soloist

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The same venue will host soloist Alessandro Vazzana, a disabled musician who uses eye movements to play an innovative, software-based instrument called the Clarion.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026

Created in 1961 for a female soloist, it was later adapted in 1979 for the Argentine star dancer Jorge Donn, Bejart's partner.

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

This time, the soloist was the stellar emerging pianist Yunchan Lim, who keeps to himself, either lost in dreamy reverie or, like a jumpy teenager, in ferocious attack mode.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

The recently promoted soloist expanded his choreography’s bounding and spinning challenges into a dimension all his own—when sprung in the air, he hung there, still; when grounded by turns, he rotated like some serene tornado.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 3, 2025

In Handel’s London, the vogue for adult soloist castrati was short-lived, and Italian-style opera itself soon came up against stiff competition in the shape of what we would today call jukebox musicals.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall