oboist

noun

Definition of oboistnext
as in violinist

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Recent Examples of oboist Principal oboist Jennifer Corning Lucio and principal cellist Allan Steele found a happy medium in between, Steele dispatching flashy writing with particularly impressive aplomb. — Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News, 22 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oboist
  1. violinist
  2. pianist
  3. bassoonist
  4. clarinetist
  5. flutist
  6. violist
  7. trombonist
  8. organist
Noun
  • Mariachi Damas de Jalisco are making room for songs made famous by women, violinist Elizabeth Sosa tells me.
    — Zoey Goto, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2026
  • His father, Stanley Silverman, is a composer who has arranged music for Sting and Paul Simon; his mother, Mary (Delson) Silverman,was an opera singer, and his stepmother a violinist.
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of violinist
Noun
  • Toward the end of the evening, the jazz pianist, a dapper man named Lafayette, took the microphone to thank each member of the band.
    — Jane Bua, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026
  • The music school Toki Rapa Nui, co-founded by classical pianist Mahani Teave, offers occasional concerts and guided visits of its sustainable Earthship building, which is shaped like an eight-petal flower.
    — Mark Johanson, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of pianist
Noun
  • The flutist Denis Bouriakov and the bassoonist Whitney Crockett applied pinpoint dexterity to Paganini and Rossini, respectively.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
  • On The Mountain The duo Dyad — violinist Niv Ashkenazi and bassoonist Leah Kohn — performs their own arrangements of selections from Ernest Bloch, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Niccolo Paganini, Irving Berlin, Bruce Babcock, Johann Sebastian Bach, Camille Saint-Saëns and George Gershwin.
    — Arts Editor, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
Definition of bassoonist
Noun
  • The ambient dub producer and clarinetist will release Memoria on September 4 via Smalltown Supersound.
    — Walden Green, Pitchfork, 6 July 2026
  • Principal clarinetist Dario Brignoli went in a different direction while playing an arrangement of George Gershwin’s Three Preludes.
    — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
Definition of clarinetist
Noun
  • That piece marks the origin—and, in its centennial, the destination—of the flutist Claire Chase’s twenty-four-year-long commissioning program, Density 2036.
    — Shauna Lyon, New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2026
  • His father, saxophonist, flutist and vocalist Scott Mayo, performed with Earth, Wind & Fire and Sérgio Mendes.
    — Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News, 16 July 2026
Definition of flutist
Noun
  • That’s the colloquial name for the Salkin House, an 1,100-square-foot dwelling perched on a hillside lot, built for violist Jules Salkin in 1948 by John Lautner, the famed midcentury modern architect.
    — Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 13 Oct. 2026
  • With pardessus de violist Melisande Corriveau, viola da gambist Susie Napper, harpsichordist Elisabeth Wright.
    — Jamie Chapman, Baltimore Sun, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of violist
Noun
  • The ceremony will also honor the late, great Willie Colón, the Nuyorican trombonist, singer, bandleader, composer, producer and arranger whose work helped shape salsa.
    — Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2026
  • The trombonist Cutler is played by Terence Archie as stolid, unassuming and quietly in control.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of trombonist
Noun
  • Traumatized after being the sole survivor of a car crash, Mary (Candace Hilligoss) abruptly leaves her small town in Kansas for a job as a church organist in Utah.
    — Air Mail, Air Mail, 31 Oct. 2026
  • Recorded live in a Norwegian church with the British organist Kit Downes, the album consists almost entirely of pipe organ and Sundfør’s steadfast, saintly voice.
    — Emma Madden, Pitchfork, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of organist

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“Oboist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oboist. Accessed 14 Nov. 2026.

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