List of classical pianists
This is an alphabetized list of notable solo pianists who play or played classical music on the piano. For those who worked with other pianists as piano duos, see List of classical piano duos (performers). For a list of recorded classical pianists, see List of classical pianists (recorded).
A
Ab-Am
- Behzod Abduraimov
- Ludwig Abeille
- Jacques Abram
- Adolovni Acosta
- Daniel Adni
- Adrian Aeschbacher
- Valery Afanassiev
- Guido Agosti
- Pierre-Laurent Aimard
- Webster Aitken
- Nelly Akopian-Tamarina
- Giuseppe Albanese
- Isaac Albéniz
- Pedro Albéniz
- Eugen d'Albert
- Charlie Albright
- Dmitri Alexeev
- Charles-Valentin Alkan
- Victor Aller
- Ilse von Alpenheim
- Louis Demetrius Alvanis
An-Ax
- Géza Anda
- Piotr Anderszewski
- Leif Ove Andsnes
- Nicholas Angelich
- Agustin Anievas
- Eteri Andjaparidze
- Conrad Ansorge
- Anton Arensky
- Martha Argerich
- Kit Armstrong
- Yvonne Arnaud
- Claudio Arrau
- Lydia Artymiw
- Vladimir Ashkenazy
- Stefan Askenase
- Lola Astanova
- Ebba d'Aubert
- Lera Auerbach
- Adele aus der Ohe
- Myriam Avalos
- Valda Aveling
- Emanuel Ax
- Nadia Azzi
B
Bab-Ban
- Sergei Babayan
- Stanley Babin
- Victor Babin
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Gina Bachauer
- Walter Bache
- Agathe Backer-Grøndahl
- Fridtjof Backer-Grøndahl
- Wilhelm Backhaus
- Farhad Badalbeyli
- Paul Badura-Skoda
- Ryszard Bakst
- Mily Balakirev
- Dalton Baldwin
- Ernő Balogh
- Artur Balsam
- Joseph Banowetz
- Martin James Bartlett
Bar-Bay
Beb-Beu
Bi-Bl
Bo
Bra-Bru
Bu-By
C
Ch-Cl
- Bertrand Chamayou
- Cécile Chaminade
- Abram Chasins
- Chen Sa
- Cheng Wai
- Shura Cherkassky
- Rachel Cheung
- Jan Chiapusso
- Joan Chissell
- Gian Paolo Chiti
- Frédéric Chopin
- Daniel Chorzempa
- Winifred Christie
- Alton Chung Ming Chan
- Marcel Ciampi
- Dino Ciani
- Aldo Ciccolini
- Tamara Anna Cislowska
- Muzio Clementi
- Van Cliburn
- France Clidat
Coa-Cop
Cor-Cz
D
Da-De
- Edward Dannreuther
- Jeanne-Marie Darré
- Fanny Davies
- Bella Davidovich
- Ivan Davis
- Karin Dayas
- William Dayas
- Jozef De Beenhouwer
- Claude Debussy
- Sylviane Deferne
- Cor de Groot
- Steven De Groote
- Élie-Miriam Delaborde
- Eduardo Delgado
- Adelina de Lara
- Jörg Demus
- Jeremy Denk
- Alicia de Larrocha
- Vladimir de Pachmann
- Nikolai Demidenko
- William Denis Browne
Di-Du
E
Ec-Em
En-Ez
F
Fa-Fl
- Mikhaïl Faerman
- Joel Fan
- Edith Farnadi
- Richard Farrell
- Iain Farrington
- Anna Fedorova
- José Feghali
- Samuil Feinberg
- Till Fellner
- Vladimir Feltsman
- Albert Ferber
- Arthur Ferrante
- Jacques Février
- Janina Fialkowska
- John Field
- James Henry Fields
- Margaret Fingerhut
- Sergio Fiorentino
- Rudolf Firkušný
- Annie Fischer
- Caroline Fischer
- Edwin Fischer
- Norma Fisher
- Philip Edward Fisher
