accompanist

Example Sentences

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Since I had a piano accompanist at home—my dad—I focused on singing and would perform for anyone who’d listen.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

The crowd roared with every pitch and kept their water bottles to themselves, a worthy accompanist to a team flirting with greatness.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2024

There’s Hahn the working mother, playing with one of her two children as her impromptu accompanist, or stealing a quiet moment after midnight, exhausted.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2023

He had little success at first as a songwriter, but he became a popular arranger and accompanist, touring with Vic Damone, the Ames Brothers and Polly Stewart, who became his first wife.

From Washington Times • Feb. 9, 2023

He was replaced as Anderson’s accompanist by Franz Rupp, a Jewish pianist who had fled from Nazi Germany with his family after Adolf Hitler came to power.

From "The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman