Violinist

A violinist is an instrumentalist who plays the violin. The terms fiddler or fiddle player are also used. In classical music the "fiddle" terms are usually somewhat informal or jokey: they are more standard expressions in folk music. In between there are nuances of meaning and usage which are difficult to formalize.

Important violinists include:

• Joseph Joachim[?] (19th Century)
• Niccolo Paganini

and the following 20th Century players:

• Willi Boskovsky[?]
• Mischa Elman[?]
• Mayumi Fujikawa[?]
• Zino Francescatti[?]
• Ivry Gitlis[?]
• Stephane Grappelli (jazz)
• Arthur Grumiaux[?]
• Jascha Heifetz[?]
• Bronislav Hubermann[?]
• Leonid Kogan[?]
• Herman Krebbers[?]
• Fritz Kreisler[?]
• Yehudi Menuhin
• Nathan Milstein
• Jeannette Neveu[?]
• David Oistrakh
• Oscar Shumsky[?]
• Isaac Stern
• Henryk Szeryng[?]
• Jacques Thibaud[?]

and some popular present day violinists include:

• Joshua Bell[?]
• Sarah Chang[?]
• Stephanie Chase[?]
• Pamela Frank[?]
• Ida Haendel[?]
• Hilary Hahn[?]
• Monica Huggett[?]
• Leila Josefowicz[?]
• Nigel Kennedy
• Tasmin Little
• Vanessa Mae[?]
• Midori
• Viktoria Mullova[?]
• Anne Sophie Mutter[?]
• Nils-Erik Sparf[?]
• Itzhak Perlman
• Simon Standage[?]
• Josef Suk[?]
• Maxim Vengerov[?]
• Pinchas Zukerman[?]