- Graham Fitch
- Leon Fleisher
- Yakov Flier
- Ingrid Fliter
Fo-Fr
G
Ga-Gl
- Ossip Gabrilowitsch
- Henriette Gaertner
- Neil Galanter
- Rudolph Ganz
- Umi Garrett
- Mark Gasser
- Ivana Gavrić
- Andrei Gavrilov
- Alexander Gavrylyuk
- Heinrich Gebhard
- Kemal Gekić
- Bruno Leonardo Gelber
- Ingrid Fuzjko V. Georgii-Hemming
- Kirill Gerstein
- Alexander Ghindin
- Jack Gibbons
- Walter Gieseking
- Emil Gilels
- Rhondda Gillespie
- Boris Giltburg
- Jakob Gimpel
- Pavel Gintov
- Grigory Ginzburg
- Katrine Gislinge
- Frank Glazer
- Marija Gluvakov
Go
Gr-Gu
H
Ha
He-Hi
Ho-Hu
I
J
Ja-Je
- Peter Jablonski
- Paul Jacobs
- Zoran G. Jančić
- Jenő Jandó
- Byron Janis
- Tasso Janopoulo
- Rudolf Jansen
- Adolf Jensen
- Lico Jiménez (José Manuel Jiménez Berroa)
- Jim Brickman
Jo-Ju
K
Ka
- Ilona Kabos
- Jeffrey Kahane
- Percy Kahn
- Joseph Kalichstein
- Gilbert Kalish
- Friedrich Kalkbrenner
- William Kapell
- Richard Kapp
- Marianna Kapsetaki
- Stephanie Kapsetaki
- Jozef Kapustka
- Danae Kara
- Natalia Karp
- Yakov Kasman
- Andrey Kasparov
- Julius Katchen
- Peter Katin
- Cyprien Katsaris
- Amir Katz
- Martin Katz
- Mindru Katz
Ke-Kl
- Constance Keene
- Simone Keller
- Freddy Kempf
- Wilhelm Kempff
- Sean Kennard
- Kevin Kenner
- Louis Kentner
- Olga Kern
- Mikhail Kerzelli
- Eugène Ketterer
- Frederick B. Kiddle
- Edward Kilenyi
- Gary Kirkpatrick
- John Kirkpatrick
- Anatole Kitain
- Evgeny Kissin
- Dmitri Klebanov
- Elisabeth Klein
- Jacques Klein
- Walter Klien
- Paul Klengel
Ko-Kr
- Aimi Kobayashi
- Alexander Kobrin
- Tobias Koch
- Zoltán Kocsis
- Raoul (von) Koczalski
- Mari Kodama
- Alan Kogosowski
- Lubka Kolessa
- Alfons Kontarsky
- Aloys Kontarsky
- Anton de Kontski
- Jason Kouchak
- Giorgio Koukl
- Stephen Kovacevich
- Leopold Kozeluch
- Vladimir Krainev
- Lili Kraus
- Martin Krause
- Anna Kravtchenko
- Gustav Kross
- Vladimir Krpan
Ku-Ky
L
La
- Katia Labèque
- Marielle Labèque
- Carl Lachmund
- Carles Lama
- Frederic Lamond
- Geoffrey Lancaster
- Walter Landauer
- Wanda Landowska
- Piers Lane
- Lang Lang
- Milan Langer
- Cosimo Damiano Lanza
- Ruth Laredo
- Ervin László
- Jacob Lateiner
- Risto Lauriala
- Franz Lauska
- Horacio Lavandera
- Ingmar Lazar
- George-Emmanuel Lazaridis
- Igor Lazko
Le
Lh-Li
Lo
Lu-Ly
M
Maa-Mal
Mar–May
Mc-Mi
- Edwin McArthur
- Stephanie McCallum
- Leon McCawley
- Anne-Marie McDermott
- Murray McLachlan
- Nikolai Medtner
- Reuel Meditz
- Hephzibah Menuhin
- Yaltah Menuhin
- Yolanda Mero
- Victor Merzhanov
- Noel Mewton-Wood
- Marcelle Meyer
- Stefano Miceli
- Aleksander Michałowski
- Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
- Miloš Mihajlović
- Karol Mikuli
- Kenneth G. Mills
- Hamish Milne
- Martha Mier
Mo-Mu
N
Na-Ne
Ni-Ny
O
- Lev Oborin
- John O'Conor
- John Ogdon
- Garrick Ohlsson
- Santos Ojeda
- David Ezra Okonşar
- Janusz Olejniczak
- Bart van Oort
- Ursula Oppens
- Gerhard Oppitz
- Christopher O'Riley
- Nikolai Orlov
- Leo Ornstein
- Rafael Orozco
- Cristina Ortiz
- Steven Osborne
- Alexander Osminin
- Clio-Danae Othoneou
- Henrique Oswald
- Cécile Ousset
- Vladimir Ovchinnikov
P
Pa
Pe-Pi
- Güher Pekinel
- Süher Pekinel
- Leonard Pennario
- Murray Perahia
- Neal Peres Da Costa
- Alfredo Perl
- Vlado Perlemuter
- John Perry (pianist)
- Vincent Persichetti
- Egon Petri
- Christina Petrowska-Quilico
- Carlos Alfredo Peyrellade
- Isidor Philipp
- Andrzej Pikul
- Cecilia Pillado
- George Pinto
- Maria João Pires
- Johann Peter Pixis
- Artur Pizarro
Pl-Po
- Francis Planté
- Mikhail Pletnev
- Ignaz Pleyel
- Jonathan Plowright
- Leo Podolsky
- Ivo Pogorelić
- François-Xavier Poizat
- Daniel Pollack
- Maurizio Pollini
- Antonio Pompa-Baldi
- Michael Ponti
- Roland Pöntinen
- Paul Posnak
- Viktoria Postnikova
- Cipriani Potter
- Harrison Potter
- Leff Pouishnoff
- Francis Poulenc
- Jonathan Powell
- Lloyd Powell
Pr-Pu
Q
R
Ra-Re
Ri
Ro-Rz
- Bernard Roberts
- Santiago Rodriguez,
- Pascal Rogé
- Helmut Roloff
- Aleksandra Romanić
- Sir Landon Ronald
- Julius Röntgen
- Martin Roscoe
- Jerome Rose
- Charles Rosen
- Carol Rosenberger
- Moriz Rosenthal
- Nicholas Roth
- Jacques Rouvier
- Mūza Rubackytė
- Anton Rubinstein
- Arthur Rubinstein
- Nikolai Rubinstein
- Mikhail Rudy
- James Russo
- Frederic Rzewski
S
Sa
Sc
Sca-Schm
Schn-Schw
Sco-Sg
Sh-Si
- Regina Shamvili
- Barbara Shearer
- Mordecai Shehori
- Howard Shelley
- Anatoly Sheludyakov
- Roy Shepherd
- Russell Sherman
- Norman Shetler
- Bella Shteinbuk
- Clara Isabella Siegle
- Valery Sigalevitch
- Antti Siirala
- Béla Síki
- Alexander Siloti
- Larry Sitsky
- Abbey Simon
- Leo Sirota
- Larry Sitsky
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Leonard Shure
Sl-Sr
- Heather Slade-Lipkin
- Ruth Slenczynska
- Alexander Slobodyanik
- Sigurd Slåttebrekk
- Regina Smendzianka
- Jan Smeterlin
- Leo Smit
- Cyril Smith
- Ronald Smith
- Sydney Smith
- Wibi Soerjadi
- Vladimir Sofronitsky
- Grigory Sokolov
- Ivan Sokolov
- Juan María Solare
- Solomon
- Wonny Song
- Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
- Gonzalo Soriano
- Jaap Spaanderman
- Pietro Spada
- Dubravka Tomšič Srebotnjak
St
Su-Sz
T
Ta-Th
- Gabriel Tacchino
- Yaara Tal
- Magda Tagliaferro
- Mark Taimanov
- Ani Takidze
- Alexander Tamir
- Alexandre Tansman
- Sergei Tarnowsky
- Carl Tausig
- Christopher Taylor
- Simon Tedeschi
- Louis Teicher
- Gerardo Teissonniere
- Thomas Tellefsen
- Alfred Teltschik
- Per Tengstrand
- Sigismond Thalberg
- Károly Thern
- Louis Thern
- Willi Thern
- Jean-Yves Thibaudet
- François-Joël Thiollier
- Skylar Thomas
- Penelope Thwaites