The Lute, Bouzouki, Classical Guitar

Naseer Shamma     نصير شمه

List of oud (the Arabic lute) players

A

• Mohammed Abdel Wahab
• Ahmed Abdul-Malik
• Rabih Abou-Khalil
• Farid al-Atrash
• Rahim AlHaj
• Khyam Allami
• Ali Sriti

B

• Yorgo Bacanos (Γιώργος Μπατζανός)
• Jamil Bachir
• Bill Bailey
• Munir Bashir
• Omar Bashir
• Hossein Behroozinia
• John Bilezikjian
• Anouar Brahem
• Sandy Bull
• Roman Bunka

C

• Charbel Rouhana
• Çelik Necati

D

• Yair Dalal
• Ara Dinkjian

E

• Driss El Maloumi
• Hamza El Din
• Abdel Aziz El Mubarak

H

• Richard Hagopian

J

• Wissam Joubran

K

• Georges Kazazian
• Chris Karrer
• Udi Hrant Kenkulian
• Marcel Khalife

L

• Chris Leslie
• David Lindley

M

• Aar Maanta
• Hamdi Makhlouf
• Jiim Sheikh Muumin

N

• Hani Naser

Q

• Abdullahi Qarshe

R

• Charbel Rouhana
• Raja Zulkarnain

S

• Simon Shaheen
• Naseer Shamma

T

• Cinuçen Tanrıkorur
• Joseph Tawadros
• Omar Faruk Tekbilek

Y

• Dhafer Youssef

Notable bouzouki (the Greek lute) players

• Alec Finn
• Antonis Gavaletakis^[17]
• Manolis Hiotis
• Andy Irvine
• Donal Lunny
• Giannis Papaioannou
• Giannis Tatasopoulos
• Babis Tsertos
• Vassilis Tsitsanis
• Markos Vamvakaris
• Nikos Vrachnas
• Giorgos Zambetas
  

List of classical guitarists

Baroque (17th & 18th century)

• John Dowland (1563–1626) (England)
• Antoine Carré
• Francesco Corbetta (ca 1615–1681)
• Giovanni Battista Granata
• Francisco Guerau
• Luis Milan (c. 1500 – 1561 or possibly later) (Spain)
• Girolamo Montesardo
• Alonso Mudarra (1510–1580)
• Santiago de Murcia (Around 1682 or 1685–1732) (Spain)
• Gaspar Sanz (1640–1710) (Spain)
• Robert de Visée (ca 1658–1725) (France)

19th century

• Dionisio Aguado (1784–1849) (Spain)
• Matteo Carcassi (1792–1853) (Italy)
• Ferdinando Carulli (1770–1841) (Italy)
• Napoléon Coste (1806–1883) (France)
• Adam Darr (1811–1866) (Germany)
• Antoine de Lhoyer 1768–1852 (France)
• José Ferrer (Spain) (1835–1916)
• François de Fossa (1775–1849) (Spain-France)
• Mauro Giuliani (1781–1829) (Italy)
• Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806–1856) (Austrian-based, born in Slovakia.)
• Francesco Molino (1775–1847) (Italy)
• Niccolò Paganini (1782–1840) (Italian)
• Giulio Regondi (Italian)
• Luis T. Romero(1854–1893) (American)
• Fernando Sor (1778–1839) (Spanish)
• Andrei Osipovich Sychra (1773 or 1776 – 1850) (Russia)
• Francisco Tárrega (1852—1909) (Spanish)

20th century

This article is a list of notable classical guitarists. For a complete list see the Category classical guitarists.

• Heinrich Albert (1870–1950) (Germany)
• Laurindo Almeida (1917–1995)(Brasil)
• María Luisa Anido (1907–1996) (Argentina, Spain)
• Agustín Barrios Mangoré (1885–1944) (Paraguay)
• Abel Carlevaro (1916–2001) (Uruguay)
• Leif Christensen 1950–1988
• Alirio Díaz (b. 1923) (Venezuela)
• Cayo Sila Godoy (b. 1919)
• Alexandre Lagoya (1929–1999) (France)
• Antonio Lauro (1917–1986) (Venezuela)
• Miguel Llobet (1878–1938)
• Vahdah Olcott-Bickford (1885-1980) (USA)
• Sergei Orekhov (1935–1998)
• Emilio Pujol (1886–1980) (Spain)
• Ida Presti (1924–1967)
• Celedonio Romero (1913–1996) (Spain)
• Regino Sainz de la Maza (1896–1981) (Spain)
• Andrés Segovia (1893–1987) (Spain)
• José Tomás (1934–2001) (Spain)
• Narciso Yepes (1927–1997) (Spain)
• Frantz Casseus (1915-1993) (Haiti)

