
Joseph Jean-Baptiste Laurent Arban was a cornetist, conductor, composer, pedagogue and the first famed virtuoso of the cornet à piston or valved cornet. He was influenced by Niccolò Paganini's virtuosic technique on the violin and successfully proved that the cornet was a true solo instrument by developing virtuoso technique on the instrument.

Øystein Baadsvik is a Norwegian tuba soloist and chamber musician.

Friedrich Adolph Gumpert was a German horn player and teacher.

Georg Kopprasch was a German composer and horn player primarily known for his second set of sixty horn studies, currently used by most horn students studying at an advanced level.

Jules Levy was a cornetist, teacher, and composer.

Frank Lloyd FRAM is an English virtuoso horn player and teacher, Professor of Horn at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, Germany and formerly professor of horn at both the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Trinity College of Music in London.

Mal Webb is a singer, beatboxer and multi-instrumentalist who has performed in various groups in the Australian music scene. He records his own original songs as well as providing material for other artists. He is a founding member of The Oxo Cubans, Sock, Totally Gourdgeous, and Formidable Vegetable, as well as performing solo and as a duo with Kylie Morrigan. As a composer, he provided the soundtracks for The Adventures of Lano and Woodley, Woodley and Wishworks' puppet show, Whispering Smith. In 2018, he premiered his work, "Notey and Noisy, a Sound Science Mathemusical".