cellist

noun cel·list \ ˈche-list \

|Updated on: 15 Aug 2018

Definition of cellist

: a cello player

a yard-long implement that looks just like a cellist's bow, only larger.
—Donovan Hohn

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Hot weather forced a deletion from Friday night’s concert by the Grant Park Orchestra, narrowing an Eastern European program to an all-Czech evening that had cellist Johannes Moser as its star.

— alan artner, chicagotribune.com, "In the heat, Moser, Grant Park Orchestra perform a delicate Dvorak," 30 June 2018
The ensemble — a pianist, cellist, singer and percussionist — began to play.

— robert mccoppin, courant.com, "Music Can Call Back Loved Ones Lost In Alzheimer's Darkness," 22 June 2018
Such clusters of notes can’t really be written down, said Philadelphia cellist Ohad (Udi) Bar-David, who also employed micro-tones in a long, soulful solo that went to musical places that few Western musicians can inhabit.

— david patrick stearns, Philly.com, "Philadelphia Orchestra's first day in Israel: 'Want to hear more?' asks Yannick," 3 June 2018
There was a black cellist and there was a black choir and a black pastor.

— megan mccluskey, Time, "Trevor Noah Is Here With the Royal Wedding Stand-Up Set You Were Waiting For," 23 May 2018
Graduated Midwood HS, the Brooklyn College, majored in Fine Arts. Attended the Interlocken Music Camp and was an accomplished cellist.

— Sun-Sentinel.com, "Deaths in South Florida: 4/15," 15 Apr. 2018
Brandon is getting married to a cellist (Eliza), Jude (Hayden Byerly) just finished his first year at UCLA, and Jesus has that treehouse building company with Wyatt.

— rebecca farley, refinery29.com, "The Beginning Of The End: The Fosters Series Finale, Part 1," 5 June 2018
The multicultural flourishes -- a soaring address by a black American bishop, gospel music soulfully sung by a choir, a rapturous performance by a black cellist -- seemed to both surprise and excite the masses.

— doug criss and stephanie halasz, CNN, "German broadcaster referred to Markle as 'exotic,' and had some fairly odd comments about black hair," 21 May 2018
Performances will include a 19-year-old black cellist, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, and the gospel Kingdom Choir, directed by a black British woman, Karen Gibson.

— afua hirsch, Time, "What Meghan Markle Means to the World," 17 May 2018

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