Sentence examples for a talented composer from inspiring English sources

Sweepea is William Strayhorn, the staff arranger and a talented composer in his own right.

A talented composer, choral director and pianist, he led the Whiffenpoofs of 1960 and accompanied the Glee Club throughout college.

The program featured just four works, two by Mr. Schuller and two by Mohammed Fairouz, a talented composer 60 years his junior.

His aunt Louise Homer was a leading operatic contralto, and her husband, Sidney Homer, a talented composer who nurtured and supported his nephew's musical life.

It turns out that Marie's father, Jiang Kai, was a concert pianist who was tutored at the Shanghai Conservatory by Ai-Ming's father, Sparrow, a talented composer.

Simon is apparently uninterested in conveying that Alma Mahler, whom he describes in some detail, was a talented composer in her own right, not merely the "widow of the composer".

A wildly talented composer, his group Between (named after his dream of "the blue flower growing between the milestones on the road to a future world-music", obvs) recorded a handful of wonderful albums before Hamel went solo.

March 1 2014 Iyer, an extremely talented composer and pianist who easily jumps the barrier between classical and jazz, collaborates with the eminent quartet in the New York première of his work "Time, Place, Action"; two Beethoven quartets (including the second "Razumovsky," in E Minor) complete the program.

In fact I was kind of surprised there are so few full orchestrated versions of David's compositions – given what an admired and talented composer he was.

October 1 2012 November 17 201212 The prodigiously talented composer Dave Malloy ("Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage," "Three Pianos") writes music that's as merry as it is sophisticated, full of accordions, clarinets, hearty group singing, and wit.

He was a talented young composer and pianist, and music engaged him throughout his life.