Sentence examples for better soloist from inspiring English sources

Mr. Martinez is a better soloist than a partner, which showed in the "Esmeralda" pas de deux.

John Biles, a professor of information technology at the Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, and trumpet player, thought he could adapt the algorithms to breed a better soloist.

There were far better technicians than Richards, far better soloists, but his sense of rhythm and riff and taste, his signature sustained chords and open spaces, gave the band its sound.

Gergiev could not have chosen better soloists for Szymanowski's Symphony No 4 - in effect a piano concerto – and for his Second Violin Concerto: Denis Matsuev is one of Russia's most charismatic young pianists, and Leonidas Kavakos – son of a violinist, and grandson of a village fiddler – possesses a wonderfully Protean technique.

An opera maven and pop-music fan, he plays his solo lines with an airy, vocal freedom, exhibiting a distinct personality that is lacking in many better-known soloists.

"[Jade] would be a lot better as a soloist," she told the BBC.

Though Horace Silver is often credited, along with Art Blakey, as the motive force of hard bop, a blues-based crystallization of the bebop style, Silver (who is eighty-two) was a greater popularizer than a soloist, a better composer of catchy themes than of inspiring ones.

Would the audience have heard better music if the soloists had played their own instruments?

The real highlights, however, were the Harpsichord Concerto in B-flat and the Oboe Concerto in G minor, partly because the shirt-sleeved Festival Baroque Band was better equipped to accompany soloists than to achieve great nuance on its own.

James Blunt took best British male soloist.

The best operatic soloists will be hired.