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Recent Examples of violist
The live musical performance will attempt to mirror that effect using a new technology that generates electronic sounds and lights created by measuring, in real time, the brain activity of the performing violist.
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Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 18 Dec. 2025
Ariana Kim and violist Sally Chisholm traded repeating patterns, switching off melodies as the music jumped around the scale.
—Sheila Regan, Twin Cities, 28 Oct. 2025
Davis is a professional violist whose estranged pastor father dies on the same day as his wedding to Everett, a white man from a wealthy family.
—Lauren Morrow
september 9, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2025
Featured on the album are violinist and violist Macie Stewart, cellist Ben Whiteley, upright bassist Nick Macri, and woodwinds player Hunter Diamond.
—Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 4 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for violist
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An hour later, for its first concert since the fires, parishioners sat in awe as Grammy Award winning violinist Anne Akiko Meyers weaved her bow across her violin, the music of Johann Sebastian Bach echoing through the church.—
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It will be played by flutist Mark Teplitsky, violinist Eric Gratz, cellist Julian Schwartz and harpsichordist Ian Pritchard.—
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Wednesday’s concert at Conrad Prebys Concert Hall on the UCSD campus will find Narucki performing with two frequent collaborators, coloratura soprano Kirsten Ashley Wiest and pianist Donald Berman.—
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Tamami Honma is the guest pianist.—
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It will be played by flutist Mark Teplitsky, violinist Eric Gratz, cellist Julian Schwartz and harpsichordist Ian Pritchard.—
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And guitarist, saxophonist and flutist Joe Harrison, a Canyon Crest Academy alum, toured this year as the bassist in Black Keys.—
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Albert Navarro had been a saxophonist and a clarinettist who worked as a music teacher and as a bandleader at resort hotels.—
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La Jolla Music Society brings together three top classical solo artists, clarinetist Andreas Ottensamer, cellist Kian Soltani and pianist Alessio Bax, performing together works by Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn and Brahms.—
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Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin, a founding guitarist in British experimental rock group Black Midi, has died, his family announced Monday.—
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News of vocalist-guitarist’s death was shared in a statement posted to his Facebook page by the Weir family and later on the musician’s website.—
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Gutierrez wore a striking red silk gown with a black cape and a spiky headpiece, a look inspired by past highlights in her metal harpist career.—
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Rrban jazz harpist Mariea Antoinette will perform.—
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Renowned trumpeter, composer and percussionist Etienne Charles is also on the closing night bill.—
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At around the same time, Leon Russell joined them on piano, bringing along his saxophone player and the great Nigerian percussionist Ambrose Campbell.—
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Waiting in the greenroom was Robert Alan York, a veteran organist who studied classical repertory and improvisation in Paris and also possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of the American songbook.—
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Anna von Hausswolff, Iconoclasts Some of the hardest rock and roll of the year came from … a pipe organist?—
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“Violist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/violist. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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