The phrase "as second violist" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to someone's role or position within a musical ensemble, specifically in relation to playing the viola.
Example: "In the upcoming concert, I will be performing as second violist in the orchestra."
Alternatives: "in the role of second violist" or "serving as second violist".
Mr. Neubauer played with rich tone and elegant phrasing as first violist.
Despite fine contributions from Mark Holloway as first violist, the performance was marred by a general lack of cohesion and by wince-inducing intonation and sloppy playing from Joseph Silverstein as first violinist.
Similar melodies course through the Twelfth Quartet and the E-Flat Quintet, which were both on the Emersons' final program, with Paul Neubauer as the second violist.
His family immigrated to Manhattan when he was 5. His father, Mitya, was first violist for the NBC Symphony Orchestra.
On Aug. 15, the program includes Kodaly's Duo for Violin and Cello as well as two glowing works of the romantic era, Schumann's "Märchenbilder" and Dvorak's Piano Quartet in E flat; the guest players here are the violinist Christiaan Bor, Cynthia Phelps, the first violist of the New York Philharmonic and the pianist Randall Hodgkinson.
Then it was bought by William Lincer, former first violist with the New York Philharmonic, who apparently knew nothing of the painting's history.
For example, a 1968 Karl Benjamin geometric abstraction, "Number 4" radiates controlled intelligence as it hovers above the masterful and sensuous Brazilian rosewood "Double Music Stand and Musician's Chair" which Maloof made for the LA Philharmonic's first violist Jan Hlinka in 1972.
And he traces almost everything he does now — film scoring and arranging, in particular — to the 10 years he spent, reluctantly at first, as the violist in Empyreal Strings, a quartet (sometimes augmented with harp and other instruments) that played in two to four weddings most weekends.
When the Moscow Philharmonic Quartet made its debut in 1945, its members – all students of Mikhail Terian, the violist of the Komitas Quartet – were Rostislav Dubinsky and Nina Barshai, Rudolf's first wife, as first and second violin, with Barshai the violist and the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich – who left after only two weeks, to be replaced by Valentin Berlinsky, who remained for 60 years.
