Sentence examples for classically trained as from inspiring English sources

Gebrselassie is classically trained as a runner.

Classically trained, as actress and as singer, Ms. LuPone cannot be and will not be typed.

Classically trained as a child, Mr. Herbert, 29, likened remixed songs to the theme-and-variations compositions of Brahms.

Classically trained as a pianist as a child, he earned a bachelor's degree and a doctorate in music education from Columbia.

Having taught arts administration for 14 years at New York University, I have found most of my students to be not only bright and ambitious, but also classically trained as musicians, singers, actors and dancers.

He is not classically trained as either a singer or a dancer, and at least part of his appeal onstage stems from the kind of eternally boyish charm that caused a teenager, spotting him one day outside the theater, to nudge his companion and say: "Dude!

Zeffira is a classically trained musician as well as an opera singer, so her departure was the most dramatic, taking her out of concert halls and into slightly less grand clubs.

Ms. Murphy includes a handful of show tunes by Frank Loesser, Richard Rodgers and others, and they are tougher material for a classically trained singer, as many have found.

Young Yong Lee's assimilation was "slow but steady and inexorable," his son says -- though English proved an obstacle at first and the amount of required reading kept him from becoming a classically trained analyst, as he had hoped.

When Paul Hunter directed A Comedy of Errors for the RSC in 2009, for example, he used Told by an Idiot's clowning style, deploying his classically trained cast as a troupe of actor-musicians.

"I just hope the barber is as classically trained and prepared as mine was".