soloist

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Recent Examples of soloist This feat ties him with Drake for the most weeks spent tripling up in the top five among soloists. Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 18 Mar. 2025 The actor and musician will release his debut album Happy Birthday on June 6 as his first collection of music as a soloist following stints in the bands Calpurnia and the Aubreys. Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2025 Emily Bromberg, a former principal soloist at Miami City Ballet and a performer with Dimensions for more than two seasons, will contribute her second work for the troupe. Guillermo Perez, Miami Herald, 11 Mar. 2025 After 16 years signed as a soloist and member of boy band SHINee under SM Entertainment, Taemin opted not to renew his solo contract with the legacy label in March 2024 and moved to relative newcomer in BPM Entertainment. Jeff Benjamin, Billboard, 27 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for soloist
Recent Examples of Synonyms for soloist
Noun
  • Anoushka’s accompanist that night was Zakir Hussain, one of the world’s foremost tabla drum players.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The series is organized by McDaniel, a veteran Broadway music director and accompanist who also oversees the Cabaret & Performance conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 4 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • After meeting guitarist Jerry Corbitt, the pair formed the Youngbloods with pianist/guitarist Lovell Levinger and drummer Joe Bauer (with Young switching from guitar to bass to fill out the lineup).
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2025
  • However, his exceptional talent as a pianist truly sets him apart.
    Heide Janssen, Orange County Register, 16 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • On the way: indie-folk songwriter Lissie (Sunday, May 18), Philly rockers Low Cut Connie (Tuesday, Sep. 30), and art-rock virtuoso Destroyer (Sunday, Oct. 19).
    David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The virtuoso made his solo stage debut at Lollapalooza Hobipalooza on July 31, 2022 an hour-long showcase of his skills as a seasoned entertainer, performing tracks from Jack in the Box, his mixtape Hope World, and various BTS albums.
    Zoe Guy, Vulture, 1 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Ayers began to gain widespread recognition for his collaboration with flutist Herbie Mann.
    Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Celeb flutist Nestor Torres chatted with Miami Beach’s First Couple from the sidelines, inquiring as to what the insanity was all about.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • That approach works better, interfering less with the maestro’s performance(s), while sleight of hand allows the actor to appear opposite himself in a handful of scenes.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 19 Mar. 2025
  • The federal government is, in effect, suddenly being run like an A.I. startup; Musk, an unelected billionaire, a maestro of flying cars and trips to Mars, has made the United States of America his grandest test case yet for an unproved and unregulated new technology.
    Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In a sit-down with the Tribune, Pellico reflected on his more than three decades as an organist.
    Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Jo was a member of First Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hector and loved being an organist, pianist and custodian.
    Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Consisting of singer Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page, bassist John Paul Jones and drummer John Bonham, Led Zeppelin was formed in 1968.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Gilmore is a powerhouse drummer who has worked with Chick Corea, Nicholas Payton and others.
    Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2025

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