List of women classical cellists
The following is a list of women classical cellists by nationality – notable women who are well known for their work in the field of classical music.
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Su-a Lee on stage.
Argentina
- Sol Gabetta (born 1981), classical cellist, orchestral performer, recording artist and educator, now resident in Switzerland
Australia
- Christine Jackson (1962–2016), British-born Australian cellist, member of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, played didgeridoo duos
Belgium
- Flavie Van den Hende (1865-1925), Belgian-born and -trained cellist, worked and died in the US
Canada
- Soo Bae (born 1977), Korean-born Canadian cellist now in New York
- Denise Djokic (born 1980), cellist, soloist and recitalist
- Suzette Forgues Halasz (1918–2004), cellist and musical educator, orchestral principal cellist
- Amanda Forsyth (born 1966), recitalist, soloist and chamber musician
- Ofra Harnoy (born 1965), prominent Israeli-born Canadian cellist, award-winning soloist and recording artist
- Dorothy Lawson (fl. 1990s), cellist, chamber musician and composer based in New York City
- Dáirine Ní Mheadhra (fl. 1990s), Irish-born Canadian cellist, conductor and opera producer
- Shauna Rolston (born 1967), child prodigy, recitalist and soloist, educator
China
- Jiaxin Cheng (born 1974), soloist, recitalist and recording artist now based in London, married Julian Lloyd Webber
- Tina Guo (born 1985), Chinese-American cellist, practising classical and modern genres, soloist and recording artist
- Ma Siju (1920–2014), pianist and cellist, recognized educator, retired in 1986
Czech Republic
- Michaela Fukačová (born 1959), award-winning classical cellist
Ecuador
- Teodelinda Terán Hicks (1889-1959), Ecuadorian cellist, trained in London, based in California
France
- Valérie Aimard (born 1969), concert cellist, chamber musician and recording artist
- Martine Bailly (born 1946), classical cellist, first cello of the Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris
- Emmanuelle Bertrand (born 1973), award-winning soloist and recording artist
- Lisa Cristiani (born 1827), classical cellist, one of the first professional female cellists in Europe
- Reine Flachot (1922–1998), international cellist and educator
- Ophélie Gaillard (born 1974), cellist, chamber musician and educator
- Anne Gastinel (born 1971), international cellist, performances from the age of 12, educator
- Astrig Siranossian (born 1988), child prodigy, concert performed, chamber musician and recording artist
- Mathilde Sternat (fl. 1995), chamber musician and arranger
- Agnès Vesterman (fl. 1980s), duet performer, recording artist and educator
- Sonia Wieder-Atherton (born 1961), Franco-American orchestral soloist, chamber musician and recording artist
Germany
- Kristin von der Goltz (born 1966), German-Norwegian cellist, specializing in baroque, chamber musician
- Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (born 1987), award-winning young cellist
- Eva Heinitz (1907–2001), cellist, violist and educator who settled in the United States
- Bettina Hoffmann (born 1959), viola da gambist, cellist, musicologist and educator
- Maria Kliegel (born 1952), cellist, recording artist and educator
- Anita Lasker-Wallfisch (born 1925), cellist, surviving member of the Women's Orchestra in Auschwitz
- Margarethe Quidde (1858-1940), Prussian-born cellist, writer, pacifist in Munich
- Eleonore Schoenfeld (born 1925), influential 20th-century cellist, recording artist and educator
Hungary
- Rozsi Varady (1902–1933), concert cellist popular in the United States and Europe
Lithuania
- Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė (born 1976), founding member of the Kremerata Baltica chamber orchestra, orchestral concert performer
Luxembourg
- Françoise Groben (1965–2011), cellist playing with many notable orchestras, chamber musician and recording artist
Netherlands
- Josephine van Lier (born 1968), performing cellist specialized in baroque, contemporary and chamber music, residing in Canada
- Mayke Rademakers (fl. 2000s), recitalist, soloist and chamber musician, recording artist
Norway
- Birgitta Elisa Oftestad (born 2002), soloist, chamber musician
Portugal
- Guilhermina Suggia (1885–1950), worked with Pablo Casals in Paris, toured internationally, also chamber musician
