soloist
IPA: sˈoʊɫoʊʌst
noun
- A person who performs a solo.
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Examples of "soloist" in Sentences
- The soloist is piano great Martha Argerich who is on a rare tour of the West Coast, which I saw on Friday.
- This time the soloist was a 19-year-old French girl named Lisa de la Salle, who has started recording for the aptly named "Naive" label.
- I don’t have the violin soloist going – YET – but in the meantime I have some lovely, sombre chamber music rolling on 8-track in the background.
- She gets signed up for Amateur Night as a sentimental soprano soloist, is propelled on stage, moves her lips as the crowd makes noise, sways her body as if actually singing, then exits.
- As part of our continuing mollification of superannuated subscribers, this week's concerts will feature a big-name soloist playing a very old piece while the rest of the musicians phone it in.
- Still a first soloist, which is two ranks below the top category of principal, Mr. Vasiliev is a man of short stature, big muscles, bright eyes, a winning smile, and a mop of curly, brown hair.
- The soloist was the 32-year-old Canadian violinist Leila Josefowicz who has been specializing in playing the music of living composers, which got her a Macarthur Foundation "genius" award last year.
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