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Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance
The Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra) has been awarded since 1959. From 1967 to 1971 and in 1987 the award was combined with the award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra) and awarded as the Grammy Award for Best Classical...
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Isaac Stern
Isaac Stern (Ukrainian: Стерн Ісаак; July 21, 1920 – September 22, 2001) was an Ukrainian-born violin virtuoso. He was renowned for his recordings and for discovering new musical talent.
Isaac Stern was born into a Jewish family in Kremenetz,...
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (Russian: Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский, Igor' Fjodorovič Stravinskij) (17 June [O.S. 5 June] 1882 – 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor, widely acknowledged as one of the most important and...
Martha Argerich
Martha Argerich (born June 5, 1941) is an Argentinian concert pianist. Her aversion to the press and publicity has resulted in her remaining out of the limelight for most of her career. Nevertheless she is widely recognized as one of the greatest...
New York Philharmonic
The New York Philharmonic is a symphony orchestra based in New York City in the United States. It is one of the American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five". The Philharmonic's home is Avery Fisher Hall, located in New York's Lincoln...
Sviatoslav Richter
Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter (Ukrainian: Святослав Теофілович Ріхтер Svjatoslav Teofilovič Rikhter; Russian: Святослав Теофилович Рихтер, ) (March 20 [O.S. March 7] 1915 – August 1, 1997) was a Soviet pianist, and was well known for the depth of...
Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma (simplified Chinese: 马友友; traditional Chinese: 馬友友; pinyin: Mǎ Yǒuyǒu) (born October 7, 1955) is a French-born American virtuoso cellist and composer and winner of multiple Grammy Awards. He is one of the most revered cellists of the 20th...
Vladimir Horowitz
Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz (Russian: Владимир Самойлович Горовиц, Vladimir Samojlovič Gorovits; Ukrainian: Володимир Самійлович Горовиць, Volodymyr Samiylovich Horovyts) (October 1, 1903 – November 5, 1989) was a Russian-American classical...
David Oistrakh
David Fyodorovich Oistrakh (Russian and Ukrainian: Давид Фёдорович Ойстрах, David Fiodorovič Ojstrakh; September 30 [O.S. September 17] 1908 – October 24, 1974) was a Russian violin virtuoso who made many recordings and was the dedicatee of numerous...
Boston Symphony Orchestra
The Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is an American orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts. It is one of the five American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five". Founded in 1881, the BSO plays the majority of its concerts at Boston's...
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
The Vienna Philharmonic (in German: die Wiener Philharmoniker [pl]) is an orchestra in Austria, regularly considered one of the finest in the world.
Its home base is the Musikverein. The members of the orchestra are chosen from the Orchestra of the...
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) is an American orchestra based in Chicago, Illinois. It is one of the five American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five". Founded in 1891, the Symphony makes its home at Orchestra Hall in Chicago and...
Columbia Symphony Orchestra
The Columbia Symphony Orchestra was an orchestra formed by Columbia Records. It provided a vehicle for some of Columbia's better known recording artists to record using only company resources. Perhaps the most important recordings the orchestra made...
Mstislav Rostropovich
Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich KBE (Russian: Мстисла́в Леопо́льдович Ростропо́вич, Mstislav Leopol'dovič Rostropovič, pronounced [rəstrɐˈpɔvʲɪtɕ]) (March 27, 1927 – April 27, 2007), known to close friends as “Slava,” was a Soviet and Russian...
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy (Russian: Владимир Давидович Ашкенази, Vladimir Davidovič Aškenazi) (born July 6, 1937) is a Russian conductor and virtuoso pianist. He has been a citizen of Iceland, the home of his wife Þórunn, since 1972 and...
English Chamber Orchestra
The English Chamber Orchestra (ECO) is a British chamber orchestra based in London. The full orchestra regularly plays concerts at Cadogan Hall, and the ECO Ensemble performs at Wigmore Hall. It is also the resident orchestra at Grange Park Opera,...
London Symphony Orchestra
The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) is a major orchestra of the United Kingdom, as well as one of the best-known orchestras in the world. Since 1982, the LSO has been based in London's Barbican Centre.
The LSO was founded in 1904 as an independent,...
Los Angeles Philharmonic
The Los Angeles Philharmonic (LA Phil, LAP, or LAPO) is an American orchestra based in Los Angeles, California, United States. It has a regular season of concerts from October through June at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and a summer season at the...
Philadelphia Orchestra
The Philadelphia Orchestra is a symphony orchestra based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. One of the "Big Five" American orchestras, it was founded in 1900. The orchestra's home is the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts where...
London Philharmonic Orchestra
The London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO), based in London, is one of the major orchestras of the United Kingdom, and is based in the Royal Festival Hall. In addition, the LPO is the main resident orchestra of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera. The LPO...
Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (OSM) (Montréal Symphony Orchestra) is a symphony orchestra based in Montréal, Québec, Canada, with Montréal's Place des Arts as its home.
