Composers — Percussionists
1745-1819
Georg (Jiři) Druschetzky ♂1785-1852
Jean Schneitzhoeffer ♂1913-2000
Violet Archer ♀1914-1985
Kenny Clarke ♂1914-1993
Sun Ra ♂1916-1964
Jan Rychlik ♂1916-1999
Louis Thomas Hardin ♂1920-1985
Zbynek Vostrak ♂1921-2008
Werner Thärichen ♂1923-2022
William Kraft ♂1924-2007
Max Roach ♂1924-2005
Warren Benson ♂1928-2006
Siegfried Fink ♂1929-2018
Harold Farberman ♂1931-2001
Milton Barnes ♂1932-2019
Michael Colgrass ♂1933-2024
Quincy Jones ♂1933-2011
Joachim Gruner ♂1933-2015
Jacques Delécluse ♂1934-1987
Victor Stanley Feldman ♂1934-1978
Donald Ellis ♂1935-
Jean Pierre Drouet ♂1936-2012
Obo Addy ♂1936-
Peter Tanner ♂1937-
Keiko Abe ♀1940-
Brian Bennett ♂1940-2001
Werner Pirchner ♂1942-
Michael W. Ranta ♂1942-
Priscilla Maclean ♀1942-
Bengt Berger ♂1942-2014
David Wessel ♂1943-
Sven Ake Johansson ♂1943-2020
Jon Christensen ♂1943-2022
Vangelis ♂1947-
Stomu Yamashita ♂1947-2022
Klaus Schulze ♂1949-2020
Matthias Kaul ♂1951-1992
Arthur Russell ♂1952-
Kjell Samkopf ♂1952-
Thomas Martin Wubbenhorst ♂1952-
Gordon Stout ♂1953-
Richard Harvey ♂1953-
Askell Masson ♂1954-
Dominique Probst ♂1955-
Marilyn Mazur ♀1956-
Guo Wenjing ♂1956-
Iris ter Schiphorst ♀1957-
Christopher Shultis ♂1957-
Frank Nuyts ♂1957-
Regina Irman ♀1957-
René Lussier ♂1958-
Davide Zannoni ♂1959-
Peter Jarvis ♂1960-
Wolfgang Reifeneder ♂1961-
Joël Grare ♂1961-
Mark Duggan ♂1962-2022
Wim Henderickx ♂1963-
John Powell ♂1964-
Peter Wallin ♂1965-
Lukas Ligeti ♂1965-
Evelyn Glennie ♀1967-
Thomas Sandberg ♂1968-
Gareth Farr ♂1968-
John Hollenbeck ♂1968-
Jens Joneleit ♂1969-
Marius Dragomir ♂1970-
Talvin Singh ♂1970-
Luigi Morleo ♂1972-
Peter Scartabello ♂1977-
Sabrina Peña Young ♀1982-
Randy Gibson ♂1982-
Derrick Skye ♂1983-
Rihards Zaļupe ♂1983-
Stefano Ottomano ♂1985-
Paulo Rios Filho ♂1985-
Ruud Roelofsen ♂