I play and teach mandolin and fiddle. The styles I play (and teach) are Celtic and Bluegrass, Classical and Balkan.
Some of my most favorite musicians per style are:
Celtic
- Frankie Gavin - fiddler, De Dannan
- Seán Smyth - fiddler, Lunasa
- Winifred Horan - fiddler, Solas
- Claudine Langille - mandolin, tenor banjo
- Billy Oskay - fiddler, recording engineer, Night NOise
- Johnny "Ringo" McDonagh - bodhran, De Dannan
- Tommy Peoples - fiddler
- Alisdair Frasier - fiddler
Bluegrass
- Stuart Duncan - Nashville session player
- Jason Carter - fiddler, Travelin' McCoury's
- Scotty Stoneman - fiddler, The Kentucky Colonels
- Vassar Clemens - fiddler, Old and In The Way
- Richard Greene - fiddler, Mule Skinner
- Darol Anger - fiddler, the David Grisman Quintet
Classical
- Isaac Stern - concert violinist
- Yehudi Menuhin - concert violinist
- Pablo Casals - cellist and conductor
- Jacqueline du Pré - concert cellist
- Isaac Perlman - concert violinist
- Michael Tree - violist, Guarneri Quartet
Balkan/Klezmer
- Alicia Svigals - fiddler, Klezmatics
- Jascha Heifetz - violinist
- Baron Menuhin
- Kenny Kosek
- Daniel Hoffman - fiddler, Klez-X
