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cellist

[ US /ˈtʃɛɫəst/ ]
[ UK /sˈɛlɪst/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone who plays a violoncello

How To Use cellist In A Sentence

  • The distinguished cellist and educator Claudio Jaffee played his continuo line with artistic authority.
  • At one point, the cellist is required to play a passage involving all four color effects simultaneously.
  • However, to avoid an unseemly political spat, both Kiely and McEllistrim have been selected.
  • Though an old man at the time, he was an accomplished violoncellist, and a patient teacher.
  • Perhaps it was the overzealous con brio on the part of cellist Andrés Díaz: maybe there are a lot of sforzandi in the score, but from where I sat I heard more percussive bowstrikes than pure tone more often than I would have liked.
  • The cellist took up his bow, and drew across his instrument a few subdued notes of Bach.
  • Husa's balance of austere folk-cultural strains with a modernist aesthetic -- clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, violist Steve Tenenbom and cellist Marcy Rosen gave an authoritative performance -- was deeply influenced by Bartók. Allan M. Jalon: Arts Lust: Central Europe's Underwear Showing
  • We hear the cellist playing cymbal and mark tree and the violinist playing triangle and drum.
  • Born in 1896 in St. Petersburg, he was trained not only as a physicist but also as a cellist.
  • A high spot was definitely a young cellist, Stefan Handjiev, in National Radio's Christmas Concert - an absolute show-stopper.
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