Sentence examples for a formidable pianist from inspiring English sources

Mr. Rzewski knows and loves the piano, and is a formidable pianist.

Mr. Greilsammer, born in Jerusalem in 1977, is a formidable pianist.

For one thing, he is a formidable pianist who has the measure of Charles Ives's towering "Concord Sonata".

Of course, none of this would matter if Mr. Greilsammer were not such a formidable pianist and probing musician.

Today, Enescu is remembered as one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century, and as Menuhin's teacher and mentor; he was also a formidable pianist and conductor.

Mr. Caine, a formidable pianist, offered fairly straight readings of a few of the variations, but even these were not literal: he often had Ms. Hammann play the melody line on the violin, and sometimes he orchestrated them more broadly.

And, to be sure, he is still a most formidable pianist.

Though a technically formidable pianist, in the beginning he played with far too much physical involvement, he said, resulting in acute shoulder pain that compelled him to take time off in 1991-2.

And the star athlete is the tenor Ian Bostridge, who has lived with the work for thirty years, has made a commanding recording of it (with the formidable pianist Leif Ove Andsnes), and who now has a way to carry it well into his middle age.

Monk himself was a formidable solo pianist, and an unmistakable one.

While Schulhoff took a leading role in integrating jazz with classical music, he also became a formidable jazz pianist himself.