How to Use concertmaster in a Sentence

concertmaster

noun

• And, among those ladies, many, if not half, are Asian and the concertmaster, Frank Huang, is Chinese-born.
  — George Varga, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 June 2018
• De Pue became one of the youngest concertmasters in the country when he was appointed in 2007.
  — Sarah Bahr, Indianapolis Star, 27 June 2018
• The concertmaster, also known as the first-chair violinist, acts as a spokesperson of sorts for the group, St. John said.
  — Lawrence Elizabeth Knox, Houston Chronicle, 7 Feb. 2018
• Her wife, Sharon (Nina Hoss), is the Berlin concertmaster.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Oct. 2022
• But despite the news, Drew Irvin — the orchestra’s co-concertmaster — came up with a way to play some music.
  — Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2020
• The concertmaster chair was endowed by the late Anna Sinton Taft.
  — Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 13 July 2018
• Halen has been concertmaster of the St. Louis Symphony since 1995.
  — Janelle Gelfand, Cincinnati.com, 14 July 2017
• The concerto was written for the concertmasters of all three orchestras to play.
  — Richard S. Ginell, latimes.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• Irvin, the co-concertmaster of the orchestra, came up with the idea after a weekend of shows had to be postponed because of the coronavirus outbreak.
  — Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2020
• Callas’ nod to the concertmaster (in this case Robert Hanford) and gestures toward the conductor (Eimear Noone) brought a human touch to a high-tech illusion.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 8 Sep. 2019
• The orchestra, led as usual by concertmaster Robert Mealy, was deft and expressive, and the chorus matched it in energy.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2023
• Boyer performed as guest concertmaster for the first concert of the festival, a Scottish-themed program.
  — Janelle Gelfand, Cincinnati.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• The orchestra’s concertmaster, Tchaikovsky drew out the opening theme of the long first movement like a silken skein, his head pillowed on his violin as though listening for a distant melody.
  — Christopher Benfey, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2023
• The format of this concert has roots that date back to the Baroque era, wherein the concertmaster or a chord-playing musician like a harpsichordist often served as the leader of an orchestra.
  — Lawrence Elizabeth Knox, Houston Chronicle, 7 Feb. 2018
• The Cleveland Orchestra has a concertmaster once again.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 27 May 2022
• Belinda Broughton, a veteran concertmaster violinist, has long argued that L.A. would win back much of its lost work if the union got rid of the demand for back-end payments.
  — Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2021
• The last movement Rigaudon was silken and elastic, with expert playing by concertmaster Kathryn Hatmaker.
  — Luke Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2023
• The symphony has its own weirdness too, as in the second movement when the concertmaster mistunes his violin for a devilish dance.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2021
• In an era when big studios had their own in-house orchestras, his grandfather Felix Slatkin was the concertmaster at 20th Century Fox.
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 27 Apr. 2022
• Kevin Lin will officially begin as concertmaster in the fall.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, Indianapolis Star, 4 Mar. 2020
• Festival Orchestra concertmaster William Preucil was soloist in the violin concerto, the last one Mozart would write, in 1774.
  — Marcus Overton, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 June 2017
• Zikri reported that this concert is something that Chen, who is concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, has been wanting to lead for a long time.
  — Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2023
• Last year, Mr. Vanska married the orchestra’s concertmaster, Erin Keefe, and signed a contract through 2019, including the same pay cut his players took.
  — David Allen, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2016
• The orchestra has not had a permanent concertmaster since 2012 when Anna Reider stepped down.
  — Janelle Gelfand, Cincinnati.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• As the concertmaster and first violinist, Sharon literally sets the tone for the orchestra.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2022
• He was born in Munich to a German concertmaster father and a Japanese pianist mother.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 23 Jan. 2024
• Mann, who played in the Junior Symphony under the baton of Jacques Gershkovitch for six years (three or four of them as concertmaster) remembers the experience vividly.
  — OregonLive.com, 3 Jan. 2018
• The concert was dedicated to the memory of former longtime concertmaster Emanuel Borok, who died Jan. 4.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 10 Jan. 2020
• The close, Altstaedt picking up concertmaster Nurit Bar-Josef’s line and reducing it to stillness, was exquisite.
  — Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2020
• This is a more plausible outcome: with signals from the concertmaster, an ensemble can navigate standard repertory on its own, as the conductorless Orpheus Chamber Orchestra has proved for decades.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 14 Oct 2024