: a cello player
… a yard-long implement that looks just like a cellist's bow, only larger.—
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And suddenly, Sheku was a bonafide star, the first cellist ever to crack the top 10 on the UK album charts.
—Jon Wertheim, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2025
The concerts highlighted her outstanding skills as a cellist and uncanny ability to weave parts of Bach cello suites and short works by contemporary composers into a seamless hour of mesmerizing music.
—Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2025
Spaeny appears in Wake Up Dead Man as Simone Vivane, a former concert cellist.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Dec. 2025
Cy’s adoptive mother who gave up her dreams of a big-city law career to raise him, and Simone Vivane (Cailee Spaeny), a former star cellist who hopes that the thousands of dollars she’s donated to Wicks will generate a miracle cure for her chronic pain.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2025
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Jon Wertheim, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2025
The concerts highlighted her outstanding skills as a cellist and uncanny ability to weave parts of Bach cello suites and short works by contemporary composers into a seamless hour of mesmerizing music.
—Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2025
Spaeny appears in Wake Up Dead Man as Simone Vivane, a former concert cellist.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Dec. 2025
Cy’s adoptive mother who gave up her dreams of a big-city law career to raise him, and Simone Vivane (Cailee Spaeny), a former star cellist who hopes that the thousands of dollars she’s donated to Wicks will generate a miracle cure for her chronic pain.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2025
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“Cellist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cellist. Accessed 27 Dec. 2025.
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