
Radu Aldulescu was a Romanian-born Italian cellist.

Ellade Bandini is an Italian drummer.

Stefano di Battista is an Italian jazz musician who plays soprano and alto saxophone.

Giorgio Battistelli is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music. A native of Albano Laziale, he studied at the conservatory in L'Aquila and is a former student of Stockhausen and Kagel. Battistelli has written nearly 20 operas on subjects ranging from Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopaedia to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. His opera CO2, based on Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, premiered at La Scala in 2015.

Alessandra Belloni is an Italian musician, singer, dancer, actress, choreographer, teacher, and ethnomusicologist. Her instrument is the Southern Italian tambourine and her music and dance are focused on the traditional roots of tarantella. Her studies of tarantism are rooted in the culture of Apulia and Calabria, expressing it from women's point of view. Her work has gained international appreciation, especially in the United States and Brazil. She is artist in residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.

Alessio Bidoli is an Italian violinist.

Stefano Bollani is an Italian composer, pianist and singer, also active as a writer and a television presenter.
Flavio Boltro is an Italian trumpet and flugelhorn jazz player.

Matteo Brancaleoni is an Italian contemporary pop/jazz singer, actor and journalist.

Roberto Cacciapaglia is an Italian pianist and composer. His compositions blend electronic and classical music.

Piero Cassano is an Italian keyboardist, singer and composer, a founding member of the Genoan band Matia Bazar.

Franco Cerri is an Italian guitarist and double bassist.

Ana Chumachenco is an Italian born violinist of Argentinian, Ukrainian, and German descent.

Paolo Conte is an Italian singer, pianist, composer, and lawyer notable for his grainy, resonant voice. His compositions are evocative of Italian and Mediterranean sounds, as well as of jazz music and South American atmospheres.

Francesco "Franco" D'Andrea is an Italian jazz pianist and composer.

Elhaida Dani is an Albanian singer-songwriter and actress.

Tullio De Piscopo is an Italian drummer, percussionist and singer.

Marco Di Meco is an Italian flute player, composer, music producer writer and teacher.

Gionata Boschetti, better known by the pseudonym Sfera Ebbasta, is an Italian rapper.

Antonio Faraò is an Italian jazz pianist.

Federico Favali is an Italian composer of classical music.

Alberto Fortis is an Italian musician and songwriter.
Paolo Fresu is an Italian jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player, as well as a composer and arranger of music.

Milo Lombardi is an Italian jazz saxophonist and composer.

Francesco Lotoro is an Italian pianist, composer and musicologist.

Luis Romano Peris Belmonte, better known as Gary Low, is an Italian-born Spanish recording artist who was most active during the 1980s era of Italo disco. He recorded several musical works in both English and Spanish. His recording of "I Want You" is prominently sampled on Washed Out's "Feel It All Around", used as the opening theme song of the television series Portlandia.

Matthew S, pseudonym for Matteo Scapin, is an Italian electronic music producer, musician and composer. He is known for his diverse production style, which is influenced primarily by electronic music and ambient music, but also elements of tech house.

Ermanno Menegazzo, known by his stage name Herman Medrano, is an Italian rapper. He has collaborated with Caparezza, Piotta and Roy Paci.
Ermal Meta is an Italian singer, songwriter and composer of Albanian descent.

Stefano Miceli is an Italian classical conductor and pianist.

Duke Montana is an Italian-American rapper, actor and businessman. He collaborated with several Italian and American rappers, including Snoop Dogg, Kool G Rap, Lil Ortega, Onyx, Club Dogo, Fabri Fibra, Wu-Tang Clan, Ice-T. He is the father of the Multi-Platinum producer Sick Luke.

Edgardo "Dado" Moroni is an Italian jazz pianist and composer.

Blonde Redhead is an American alternative rock band composed of Kazu Makino and twin brothers Simone and Amedeo Pace that formed in New York City in 1993. The band's earliest albums were noted for their noise rock influences, though their sound evolved by the early 2000s with the releases of Misery is a Butterfly (2004) and 23 (2007), which both incorporated elements of dream pop, shoegaze and other genres. They have released nine regular studio albums and have toured internationally.

Blonde Redhead is an American alternative rock band composed of Kazu Makino and twin brothers Simone and Amedeo Pace that formed in New York City in 1993. The band's earliest albums were noted for their noise rock influences, though their sound evolved by the early 2000s with the releases of Misery is a Butterfly (2004) and 23 (2007), which both incorporated elements of dream pop, shoegaze and other genres. They have released nine regular studio albums and have toured internationally.

Enrico Pieranunzi is an Italian jazz pianist. He combines classical technique with jazz.

Enrico Rava, is an Italian jazz trumpeter. He started on trombone, then changed to the trumpet after hearing Miles Davis.

Bruno Romani is an Italian saxophonist, flutist and composer.

Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, was an Italian organist, harpsichordist, musicologist and composer.

Anna Tifu is an Italian classical violinist who has made an international career. She won the George Enescu International Competition in 2007.

Andrea Tonoli is an Italian composer and musician, active in different genres including contemporary classical music, film music and post-rock.

Gianluigi Trovesi is an Italian jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. He has won various Italian jazz awards. He also teaches in Italy.

Checco Zalone, art name of Luca Pasquale Medici, is an Italian actor, musician, singer-songwriter, imitator, comedian and screenwriter. He co-wrote and starred in the five highest-grossing Italian films in Italy headed by Quo Vado?.