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Recent Examples of accompanist
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.
—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
That interviewer was her confidante and sometime-accompanist Michael Feinstein, who guided the evening with a steady hand, asking most of the questions and, at times, gently reframing Minnelli’s responses to keep things moving.
—Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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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
That interviewer was her confidante and sometime-accompanist Michael Feinstein, who guided the evening with a steady hand, asking most of the questions and, at times, gently reframing Minnelli’s responses to keep things moving.
—Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for accompanist
Noun
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Liston changed history by becoming the first woman soloist, trombone player, composer and arranger to play on stage alongside men.—
Fousia Abdullahi,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
23 Apr. 2026
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India Bradley, a soloist with NYCB, helped show off the collection in elegant campaign imagery and a film commissioned for the occasion.—
Kelsey Legg,
ABC News,
23 Apr. 2026
Noun
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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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Alongside organist Ståle Storløkken and drummer Ole Mofjell, the Hedvig Mollestad Weejuns (the third word a slang term for Norwegians) form a groove that teeters toward explosiveness without ever reaching it.—
Joshua Minsoo Kim,
Pitchfork,
24 Apr. 2026
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Hall, an organist and pianist at her local Baptist church, wrote a song for the ceremony.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
20 Apr. 2026
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And on select nights, a pianist will perform on a bar’s new grand piano.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Apr. 2026
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That includes here the fabulous jazz pianist and conductor Adrian Galante, a breakout young Australian equally as adept on the clarinet and an ebullient specialist in this genre of music.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Apr. 2026
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In positioning Mollestad as an exploratory team player, its six tracks reveal her chops well beyond that of a showboating virtuoso.—
Joshua Minsoo Kim,
Pitchfork,
24 Apr. 2026
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Now the Catalan viol virtuoso returns to Zellerbach Hall with a program featuring his Hespèrion XXI and nearly three dozen international musicians in a concert weaving a range of musical traditions.—
Randy McMullen,
Mercury News,
16 Apr. 2026
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The Series of Dreams production is executive produced by comedy maestro Judd Apatow.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
23 Apr. 2026
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There aren’t many stains on the legacy of consummate conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein, best known as the long-running maestro, front and center, for the New York Philharmonic beginning in the 1950s.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
23 Apr. 2026
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Camilia is a violinist with Mariachi Bravo, an elementary school mariachi band from Waukegan Community Unit School District 60.—
Steve Sadin,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Apr. 2026
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Singaporean violinist Joy Yong recorded the lead violin parts.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
28 Apr. 2026
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Kermit Ruffins pays tribute to Louis Armstrong By far the most exciting performance scheduled at Jazz Fest’s Economy Hall Tent features one of the Crescent City’s greatest living trumpeters saluting the most important trumpeter in New Orleans history.—
Al Shipley,
SPIN,
21 Apr. 2026
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What should be a straightforward day of music grinds to a halt as the artists struggle to deal with personality clashes, an ambitious trumpeter named Levee (Boseman), and the band's mercurial frontwoman.—
James Mercadante,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 Apr. 2026
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“Accompanist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/accompanist. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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