- Susan Alexander-Max, fortepianist
- Bill Aken, guitarist, arranger, composer[5]
- Greg Anderson, pianist, composer, video producer, writer
- Helen Armstrong, violinist
- Şahan Arzruni, pianist
- Lera Auerbach, pianist and composer
- Nathaniel Ayers, bassist
- Jenny Oaks Baker, violinist
- Michael Balzary (Flea), bassist
- Huáscar Barradas, flautist
- Jonathan Batiste, pianist
- Enrique Batiz, pianist
- Robert Becker, violist
- Hahn-Bin, violinist
- Harold Blair, tenor and Aboriginal activist
- Theodore Bloomfield, conductor
- Donald Braswell II, tenor
- Leo Brouwer, guitarist and composer
- David Bryan, keyboardist of Bon Jovi
- Anne Wiggins Brown soprano
- Sheila Browne, violist
- Sara Davis Buechner, pianist, recording artist
- Igor Buketoff, conductor
- Cosmo Buono, pianist and founder of The Alexander and Buono Competitions
- Michel Camilo, jazz pianist
- Barry Carl, a cappella bass singer, bassist, voice-over artist
- Jonathan Carney, violinist, violist, conductor
- Cameron Carpenter, organist, composer
- Jesse Ceci, violinist
- John Cerminaro, horn player
- Sarah Chang, violinist
- Robert Chen, violinist
- Kyung-wha Chung, violinist
- Myung-whun Chung, conductor and pianist
- Van Cliburn, pianist
- Dan Coleman, composer
- James Conlon, conductor
- Bill Conti, film composer
- David L Cook, singer, composer and Christian comedian[citation needed]
- Chick Corea, Jazz pianist
- Robert Craft, conductor
- Miles Davis, jazz trumpeter
- Glenn Dicterow, violinist
- Orlando DiGirolamo, jazz accordionist, composer
- Alexandra du Bois, composer
- Lawrence Dutton, violist
- James Ehnes, violinist
- Ruby Elzy, soprano
- Michael Endres, pianist
- Jonathan Estabrooks, baritone
- Eric Ewazen, composer
- Ralph Farris, composer, violist, violinist
- Peter M. Ferreira, violinist
- William Fitzpatrick, violinist
- Renée Fleming, soprano
- Mario Frangoulis, tenor
- Gerald Fried, film and television composer
- Sarah Frisof, flautist
- Kevin R. Gallagher, guitarist
- David Garrett, violinist
- Tim Genis, timpanist
- Ariana Ghez, oboist
- Michael Giacchino, film and television composer
- Herschel Burke Gilbert, film composer
- Philip Glass, composer
- David Golub, pianist
- Eddie Gomez, jazz bassist
- Matt Good, tubist
- Midori Goto, violinist
- Jason Grant, singer
- Alan Greenspan, saxophonist, former chair of the Federal Reserve Board
- Henry Grimes, double bassist.
- Bruce Haack, pioneer in electronic music
- Daron Hagen, composer, pianist, conductor
- B. H. Haggin, music critic
- Marvin Hamlisch, Broadway, television, film composer, pianist
- Brian Haner, Jr., Guitarist
- Lynn Harrell, cellist
- Julius Hegyi, violinist, conductor
- Bernard Herrmann, composer
- Natalie Hinderas, pianist and composer
- Stephen Hough, pianist
- Joseph Howe, celist
- Helen Huang, pianist
- Frank Huang, violinist
- Hao Huang, pianist[citation needed]
- Monica Huggett, baroque violinist
- Joseph Kalichstein, pianist
- Sharon Kam, clarinetist
- Michael Kamen, composer and oboist
- Hyo Kang, violinist
- Paul Kantor, violinist
- Jozef Kapustka,pianist
- Louis Kaufman, violinist
- Nigel Kennedy, violinist
- Jeffrey Khaner, flautist
- Edith Killgore Kirkpatrick, music educator
- Chin Kim, violinist
- Euntaek Kim, pianist and conductor
- Wladimir Jan Kochanski, pianist
- Catherine Ransom Karoly, flautist
- Rosemary Kuhlmann, mezzo-soprano
- Fredell Lack, violinist
- Albert Laszlo, bassist
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- Manny Laureano, trumpet
