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Recent Examples of soloist
While Chaeyeon remained an active face in the K-entertainment scene on music and variety shows post-IZ*ONE, the star made her debut as a soloist in late 2022 with the EP, Hush Rush.
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Jeff Benjamin, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
At one moment in the concerto, the soloist—here the brilliant, committed young pianist Jeonghwan Kim—silently depresses a C-major triad with the left hand and then bangs out a C-major triad with the right, so that the lower strings resonate.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Barnatan had been a guest soloist with the San Diego Symphony in the past, so Lombardo had experienced his prowess at the piano several times.
—Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Aug. 2025
Orff originally wrote it for tenor, that soloist’s single appearance in the cantata.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
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Jeff Benjamin, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
At one moment in the concerto, the soloist—here the brilliant, committed young pianist Jeonghwan Kim—silently depresses a C-major triad with the left hand and then bangs out a C-major triad with the right, so that the lower strings resonate.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Barnatan had been a guest soloist with the San Diego Symphony in the past, so Lombardo had experienced his prowess at the piano several times.
—Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Aug. 2025
Orff originally wrote it for tenor, that soloist’s single appearance in the cantata.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for soloist
Noun
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Her quartet includes pianist Alan Pasqua, a superlative accompanist.—
Andrew Gilbert,
Mercury News,
25 Sep. 2025
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Auditioners should prepare 16-24 bars of a contemporary musical theater piece; an accompanist and a speaker for recorded tracks will be provided.—
Eric E. Harrison,
Arkansas Online,
24 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The teacher, recitalist, and accompanist won first place in the Union League Civic & Arts Foundation’s 2009 classical piano competition.—
Myrna Petlicki,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Cherdack Sherman, a professional vocalist, pianist and guitarist, is a graduate of Miami Killian High School.—
Bea L. Hines,
Miami Herald,
3 Oct. 2025
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In a 2014 Journal Sentinel interview, Wilson described himself as a different kind of pianist than Liberace, and not as technically skilled.—
Jim Higgins,
jsonline.com,
2 Oct. 2025
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There’s no orchestra, just one violinist, and most of the music is prerecorded — though the voices are, of course, very live and very big.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
30 Sep. 2025
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The launch of Crescendo was celebrated on Tuesday morning at the Southbank Centre with a special performance from violinist and TikTok creator Esther Abrami (pictured above), who is on the panel of experts that will be selecting the inaugural cohort.—
Ellise Shafer,
Variety,
30 Sep. 2025
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Your little virtuoso can also activate the pixel piano player mode that builds and displays cool versions of their favorite animals.—
Pamela Brill,
Parents,
2 Oct. 2025
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Earlier, John Mayer opened with an easygoing, hour-long set interspersed with his moments of virtuoso guitar heat.—
Brian McCollum,
Freep.com,
27 Sep. 2025
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Race day registration begins at 7:30 a.m. Peninsula Symphony concert Peninsula Symphony opens its 77th season Oct. 4 at 7:30 p.m. at Campbell’s Heritage Theatre with a program featuring flutist Demarre McGill and conducted by Lara Webber.—
Anne Gelhaus,
Mercury News,
21 Sep. 2025
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Lair’s dad was a flutist in the symphony.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Before that, a preconcert panel of Price scholars and current CSO composer-in-residence Jessie Montgomery discussed the symphonist’s remarkable life and even more remarkable music.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
6 May 2022
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A decade after basing a whole festival on Bruckner and minimalist master John Adams, Franz Welser-Most Thursday night at Severance Music Center juxtaposed the grand Austrian symphonist with Arnold Schoenberg, the father of serialism.—
Zachary Lewis,
cleveland,
25 Feb. 2022
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Other artists that delivered winning Day 1 performances included saxophonist-vocalist Grace Kelly and Latin jazz pianist Alfredo Rodriguez.—
Jim Harrington,
Mercury News,
28 Sep. 2025
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Wilson’s Christmas Tree-O, featuring saxophonist Jeff Lederer, exudes enough joyous holiday spirit to illuminate any setting.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Sep. 2025
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