There have been a number of organizations with this name, including one...
Georg Solti
Sir Georg Solti, KBE (pronounced /ˈdʒɔrdʒ ˈʃɒlti/; October 21, 1912 – September 5, 1997) was a Hungarian-British orchestral and operatic conductor. He holds the record for having received the most Grammy awards, having personally won 31, including...
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) is an American symphony orchestra, based at Heinz Hall in the Cultural District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The orchestra was founded by the Pittsburgh Arts Society with conductor Frederic Archer in 1895, who...
Itzhak Perlman
Itzhak Perlman (born August 31, 1945) is an Israeli-American violin virtuoso, conductor, and instructor. He is widely considered as one of the preeminent violin virtuosi of the 20th century.
Perlman was born in Tel Aviv, where he first became...
André Previn
André George Previn KBE (born Andreas Ludwig Priwin, April 6, 1929, Berlin, Germany) is a German-born American pianist, conductor, and composer. He is a winner of several Academy Awards for his film work and Grammy Awards for his recordings.
Previn...
Daniel Barenboim
Daniel Barenboim (born November 15, 1942) is an Argentinian-born pianist and conductor. He lives in Berlin and holds citizenship in Argentina, Israel, and Spain. He also holds a passport issued by the Palestinian Authority. Barenboim first came to...
Claudio Abbado
Claudio Abbado, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (born June 26, 1933), is an Italian conductor.
Claudio Abbado has served as music director of the La Scala opera house in Milan, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, principal guest...
Arthur Rubinstein
Arthur Rubinstein KBE (January 28, 1887 – December 20, 1982) was a Polish-born American pianist. He received international acclaim for his performances of the music of a variety of composers, and is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of...
Bernard Haitink
Bernard Johan Herman Haitink, CH, KBE (born 4 March 1929) is a Dutch conductor and violinist.
Haitink was born in Amsterdam, the son of Willem Haitink and Anna Haitink. He studied music at the conservatoire in Amsterdam. He played the violin in...
Charles Dutoit
Charles Édouard Dutoit, OC, GOQ (born 7 October 1936) is a Swiss conductor, particularly noted for his interpretations of French and Russian 20th century music. He has made influential modern recordings of Hector Berlioz's Roméo et Juliette and...
Carlo Maria Giulini
Carlo Maria Giulini (May 9, 1914 – June 14, 2005) was an Italian conductor, and violist.
Giulini was born in Barletta, Italy and studied the viola and composition at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. He later studied conducting with...
Kiril Kondrashin
Kirill Petrovich Kondrashin (Russian: Кири́лл Петро́вич Кондра́шин, Kirill Petrovič Kondrašin; March 6, 1914 – March 7, 1981), was a Russian conductor.
He was born in Moscow to a family of orchestral musicians. Having spent many hours at rehearsals,...
Erich Leinsdorf
Erich Leinsdorf (born Erich Landauer) (February 4, 1912 – September 11, 1993) was an Austrian-born American conductor. He performed and recorded with leading orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States and Europe, earning a...
Zubin Mehta
Zubin Mehta (born April 29, 1936) is an Indian conductor of Western classical music.
Zubin Mehta was born into a Parsi family in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, the son of Mehli and Tehmina Mehta. His father Mehli Mehta was a violinist and founding...
Neville Marriner
Sir Neville Marriner (born 15 April 1924) is an English conductor and violinist.
Marriner was born in Lincoln and studied at the Royal College of Music and the Paris Conservatoire. He played the violin in the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Martin...
Lorin Maazel
Lorin Varencove Maazel (born March 6, 1930) is a conductor, violinist and composer.
Maazel was born to Jewish-American parents in Neuilly-sur-Seine in France and brought up in the United States. Raised by a musical family (his grandfather Isaac was...
Leonard Slatkin
Leonard Edward Slatkin (born September 1, 1944) is an American conductor. Long associated with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, he is now music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
His father Felix Slatkin was the violinist, conductor and...
Roger Norrington
Sir Roger Arthur Carver Norrington, CBE (born 16 March 1934) is a British conductor. He is the son of Sir Arthur Norrington and the brother of Humphrey Thomas Norrington.
Norrington studied at the Dragon School, Westminster School, Clare College,...
Eugene Ormandy
Eugene Ormandy (November 18, 1899–March 12, 1985) was a Hungarian-born Jewish conductor and violinist.
Born Jenő Blau in Budapest, Hungary, Ormandy began studying violin at the National Hungarian Royal Academy of Music (now the Franz Liszt Academy...
Seiji Ozawa
Seiji Ozawa (小澤 征爾, Ozawa Seiji, born September 1, 1935) is a Japanese conductor, particularly noted for his interpretations of large-scale late Romantic works. He is most known for his work as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the...
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Esa-Pekka Salonen ( pronunciation (help·info); born June 30, 1958) is a prominent Finnish orchestral conductor and composer. He is currently Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Philharmonia Orchestra in London and Conductor Laureate of...
