Elegant Classical Musician



Maybe the way she can handle the instruments. Maybe her skilled hands, the way she blows that oboe or the sound she makes when the song is about to climax. Whichever it is, there is something about playing instruments that really pulls men's strings.

Apparently, men aren't so uncultured if the culture is served by a hottie.

Applies to all female classical musicians no matter what instrument they are playing. Might apply to male classical musicians too.

Anime

 * Pictured above: Although not exactly intended for the guys, Michiru of Sailor Moon definitely counts.
 * Michiru's girlfriend Haruka counts as well since she's seen playing piano alongside Michiru and does it rather nicely.
 * Roughly half of the cast of Nodame Cantabile, most notably Miki Kiyoura.
 * The other half are guys. And several of them are hot too.
 * Nodame herself would probably qualify, if she wouldn't make silly faces while playing.
 * Well, there are many fans who find her silly faces pretty cute in their own way, so...
 * Okay, they don't play classical music, but the girls from K-On look very nice playing their instruments. Especially Mio on bass.
 * Kahoko Hino of La Corda d'Oro plays the violin with the help of magic, and manages to attract a hoard of Bishounen while she's at it.
 * And the Bishonen are music players as well, so they're gender flipped examples.
 * Male examples (gasp!): Choutarou Ohtori and Yuushi Oshitari from The Prince of Tennis. Both are handsome, promising violinists as well as excellent tennis players.
 * Many fans consider Tarou Sakaki (who makes double work in Hyoutei as tennis coach and music teacher) to be an older case of this.
 * Another male: Haji from Blood Plus.
 * And another - Austria from Axis Powers Hetalia, anyone?
 * As an extension, many fanarts show Austria's wife Hungary as one too, though they tend to make her either a back-up folk dancer or the violin player to Austria and his piano.
 * As seen on the official calendar, he can also play the violin. And Germany can play the cello.
 * Whenever Austria pays the piano, FUCKING PANTIES HIT THE FLOOR!
 * and more than one pair of boxers! Stupid sexy Austria...
 * I guess it's not a virginal anymore...
 * After Eurovision 2009, quite a few fanarts have Norway playing the violin as well.
 * In Clannad (both anime and game), Kotomi Ichinose is a really cute violin player. Even when, well, she SUCKS at playing.
 * Another "pretty but sucky player" case: Shirabe from Mahou Sensei Negima. Her music can shatter stone.
 * Misaka in episode 19 of To Aru Kagaku no Railgun does a violin solo. Bonus points as it was the opening tune and one of the few time she wears something other than her school uniform; a white flowing dress.
 * Quon Kisaragi from Rah Xephon. Naturally, since she's the Ms. Fanservice of the show.
 * Nozomi from the Elfen Lied manga aspires to become one of these (of the opera singer kind), despite her father's objections and tremendous abuse.
 * Both main characters (Hiroki and Sayuri) in The Place Promised in Our Early Days play the violin- she plays a certain song for him, he later learns it and plays it himself.
 * Henrietta from Gunslinger Girl may qualify. She carries her main gun in a violin case a la the Mafia, and plays the violin quite well. Then again, she's only about eleven...
 * Claes loves to play the piano, but being one of Henrietta's kind she is not much older.
 * Madoka Ayukawa plays Piano, Saxophone, and Guitar with skill enough to make her a professional musician with any one of them. She's a not halfway bad Idol Singer when in a pinch, either.
 * It's In the Blood, actually: Madoka's mother (implied to be a Hot Mom, but never clearly seen) is a famous classical violinist and her father is an equally well-known conductor, so she learned from the best.
 * Neon Genesis Evangelion has Shinji Ikari playing the cello. Although it doesn't particularly make him more attractive than usual to the viewer, hearing his performance does elicit some rare genuine niceness from Asuka as she notes he's really skilled with it.
 * The first part of Evangelion: Death and Rebirth has several of the Children playing instruments.
 * A pre-teen version (who is still, uhm... Younger Than They Look) is Ai Shinozaki from Hell Teacher Nube. At the age of 12-13, she's a genius violin player as well as Tall, Dark and Bishoujo.
 * Another male version is Hijiri Minase from Yami no Matsuei, a Teen Genius violinist who is the Distressed Dude from the Devil's Thrill arc.
 * One for each gender, in Marmalade Boy: Kei Tsuchiya is a handsome boy that plays the piano, Anju Kitahara is a Yamato Nadeshiko who plays violin.
 * The twelfth Detective Conan movie, Full Score of Fear, has two very Tall, Dark and Bishoujo opera singers in the middle of a case where two musicians are killed off. There's also a beautiful Woman in Black who's a violin player.
 * Seraphim from Kore wa Zombie Desu Ka plays the violin and later
 * Dimitri from Kurobara Alice was an opera singer in the past. Alice  is a talented pianist.
 * Trowa and Quatre gender flip it, playing flute and violin, respectively, at the end of an episode of Gundam Wing. This is perhaps just more fuel for fan girls of the pairing.
 * Quatre is also a skilled piano player, bonding with Noin over a sonata that he plays in
 * Ayane and Kou from Rouge Noir. Ayane doubles as Sensei Chan since she's a music teacher.
 * Seika "Mariana" Akishima from Amakusa 1637, a prospect opera singer who's pretty famous in her school as such. Her beautiful voice is showcased when she reunites with Natsuki and Eri in the past, via singing to them from the boat she's in so they can recognize her.

