soloist

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Recent Examples of soloist If consumption of that smash — as well as the project in full — continues, Rosie could tie Jung Kook’s Golden in just two weeks and match as the second-longest charting album by any K-pop soloist in the history of the Billboard 200. Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025 The performance will include the chancel choir, Dorian bells and soloists. La Jolla Light, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2025 Refusing to accept his loss, Fei devotes herself tirelessly to becoming a soloist, touring across the region in a quiet, determined search for her missing friend. Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 5 May 2025 Among soloists, Jennie now shares the second-most hits of all time, behind only Jung Kook. Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 22 Mar. 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
  • She be accompanied by a five-piece group, led by ace pianist Sullivan Fortner, that includes Dušan Balarin on theorbo, a bass flute that has 14 strings and can measure more than six feet from end to end.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2025
  • The infection has been in the US news recently with the deaths of pianist Betsy Arakawa and actor Gene Hackman.
    Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 28 May 2025
Noun
  • An ultra-rare 1913 Gibson Style O Acoustic Archtop once played by the two virtuosos is now up for grabs via Reverb, an online marketplace for new and used musical instruments and other goods.
    Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 20 May 2025
  • Instead, this antagonistic virtuoso has started letting the sticky dark feelings fueling those nightmares seep into other genres.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 20 May 2025
Noun
  • Pianist Sonia Lee and flutist Pija Hocevar will perform at the Platt Library.
    Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 30 May 2025
  • The lineup includes three Grammy winners — saxophonist David Sanchez, bassist John Clayton and drummer Lewis Nash — along with pianist and six-time Grammy nominee Gerald Clayton and top San Diego flutist Holly Hofmann.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 May 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
  • Kate Mara was unacquainted with Tim Robinson’s brand of comedy when filmmaker Andrew DeYoung offered her the chance to star opposite the maestro of cringe in Friendship.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 23 May 2025
  • Murray and Gordon both made huge plays in key moments, and Jokić proved to be a maestro.
    Tony Jones, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The piece, finished in 1947 by the French organist and composer, is based on the Catholic Mass for the Dead in Gregorian chant.
    Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2025
  • Nicola, the elder daughter, is a church organist, and Easter, her younger sister, is a minister.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The name Culture Club itself is a reference to their unusually diverse makeup — a gay Irish lead vocalist; a Black Jamaican Brit bassist (Mikey Craig); a blond Englishman guitarist (Roy Hay); and a Jewish drummer from a punk background (Jon Moss).
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 9 June 2025
  • Another asked drummer Daniel Fang about his Perfect 10 album, Floral Green by Title Fight.
    Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 6 June 2025

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