violinist

Noun

violinist (plural violinists)

1. A person who plays the violin.
   • And the cello concerto was strikingly different on Sunday: at Weill, the ensemble included two violinists and one violist, cellist, bassist and lutenist, but on Sunday four more violinists, a second violist and a harpsichordist were added to give the ripieno sections of the fast movements a heftier...2009 January 20, Allan Kozinn, “Shafts of Sun in Winter From the Italian Baroque”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022
   • Founded in 1975 and led by the violinist Richard Tognetti since 1989, the orchestra looks youthful and hip onstage, its players clad in varying shades of black semiformality.2009 May 5, Steve Smith, “A Group That Doesn’t Sit, Adding Bounce to Haydn”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 07 Jul 2012

   Synonyms:

   violin