- Paul Lavalle, conductor, arranger, radio show personality
- Isabel Leonard, singer
- James Levine, conductor
- Cho-Liang Lin, violinist
- Jens Lindemann, trumpet
- Robert Lipsett, violinist
- Andrew Litton, pianist, conductor
- Ricardo Llorca, composer
- Nicola Loud, violinist
- Yo Yo Ma, cellist
- Teo Macero, jazz composer, producer
- Henry Mancini, film composer, conductor
- Eugenia Manolidou, composer, conductor
- Catherine Manoukian, violinist
- Barry Manilow, singer & songwriter
- Edvin Marton, violinist
- Wynton Marsalis, trumpeter
- Gulnara Mashurova, harpist
- Audra McDonald, singer, actress
- Christian McBride, jazz bassist
- Susann McDonald, harpist
- Thomas McEvoy, jazz horn player
- Robert McDuffie, violinist
- Stefan Milenković, violinist
- Alexander Mishnaevski, violinist
- Stephanie Mills, singer
- Beata Moon, composer, pianist
- Charlotte Moorman, cellist
- Alan Morrison, organist
- Nico Muhly, composer, pianist
- Hiroko Nakamura, pianist
- Paul Neebe, trumpeter
- Pascal Nemirovski, pianist
- Takako Nishizaki, violinist
- Andrew von Oeyen, pianist
- Noriko Ogawa, pianist
- Santos Ojeda, pianist
- Peter Oundjian, violinist, conductor[6]
- Thomas Pandolfi,[citation needed] pianist[7]
- Juliette Passer, music director
- Rene Paulo, pianist
- Miguel Franz Pinto, vocal coach, conductor, and pianist
- Hila Plitmann, opera singer, soprano
- Itzhak Perlman, violinist
- Margie Pierce, harpist
- Christina Petrowska Quilico, pianist
- Daniel Pollack, pianist
- Leontyne Price, Spinto soprano
- Tito Puente, Latin jazz and mambo musician
- Michael Rabin, violinist
- Valentin Radu, pianist/organist, conductor
- Einojuhani Rautavaara, composer
- Steve Reich, composer
- Graciela Rivera, soprano
- Marco Rizo, composer, pianist
- Elizabeth Joy Roe, pianist
- Alan Rubin, trumpeter
- Jordan Rudess, Dream Theater
- Joel Ryce-Menuhin, pianist and psychologist
- Lew Soloff, trumpeter
- Rohan Joseph de Saram, conductor
- Peter Schickele, composer, satirist
- William Schimmel, composer and accordionist
- Charles Schlueter, trumpeter
- Gerard Schwarz, conductor
- Hazel Scott, pianist and singer
- Raymond Scott, composer, bandleader, and inventor
- Kathryn Selby, pianist
- Gil Shaham, violinist
- Alan Shulman, composer and cellist
- Tracy Silverman, violinist and composer
- Jacques Singer, conductor
- Lori Singer, cellist, actress
- Emily Smith, violinist
- Nina Simone, musician and civil rights activist
- Leonard Slatkin, conductor
- Vilem Sokol, violinist
- Lew Soloff, composer, trumpeter
- Liz Story, pianist
- Jeffrey Swann, pianist
- Walter Taieb, composer, conductor
- Margaret Leng Tan, pianist
- Louis Teicher, pianist[8]
- Alfred Teltschik, pianist
- The 5 Browns, group of siblings, all pianists
- Katherine Thomas (The Great Kat) guitarist, violinist
- Ahmir Thompson, drummer
- Ralph de Toledano, journalist and music critic
- Ahn Trio, chamber music trio
- Rosalyn Tureck, pianist, harpsichordist
- Robert Vernon, violist
- Joseph Villa, piano
- Ezequiel Viñao, composer
- Robert Ward, composer
- Alexis Weissenberg, pianist
- Eric Whitacre, composer
- John Williams, composer, conductor
- Meredith Willson, composer
- Ransom Wilson, flautist, conductor
- Mark Wood, electric violinist
- Phil Woods, clarinetist and saxophonist
- Yung Wook Yoo, pianist
- Terence Yung, pianist
- Eva Maria Zuk, pianist
- Pinchas Zukerman, violinist
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