violist
IPA: viˈoʊɫʌst
noun
- A person who plays the viol.
- A person who plays the viola.
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Examples of "violist" in Sentences
- He has two children with his ex-wife, a professional violist.
- (As if that weren 't unfair enough, Mr. Britten was a pretty decent violist, too.)
- Veteran violist Paul Neubauer likes the late-night format because, as a performer you get a different vibe from every audience.
- There were other advantages, says violist Beth Guterman: Just sitting on stage without playing, as Patrick Castillo spoke about the music, made me feel a connection to the audience that was somehow more personal.
- Husa's balance of austere folk-cultural strains with a modernist aesthetic -- clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, violist Steve Tenenbom and cellist Marcy Rosen gave an authoritative performance -- was deeply influenced by Bartók.
- Monday's seven-hour concert features a sprawl of hybrid-happy new-music acts, including So Percussion, the Nebraska-based Chiara String Quartet, violist Nadia Sirota, and Buke and Gass, a Brooklyn duo that plays homemade mutant string instruments.
- Led by playing of uncommon mellowness and timbral purity from clarinetist Anthony McGill, enhanced by the elegant understatement of veteran violist Michael Tree and the character-rich keyboard work of pianist Anna Polonsky, they brought out the genial warmth in Mozart's writing.
- Kushner: Throughout the Ecstatic Music Festival, women have played a prominent role, from composers such as Missy Mazzoli, Merrill Garbus, Olga Bell and yourself to performers like cellist Clarice Jensen, flutist Alex Sopp, violist Nadia Sirota, and vocalist Shara Worden, not to mention many others.
- The other two pieces on the program were John Cage's early "In a Landscape" (originally for piano), a contemplative and romantically atmospheric rumination, and a delightful new work by Brooklyn Rider violinist Colin Jacobsen called "Sheriff's Lied, Sheriff's Freude" ( "Sheriff" is violist Nicholas Cords's nickname).
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