soloist

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Recent Examples of soloist Debussy’s Sonata has a wistful feeling, as the melody moves between soloist and orchestra in a textured, haunting dance. Sheila Regan, Twin Cities, 22 May 2026 Yu, who lives in Mira Mesa, has performed as a soloist and accompanied many groups at venues throughout the area, including the Poway Center for the Performing Arts, and across the United States and China. Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2026 In a rare inverse problem where the group should be inducted after the soloist, Molanphy believes the Commodores are long overdue for recognition. Devon Ivie, Vulture, 14 May 2026 Having been surpassed, as an athlete, by Alex Honnold, the new free soloist in the valley, Potter, then in his early forties, reimagined himself as a performance artist, of a kind. Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 4 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for soloist
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Noun
  • Bono presented the accolade, the two talked Springteen’s music and activism and joined Patti Smith and her longtime accompanist Tony Shanahan in People Have The Power to standing ovations, clapping and loud cheers.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 13 June 2026
  • Six years ago, Donald Milton III, artistic director of the Atlanta Gay Men’s Chorus, was having lunch with the organization’s accompanist, Eric Baumgartner, racking their respective brains about future projects.
    Jim Farmer, AJC.com, 10 June 2026
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
  • Music was how my mother—an opera singer, pianist, and educator—taught me to engage with the world.
    Hillary Richard, Travel + Leisure, 10 June 2026
  • One scene sees Sheku perform Mendelssohn’s Song Without Words as a duet with his pianist sister Isata Kanneh-Mason.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 9 June 2026
Noun
  • The evening took an unusual turn as a violinist and cellist — SistaStrings — took the stage and were followed by Brandi Carlile bearing an acoustic guitar.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 12 June 2026
  • The soloist for this performance is the young Spanish violinist Maria Dueñas, first prize winner of the Yehudi Menuhin Competition’s senior division in 2021 as a teenager.
    Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 11 June 2026
Noun
  • The German drum virtuoso wasn’t deeply familiar with the band’s repertoire when Lee and Lifeson first brought her to Toronto to jam.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2026
  • Laviolette, whose only full season outside the head coaching ranks in the past quarter-century came during Kopitar’s final campaign, lamented not being able to work with the two-way virtuoso.
    Andrew Knoll, Daily News, 11 June 2026
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
  • Monette Marino, guitarist Joe Amato, bassist Harley Magsino, drummer Mike Holguin and saxophonist, flutist and harmonica player Tripp Sprague.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • He is named after the jazz saxophonist Branford Marsalis, after all.
    Dr. Marcus Collins, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • Benitez joins the Kev Choice Ensemble at Yoshi’s on June 26 as part of a powerhouse horn section with 19-year-old Oakland tenor saxophonist Ayo Brame, who’s sold out a series of his own shows at the Jack London Square club.
    Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News, 11 June 2026
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

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