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Recent Examples of soloist
The soloist for this performance is the young Spanish violinist Maria Dueñas, first prize winner of the Yehudi Menuhin Competition’s senior division in 2021 as a teenager.
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Randy McMullen,
Mercury News,
11 June 2026
This is meant not as a concerto in which the soloist stands as an individual against the masses but, rather, as a partner.
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Mark Swed,
Los Angeles Times,
3 June 2026
But Rollins wasn’t just a great soloist.
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David A. Graham,
The Atlantic,
27 May 2026
Debussy’s Sonata has a wistful feeling, as the melody moves between soloist and orchestra in a textured, haunting dance.
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Sheila Regan,
Twin Cities,
22 May 2026
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Randy McMullen,
Mercury News,
11 June 2026
This is meant not as a concerto in which the soloist stands as an individual against the masses but, rather, as a partner.
—
Mark Swed,
Los Angeles Times,
3 June 2026
But Rollins wasn’t just a great soloist.
—
David A. Graham,
The Atlantic,
27 May 2026
Debussy’s Sonata has a wistful feeling, as the melody moves between soloist and orchestra in a textured, haunting dance.
—
Sheila Regan,
Twin Cities,
22 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for soloist
Recent Examples of Synonyms for soloist
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Bono presented the accolade, the two talked Springteen’s music and activism and joined Patti Smith and her longtime accompanist Tony Shanahan in People Have The Power to standing ovations, clapping and loud cheers.
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Six years ago, Donald Milton III, artistic director of the Atlanta Gay Men’s Chorus, was having lunch with the organization’s accompanist, Eric Baumgartner, racking their respective brains about future projects.
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The teacher, recitalist, and accompanist won first place in the Union League Civic & Arts Foundation’s 2009 classical piano competition.
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The pianist may introduce a new chord color.
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Hailing from an illustrious Cuban family deeply engaged with classical music, pianist López-Gavilán has distinguished himself across a verdant musical landscape.
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He is lured by the sound of music down a Montmartre street to Nicholas de Lenfent (Joseph Potter), an old friend from his village who has grown up to be a talented violinist and rakish twink.
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Ray McMillian is a talented Black classical violinist who defies systemic racism and his family’s discouragement to achieve musical success.
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He was widely celebrated as a virtuoso who nurtured America’s economic well-being and whose nearly every utterance was parsed for clues as to where interest rates, the economy and the financial markets might be headed.
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The German drum virtuoso wasn’t deeply familiar with the band’s repertoire when Lee and Lifeson first brought her to Toronto to jam.
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The flutist Denis Bouriakov and the bassoonist Whitney Crockett applied pinpoint dexterity to Paganini and Rossini, respectively.
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Monette Marino, guitarist Joe Amato, bassist Harley Magsino, drummer Mike Holguin and saxophonist, flutist and harmonica player Tripp Sprague.
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The saxophonist is a musical shapeshifter who lends his talents far and wide, but his dreamiest, most conventionally melodic music usually arises from his long-running collaboration with vocalist Nicholas Krgovich.
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The wild card is Chicago alto saxophonist Lenard Simpson, a prodigious young player known for his impassioned improvisational flights.
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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.
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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.
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