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Recent Examples of soloist
My uncle, a People’s Artist of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic and soloist of the Ashgabat Opera, was forced to abandon all his possessions and flee with his family—just to survive.
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Mikhail Zygar, Air Mail, 6 Dec. 2025
India Bradley is the first soloist Black dancer within the institution’s 75-year history.
—Malik Peay, Essence, 4 Dec. 2025
For the role, Odom famously earned a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical and a Grammy Award as a principal soloist on the Original Broadway Cast Recording.
—Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Dec. 2025
Guest soloist Paul Lewis will play Norwegian composer Edvard Grief's Piano Concerto.
—Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2025
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Mikhail Zygar, Air Mail, 6 Dec. 2025
India Bradley is the first soloist Black dancer within the institution’s 75-year history.
—Malik Peay, Essence, 4 Dec. 2025
For the role, Odom famously earned a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical and a Grammy Award as a principal soloist on the Original Broadway Cast Recording.
—Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Dec. 2025
Guest soloist Paul Lewis will play Norwegian composer Edvard Grief's Piano Concerto.
—Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for soloist
Noun
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Singer-songwriter Holly Near had hired Bucchino as a piano accompanist for her performances at a conference at the tropical getaway.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
16 Nov. 2025
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Vermut is a natural accompanist to such an event.—
Joseph Hernandez,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
21 Oct. 2025
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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
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Wednesday’s concert at Conrad Prebys Concert Hall on the UCSD campus will find Narucki performing with two frequent collaborators, coloratura soprano Kirsten Ashley Wiest and pianist Donald Berman.—
Beth Wood,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Jan. 2026
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Tamami Honma is the guest pianist.—
Anne Gelhaus,
Mercury News,
11 Jan. 2026
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An hour later, for its first concert since the fires, parishioners sat in awe as Grammy Award winning violinist Anne Akiko Meyers weaved her bow across her violin, the music of Johann Sebastian Bach echoing through the church.—
Camelia Heins,
Daily News,
8 Jan. 2026
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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
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They were accompanied by vocal virtuosos Lucius and blues-rock rippers Judith Hill and Eric Krasno, each fixtures in the local music community trying to rebuild itself in the wake of the Eaton fire.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Jan. 2026
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Geese, a quartet of young rock virtuosos from Brooklyn, capture the vibe shift in freaky fidelity.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
12 Dec. 2025
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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
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And guitarist, saxophonist and flutist Joe Harrison, a Canyon Crest Academy alum, toured this year as the bassist in Black Keys.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Dec. 2025
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The Messthetics—the band formed around Fugazi’s rhythm section of Joe Lally and Brendan Canty—released their debut album in 2018 and a follow-up a year later, before uniting with jazz saxophonist Lewis.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
9 Jan. 2026
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The commemorative program will have guest performers, including renowned jazz saxophonist Juli Wood, vocalist Robin Pluer, vocalist Dorothy Jackson, and singer/pianist David Nunley.—
Cathy Kozlowicz,
jsonline.com,
8 Jan. 2026
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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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