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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.
—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
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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Frequent collaborators, the acclaimed violinist and pianist perform works by Schubert, Grieg, Ives, Ysaÿe and Ravel in their first joint appearance at Disney Hall since 2010.—
Arts Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
29 May 2026
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This concert event was coordinated by Nic Orbovich, the co-founder (with wife Sunny) of the Michigan City Chamber Music Festival and an accomplished violinist with his own concert resume.—
Philip Potempa,
Chicago Tribune,
28 May 2026
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Thile will also team with acclaimed jazz and classical singer Cécile McLorin Salvant and pianist Sullivan Fortner on a new version of Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera, which will receive its world premiere at the 2027 Festival.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 May 2026
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Frequent collaborators, the acclaimed violinist and pianist perform works by Schubert, Grieg, Ives, Ysaÿe and Ravel in their first joint appearance at Disney Hall since 2010.—
Arts Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
29 May 2026
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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.—
Scott Cantrell,
Dallas Morning News,
22 Mar. 2026
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Monette Marino, guitarist Joe Amato, bassist Harley Magsino, drummer Mike Holguin and saxophonist, flutist and harmonica player Tripp Sprague.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Apr. 2026
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Carolyn Brown, the orchestra’s principal flutist, will perform excerpts and participate in the Q&A session.—
Eric E. Harrison,
Arkansas Online,
22 Apr. 2026
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Rollins and his two older siblings were all introduced to music early by their father, who was a clarinetist.—
Don Heckman,
Los Angeles Times,
26 May 2026
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Performers include clarinetist Anthony McGill, violinists Leila Josefowicz and Geneva Lewis, and the Colburn Orchestra, making its Ojai Music Festival debut.—
Aidin Vaziri,
San Francisco Chronicle,
24 Mar. 2026
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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.—
Arts Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2026
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But guest violinist Nick Eanet’s instrument too often disappeared in combinations, especially with fairly bold projection from interim principal bassoonist George Sakakeeny.—
Scott Cantrell,
Dallas Morning News,
22 Mar. 2026
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The score by Amine Bouhafa and Isabelle Laudenbach — the director’s sister, and also an accomplished flamenco guitarist — deftly interpolates scraps and strains of Bizet’s original compositions, stripped of operatic excess and given a folky lilt.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
31 May 2026
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Three of those bands’ key members — Toto guitarist-vocalist Steve Lukather, former Average White Bands bassist/singer Hamish Stewart and Men At Work singer-guitarist Colin Hay — are All-Starr Band veterans.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 May 2026
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The program includes the church ensemble, harpist Destiny Muhammad’s trio, and a North-meets-South Indo-jazz trio with Carnatic saxophonist Prasant Radhakrishnan and percussionist Sameer Gupta (who founded RootStock Arts).—
Andrew Gilbert,
Mercury News,
28 May 2026
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Though a genre-fluid affair, the Blue Note fest also features some of the most adventurous pacesetters in modern jazz, among them the flautist Shabaka, the London septet Kokoroko, the trumpeter Chief Adjuah, and the harpist Brandee Younger.—
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
22 May 2026
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“Violist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/violist. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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