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Recent Examples of violist
The season’s artistic partners include Nagy, pianist Richard Goode, cellist Abel Selaocoe, violist Tabea Zimmermann and violinist Alina Ibragimova, who returns for Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in her first performances since being named an artistic partner in 2026.
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Ross Raihala,
Twin Cities,
7 May 2026
The quartet also features violinist Sindri Lederer, violist Andrea Berger and pianist Antonia Koster.
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Anne Gelhaus,
Mercury News,
22 Mar. 2026
The principal flutist of the San Diego Symphony, Lombardo will be joined by such talented musicians as symphony violinist Tiffany Wee and Hausmann Quartet violist Angela Choong.
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Beth Wood,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Mar. 2026
The film tells the story of a violist haunted by visions of her future self.
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Leigh Nordstrom,
Footwear News,
26 Jan. 2026
The live musical performance will attempt to mirror that effect using a new technology that generates electronic sounds and lights created by measuring, in real time, the brain activity of the performing violist.
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Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Dec. 2025
Davis is a professional violist whose estranged pastor father dies on the same day as his wedding to Everett, a white man from a wealthy family.
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Lauren Morrow
september 9,
Literary Hub,
9 Sep. 2025
Featured on the album are violinist and violist Macie Stewart, cellist Ben Whiteley, upright bassist Nick Macri, and woodwinds player Hunter Diamond.
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Matthew Strauss,
Pitchfork,
4 Sep. 2025
Ross Raihala,
Twin Cities,
7 May 2026
The quartet also features violinist Sindri Lederer, violist Andrea Berger and pianist Antonia Koster.
—
Anne Gelhaus,
Mercury News,
22 Mar. 2026
The principal flutist of the San Diego Symphony, Lombardo will be joined by such talented musicians as symphony violinist Tiffany Wee and Hausmann Quartet violist Angela Choong.
—
Beth Wood,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Mar. 2026
The film tells the story of a violist haunted by visions of her future self.
—
Leigh Nordstrom,
Footwear News,
26 Jan. 2026
The live musical performance will attempt to mirror that effect using a new technology that generates electronic sounds and lights created by measuring, in real time, the brain activity of the performing violist.
—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Dec. 2025
Davis is a professional violist whose estranged pastor father dies on the same day as his wedding to Everett, a white man from a wealthy family.
—
Lauren Morrow
september 9,
Literary Hub,
9 Sep. 2025
Featured on the album are violinist and violist Macie Stewart, cellist Ben Whiteley, upright bassist Nick Macri, and woodwinds player Hunter Diamond.
—
Matthew Strauss,
Pitchfork,
4 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for violist
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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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Drones and water choreography, acrobats, and a floating pianist paired with over-the-top performances by Leona Lewis and opera singer Joseph Calleja transformed the night into a spectacle.
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The Fremont software engineer and entrepreneur has carved out a bustling career as a jazz pianist, a realm where children of the Great Depression share the bandstand with Gen Z teenagers.
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Principal oboist Jennifer Corning Lucio and principal cellist Allan Steele found a happy medium in between, Steele dispatching flashy writing with particularly impressive aplomb.
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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 core group now augments itself with the bass clarinetist Madison Greenstone, trombonist Weston Olencki, and, for the first time in the band’s history, vocals.
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Rollins and his two older siblings were all introduced to music early by their father, who was a clarinetist.
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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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On The Mountain The duo Dyad — violinist Niv Ashkenazi and bassoonist Leah Kohn — performs their own arrangements of selections from Ernest Bloch, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Niccolo Paganini, Irving Berlin, Bruce Babcock, Johann Sebastian Bach, Camille Saint-Saëns and George Gershwin.
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His debut on the annual awards program’s main stage featured a live guitarist amplifying the atmospheric vibe of the flirtatious song.
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Singer and guitarist Corin Tucker reunites with her punk band, Heavens to Betsy, for their first show in 32 years in Portland, Oregon, on June 25.
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Playing bass in his place is Rob Jost, while harpist Mikaela Davis hops on a few tracks for levity, too.
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Now, local harpist and songwriter Calvin Arsenia is working to ensure that legacy continues.
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“Violist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/violist. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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