Women violinists

Barbara Penny (1929 – 2007) was a British violinist.

Vida Jeraj Hribar (4 May 1902 – 6 May 2002) was a Slovenian violinist and music teacher who was named Slovene Woman of the Year in 1992 after publishing a book of her memoirs at the age of 91.

Erika Morini (January 5, 1904 - October 31, 1995) was a Jewish Austrian violinist.

Gioconda de Vito (26 July 1907 – 14 October 1994) was an Italian-British classical violinist.

Amina Srarfi (أمينة الصرارفي), (born 1958 in Tunis), is the first woman chef d'orchestre in Tunisia.

Adila Fachiri (26 February 1886 – 15 December 1962) was a Hungarian violinist who had an international career but made her home in England.

Nejiko Suwa (諏訪根自子) (23 January 1920 – 6 March 2012) was a Japanese violinist who first rose to prominence as a child prodigy during the inter-war period, and was most active prior to the 1960s.

Ursula Bagdasarjanz (born 1934 in Winterthur) is a Swiss violinist

Michaela Paetsch Neftel (born November 12, 1961) is an American violinist who was born in Colorado Springs.

Anna Katharina Kränzlein, also known as Anna Katharina, (born 7 November 1980 in Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany) is a German violinist.

Ilona Feher or Ilona Fehér (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈfɛheːr ˈilonɒ]; 1 December 1901, Budapest, Hungary – January, 1988, Holon, Israel), was one of the last representatives of the Central European Violin School whose greats included Joseph Joachim, Otakar Ševčík and Jenő Hubay.

Claire Hodgkins (1929– 2011) notable American violin virtuoso, student of Jascha Heifetz and founder of Jascha Heifetz society.

Miri Ben-Ari (Hebrew: מירי בן-ארי‎‎; born December 4, 1978) is an Israeli-American violinist.

Priscilla McClure Paetsch (née Johnson, born November 18, 1931), is an American violinist, composer, artist, sculptor, horse trainer, and co-founder of the Paetsch Family Chamber Music Ensemble in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Karen Tuttle (March 28, 1920 – December 16, 2010) was an American viola teacher, famous for her "coordination" technique, which emphasizes being comfortable while playing the instrument.

Ida Kavafian (Armenian: Իդա Քավաֆյան) (born October 29, 1952 in Istanbul) is an American classical violinist and violist.

Kyla-Rose Smith (born 10 September 1982) is a South African violinist, singer, and dancer.

Takako Nishizaki BBS (born 14 April 1944) is a Japanese violinist.

Alice Pashkus (1911–1972) was a famous violinist of the early and middle 20th century who became renowned as a pedagogue.

Ana Chumachenco is an Italian born violinist of Argentinian, Ukrainian and German descent.

Patricia Travers (December 5, 1927 – February 9, 2010) was an American violin child prodigy and actress who withdrew from public performances at age 23.

Julia Clifford (June 19, 1914 – June 18, 1997) was a fiddler and Irish traditional musician.

Elise Båtnes (born 1971) is a Norwegian violinist.

Meredith Anne Yayanos is a California-based violinist, vocalist and thereminist.

Roopa Revathi (Malayalam: രൂപ രേവതി), also known as Roopa KR, is an Indian playback singer from Kerala.

Camilla Urso (13 June 1840 – 20 January 1902) was an American violinist born in France.

Olive Nevart Zorian (16 March 1916 in Manchester – 17 May 1965 in London) was an English classical violinist.

Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté (Russian: Софи Кармен Экхардт-Граматте; 6 January 1899 in Moscow, Russia – 2 December 1974 in Stuttgart, Germany) was a Russian-born Canadian composer and virtuoso pianist and violinist.

Elizabeth Wallfisch (née Hunt; born 28 January 1952) is an Australian Baroque violinist.

Ethel Stark, CM GOQ (25 August 1910 – 16 February 2012) was a Canadian violinist and conductor.

