palmer
- Sir Andrzej Panufnik
- Jorma Panula
- Gennaro Papi
- Iakovos Pappas (also a composer and a pianist)
- Antonio Pappano
- Paul Paray (also a composer)
- Major Peter Parkes
- Andrew Parrott
- Jules Etienne Pasdeloup
- Nicolas Pasquet
- Trisdee na Patalung (also a composer)
- Giuseppe Patanè
- Tibor Paul
- Emil Paur
- Ariy Pazovsky
- Martin Pearlman
- Marika Pečená
- Antonio Pedrotti
- Rudolf Pekarek
- Wilfrid Pelletier
- Krzysztof Penderecki (also a composer)
- Andrew Penny
- Murray Perahia (also a pianist)
- Christof Perick
- Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (also a composer)
- Jonel Perlea
- Itzhak Perlman (also a violinist)
- Libor Pešek
- Kirill Petrenko
- Vladimir Petroschoff
- Vilém Petrželka (also a composer)
- Florence Louise Pettitt
- George Pretre
- Hans Pfitzner (also a composer)
- Paul Phillips
- Evelino Pido
- Fabrice Pierre
- Maximillian Pilzer
- Trevor Pinnock (also a harpsichordist)
- Alexander Von Pitamic
- Modestas Pitrenas
- Wilhelm Pitz
- Michel Plasson
- Horst Platen
- Alexander Platt
- Robert HP Platz
- Mikhail Pletnev (also a pianist)
- Carl Pohlig
- Bruce Polay (also a composer and a pianist)
- Valery Polyansky
- Max Pommer
- Jean-Bernard Pommier
- Josep Pons
- Carlo Ponti Jr.
- Ross Pople
- Heinrich Porges
- Donald Portnoy
- Joseph Post
- Frederik Prausnitz
- Georges Pretre
- André Previn (also a pianist and as a composer)
- Fernando Previtali (also a composer)
- Christoph Prick
- Brian Priestman
- Carlos Miguel Prieto
- Klaus Pringsheim, Sr. (also a composer)
- Sir John Pritchard
- Felix Prohaska
- Roland Pröll (also a pianist and a composer)
- John Pryce-Jones
- Horace Mann Pullen
[edit] Q
- Glenn S. Quader
- Argeo Quadri
- Massimo Quarta
- Eve Queler
- Angelo Questa
[edit] R
- Beat Raaflaub
- Harry Rabinowitz
- Walter Rabl (also a composer)
- Ezra Rachlin (also a pianist)
- Natan Rachlin
- Valentin Radu
- Assi Rahbani (also a composer and an author)
- Alexander Rahbari (also a composer)
- Ludovit Rajter
- Marco Antonio da Silva Ramos (also a composer)
- Jean-Pierre Rampal (also a flautist)
- Herminigildo Ranera
- Karl Rankl (also a composer)
- Erno Rapee
- Gal Rasché
- Ari Rasilainen
- Kirstina Rasmussen (also a composer)
- Sir Simon Rattle
- Leonard Ratzlaff
- Anton Reck
- Kurt Redel (also a flautist)
- Jonathan Rees
- Hubert Reichert
- Carl Reinecke (also a composer)
- Fritz Reiner
- Walther Reinhart (Reinhardt) (also a musicologist)
- Ludger Remy (also a harpsichordist)
- Edouard van Remoortel
- Lawrence Renes
- Donato Renzetti
- Bystrik Rezucha (also a composer)
- Josef Rheinberger (also a composer and an organist)
- Karl Richter (also an organist and a harpsichordist)
- Karl Anton Rickenbacher
- André de Ridder
- Fritz (Friedrich Edmund) Rieger
- Julius Rietz (also a composer and a cellist)
- Andre Rieu (also a violinist)
- Joshua Rifkin (also a keyboardist)
- Hugo Rignold (also a pianist)
- Helmuth Rilling
- Gintaras Rinkevicius
- Xavier Rist
- Karl Ristenpart
- Sandra Rivers
- Pietro Rizzo
- David Robertson
- Stewart Robertson
- Georgi Robev
- Paul Robinson
- Artur Rodzinski
- Heinz Rögner
- Shardad Rohani
- Hanns Rohr
- Ferdinand August Rojahn (also an organist and a violinist)
- János Rolla
- Tom Rolston
