soloist

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Recent Examples of soloist With Yunchan Lim as soloist, the performance was as sharp and shadowed as though it were etched with a burin on a copper plate. Justin Davidson, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025 As a soloist, Byrne has logged 14 entries on the Billboard 200, including Who Is the Sky? Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 18 Sep. 2025 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. 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 See All Example Sentences for soloist
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Noun
  • Vermut is a natural accompanist to such an event.
    Joseph Hernandez, Bon Appetit Magazine, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Her quartet includes pianist Alan Pasqua, a superlative accompanist.
    Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News, 25 Sep. 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
  • Jazz In recent years, the pianist Vijay Iyer and the drummer Tyshawn Sorey, defining composers and leaders of contemporary jazz, have become one of its most formidable pairings.
    Hilton Als, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
  • In another Oscar-winning performance, Jamie Foxx expertly embodied legendary singer, songwriter and pianist Ray Charles in 2004's Ray.
    Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Vocal powerhouse and violinist Natalie Stovall stepped in for the duet and nailed a 12-second high note.
    Bryan West, Nashville Tennessean, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Tina Fey will join the celebrity chef in the season premiere, followed by Emmy- and Tony-winning actress Christine Baranski, violinist Itzhak Perlman and fashion designer Daniel Roseberry.
    Erin Lassner, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Palamides, as a physical-comedy virtuoso, loves mess—there’s a splash zone near the front, with audience members wearing plastic ponchos.
    Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
  • D’Angelo was raised in a deeply religious Pentecostal family and got his musical start in the church, becoming a virtuoso at several instruments.
    Andrew R. Chow, Time, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Founding flutist Ray Thomas died in January 2018, just months before the Hall of Fame induction.
    Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2025
  • 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
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
  • The drummer and saxophonist had left Kabul years earlier but stayed in touch with their Afghan students through the app, occasionally helping with visa applications.
    Vidushi Mishti Sharma, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Klaus Doldinger, the German saxophonist and composer who created the soundtracks to Wolfgang Petersen’s Das Boot and The NeverEnding Story, had died.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 18 Oct. 2025

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