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How to use pianist in a sentence

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Pianist means a person who plays the piano, particularly with skill or as part of an orchestra. Example: “By the time she became the world's greatest pianist, she had already practised for thousands of hours on her prized piano.”

Examples of pianist by meaning

nounA person who plays the piano, particularly with skill or as part of an orchestra.

  • By the time she became the world's greatest pianist, she had already practised for thousands of hours on her prized piano.
  • Table IV shows that the pianists were significantly better on both motor and perceptual timing than the nonpianists.1987, Gordon H Bower, The psychology of learning and motivation: advances in research and theory
  • The pianist was Jason Moran, another Houstonian, for whom the past converges with the present: he sometimes likes to find an unobtrusive sequence inside an old standard and turn it into fresh headlines.2010 April 19, Ben Ratliff, “A Mischievous Convergence of Past and Present Jazz”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26...

More sentences with pianist

  • Lively show tunes being belted out by the pianist on the grand piano.From the entry belt out
  • The pianist rendered the Beethoven sonata beautifully.From the entry render
  • The pianist played a C on the a of four.From the entry a
  • For the audition, Nicole will play up her skill as a pianist by playing Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring by Bach.From the entry play up
  • My cousin is an expert pianist.From the entry expert
  • "He named me after a dead pianist, some boy genius with two n's."2003, Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake, Virago, published 2004, →ISBN, page 80. From the entry Glenn
  • The great pianist was a prolific composer, who wrote impeccably for the piano.1995, David Dubal, Art of the Piano: Its performers, literature, and recordings, page 433. From the entry impeccably
  • Of the great romantic pianists, Vladimir Horowitz and Serkin are the only ones still actively concertizing.1988 October 14, Dennis Polkow, “Serkin and Solti”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry concertize
  • Steve welcomes: Comic Cliff Arquette; pianist Kellie Greene; banana-phile Ana Maria Gonzales; and comic Jackie Gayle.1970 February 7, “Program Highlights”, in The Daily News, 47th year, number 262, Longview, Wash., page 5. From the entry banana-phile
  • Next bearded banjo player Winston Marshall, his blue flannel shirt hanging loose, and pianist Ben Lovett, wrapped in a woollen coat.2012 November 15, Tom Lamont, “How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world”, in The Daily Telegraph. From the entry flannel
  • His mother retired as a concert pianist; she is a herbologist and acupuncturist in private practice in New City.2009 April 26, “Angie Kim and Daniel Keh”, in New York Times. From the entry herbologist
  • Just over a decade ago, the bassist Charlie Haden played a drummerless New York nightclub engagement with the pianist Kenny Barron.2007 August 3, The New York Times, “Jazz Listings”, in New York Times. From the entry drummerless
  • But for all his patiently accumulated winelore, the 81-year-old pianist, arranger and composer is more a drinker than a collector.2000, The Wine Spectator. From the entry winelore
  • No, a cool cat—Earl ("Fatha") Hines, jazz pianist nonpareil.1966 August 5, “Jazz: Fatha Knows Best”, in Time, retrieved 07 Jan 2018. From the entry cool cat
  • He was accompanied by the well-known Icelandic pianist David Thór Jónsson, who provided virtuoso performances between two camp beds borrowed from a local boarding school.2025, Eva Heisler, “Doubled Bodies and Live Loops: On Ragnar Kjartanssons's Mediatized Performances”, in Bastard or Playmate?: Adapting…. From the entry tuxedoclad
  • The Eric Revis Trio, featuring the pianist Kris Davis, the bassist Eric Revis and the drummer Gerald Cleaver performing at the Jazz Gallery.2015 June 18, Nate Chinen, “Review: Eric Revis Trio Lets the Music Lead the Way at the Jazz Gallery”, in The New York Times, archived from…. From the entry cleaver
  • But the main event may well end up being the performance of Brahms’s galvanic Piano Concerto No. 1, with the exhilarating British pianist Paul Lewis.2014 April 4, Zachary Woolfe, “Music: How the Centuries Will Play Out”, in New York Times, retrieved 12 May 2014. From the entry galvanic
  • Here, led by the pianist Jorge Gómez, Tiempo Libre revisits that idea, outfitting recognizable pieces from the Bach repertory with son, danzon and guaguanco rhythm.2009 June 26, The New York Times, “Jazz Listings”, in New York Times. From the entry guaguanco
  • A dutiful, almost accountantlike rendering by Lois Martin, violist; Chris Finckel, cellist; and Aleck Karis, pianist, did not make things any clearer.2007 December 12, Bernard Holland, “Sounds of the New, Arrayed to Enliven a Nordic Night”, in New York Times. From the entry accountantlike
  • A pianist was playing, Chicago style, accompanied by a trumpeter who was not without class although a little too armstrongian to be truly personal.1987, Raymond Queneau, The Skin of Dreams, page 93. From the entry Armstrongian
  • A good pianist, however, will make his audience believe that he is as capable of performing a legato as is a singer or violinist.1958, József Gát, The Technique of Piano Playing, page 95. From the entry legato
  • An eminent pianist and remarkable pedalist.1900, George Grove, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians, volume II, page 678. From the entry pedalist
  • His early interest in the law and politics competed with a call to the ministry and his budding sideline as a rock-and-roll drummer, pianist and composer.2018 February 20, Adam Bernstein, “J. Clay Smith Jr., forceful EEOC leader and Howard University law dean, dies at 75”, in The Washington…. From the entry foreordained
  • Benny Green Trio (through Saturday) The pianist Benny Green is an astute pupil of the hardbop tradition, as he reconfirms on his fine new album, “Live in Santa Cruz.”2015 June 25, “Jazz Listings for June 26-July 2”, in New York Times. From the entry hardbop
  • In the piano stool there was a stack of music, mostly sentimental ballads intended to be sung by people with very average voices accompanied by not very competent pianists.2009, Carn Tiernan, On the Back of the Other Side, page 62. From the entry average
  • Sunday at 2 p.m., a performance of classical Puerto Rican danza music by the Association for Puerto Rican Culture, featuring the pianist Alberto Bird and the singer Thelma Ithier-Sterling.2009 June 26, Anne Mancuso, “Spare Times”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022. From the entry danza
  • Selling the wistfulness is Kristin Kreuk as Chun-Li, a tranquil concert pianist turned reluctant crimefighter when her adored father is abducted by a Bangkok baddie (Neal McDonough).2009 February 28, Jeannette Catsoulis, “Looking for Her Father, Finding New Targets for Her Feet”, in New York Times. From the entry crimefighter
  • Earlier work like the atonal music of pianist Sun Ra and bassist Charles Mingus as well as the chordless music of Coleman and Taylor foreshadowed free jazz.2009, Waldo E. Martin, No Coward Soldiers: Black Cultural Politics in Postwar America, page 62. From the entry chordless
  • A later generation of bebop pianists would often be accused of one-handedness; their right hands flew along with melodies and improvisations, while their "weak" left hands just plonked chords.2009, Robin Kelley, Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, →ISBN. From the entry one-handedness
  • Great jazz quartets have often flowered when a bandleading pianist finds a soulmate on sax: Monk and Charlie Rouse, for instance, or Brubeck and Paul Desmond.2005 May 13, Neil Tesser, “Vijay Iyer Quartet With Rudresh Mahanthappa”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry bandleading
  • And so I went there with the rehearsal pianists and we just did stagger-throughs, so that we could time it, so that we could know what was going on.1998, Opera, volume 49, numbers 7-10, page 1036. From the entry stagger-through
  • It was one of those magical evenings during which our threesome became a fifteensome, including the pianist and Cuban expatriates from Puerto Rico, Mexico the U.S.1998, George Jacunski Guiteras, “A Return to Cuba”, in Assembly, volume 57, page 23. From the entry fifteensome
  • Naturally, the "foremost Polish pianist", the 15-year-old Chopin, was called on to give a public recital on the aeolomelodicon, a strange instrument invented by Brummer and Hoffman.1968, Adelaide Murgia, The life and times of Chopin, page 13. From the entry aeolomelodicon
  • You could sense history in the various dances of the pianists’ left hands: the slinky syncopations of habanera; the manic but metronomic bounce, in swing, as if between two trampolines.2018 March 5, Brian Seibert, “Review: Tapping Out Some New World Rhythms”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry slinky

Meaning of pianist

  1. noun A person who plays the piano, particularly with skill or as part of an orchestra.
  2. noun A spy using radio or wireless telegraphy to keep in touch with headquarters during the Second World War.

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Questions about pianist in a sentence

How do you use pianist in a sentence?
Pianist is used as a noun. For example: “By the time she became the world's greatest pianist, she had already practised for thousands of hours on her prized piano.”
What is a short sentence with pianist?
“An eminent pianist and remarkable pedalist.”
What does pianist mean?
Pianist means a person who plays the piano, particularly with skill or as part of an orchestra.

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