- Valery Afanassiev – pianist
- Nelly Akopian-Tamarina – pianist
- Edward Artemyev – composer
- Vladimir Ashkenazy – pianist, conductor
- Vladimir Bakaleinikov – violist, teacher, composer, conductor
- Rudolf Barshai – violist, conductor
- Dmitri Bashkirov – pianist, teacher
- Yuri Bashmet – violist, conductor
- Boris Berezovsky – pianist
- Boris Berman – pianist, teacher
- Lazar Berman – pianist
- Đặng Thái Sơn – pianist
- Heinrich Neuhaus – pianist
- Stanislav Neuhaus – pianist
- Vadim Borisovsky – violist, teacher
- Anatoliy Brandukov – cellist
- Alexander Chuhaldin – violinist, conductor, composer
- Tish Daija - Albanian composer
- Bella Davidovich – pianist
- Nikolai Demidenko – pianist
- Edison Denisov – composer
- Fyodor Druzhinin – violist
- Youri Egorov – pianist
- Samuil Feinberg – pianist, composer
- Yakov Flier – pianist
- Andrei Gavrilov – pianist
- Michael L. Geller – composer, violist
- Emil Gilels – pianist
- Marina Goglidze-Mdivani – pianist
- Alexei Gorokhov – violinist, musicologist, teacher
- Vera Gornostaeva – pianist, teacher
- Sofia Gubaidulina – composer
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- Natalia Gutman – cellist
- Rustem Hayroudinoff – pianist
- Waleed Howrani – composer, pianist
- Valentina Igoshina – pianist
- Ilya Itin - pianist
- Konstantin Igumnov - pianist
- Dmitry Kabalevsky – composer, pianist
- Olga Kern – pianist
- Aram Khachaturian – composer
- Yuri Kholopov – musicologist, music theorist
- Vladimir Krainev – pianist
- Tikhon Khrennikov – composer
- Igor Khudolei – pianist
- Leonid Kogan – violinist
- Eduard Kunz – pianist
- Josef Lhévinne – pianist
- Rosina Lhévinne – pianist, pedagogue
- Dong-Hyek Lim – pianist
- Elisabeth Leonskaja – pianist and teacher
- Alexei Lubimov – pianist
- Nikolai Lugansky – pianist
- Radu Lupu – pianist
- Dmitry Malikov – pianist,composer,singer
- Yevgeny Malinin - pianist
- Nikolai Medtner - composer, pianist
- Victor Merzhanov – pianist
- Roman Moiseyev – conductor
- Alexander Mogilevsky – violinist
- Alexander Mosolov – pianist, composer
- Avni Mula – Albanian singer, composer
- Shoista Mullodzhanova – Shashmaqam singer
- Viktoria Mullova – violinist
- Anahit Nersesyan – pianist
- Tatiana Nikolayeva – pianist
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- Lev Oborin – pianist
- David Oistrakh – violinist
- Aleksandra Pakhmutova – composer
- Georgs Pelēcis - Latvian composer and musicologist
- Dmitry Paperno – pianist
- Nikolai Petrov – pianist
- Gregor Piatigorsky – cellist
- Mikhail Pletnev – pianist, composer, conductor
- Ivo Pogorelić – pianist
- Viktoria Postnikova – pianist
- Mikhail Press – violinist
- Sergei Rachmaninoff – pianist, composer
- Sviatoslav Richter – pianist
- Evgeny Rivkin - pianist
- Mstislav Rostropovich – cellist and conductor
- Gennady Rozhdestvensky – conductor
- Aram Satian – composer
- Alfred Schnittke – composer
- Rodion Shchedrin – composer and pianist
- Valery Sigalevitch – pianist
- Pyotr Slovtsov – tenor and teacher
- Aleksandr Sokolov – Russian Minister of Culture
- Rafail Sobolevsky - violinist
- Viviana Sofronitsky - Pianist
- Vladimir Spivakov – violinist, conductor
- Steven Spooner – Pianist
- Mykola Suk – pianist
- Yevgeny Svetlanov – conductor, pianist, composer
- Viktor Tretiakov – violinist
- Ibrahim Tukiqi – Albanian singer
- Mauricio Vallina – pianist
- Alexander Veprik – composer
- Eliso Virsaladze – pianist
- Mikhail Voskresensky – pianist
- Oleg Yanchenko – organist and conductor
- Marina Yashvili- violinist
- Çesk Zadeja – Albanian composer
- Igor Zubkovsky – cellist
- Denis Matsuev - pianist
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