Regina Schlick née Strinasacchi (c. 1761 - June 11, 1839) was a violin virtuoso and guitarist in a time when women rarely performed on the violin in public.

Wanda Wiłkomirska (born 11 January 1929 in Warsaw) is a Polish violinist and teacher.

Jeanne Lamon, CM OOnt (born August 14, 1949) is a violinist and conductor.

Ethel Barns (1874 – 31 December 1948) was an English violinist, pianist and composer.

Baiba Skride (born 1981) is a Latvian classical violinist.

Eugénie-Emilie Juliette Folville (born 5 January 1870, d. 19 or 28 October 1946) was a Belgian pianist, violinist, music educator, conductor and composer.

Fanny Clamagirand (born 1984) is a French classical violinist.

Lucy van Dael (born in 1946) is a Dutch baroque violinist and member of the faculty of the Amsterdam Conservatory.

Emma Smock (4 June 1920–1995), better known as Ginger Smock, was a violinist, orchestra leader, and local Los Angeles television personality.

Gwendoline Linda Louise Thompson (born 30 March 1947 in Winnipeg) is a Canadian violinist and music educator.

Jyotsna Srikanth is an Indian violinist and composer, performing Carnatic music and Western classical music.

Kaoru Kakudo (1947 – April 15, 2004) was a violinist, born in Japan, who performed internationally in recital and solo orchestral appearances.

Aathira Krishna is a prominent Indian violinist.

Sue Draheim (/ˈdrɔː.haɪm/ DRAW-hime) (August 17, 1949 in Oakland, California – April 11, 2013 in Berea, Kentucky) was an American fiddler, boasting a more than forty year musical career in the US and the UK.

(This is a Korean name; the family name is Son.) Son Sue-Kyung (Hangul: 손수경), better known by her stage name Sue Son, is a South Korean classical and crossover violinist, raised in the United Kingdom and based in Seoul.

Grace Burrows (b. 29 June 1893 d. 1980?) was an English violinist, violin teacher and orchestra conductor.

Kató Havas (born 5 November 1920) is a violinist and violin and viola teacher who developed the "New Approach to violin playing" to help prevent and physical injuries and eliminate stage fright related to playing the violin or viola.

Maud Powell (August 22, 1867 – January 8, 1920) was an American violinist who gained international acclaim for her skill and virtuosity.

Sonya Monosoff (born June 11, 1927 in Cleveland, United States) is a violinist, a pioneer of the Baroque violin and one of the first American performers to use the Baroque violin in performance.

Lisa Batiashvili, or Elisabeth Batiashvili (Georgian: ლიზა ბათიაშვილი; born Elisabed Batiashvili in 1979) is a Georgian violinist, the daughter of a violinist father and a pianist mother.

Chiara Banchini is a Swiss violinist, involved in the historical performance practice movement.

Amanda Röntgen-Maier (19 February 1853 – 15 July 1894) was a Swedish violinist and composer.

Monica Huggett (born 16 May 1953 in London, England) is a British conductor and leading baroque violinist.

Ruth Pierce Posselt (Medford, Massachusetts, 6 September 1911 – Gulfport, Florida, 19 February 2007) was an American violinist and educator.

Stefi Geyer (June 28, 1888 in Budapest – December 11, 1956 in Zürich) was a Hungarian violinist.

Dorothy DeLay (March 31, 1917 – March 24, 2002) was an American violin instructor, primarily at the Juilliard School and University of Cincinnati.

Christina Åstrand (born 1969) is a Danish violinist.

Born in Selent, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Eggebrecht received her initial musical training from her mother, starting at the age of four.

Mariana Sîrbu (born in Iaşi, Romania) is a Romanian violinist.

Suma Sudhindra is a classical musician and veena exponent from India, in the Carnatic Music genre.

Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (born January 10, 1961) is an American classical violinist and teacher.

