Virtuoso of Instruments other than Piano

[steveolongfingers]

Who are some Virtuosos from this century who's main instrument isnt piano?

ill start it off.........
Steve Vai- guitar

[schnabels_grandson]

Yehudi Menuhin, Violin.  

[eddie92099]

Jacqueline Du Pre - 'Cello
Evelyn Glennie - Percussion
William Primrose - Viola
Ravi Shankar - Sitar,
Ed

[bernhard]

(In no particular order)

Recorder virtuosos:

Michala Petri (good looking too! )
Franz Bruggen
Walter Van Hawen
Marion Verbruggen

Cello:

Yo yo ma
Rostropovitch
Pablo Casals
(don't like Du Pre - overrated)

Flute:

Jean Pierre Rampal
James Galway

Violin:

Maxim Vengerov
Anne Sophie Mutter (another good looking one! )
Salvatore Accardo
Isaac Stern

[Gambit]

Guitar: Romero Family, John Williams, Manuel Barrueco.

Flute: JP Rampal, James Galway.

Violin: Joshua Bell, Vannesa Mae, Perlman, Mehunin.

Trumpet: Maurice Andre, Marsallis.

And many others thah i dont remember now.

[bernhard]

Violin:  Vannesa Mae.

[Its_about_nothing]

Michael Angelo Batio - Guitar

The guy's a maniac.  

[newsgroupeuan]

Violin:
don't forget : Kennedy
Kung wa Chung (sp?)
PS. was Sarsate early 20th cen or late 19th?

[L.K.]

Organ: Kalevi Kiviniemi

[Brandon_Natelli]

Trombone-
Christian Lindberg
Joe Alessi
Charle Vernon

[cellodude]

Violin:  Vannesa Mae.

but she's good looking!

[Daevren]

Electric guitar has only one: Shawn Lane

People like Steve Vai and Michael Angelo don't come close and they have admitted this. They all worship Lane.

Allan Holdsworth and Pat Metheny are close though.

[steveolongfingers]

Electric guitar has only one: Shawn Lane

People like Steve Vai and Michael Angelo don't come close and they have admitted this. They all worship Lane.

Allan Holdsworth and Pat Metheny are close though.

What about Yngwie Malmsteen?  He can play arpeggios faster than i can blink

[Daevren]

There are 10,000 people faster than Yngwie.

Doens't mean they are better or more virtuoso in general. Yngwie has an awesome vibrato.

I don't know how it is in the classical music but in rock/jazz/fusion guitar the good guys lose. The best guitarists in the world, who are actually beyond imagination skilled, are playing in wedding and top40 bands. Some don't even have CDs out.

Of course there are tons of good known people that have.

Also:

Percussion: Zakir Hussain
Mandolin: U Srinivas
(carnatic) Violin: L Shankar

[comme_le_vent]

yeah i can play as fast as yngwie  
but when you say other people are faster, they arent that much faster are they? only a tad  

my favourite guitarist is al di meola, interestingly all he wanted to be when he was younger - was to be the fastest guitarist in the world.

[Daevren]

It depends on how you define fast. You can play a easy thing very fast or play a very hard thing a little slower.

I have heard alot of guitarists and Shawn not only had the most amazing technique(he had all that technique at age 16), he was the most incredible musician ever. He was a huge fan of romantic piano music and indian improvisation and he grew up in the blues/rock capital of the world and he ended up playing fusion.