soloist

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Recent Examples of soloist The instrument separation is good enough to allow each section its own space in the mix, and both the vocal soloist and the choir can easily cut through. PC Magazine, 27 Aug. 2025 Barnatan had been a guest soloist with the San Diego Symphony in the past, so Lombardo had experienced his prowess at the piano several times. Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Aug. 2025 Orff originally wrote it for tenor, that soloist’s single appearance in the cantata. Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025 The Black Sabbath frontman and soloist died of a heart attack on July 22 at age 76. Thomas Smith, Billboard, 7 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for soloist
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Noun
  • Constantly in demand as a solo artist, accompanist, recording engineer and album producer, Sprague turned to other projects.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • The former artistic director of the organization's jazz programming, composer and pianist Jason Moran, departed in July after joining the Kennedy Center in 2011.
    Anastasia Tsioulcas, NPR, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The pianist’s choice of instrument also matters.
    Anna Haines, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Daring composer Jlin also collaborates with violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain and percussive dancer Leonardo Sandoval.
    Sheila Regan, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Blending lyrical sensuality and emotional force, Primavera tells the story of Cecilia, a gifted young violinist raised in an orphanage in 18th-century Venice, whose world is turned upside down by her encounter with Antonio Vivaldi.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • MetLiveArts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s performing arts series, will kick off its 2025-2026 season tomorrow night with a program featuring pipa virtuoso Wu Man.
    Jane Levere, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Jorge Luis Pacheco takes the Break room stage Saturday, Sept. 27, at 7 p.m. Hailing from Havana, Cuba, Pacheco is a virtuoso pianist, singer, composer, percussionist and arranger.
    Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 24 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Saxophonist-flutist-vocalist Denson is a gifted jazz-funk veteran, and his band can be relentlessly energetic live.
    Bret Saunders, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Sophia is a flutist in the CHMS band program and picked up bass guitar during the last school year and joined the school’s Jazz Band.
    Chuck Fieldman, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 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
  • Numerous generations have looked up to the great tenor saxophonist, who performed alongside John Coltrane in the ‘60s and participated in numerous transcendent dates before his passing in 2022 at 81.
    Bret Saunders, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025
  • An aspiring jazz saxophonist might consider Lawrence University (#312) in Appleton, Wisconsin.
    Emma Whitford, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025

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