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Recent Examples of soloist
The Australian-Korean singer-songwriter — a member of supergroup Blackpink — is set to making K-pop history at Sunday’s 2026 Grammy Awards, becoming the first soloist to perform at the awards ceremony.
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Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 29 Jan. 2026
Headlining was flute soloist Demarre McGill — who grew up in city music programs like the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra and Merit School of Music.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 25 Jan. 2026
Perhaps some level of pain is hard-coded into the life of a professional soloist, whose existence is structured around the act of performing complex music to an impossibly high standard.
—John Phipps, New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2026
The ballad spent five non-consecutive weeks at #1 on the Hot 100 beginning in January 2025, logged 51 weeks in the Top 10, and made history as the first annual Hot 100 Songs #1 duet by a female and male soloist each in lead roles over the chart's 67-year history.
—Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 7 Jan. 2026
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Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 29 Jan. 2026
Headlining was flute soloist Demarre McGill — who grew up in city music programs like the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra and Merit School of Music.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 25 Jan. 2026
Perhaps some level of pain is hard-coded into the life of a professional soloist, whose existence is structured around the act of performing complex music to an impossibly high standard.
—John Phipps, New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2026
The ballad spent five non-consecutive weeks at #1 on the Hot 100 beginning in January 2025, logged 51 weeks in the Top 10, and made history as the first annual Hot 100 Songs #1 duet by a female and male soloist each in lead roles over the chart's 67-year history.
—Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 7 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for soloist
Noun
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Miles Messier fades into the background as the piano accompanist.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
2 Feb. 2026
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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
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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
Noun
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Classical In much the same way that youngsters might dig their parents’ Beatles records, the pianist and composer Amy Williams had a formative relationship with the music of the minimalist composer Morton Feldman.—
Sheldon Pearce,
New Yorker,
20 Feb. 2026
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Recorded fewer than 30 blocks form where Glenn Gould laid down his own landmark recording of Johann Sebastian Bach’s masterpiece, pianist Yunchan Lim’s new album has been topping the classical charts since its release earlier this month.—
Arts Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The performers will be tenor Jon Lee Keenan, violinist Agatha Blevin, violist Jonah Sirota, cellist Sarah Kim and pianist Irene Kim.—
La Jolla Light,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Feb. 2026
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Bell is a Grammy-winning classical superstar violinist.—
Adam Bell
February 24,
Charlotte Observer,
24 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Beside me stood Laura, our trumpet virtuoso, a freshman who played with silky sophistication.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Feb. 2026
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Just like any virtuoso, Greenberg needs a stage.—
Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
10 Feb. 2026
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After a decade-long absence, flutist Lori Bell is returning to the Rancho Bernardo Library, this time accompanied by guitarist Ron Satterfield.—
Elizabeth Marie Himchak,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 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
Noun
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On their debut album together, post-punk trio the Messthetics and saxophonist James Brandon Lewis arrived at the same point by following two different paths.—
Stephen Thomas Erlewine,
Pitchfork,
19 Feb. 2026
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The score alternates between traditional ceremonial sounds and some jazz pieces by saxophonist Keïta Janota and Gaspard Gomis which frame the narration.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
14 Feb. 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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