soloist

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Recent Examples of soloist Odom originated the role of Aaron Burr in Hamilton’s Off-Broadway and Broadway productions, earning a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical and a Grammy Award as a principal soloist on the Original Broadway Cast Recording. Greg Evans, Deadline, 14 Apr. 2025 Of that sum, vinyl purchases comprise 4,000 – a personal best sales week for Jonas as a soloist on vinyl. Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 5 June 2025 History celebrated the soloist, the rebel, the star—the Lone Eagle. David Rooney june 5, Literary Hub, 5 June 2025 These placements mark a first for Jonas as a soloist on all three rankings. Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for soloist
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Noun
  • Anoushka’s accompanist that night was Zakir Hussain, one of the world’s foremost tabla drum players.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The series is organized by McDaniel, a veteran Broadway music director and accompanist who also oversees the Cabaret & Performance conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 4 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • On view through July 30, 2025, the exhibition takes its title, The Homeless Wanderer, from a composition by Ethiopian pianist and composer Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, in keeping with the gallery’s tradition of naming shows after musical pieces.
    Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 11 June 2025
  • Your pianist, drummer, bassist, guitarist, maybe a lead trombone, lead woodwind, lead trumpet.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
Noun
  • He’s been a glamorous Visual Kei rock star, a classical composer, a virtuoso behind the drum kit, a producer and label owner and entrepreneur, and now, more than ever, an impresario.
    Steve Appleford, Variety, 17 June 2025
  • Little Feat, the archetypal ’70s band originally formed by Lowell George — a guitar virtuoso fired from the Mothers of Invention by Frank Zappa — has survived years of breakups, drug problems and even George’s untimely death in 1979.
    Dave Brooks, Billboard, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Woodwind contributions in the Schubert from clarinetist Stephen Williamson, oboist William Welter, and outgoing flutist Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson were both impassioned and lucid.
    Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2025
  • Chase’s extraordinary talent and drive were evident early on, including to flutist Beth Ross Buckley, the artistic director and co-founder of the chamber-music nonprofit Camarada.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 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 Argentine maestro tried to pull off some 11th-hour heroics.
    Michael Lewis, Forbes.com, 15 June 2025
  • At the end of the episode, Sajak, White, Ferguson, Goldsberry, and Peters all took to the stage to bid the maestro a final adieu.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 11 June 2025
Noun
  • My husband, who is sixty-nine, is also retired but freelances as a pianist and organist five or six days a week.
    Liana Finck, New Yorker, 5 June 2025
  • After winning his first Grammy this year for his roots-gospel album, Church, the organist and singer, known for his work with Snarky Puppy and Vulfpeck, appears to be in communion with something bigger than the stage.
    David Hochman, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
Noun
  • The group features Comstock on lead vocals, along with drummer James Brownstein and Hayden Tree, who’s also the lead singer for Crown the Empire, on bass.
    Katie Bain, Billboard, 20 June 2025
  • Headed by bass guitar dynamo and EWF co-founder Verdine White, the current lineup also features two members — singer Philip Bailey and drummer Ralph Johnson — who both came on board in 1972.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 June 2025

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