How to Use pianist in a Sentence

pianist

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  • And Jean-Yves is just one of my favorite pianists on the planet.
    — cleveland, 20 July 2023
  • Parishioners’ voices filled the belly of the church with prayers and songs, led by the soaring voice of a singing pianist.
    — Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2023
  • His trio includes pianist Ben Cook and bassist Bruce Gertz.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Les McCann, a singer and pianist who helped to pioneer the soul jazz genre, has died at age 88.
    — Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 2 Jan. 2024
  • And Davis reportedly urged the pianists in his groups to learn from the Jamal style.
    — Don Heckman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2023
  • As spring 2022 bloomed, Irena Wang emailed the pianist Kelly Moran to ask for a mixtape.
    — Grayson Haver Currin, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2024
  • His first major gig was with the pianist Ahmad Jamal in 1952.
    — Andrey Henkin, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2023
  • For more about Cochran, known for her work with pianist Jim Brickman, visit here.
    — cleveland, 14 July 2023
  • Bill Miler, for instance, his pianist for many years, never played over the top.
    — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 27 Oct. 2023
  • But never was there any banging, or the steely treble sound heard from too many pianists these days.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 9 Sep. 2023
  • One musician who took notice was the pianist Paul Bley.
    — Nate Chinen, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • When the book opens, the main character, Elsa, a concert pianist, is in crisis.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 18 June 2023
  • At the start of his career in the 1950s, Bacharach was fired after just three weeks as the pianist and conductor for crooner Vic Damone.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Adès will be a featured composer and pianist from Aug. 2 through Aug.6.
    — Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 July 2023
  • One of the injured was 15-year-old Claire Gallagher, a gifted pianist who was blinded by the explosion.
    — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Apr. 2023
  • McCann’s initial fame arrived early on for his work as a pianist and singer in his own jazz trio.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 1 Jan. 2024
  • The pianist sometimes reaches inside the instrument to pluck its strings, instead of pressing the keys.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Many years later, in 1986, the pianist Cecil Taylor was filmed watching a Monk concert on video.
    — Harmony Holiday, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Those good works include helping to arrange recitals at a local concert circle, where she and the pianist meet.
    — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Beatriz and the pianist converse briefly in stilted English, neither’s first choice of language.
    — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Trained as a classical pianist as a child in her native China, Lu later switched to painting.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2023
  • In a study of pianists playing duets published last fall, a breakdown in behavioral synchrony did not cause the two brains to desynchronize.
    — Quanta Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Her backing band Y’all was replaced with just a pianist, who accompanied her on the spooky cover.
    — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Fyodor and Timo, who are both mixed-race, are a sometime couple, the former a butcher, the latter a logician and pianist.
    — Michael W. Clune, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
  • In one her last performances onstage, Ms. Andrade sang joined with pianist Gilson Peranzzetta in 2019.
    — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2023
  • At my first rehearsal, Balanchine asked the pianist Gordon Boelzner to play two sections of the Fauré music.
    — Roslyn Sulcas, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2023
  • In the 1910s alone, the composer, pianist and bandleader James Reese Europe seemed to do enough living for multiple lifetimes.
    — Seth Colter Walls, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Her father was a minister and the head of the local temperance society; her mother was a pianist.
    — Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The musician, a pianist and one of Japan's leading avant-garde composers, moved from Japan to the United States in the 1950s to pursue a higher education in music.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 16 Oct. 2023
  • At David Geffen Hall on Nov. 19, a group of 10 pianists will gather to perform the entire études for a densely kaleidoscopic program that will run about two and a half hours.
    — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023

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