soloist

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Recent Examples of soloist 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 His previous two, on older tech, showcased Mt. Everest and the free soloist Alex Honnold. Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2025 The Black Sabbath frontman and soloist died of a heart attack on July 22 at age 76. Thomas Smith, Billboard, 7 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for soloist
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Noun
  • 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
  • That approach is elevated by the stellar quartet of James’ spiritual flurries of guitar strumming, G. Love and Special Sauce's Jeffrey Clemens on drums, plus the work of Nashville Symphony percussionist and his longtime accompanist Adrian Marmolejo on bass.
    Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • The five members — Montesi, Dressler, fiddlers Maggie MacPhail and Julia Homa, and cellist/pianist Giulia Haible — originally met at the Boston Harbor Scottish Fiddle School ten years ago; at the time their ages ranged from 7 to 11.
    Brett Milano, Boston Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
  • For his album release concert Sunday at Tio Leo’s, Sprague will perform with Moore, bassist Mackenzie Leighton and pianist Danny Green.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Featured on the album are violinist and violist Macie Stewart, cellist Ben Whiteley, upright bassist Nick Macri, and woodwinds player Hunter Diamond.
    Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Federal immigration agents reportedly arrested a professional violinist on the same day of his wife's birthday.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Jorge Luis Pacheco takes the Break room stage Saturday, Sept. 27, at 7 p.m. Hailing from Havana, Cuba, Pacheco is a virtuoso pianist, singer, composer, percussionist and arranger.
    Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Born in East Harlem to Puerto Rican parents — and the younger brother of Charlie, another virtuoso keyboardist and bandleader — Palmieri reflected the city’s inner turmoil and avant-garde tendencies through a propulsive patchwork of jazz, Afro-Latin rhythms, funk, and psychedelia.
    Ernesto Lechner, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Saxophonist-flutist-vocalist Denson is a gifted jazz-funk veteran, and his band can be relentlessly energetic live.
    Bret Saunders, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Sophia is a flutist in the CHMS band program and picked up bass guitar during the last school year and joined the school’s Jazz Band.
    Chuck Fieldman, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Numerous generations have looked up to the great tenor saxophonist, who performed alongside John Coltrane in the ‘60s and participated in numerous transcendent dates before his passing in 2022 at 81.
    Bret Saunders, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025
  • An aspiring jazz saxophonist might consider Lawrence University (#312) in Appleton, Wisconsin.
    Emma Whitford, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025

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