oboist

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Noun
  • Especially on the opening night, featuring an opera singer, pianist and violinist, the performance will turn the ISE South Entrance into a special evening experience.
    Benny Har-Even, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Four musicians — a pianist, violinist, guitarist and bassist — perform Hale’s adaptations of Dylan’s songs, while the actors creatively jam the percussion parts.
    Danielle Charbonneau, AJC.com, 27 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Her grandfather preached and her grandmother worked as the congregation’s pianist, setting an early foundation for her father.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Mariah Carey and Chinese pianist Lang Lang will be among the key performers on the night, alongside other local personalities such as Andrea Bocelli, Laura Pausini, Ghali, opera singer Cecilia Bartoli and actor Pierfrancesco Favino.
    Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 6 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Albert Navarro had been a saxophonist and a clarinettist who worked as a music teacher and as a bandleader at resort hotels.
    Ian Parker, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • La Jolla Music Society brings together three top classical solo artists, clarinetist Andreas Ottensamer, cellist Kian Soltani and pianist Alessio Bax, performing together works by Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn and Brahms.
    Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • After a decade-long absence, flutist Lori Bell is returning to the Rancho Bernardo Library, this time accompanied by guitarist Ron Satterfield.
    Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2026
  • It will be played by flutist Mark Teplitsky, violinist Eric Gratz, cellist Julian Schwartz and harpsichordist Ian Pritchard.
    Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The film tells the story of a violist haunted by visions of her future self.
    Leigh Nordstrom, Footwear News, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The live musical performance will attempt to mirror that effect using a new technology that generates electronic sounds and lights created by measuring, in real time, the brain activity of the performing violist.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 18 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • On March 8, Bello’s teenage son Nigel, a trombonist, performs with his Nigel Bello Band.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 3 Jan. 2026
  • But the New Orleans trombonist didn’t love the results.
    Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 6 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Her late mother, a pianist and organist, taught her piano at an early age.
    Christina Mayo, Miami Herald, 22 Jan. 2026
  • As well as a composer and composition professor, Anton Bruckner was an organist.
    Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News, 16 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • In 1984, Peplowski joined clarinet legend Benny Goodman’s last band as a tenor saxophonist and remained in the group until the bandleader's death in 1986.
    Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 4 Feb. 2026
  • In particular, Garwood proved to be a marvelous vocalist — stepping up to the microphone with a memorably deep and resonate voice that brought to mind Nick Cave — as well as a solid rhythm guitarist and fine soprano saxophonist with a taste for free jazz.
    Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2026
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“Oboist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oboist. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.

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