Col legno! The hottest men in classical music

Andreas Ottensamer, Austrian-born clarinetist with the Berlin Phil

Okay, I might be in love with British born Courtney Lewis, music director of the Jacksonville Symphony and Assistant Conductor of the NY Phil.

And that accent!

Ray Chen, Taiwanese-Australian violinist

Ward Stare, music director of the Rochester Phil

Gautier Capucon, French Cellist

Damn, that Charlie Siem has it all. Musical genius, model, billionaire father, went to Eton and Cambridge. I hope he has chronic flatulence.

Daniel Lelchuk, aka gourmetcellist on instagram

Matthew Olshefski, The Shirtless Violinist. Has a youtube channel where he frequently wears less than he does here.

Very few male classical musicians look anything like the hunks pictured here. In fact, just about none of them.

John Corigliano appeared with a torso bared in an issue of After Dark Magazine. I spent many a happy hour pleasuring myself with that image. His arms were crossed at mid-chest so I had a good look at his belly button which satisfied my male navel fetish. He's gay so he likely knew what the response from A.D. readers like me would be. I've only be able to find the photo on one website - Homodesiribus using the After Dark tag - he's not identified by name so you have to scroll through several images. I can't figure out how to copy and paste it, alas.

Yannick! ( although not really aging all that well as of late)

These two guys (violist and violinist in the group "Well Strung") were on the current iteration of "The Amazing Race."

R13 agreed although purists are questioning their "classical" style

I adore cellist Stjepan Hauser. Both of the 2Cellos guys are sexy, but I have a slight preference for Stjepan. So sexy!

The guys on this thread are a million times hotter than any Instagay.

Funny how talent does that to a man, R16.

Charlie and Hauser are welcome to hit me with their sticks anytime. And I'd love to play with Andreas' instrument.

Organ...ist Cameron Carpenter

R19, he scares me.

Jakub Józef Orliński

Pretty sure Andreas Ottensamer is gay, based on his social media activities. He would 100% be a WeHo Instagay clone if he wasn’t a full-time touring artist...and lived in LA lol

Anyone else remember when Joshua Bell used to be the young enfant terrible of the classical world?

I always had a soft spot for classical violinist Colorado's own Eugene Fodor.

Some very handsome men!

Tenor Jonas Kaufmann. Now a hot silver daddy.

[quote] hot silver daddy

You had to kill it.

R23, I heard Joshua Bell play with the local symphony orchestra. We meet him backstage afterwards, he was a bit shy . He was a very young 14 then.

Another nominee for the category is operatic baritone Keith Phares. I heard him about 10 years ago with Arizona Opera. He was a regular guest singer at the time and sang a rip-roaring Escamillo in a production of Carmen. Handsome in his black outfit and black riding boots.

I agree R26. I love this clip from several years ago. Jonas is very handsome, and his voice is so beautiful and sexy.

Gay, built and now one of the most powerful men in classical music:

Yannick Nezet-Seguin

R21, I’ve worked with him a cthat puke times and he’s super sweet and shy. Excellent performer.

Damn. *a couple times*. Make fun, I should have spellchecked

R28 here, I found a YouTube video of Keith Phares talking about an up coming performance of Carmen (2016). He even mentions the performances he did with Az Opera, it was 2005. You will have to imagine him 11 years younger than this video. Not too shabby after 11 years, and that baritone ext3nds to his speaking voice, too.

Funny

Composer/pianist Gurol

Stjepan Hauser

HAUSER - Oblivion (Piazzolla)

Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser

"Anyone else remember when Joshua Bell used to be the young enfant terrible of the classical world?"

He still is, even with the 3 kids and the baby mama he keeps in a separate apartment.

Fun fact about Andreas Ottensamer: in addition to being hot and obviously a great clarinetist, he's legit smart. He was admitted to Harvard, Yale and Princeton, but decided to take that job with the Berlin Philharmonic instead.

His father and older brother play(ed) with the Vienna Philharmonic.

Andreas also likes balls in his face, big heavy ones. Probably cocks too, but definitely balls.

He likes cock too

Canadian Philippe Sly - Bass-Baritone

What a gorgeous man and a beautiful voice!!!

Any openly gay ones?

Tenor Ed Lyon is openly gay.

Tenor Ed Lyon

Philippe Sly is magnificent!

Bravo!

The affected accent at R3 cracks me up. It's so lah-di-dah.

Openly gay baritone Hadleigh Adams.

Brothers Sly

Jakob Orlinski, Polish countertenor.

Nathan Gunn

violinist Andrew Sords. YUM.

Thanks for that Courtney Lewis video. He looks much better with a beard versus his photo on his webpage.....

R52, I’ve worked with him a couple times in NYC and he’s super stunning in person

I find composer Mason Bates quite attractive.

[quote]Thanks for that Courtney Lewis video. He looks much better with a beard versus his photo on his webpage.....

Agreed!

Sweetie

R57 = Mason Bates

He’s not that hot

R50 Hadleigh is a darling, and so focused

The greatest male musicians were not good looking.

Though a few conductors were.

And no James Levine was not one of them.

Mehta and Abbado were cuties

Stravinsky was hawt

Stravinsky naked.

Smokin’ hot bass-baritone Douglas Williams

wow, so many hot looking guys! thanks for posting!

And as musicians they are boring boring boring like the barihunks.

Music schools turn them out efficiently like printed patterns on paper towels and they have no reason to exist outside of being hot.

Doug isn’t boring

Doug has a real big dick, too.

He does