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Vilde Frang

classical violinist

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Gregor Piatigorsky

Russian-born American cellist

2

Jascha Heifetz

Lithuanian violinist

3

Alisa Weilerstein

American cellist

4

Rodion Shchedrin

Russian composer

5

Isaac Stern

American musician

6

Roque Cordero

Panamanian composer

7

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

American composer

8

Hilary Hahn

musician

9

Josef Suk

Czech violinist, violist, chamber musician and conductor (1929-2011)

10

John Harbison

American composer

11

Zuill Bailey

American musician

12

Rudolf Firkušný

Czech pianist

13

Patricia Kopatchinskaja

Moldovan-Austrian musician

14

Arabella Steinbacher

German violinist

15

Itzhak Perlman

Israeli-American violinist and conductor

16

Catherine Hewgill

Australian cellist

17

Joan Tower

American composer, concert pianist and conductor

18

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Finnish conductor and composer

19

Frederick Stock

German composer

20

Leonidas Kavakos

Greek violinist

21

Lillian Fuchs

American musician

22

Vladimir Ashkenazy

Icelandic pianist and conductor from Russia

23

Vadim Repin

Russian violinist

24

Viviane Hagner

German musician

25

Lera Auerbach

Soviet-Russian-born American classical composer and pianist

26

Catherine Manoukian

Canadian classical violinist

27

Karol Szreter

Polish pianist

28

Paavo Berglund

Finnish conductor and violinist

29

Veriko Tchumburidze

Georgian / Turkish violinist