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Taylor Ho Bynum
American musician
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Joe Daley
American educator, jazz musician, composer and arranger who plays tuba, trombone and euphonium
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Ken Filiano
American musician
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Itzhak Perlman
Israeli-American violinist and conductor
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Anthony Braxton
American musician, composer, and philosopher
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J. D. Parran
American musician
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Turtle Island Quartet
string quartet formed in 1985 by David Balakrishnan, Darol Anger, and Mark Summer in San Francisco
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John Adams
American composer
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Jean-Luc Ponty
French musician
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Lakshminarayana Subramaniam
Indian musician (1947— )
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David Chesky
American composer
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Charles Burnham
American musician
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Mark O'Connor
American fiddle player
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Anne Akiko Meyers
American concert violinist
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Hugo Rignold
British conductor
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Patrick Zimmerli
American musician and composer (born 1968)
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Edward W. Hardy
American composer, musician and producer
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Jeff Gauthier
American musician
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Eddie South
American musician
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Tyshawn Sorey
American composer and multi-instrumentalist
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Donnacha Dennehy
Irish composer
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Marilyn Crispell
American pianist
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Du Yun
Composer, multi-instrumentalist, performance artist
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Philip Glass
American composer and pianist
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Didier Lockwood
French jazz violonist and composer
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Alan Gilbert
American conductor and violinist
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Stéphane Grappelli
French jazz violinist
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George Brooks
American saxophonist
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Regina Carter
American musician
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Alfredo de la Fé
Cuban musician
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Lera Auerbach
Soviet-Russian-born American classical composer and pianist
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Bernd Ruf
conductor and clarinettist
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Ryu Goto
violinist
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Leroy Jenkins
composer and Avant-garde Jazz violinist and violist
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Noel Pointer
American musician
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Leila Josefowicz
American-Canadian classical violinist.
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Tomeka Reid
American jazz musician
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Walter Afanasieff
Brazilian-American musician, songwriter, record producer and composer
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Wynton Marsalis
American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center (born 1961)
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Eugène Ysaÿe
Belgian violinist, composer and conductor
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Joshua Bell
American violinist
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Esa-Pekka Salonen
Finnish conductor and composer
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Emanuel Vardi
Israeli-American musician (1915-2011)
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Yo-Yo Ma
American cellist
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Eugene Chadbourne
American musician and music critic
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David Garrett
German violinist
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Evan Ziporyn
American composer
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Jen Shyu
American musician
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Alarm Will Sound
American chamber orchestra
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Jessica Pavone
American musician