Aisha Orazbayeva (born 1985) is a violinist from Kazakhstan.

Naian González Norvind or Naian Norvind is a Mexican violinist and actress.

Bertha Drechsler Adamson (March 25, 1848 – May 12, 1924) was a Scottish-born Canadian violinist, educator and conductor.

Daisy Kennedy (Burra, South Australia, Australia, 16 January 1893 - Hammersmith, London, England, 30 July 1981) was an Australian-born concert violinist.

Leonora Jackson McKim (born Leonora Jackson, February 20, 1879 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States; died January 7, 1969) was one of the first American women to achieve international acclaim as a concert violinist.

Isolde Marie Menges (16 May 1893 – 13 January 1976) was an accomplished English violinist who was most active in the first part of the 20th century.

Tatiana Grindenko (Russian: Татьяна Тихоновна Гринденко; born 1946) is a Russian violinist and Meritorious Artist who graduated from the Moscow Conservatory and then became an assistant to Yuri Yankelevich.

Carolina Ferni (20 August 1846 – 4 June 1926) was an Italian violinist and operatic soprano.

Joan Field (April 28, 1915 – March 18, 1988) was an American violinist.

Anastasiya Petryshak (Ukrainian Анастасія Петришак, also transliterated "Anastasija Petryšak"; born 12 April 1994) is a Ukrainian violinist.

Marion G. Osgood (ca. 1865–after 1924) was a US violinist, composer, and orchestra conductor.

Michelle Lambert (born May 2, 1985) is an American singer-songwriter and musician, born in Covelo, California and raised in the Bay Area.

Angèle Dubeau, OC CQ (born March 24, 1962) is a Canadian violinist.

Aida Stucki (19 February 1921 in Cairo – 9 June 2011) was a Swiss violinist and educator.

Helen Armstrong (March 16, 1943 – April 28, 2006) was the founder and artistic director of Armstrong Chamber Concerts Inc (ACC), a non-profit, chamber music organization she founded in 1984.

Alice Harnoncourt (née Hoffelner; born 26 September 1930) is an Austrian classical violinist.

Marie Soldat-Roeger (b. Graz (Styria), March 25, 1863, d. Graz (Styria), September 30, 1955) was a violin master and virtuoso active in orchestral and chamber music in the Vienna of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Claire Delbos (2 November 1906 – 22 April 1959) was a French violinist and composer, and first wife of the composer Olivier Messiaen.

Ani Kavafian (Armenian: Անի Քավաֆյան, born May 10, 1948, Istanbul) is a classical violinist and professor at the Yale School of Music.

Clemency Margaret Greatrex Burton (born 1 July 1981, in London) is an English actress, novelist, musician, journalist and radio presenter.

Diana Yukawa (ダイアナ湯川 Daiana Yukawa) is a Japanese-born British solo violinist and composer.

Margaret Pardee Butterly (May 10, 1920 – January 26, 2016) was an American violinist and violin teacher.

Marjorie Fulton (married name Marjorie Harrell; née Marjorie McAllister Fulton; December 28, 1909 — November 3, 1962) was an acclaimed American concert violinist and music educator of distinction.

Ruth Martin Jefford (July 16, 1914 – January 9, 2007) was an air taxi pilot in the U.

Sara Katarina Trobäck Hesselink (born 1978) is a Swedish violinist.

Camilla Wicks (born August 9, 1928) is an American violinist and one of the first female violinists to establish a major international career.

Carmel Kaine (22 March 1937 – 21 April 2013) was an Australian classical violinist.

Pina Carmirelli (23 January 1914 in Varzi – 26 February 1993 in Capena) was an Italian violinist.

Edith Peinemann (born 3 March 1937) is an internationally recognized German violinist and professor of violin.

Annemarie Roelofs (born 1955), also spelt Anne-Marie Roelofs and Anne Marie Roelofs, is a Dutch trombone player and violinist, and is a professor at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts.