maestro (n.)

• abecedarian
• artist
• artiste
• docent
• doctor
• dominie
• don
• educationist
• educator
• executant
• fellow
• guide
• guru
• instructor
• interpreter
• master
• mentor
• minstrel
• minstrelsy
• mullah
• musician
• pedagogue
• performer
• player
• preceptor
• professor
• pundit
• rabbi
• schoolmaster
• schoolteacher
• soloist
• starets
• teacher
• virtuoso