Russia
- Tanya Anisimova (born 1966), cellist and composer
- Natalia Gutman (born 1942), soloist, chamber musician, interested in contemporary music
- Nina Kotova (born 1969), recitalist and soloist with major orchestras, educator and recording artist
- Anna Luboshutz (1887–1975), major career in Russia as a soloist and chamber musician
- Natalia Shakhovskaya (1935–2017), award-winning international cellist and educator
- Tatjana Vassiljeva (born 1977), award-winning Russian cellist, appeared with many notable orchestras and toured widely
Serbia
- Maja Bogdanović (born 1982), classical cellist now based in Paris
- Jelena Mihailović (born 1987), classical and contemporary cellist based in Belgrade and Los Angeles
South Korea
- Myung-wha Chung (born 1944), concert cellist, chamber musician and educator, now based in New York City
- Han-na Chang (born 1982), conductor and cellist
- Su-a Lee (fl. 1998), cellist, member of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, recording artist
- Hee-Young Lim (born 1987), award-winning classical cellist, principal solo cellist with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
- Meehae Ryo (born 1967), international soloist and educator
Spain
- Teresa Bernabe (born 1983), classical and contemporary cellist, singer-songwriter
Sweden
- Walborg Lagerwall (1851–1940), toured Scandinavia, cellist at the Royal Swedish Opera
United Kingdom
- Natalie Clein (born 1977), classical cellist, chamber musician and recording artist
- Caroline Dale (born 1965), cellist and recording artist
- Jacqueline du Pré (1945–1987), prominent cellist performing internationally with numerous orchestras, career cut short by multiple sclerosis
- Amaryllis Fleming (1925–1999), classical cellist, chamber musician, Baroque cello performer and educator
- Olga Hegedus (1920–2017), cellist, co-principal of the English Chamber Orchestra
- Louise Hopkins (born 1968), international soloist, broadcaster and educator
- Peggie Sampson (1912–2004), cellist, viola da gambist and educator
- Anna Shuttleworth (born 1927), cellist and educator
- Amanda Truelove (born 1961), cellist and educator
United States
- Eleanor Aller (1917–1995), cellist, chamber musician and principal cellist in the Warner Bros Studio Orchestra
- Cecylia Barczyk (fl. 1980s), Polish-born American cellist and educator
- Maya Beiser (born 1963), Israeli-born American cellist and producer
- Phoebe Carrai (born 1955), cellist, chamber musician and educator
- Alison Chesley (born 1960), cellist, composer and recording artist
- Kristina Reiko Cooper (fl. 1990s), cellist, solo artist, chamber musician and recording artist
- Nadine Deleury (fl. 1980s), French-born American cellist, chamber opera performer and educator
- Kate Dillingham (fl. 1993), cellist, soloist and chamber musician
- Eileen Folson (1956–2007), composer and cellist
- Raya Garbousova (1909–1997), cellist and educator
- Sarah Gurowitsch (1889-1981), Russian-born American cellist
- Elsa Hilger (1904–2005), Austrian-born American cellist who gave recitals until she was 95
- Mimi Hwang (fl. 1980s), cellist and chamber musician
- Joan Jeanrenaud (born 1956), cellist and recording artist
- Maureen May (born 1962), cellist and conductor
- Zara Nelsova (1918–2002), Canadian-born American orchestral cellist and chamber musician who performed from an early age
- Maxine Neuman (born 1948), chamber musician, orchestral cellist and educator
- Sharon Robinson (born 1949), cellist, concert solo artist, chamber musician and recording artist
- Marcy Rosen (fl. 1980s), concerto cellist, chamber musician and educator
- Sara Sant'Ambrogio (born 1962), chamber musician, member of the Eroica Trio, interested in contemporary composers
- Eleonore Schoenfeld (1924–2007), one of the 20th century's most influential cellists
- Eleonore Schoenfeld (born 1993), cellist and concert performer
- Frances-Marie Uitti (born 1948), cellist known for performing contemporary classical music
- Christine Walevska (born 1945), international classical cellist, recording artist and educator
- Wendy Warner (born c. 1972), international orchestral cellist, chamber musician and educator
- Alisa Weilerstein (born 1982), classical cellist, soloist and chamber musician
- Olga Zilboorg (1933–2017), Mexican-born American cellist and educator
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