- Aviv Ron
- Kaisa Roose
- Hans Rosbaud
- Alfred Rosé (also a composer)
- Barry Rose
- Albert Rosen
- Joseph Rosenstock
- Manuel Rosenthal (also a composer)
- Antoni Ros-Marbà
- Mario Rossi
- Mstislav Rostropovich (also as a cellist)
- Arthur Rother
- George Rothman
- Walter Henry Rothwell
- Christophe Rousset (also a harpsichordist)
- Maurice Le Roux (also a composer)
- Corrado Rovaris
- Witold Rowicki
- Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
- Zoltán Rozsnyai
- Ludomir Rozycki (also a composer)
- Bernard Rubenstein
- Julius Rudel
- Ola Rudner (also a violinist)
- Max Rudolf
- François Ruhlmann
- Clark Rundell
- Donald Runnicles
- John Morris Russell
- Timothy Russell
- John Rutter
- Ole Kristian Ruud
[edit] S
- Victor de Sabata
- Rico Saccani
- Paul Sacher
- Yutaka Sado
- Harald Sæverud
- Rodolfo Saglimbeni
- Luigi Sagrestano
- Carl St. Clair
- Frank St. Leger
- Jovan Šajnović
- Petri Sakari
- Paul Salamunovich
- Orhan Salliel
- Esa-Pekka Salonen
- Robert Salter
- Leonard Salzedo (also a composer)
- Howard Sam
- Carmelo Luca Sambataro (also an organist, a composer, and a musicologist)
- Samuil Samosud
- Heinz Sandauer
- Kurt Sanderling (also known as Kurt Zanderling)
- Stefan Sanderling
- János Sándor
- Nello Santi
- Michele Santorsola
- Jukka-Pekka Saraste
- Sir Malcolm Sargent
- Kentaro Sato
- Jordi Savall
- Wolfgang Sawallisch
- Ferruccio Scaglia
- Henrik Schaefer
- Franz Schalk
- Yeruham Scharovsky
- Ferdinand Giovanni Schediwy
- Fritz Scheel
- Hansjorg Schellenberger
- Ernest Schelling
- Hermann Scherchen
- Kenneth Schermerhorn (also a composer)
- Peter Schickele (also a composer and a radio personality)
- Heinrich Schiff (also a cellist)
- Max Von Schillings (also a composer)
- Kurt Schindler (also a composer)
- Thomas Schippers
- Ulf Schirmer
- Wilhelm Schlüchter
- Erich Schmid
- Ole Schmidt
- Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
- Georg Schnéevoigt (also a cellist)
- Michael Schneider
- Urs Peter Schneider
- Hans-Martin Schneidt
- Max Schoenherr
- Klaus Rainer Scholl
- Alfred Scholz
- Michael Schønwandt
- Hans-Hubert Schönzeler
- Peter Schreier (also a tenor)
- Jaap Schroder
- Kurt Schroder
- Andre-Michel Schub
- Ernst von Schuch
- Wilhelm Schüchter
- Gunther Schuller (also a composer)
- Carl Schuricht
- Gerard Schurmann
- Gerard Schwarz
- Claudio Scimone (founder and leader of I Solisti Veneti)
- Allan R. Scott
- William Fred Scott
- Christopher Seaman
- Humphrey Searle
- Georges Sebastian
- Erno Sebestyen (also a violinist)
- James Sedares
- Leif Segerstam
- Anton Seidl
- Jerzy Semkow
- Tullio Serafin
- Jose Serebrier
- Peter Serkin (also a pianist)
- Eduard Serov
- Robertas Servenikas
- Marek Sewen
- Mohammad Shams (also a composer)
- Jovan Shajnovich
- En Shao
- Elyakum Shapirra
- Robert Shaw
- Howard Shelley
- Adrian Shepherd
- Nathaniel Shillkret
- Tatsuya Shimono
- Frank Shipway
- Maxim Shostakovich
- Angel Shurev
- Janusz Siadlak
- Louis Siciliano
- Laurence Gordon Siegel
- Martin Sieghart
- Alexander Siloti (Alexander Ziloti)
- Joseph Silverstein (also a violinist)
- Constantin Silvestri
- Calvin E. Simmons
- Philip Simms
- Geoffrey Simon
- Yuri Simonov
- Vassily Sinaisky (also a pianist)
- Jacques Singer
- Giuseppe Sinopoli
- Sixten Ehrling
- Sven Fredrik Johannes Sixten
- Duane Skrabalak (also a noted pianist and opera singer)
- Stanislaw Skrowaczewski (also a composer)
- Felix Slatkin
- Leonard Slatkin
- Ladislav Slovák
- Alexander Smallens
- Rolf Smedvig (also a trumpeter)
- Václav Smetácek (also a composer and an oboist)
- Henry Charles Smith
- Lawrence Leighton Smith
- Steven Smith
- Cesare Sodero
- Tugan Sokhiev
- Nikolai Sokoloff (also a violinist)
- Mikhail Sokolovsky (also a composer and a violinist)
- Izler Solomon
- Stefan Soltesz
- Sir Georg Solti
- Stefan Solyom
- Ignat Solzhenitsyn (also a pianist)
- Johannes Somary (also an organist and a composer)
- Henry Sopkin
- Morten Ryelund Sørensen (also a violinist)
- Pavel Sorokin
- Jeannette Sorrell
- Alexander Sotnikov
- Hubert Soudant
- Jan Soupal (also a composer)
- John Philip Sousa (also a composer)
- Lucien Southard
- Sir William Southgate
- Jaap Spaanderman (also a pianist and a cellist)
- Robert Spano
- Richard Sparks
- Donald Spieth
- Jean-Christophe Spinosi
- Vladimir Spivakov
- Ludwig Spohr (also a composer)
- Alois Springer (also a violinist and a pianist)
- Hans Stadlmair (also a composer)
- Simon Standage (also a violinist)
- Russell Stanger
- Robert Stankovsky
- Jiri Starek
- Ethel Stark (also a violinist)
- David Starobin
- Anton Steck
- Jac van Steen
- Massimiliano Stefanelli
- Vassil Stefanov
- Horst Stein
- Pinchas Steinberg
- William Steinberg
- Carl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammar (also a composer and a pianist)
- Paul Steinitz
- Markus Stenz
- Alexei Stepanov
- Michael Stern
- Fritz Stiedry
- William Grant Still (also a composer)
- Frederick Stock
- Albert Stoessel (also a composer)
- Richard Stoker (also a composer)
- Leopold Stokowski
- Gustav Stolpe (also a composer)
- Josef Stránský
- Kerry Stratton
- Karl Straube (also an organist)
- Richard Strauss (also a composer)
- Igor Stravinsky (also a composer)
- Simon Streatfield
- William Stromberg
- Stephen Stubbs (also a flutenist)
- Gustav Strube
- Tadeusz Strugala
- Richard Studt (also a violinist)
- Otmar Suitner
- Vyacheslav Suk
- Jeremy Summerly
- Petter Sundkvist
- Carlos Surinach (also a composer)
- Walter Susskind
- Gavin Sutherland
- Masaaki Suzuki
- Leoš Svárovský
- Evgeny Svetlanov
- Hans Swarowsky
- Michel Swierczewski
- George Szell
- Kamu Szymanowski
[edit] T
- Emil Tabakov
- Anu Tali
- Václav Talich
- Yoav Talmi
- Arturo Tamayo
- Tan Lihua
- Muhai Tang
- Cara Suzanne Tasher
- Jeffrey Tate
- Vilmos Tatrai
- Vilem Tausky
- Tay Teow Kiat
- Serge Tchaikov
- Emil Tchakarov
- Carmen Helena Téllez
- Yuri Temirkanov
- Klaus Tennstedt
- Sir Richard Runciman Terry (also an organist)
- Christian Thielemann
- André Thomas
- Jeffrey Thomas
- Karen P. Thomas (also a composer)
- Kurt Thomas
- Michael Tilson Thomas
- Patrick Thomas
- Ronald Thomas
- Theodore Thomas
- Bryden Thompson
- Bryden Thomson
- Rosemary Thomson
- Heinz Tietjen
- Kari Tikka
- Michel Tilkin
- Georg Tintner
- Alexander Titov
- Loris Tjeknavorian
- Nayden Todorov (also a pianist and a composer)
- Henri Tomasi (also a composer)
- Ernest Tomlinson (also a composer)
- Werner Torkanowsky
- Yan Pascal Tortelier
- Arturo Toscanini
- Nayden Todorov
- Eduard Topchjan (also spelled Topchyan)
- Alexander Toradze
- Yan Pascal Tortelier
- Bramwell Tovey (also a composer)
- Dennis Townhill (also a organist)
- Cornel Trăilescu (also a composer)
- Hervé Treille
- Jean-Philippe Tremblay
- Kirk Trevor
- Otakar Trhlík
- Alain Trudel
- Tsung Yeh
- Stephen Tucker (also a composer)
- Barry Tuckwell
- Martin Turnovský
- Yuli Turovsky
- Erik Tuxen (also a composer)
[edit] U
- Juan de Udaeta
- Pavel Urbanek
- Bundit Ungrangsee
[edit] V
- Frantisek Vajnar
- Rey Alejandro Conde Valdivia
- André Vandernoot
- Stanley Vann (also a composer and an organist)
- Osmo Vänskä
- Silvio Varviso
- Tamás Vásáry
- Denis Vaughan
- Alexander Vedernikov
- Sándor Végh
- Miroslav Venhoda
- Mario Venzago
- Vladimir Verbitsky
- Henri Verbrugghen
- Jos Vermunt
- Pascal Verrot
- Marcello Viotti
- Bernard Viti
- Oldrich Vlcek
- Winston Dan Vogel
- Ion Voicu (also a violinist)
- Ilan Volkov
- Arvo Volmer
- Hans Vonk
- Antonino Votto
- Jan Willem de Vriend
- Christos Vrionides
- Petr Vronský
[edit] W
- Edo de Waart
- Ignatz Waghalter (also a composer)
- Richard Wagner (more also a composer)
- Roger Wagner
- Andrew Wailes
- Hans Wallat
- Heinz Wallberg
- Alfred Wallenstein
- Elizabeth Wallfisch
- Alfred Walter
- Bruno Walter
- Hiroshi Wakasugi
- Günter Wand
- Wang Jin
- Bohdan Warchal
- Nicholas Ward
- Christopher Warren-Green
- Jon Washburn
- Jan-Olav Wedin
- Paul Wehage (also a composer and a saxophonist)
- Jorg-Peter Weigle
- Ralf Weikert
- Bruno Weil
- Felix Weingartner
- Frieder Weissmann
- George Weldon
- Walter Weller
- Franz Welser-Möst
- Rudolf Werthen
- Stig Westerberg
- Richard Westenburg
- Hilary Davan Wetton
- David Whitaker
- John Whitfield
- Günther Wich
- Wilhelm Friedrich Wieprecht (also a composer)
- Johannes Wildner
- Stephen Wilkinson
- Adrian Willaert (also a composer) (known as "Adriano")
- Sir David Willcocks
- Niklas Olov Willén
- Howard Williams
- John Williams (also a composer)
- John Wilson
- Peter Stafford Wilson
- Per Winge
- Yip Wing-sie
- Antoni Wit
- Diane Wittry
- Peter Wohlert
- Manno Wolf-Ferrari
- Albert Wolff (alsoa composer)
- Hugh Wolff
- Christopher Wolverton
- Henry Joseph Wood
- Woon Wen Kin
- Barry Wordsworth
- Kurt Wöss
- Simon Wright
- David Wroe
- Franz Wüllner (also a composer)
- Yehudi Wyner (also a composer and a pianist)
[edit] X
- Stavros Xarhakos
- Chen Xieyang
- Peng Xiuwen (also a composer)
[edit] Y
- Kazuo Yamada
- Victor Yampolsky
- Maris Yansons
- Prof. Oscar Yatco (also a violinist)
- Ibrahim Yazici
- Kenneth Young
- Simone Young
- Eugène Ysaÿe (also a violinist and a composer)
- Yu Long
- Takuo Yuasa
[edit] Z
- Christian Zacharias (also a pianist)
- Lothar Zagrosek
- Yuval Zaliouk
- Rinaldo Zambon
- Benjamin Zander
- Uberto Zanolli (also a composer)
- Maurice Zbriger (also a violinist and a composer)
- Zivojin Zdravković (Zdravkovich)
- Carlo Zecchi (also a pianist)
- Alberto Zedda
- Alberto Zelman
- Vilém Zemánek
- Hans Zender
- Zhang Guoyong
- Jin Zhang (also a composer)
- Xian Zhang
- Zhu Hui
- Winfried Zillig (also a composer)
- Efrem Zimbalist (also a violinist and a composer)
- Hans-E Zimmer
- Udo Zimmermann (also a composer)
- David Zinman
- Ronald Zollman
- Hermann Zumpe
- Fritz Zweig