Comic Books

 * Virtuosa, the Legacy Villain to Golden Age Flash villain the Fiddler. She plays a magic violin that can control minds and alter matter.
 * Ingrid from Yoko Tsuno is said to be a well-known professional pipe organist, which curiously never is brought up again after her introduction.

Film

 * Kara Milovy (played by the hotty tottie Maryam d'Abo) from The Living Daylights.
 * Dana Barret from Ghostbusters
 * August Rush: Evan's parents are both definitely this, but his mother, with the fingers, and the strings, and the touching... And look how into it she is.
 * Madeline in Electric Dreams.
 * Male version: Daigo from Departures plays the cello.

Literature

 * Fenchurch from So Long And Thanks For All the Fish
 * Marianne Dashwood of Sense and Sensibility, a talented pianist.
 * Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood: A male example, but it definitely counts. Vivi's boyfriend attracts the attention of everyone everywhere ever because he just looks and sounds so pretty when playing his fiddle. It's also used to demonstrate what a gentleman he is; there's a very touching scene where he dedicates a song to Vivi's unattractive, unloved mother and nearly makes her cry with happiness.
 * A male example with Milton Stephanides in Middlesex; he uses his skills to seduce Tessie. They then go on to take it Up to Eleven,.

Live Action TV

 * Leslie Winkle both plays it straight and lampshades it in The Big Bang Theory.
 * Studio 60 has an example.
 * Emma from Heroes.
 * Frasier had a couple, notably a cellist he meets at the airport.
 * If you've watched Wings for more than five minutes, you know Helen is a cellist.
 * Star Trek: Voyager. Handsome Lech Tom Paris finds out that his friend Harry Kim is doing music practise with a good-looking female crewmember and derides her as having "cold hands, cold heart". Harry smirks and replies "Not when she's playing the oboe."

Theater

 * Jane Spofford in The Witches of Eastwick.
 * Male example: Thomas Jefferson in 1776. Martha Jefferson's one scene is the song "He Plays the Violin" Hear it here.

Video Games

 * Helena from Dead or Alive is an opera singer when she isn't in battle.
 * Lunasa Prismriver, by the will of some of her fans.
 * Yurika Kirishima, violin-wielding Musical Assassin from Rival Schools.
 * Usami Haru in G Senjou no Maou, though she never really gets to play the violin for Kyousuke due to

Web Comics

 * Jigsaw Forte, professional violinist turned Last Res 0 rt Executioner.

Web Original

 * Codex from The Guild was a concert violinist, and plays her violin with the door open to try to get the attention of her attractive neighbor.

Western Animation

 * Octavia, formerly a One-Scene Wonder background pony from the My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic season one finale but has since also appeared in Season 2, has garnered several fans for her classy demeanor and her skill with the cello. Other fans get a kick out of the speculation that she's Pinkie Pie's sister.