Modern

• Lily Afshar (b. 19--) (Iran / U.S.)
• Cesar Amaro (b. 1948-2012) (Uruguay)
• Magnus Andersson (b. 1955) (Sweden)
• Rafael Andia (b. 1942) (France)
• Sergio Assad (b. 1952) (Brazil)
• Evangelos Assimakopoulos (b. 1940) (Greece)
• Denis Azabagic (b. 1972) (Bosnia)
• Alan Banks (Australia)
• Manuel Barrueco (b. 1952) (Cuba)
• Johanna Beisteiner (b. 1976) (Austria)
• Gilbert Biberian (b. 1944)
• Dušan Bogdanović (b. 1955) (Yugoslavia
• Liona Boyd (b. 1949)
• Julian Bream (b. 1933) (United Kingdom)
• Leo Brouwer (b. 1939) (Cuba)
• Frank Bungarten (b. 1958) (Germany)
• Liat Cohen (b. 1971) (Israel)
• John Couch (b. 1976) (New Zealand/Australia)
• Gerard Cousins (Wales)
• Petar Čulić (b. 1986) (Croatia)
• Aniello Desiderio (b. 1971) (Italy)
• Máximo Diego Pujol (Argentina)
• Carlo Domeniconi (b. 1947) (Italy)
• Juanjo Domínguez (b. 1951) (Argentina)
• Zoran Dukic (b. 1969) (Croatia)
• Roland Dyens (b. 1955) (France)
• Richard Charlton (b. 1955) (Australia)
• Marcin Dylla (b. 1976) (Poland)
• Hucky Eichelmann (b. 1956) (Germany/Thailand)
• Gabriel Estarellas (Spain)
• Roberto Fabbri (b. 1964) (Italy)
• Mårten Falk (b. 1973) (Sweden)
• Oliver Fartach-Naini (b. 1964) (Germany)
• Jim Ferguson (b. 1948) (U.S.)
• Eliot Fisk (b. 1958) (U.S. / Austria)
• Yorgos Foudoulis (Greece)
• Ricardo Gallén (b. 1972) (Spain)
• Duo46 Matt Gould (U.S.)
• Gareth Koch (b. 1962) (Australia)
• Timo Korhonen (b. 1964) (Finland)
• Slava Grigoryan (b. 1976) (Australia)
• Nicola Hall (b. 1969) (United Kingdom)
• Tony Harmon (b. 1958) (U.S.)
• Robin Hill (b. 1953) (United Kingdom)
• Evan Hirschelman (U.S.)
• Adam Holzman (b. 1960)
• Tilman Hoppstock (b. 1961) (Germany)
• Simone Iannarelli (b. 1970) (Italy)
• Sharon Isbin (b. 1956) (U.S.)
• Mattias Jacobsson (b. 1984) (Sweden)
• Ólavur Jakobsen (b. 1964) Faroe Islands
• Ekachai Jearakul (b. 1987) (Thailand)^[1]
• Maria Kämmerling (b. 1946)
• William Kanengiser (U.S.)
• Hubert Käppel (Germany)
• Milos Karadaglic (Montenegro)
• Peter and Zoltán Katona (b. 1968) (Hungary)
• Patrick Kearney (b. 1970) (Canada)
• Nikita Koshkin (b. 1956) (Russia)
• Leon Koudelak (b. 1961) (Czech Republic / Switzerland / Thailand)
• Goran Krivokapić (b. 1979) (Serbia)
• Irina Kulikova
• Humberto Bruni Lamanna (b. 1957) (Venezuela)
• David Leisner (b. 1953) (U.S.
• Dang Ngoc Long (b. 1957) (Germany/Vietnam)
• Stephen Marchionda 1967 (U.S. / Spain)
• Carlo Marchione (b. 1964) (Italy)
• Pablo Márquez (b. 1967) (Argentina)
• Martha Masters (b. 1972) (U.S.)
• Anders Miolin (b. 1961) (Sweden / Switzerland)
• Jaime Mirtenbaum Zenamon
• Erling Møldrup (b. 1943)
• Gentil Montaña (b. 1942) (Colombia)
• Jorge Morel (b. 1931)
• Thomas Müller-Pering (b. 1958) (Germany)
• Michael Nicolella (b. 1963) (U.S.)
• Gordon O'Brien (b. 1966)
• Erkan Ogur (b. 1954) (Turkey)
• Elie Ossipovitch (France)
• Christopher Parkening (b. 1947)
• Marco Pereira
• Robert Phillips (b. 1953) (U.S.)
• Álvaro Pierri (Uruguay)
• Alberto Ponce (b. 1935), (Spain / France)
• Stanko Prek
• Štěpán Rak (b. 1945) (Czech Republic)
• Charles Ramirez (b. 1953) (United Kingdom)
• Marc Regnier (U.S.)
• Angel Romero (b. 1946) (Spain)
• Pepe Romero (b. 1944) (Spain)
• David Russell (b. 1953) (United Kingdom (Scotland))
• Flavio Sala (b. 1983) (Italy)
• Karin Schaupp (Germany/Australia)
• Stephan Schmidt (Germany / Switzerland based)
• John Schneider
• María Isabel Siewers
• Göran Söllscher
• David Starobin (b. 1951) (U.S.)
• Pavel Steidl (b. 1961), (Czechoslovakia (now in the Czech Republic)/Netherlands)
• David Tanenbaum (b. 1956) (U.S.)
• Scott Tennant (b. 1962) (U.S.)
• Marko Topchii (b. 1991) (Ukraine)
• Michael Tröster (b. 1956) (Germany)
• Ana Vidović (b. 1980) (Croatia)
• Jason Vieaux (b. 1973) (U.S.)
• John Williams (b. 1941) (Australia)
• Kazuhito Yamashita (b. 1961) (Japan)
• Yang Xuefei (b. 1977) (People's Republic of China)
• Andrew York (U.S.)
• Laura Young (Canada)
• Liza Zoe (b. 1940) (Greece)