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Recent Examples of accompanist
The smart shopper will already note signs of staleness and mold in the old practice of a singer in stiff white tie and tails or gaudy gown, standing, arm propped on piano, of the second banana accompanist.
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Classical Music Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Jan. 2026
Singer-songwriter Holly Near had hired Bucchino as a piano accompanist for her performances at a conference at the tropical getaway.
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CBS News,
16 Nov. 2025
Vermut is a natural accompanist to such an event.
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Joseph Hernandez,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
21 Oct. 2025
The teacher, recitalist, and accompanist won first place in the Union League Civic & Arts Foundation’s 2009 classical piano competition.
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Myrna Petlicki,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Sep. 2025
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Classical Music Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Jan. 2026
Singer-songwriter Holly Near had hired Bucchino as a piano accompanist for her performances at a conference at the tropical getaway.
—
CBS News,
16 Nov. 2025
Vermut is a natural accompanist to such an event.
—
Joseph Hernandez,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
21 Oct. 2025
The teacher, recitalist, and accompanist won first place in the Union League Civic & Arts Foundation’s 2009 classical piano competition.
—
Myrna Petlicki,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for accompanist
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Now it’s been 16 years since the group’s most recent album and 14 since their last tour, although there have been a handful of soundtrack and compilation appearances from Sade Adu, as a soloist and with the band.
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The album, which was released on June 12, enters at the chart summit with 485,000 equivalent album units, marking her largest week ever and the biggest for any album by a soloist this year.
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The teacher, recitalist, and accompanist won first place in the Union League Civic & Arts Foundation’s 2009 classical piano competition.
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The director of music and organist says making music in the historic space is a thrill.
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Mihalka profiles several of baseball’s most prominent ballpark organists, including Gladys Goodding, who worked the keys and pedals for the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1942 to 1957, and Nancy Faust, who was the organist for the Chicago White Sox from 1970 to 2010.
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Drones and water choreography, acrobats, and a floating pianist paired with over-the-top performances by Leona Lewis and opera singer Joseph Calleja transformed the night into a spectacle.
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The Fremont software engineer and entrepreneur has carved out a bustling career as a jazz pianist, a realm where children of the Great Depression share the bandstand with Gen Z teenagers.
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Just two weeks after Bob Dylan guitarist Doug Lancio vanished from the tour and was replaced by jazz virtuoso Julian Lage, Bob Britt — who has played guitar in Dylan’s band since 2019 — has apparently left the group as well.
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He was widely celebrated as a virtuoso who nurtured America’s economic well-being and whose nearly every utterance was parsed for clues as to where interest rates, the economy and the financial markets might be headed.
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The powerhouse Ukrainian avant-folk band DakhaBrakha performs July 23, and bass maestro and film composer Stanley Clarke brings his jazz fusion band 4Ever (inspired by his tenure in Chick Corea’s Return to Forever) July 25t.
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That reputation as a cup-football maestro, that glow of knockout know-how, is integral to Tuchel’s mystique as a coach.
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Lavers is riding with the same crew as the first go-around, which includes his partner McGrory, who sings under the alias Colle, and the violinist Zachary Paul.
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He is lured by the sound of music down a Montmartre street to Nicholas de Lenfent (Joseph Potter), an old friend from his village who has grown up to be a talented violinist and rakish twink.
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The Tony-winning Adams, who after Ernie’s death was married to photographer Martin Mills and trumpeter Pete Candoli, died in October 2008 at age 81.
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Pianist Lex Korten and trumpeter Adam O’Farrill open freely, crash landing into the suite with cold, brooding interplay as opposed to the straightforward funk vamp of Roach’s version.
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“Accompanist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/accompanist. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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