Raymond Leppard
Raymond John Leppard, CBE (born 11 August 1927) is a British conductor and harpsichordist.
He was born in London and grew up in Bath, where he was educated at the City of Bath Boys' School, now known as the Beechen Cliff School. A student of...
Joshua Bell
Joshua David Bell (born December 9, 1967) is an American Grammy Award-winning violinist.
Bell was born in Bloomington, Indiana, United States, the son of a psychologist and a therapist. His mother is Jewish and his father a Christian. Bell's father...
Julian Bream
Julian Bream C.B.E. (born July 15, 1933) is a British guitarist and lutenist and is one of the most distinguished classical guitarists of the 20th century. He has also been successful in renewing popular interest in the Renaissance lute.
Bream was...
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
The Academy of St Martin in the Fields is an English chamber orchestra.
The group was founded in London by Sir Neville Marriner, attracting some of the most accomplished players in London, many of whom considered themselves to be refugees from...
Pinchas Zukerman
Pinchas Zukerman (Hebrew: פנחס צוקרמן, born July 16, 1948) is a noted Israeli violinist, violist, and conductor who was appointed Music Director of Ottawa's National Arts Centre Orchestra in April 1998.
Zukerman was born in Tel Aviv, to Yehuda and...
Eberhard Sengpiel
Eberhard Sengpiel is a multiple Grammy award-winning sound engineer. He is also a musician in his own right and a lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts, (Universität der Künste, Berlin) UdK-Berlin.
Sengpiel studied electrical engineering in...
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
The Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra (SLSO) is an American symphony orchestra based in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1880 by Joseph Otten as the St. Louis Choral Society, the SLSO is the second-oldest symphony orchestra in the United States as it is...
David Zinman
David Zinman (born New York City, U.S., 9 July 1936) is an American conductor and violinist.
After early violin studies at the Oberlin Conservatory, Zinman studied theory and composition at the University of Minnesota and took up conducting at...
Maxim Shostakovich
Maxim Dmitrievich Shostakovich (born Leningrad on May 10, 1938) is a Russian conductor and pianist. He was the second child of Dmitri Shostakovich and Nina Varzar.
Since 1975, he has conducted and popularised many of his father's lesser-known works....
Maxim Vengerov
Maxim Alexandrovich Vengerov (Hebrew: מקסים וונגרוב, born August 20, 1974) is a violin virtuoso who was born in the Soviet Union.
Vengerov was born to Aleksandr and Larissa Vengerov, a Jewish family in Novosibirsk. Both his parents were musicians -...
Anne-Sophie Mutter
Anne-Sophie Mutter (born June 29, 1963) is a German violin virtuoso.
Mutter was born in Rheinfelden, Germany. She began playing the piano at age five, and shortly afterwards the violin, studying with Erna Honigberger, a pupil of Carl Flesch. Upon...
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in Tel Aviv (abbreviation IPO; Hebrew: התזמורת הפילהרמונית הישראלית, ha-Tizmoret ha-Filharmonit ha-Yisre'elit) is the leading symphony orchestra in Israel. It was originally known as the Palestine Orchestra, and in...
Hilary Hahn
Hilary Hahn (born November 27, 1979 in Lexington, Virginia) is an American violinist.
Hahn began playing the violin one month before her fourth birthday in the Suzuki Program of Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory. She participated in a Suzuki class...
Yefim Bronfman
Yefim "Fima" Naumovich Bronfman (Russian: Ефим Наумович Бронфман; born April 10, 1958) is a Russian-Israeli pianist.
He was born in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, and emigrated to Israel at the age of 15. He now has US citizenship.
He made his international...
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (born September 15, 1933) is a Spanish-German conductor and composer.
Frühbeck was born in Burgos, Spain and studied violin, piano, and composition at the conservatories of Bilbao and Madrid. He graduated summa cum laude...
Alex Klein
Alex Klein (born 1964, Porto Alegre) is an oboist who began his musical studies in his native Brazil at the age of nine, and made his solo orchestral debut the following year. At the age of eleven he was invited to join the Camerata Antigua, one of...
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is a major American symphony orchestra based in Baltimore, Maryland.
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is a major American orchestra.
The BSO made musical history in September 2007, when Maestra Marin...
Alicia de Larrocha
Alicia de Larrocha y de la Calle (23 May 1923 – 25 September 2009) was a Spanish Catalan pianist. Reuters referred to her as "the greatest Spanish pianist in history" and Time called her "one of the world's most outstanding pianists". The Guardian...
Larry Combs
Larry Combs is an American clarinetist. His principal teachers were Stanley Hasty at the Eastman School of Music and Leon Russianoff in New York.
He played clarinet with the New Orleans Symphony Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, and the...
James Levine
James Lawrence Levine (born June 23, 1943) is an American conductor and pianist. He is currently the music director of the Metropolitan Opera and of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Levine's first performance conducting the Metropolitan Opera was on...
