soloist

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Recent Examples of soloist Evelyn was a guest soloist who performed at the annual May Wine Brunch during the event’s early decades. Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2026 Since several of the pieces on the program are heavily focused on the band’s trombone section, Conductor Mitch Fennell has invited Alex Iles to perform as a soloist for four of them. Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2026 Wenner reneged on his word and McCartney was snubbed as a soloist until 1999. Devon Ivie, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2026 Balances were a recurrent problem in the Prokofiev, and, with big and often distracting gestures, Kavakos didn’t always keep up with the soloist, the DSO’s excellent concertmaster, Alexander Kerr. Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News, 1 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for soloist
Recent Examples of Synonyms for soloist
Noun
  • Miles Messier fades into the background as the piano accompanist.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 2 Feb. 2026
  • The album was credited to Chick and featured Carey as a vocal accompanist, not the lead singer.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 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
  • Dewey is excused from his parents’ anniversary party, given his success as a pianist, but Lois demands that everyone else be present, including Malcolm.
    Allison McClain Merrill, Parents, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Jazz band member Julia Wickless, 17, a pianist, hopes to play in college, but not make music her career.
    Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 7 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The performance of the Rózsa just missed the 70th anniversary of its world premiere, the DSO then led by Walter Hendl, with the most famous violinist of the day, Jascha Heifetz.
    Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News, 27 Mar. 2026
  • From the stage of Amsterdam's historic concert hall, violinist Hyunjin Cho and cellist Efstratia Chaloulakou look out over row after row of young faces illuminated by the glow of laptop screens.
    ABC News, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Other guitar virtuosos might crave at least a little downtime between concluding a Las Vegas concert residency with one band and launching a national tour with another band, not but Joe Satriani.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Also appearing on the album are American composer Elliot Cole on synthesizer, French composer Benoit Rolland on electro-acoustics and Bangladeshi tabla virtuoso Mir Naqibul Islam.
    Arts Editor, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The group consists of violinist Yale Strom, vocalist Elizabeth Schwartz, tenor saxophonist and flutist Tripp Sprague, guitarist Fred Benedetti and contrabassist Luke Little.
    Pomerado News, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Japanese percussionist and bamboo flutist Kaoru Watanabe and Sicilian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi contribute to the polyrhythmic grooves and spacious, reflective passages.
    Andrew Gilbert, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • In addition, saxophonist Kamasi Washington will perform both is 2023 album Fearless Movement in its entirety as well as a set featuring the works of John Coltrane and Miles Davis.
    SPIN Staff, SPIN, 7 Apr. 2026
  • And after Clarence Clemons died in 2011, it was again reborn in honor of the late saxophonist.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 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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