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"soloist" Definitions
  1. a person who plays an instrument or performs alone

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He made no soloist roles, because he had no one who could handle soloist-level choreography.
New York Chamber Ensemble presents "Italian Favorites" featuring soprano soloist Wonjung Kim and baritone soloist Lester Lynch.
Daniel Moore was an excellent baritone soloist in two numbers.
Ferrillo was a featured soloist 18 times during that period.
It will also feature the Ballet Theater soloist Cassandra Trenary.
Most concertos have combative passages between the soloist and orchestra.
Renaud Capuçon was a riveting soloist in Dvorak's Violin Concerto.
The soloist and the orchestra did not always entirely meld.
Mr. Trifonov, unsurprisingly, proved an ideal soloist in the Third Concerto.
Jaap van Zweden conducts those, with Janine Jansen as the soloist.
The focus was on the virtuoso soloist -- not a catchy melody.
STAMFORD Stamford Symphony presents Carmen, featuring the soloist Rachel Lee Priday.
Ms. Wang was an unfailing, cool to the touch, detailed soloist.
But some of his most compelling work is as a soloist.
The soloist was Hakan Hardenberger, for whom the concerto was written.
Gil Shaham is the soloist; Carlos Miguel Prieto is the conductor.
Dennett, a brave soloist, sang beautifully, then apologized for his voice.
As a soloist, he executed lightning-fast melodies with remarkable fluidity.
A male soloist seemed to be portraying Daniel, though for some reason there was also a female soloist singing much of the same music — mostly wordless and hyper-operatically soaring, in an Andrea Bocelli kind of way.
"Dance of Shiva" — Billy Childs, soloist; track from Rebirth by Billy Childs
"Whisper Not" — Fred Hersch, soloist; track from Open Book by Fred Hersch
At 10, she debuted as a soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Nikolaj Znaider, who plays the Sibelius with cold fire, is the soloist.
TakahiroMiyashita the Soloist jacket (worn underneath), $2,147, pants, $5,295, and hood, $1,895.
In 2017, he was elevated to soloist and then, in 2018, principal.
Ms. Trenary is a promising young soloist, Mr. Whiteside a principal dancer.
But the orchestra is less an accompanist or combatant than a full collaborator in a kind of shifting synergy — now taking its cues and motivic material from the soloist, now driving the soloist to greater heights of passionate expression.
Teen opera singer Jackie Evancho was the first soloist to confirm her participation.
Mattel, the toymaker, has entered the market with products like Violin Soloist Barbie.
Mercurial in structure, it includes semi-improvised sections for soloist and ensemble alike.
The effervescent soloist Indiana Woodward makes her debut in that role on Feb.
Orchestra and soloist responded as one to Mr. Honeck's generous malleability of pulse.
The orchestra, as if wary of the soloist, responds with tremulous, swelling sonorities.
The different orchestral groups mirror everything that the soloist offers, as magnified shengs.
It feels like the literary equivalent of a big choir with occasional soloist.
A Quebecois period-instrument ensemble brings Bach and, with it, a star soloist.
You can browse by composer, ensemble, conductor, soloist, genre, period, or even instrument.
She was promoted to soloist in 1967 and to principal dancer in 1972.
For Babbitt's piano concerto, the immensely gifted Conor Hanick joined the orchestra as soloist.
Julia Fischer, a violinist New York audiences hear from too rarely, is the soloist.
He didn't act like a star soloist, except for the moments when he did.
So far, teen opera singer Jackie Evancho is the only soloist scheduled to perform.
In between, the formidable violinist Jennifer Frautschi is the soloist in Barber's Violin Concerto.
Where do you draw the line between rebellious, screaming punk and Carnegie Hall soloist?
Could this lovely but often self-absorbed soloist become an exemplar of classical style?
She became a soloist in 2001 and remained in that rank for 14 years.
Lionel Richie -- emerging from the Commodores as a songwriter and soloist -- penned this one.
Now a soloist, she joined the company as an apprentice about 10 years ago.
A year later she made her debut as a soloist, with the Tulsa Symphony.
"I can't believe that it happened," said Ms. Shevchenko, a soloist in the company.
But as soon as he returned to the company, he was named a soloist.
Claire Kretzschmar's debut as the tall soloist in "Rubies" showed all her audacious glee.
Last year, the night before she was elevated to soloist, Catherine Hurlin couldn't sleep.
He also performed the country's first outdoor classical concert as soloist with the BBC Symphony.
After the "Coriolan" Overture, the pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii is soloist in the exciting "Emperor" Concerto.
Carter Brey, the Philharmonic's stellar principal cellist, was an excellent soloist in Schumann's Cello Concerto.
In 2008, Lopez published a book about Ayers, "The Soloist," which subsequently became a film.
In between, the brilliant pianist Stephen Hough is the soloist in the Schumann Piano Concerto.
Soloist: Xavier de Maistre Stavanger, Norway Stavanger Symphony Orchestra (April 73): Concierto Argentino (Norwegian premiere).
Another Russian pianist, Denis Matsuev, was the soloist in Prokofiev's formidably difficult Second Piano Concerto.
But since the 1990s, Mr. Bey, who doubles on piano, has thrived as a soloist.
Ms. Bakanova went on to become a soloist at the Novaya Opera Theater in Moscow.
And as the ballet's soloist — its mysterious, flamboyant, mistress of ceremonies — Ms. Reichlen was sensational.
Emanuel Ax, for whom Mr. Gruber wrote this episodic, hurtling work, was the commanding soloist.
Mariss Jansons is on the podium; Frank Peter Zimmermann is the violin soloist on Friday.
The gleefully manic soloist John Leguizamo returns to the Public with a voluble new monologue.
Unfortunately, the male soloist on the Hawaiian island of Maui somehow sung the wrong version.
If you want to be a soloist, there is very little chance to become one.
"Miles Beyond" — John McLaughlin, soloist; track from Live @ Ronnie Scott's by John McLaughlin & the 4th dimension
As the saxophone soloist took a solo, she dipped down her jacket and waggled her shoulders.
After intermission comes John Corigliano's "Conjurer," concerto for percussion and orchestra, with Martin Grubinger as soloist.
The choir performs "Oh Happy Day" at assembly, and Ahmad the soloist is absolutely whiffing it.
Mr. Stein opened the program as harpsichord soloist in Bach's Concerto in D minor (BWV 1052).
"The Unanswered Question," with Thomas Rolfs as an excellent trumpet soloist, was exquisitely sustained and mysterious.
The soloist at the first performances, which Adès conducted, was the Russian-American pianist Kirill Gerstein.
Similarly sensitive was Gershwin's jazz-informed Piano Concerto in F, with Jean-Yves Thibaudet as soloist.
It's repeated at the end during the credits; on Wednesday, Michelle Kim was the spirited soloist.
Shirley did manage to perform as a soloist with symphonies in Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland and elsewhere.
The international soloist is committed to keeping the tradition alive in as many ways as possible.
Five years later she was promoted from the corps de ballet to the rank of soloist.
The lead soloist, Vadim P. Ananyev, had stayed home to help his wife with their newborn.
There, in partnership with the soloist, Yefim Bronfman, this conductor created a chilly sense of mystery.
Robert Langevin, the Philharmonic's principal flutist, was a deft if unexciting soloist in the flute concerto.
Mr. Kocsis was the orchestra's piano soloist and co-artistic musical director for the next decade.
The metadata is different — do you want to search by composer or conductor, orchestra or soloist?
In "STILLNESS," Cunningham is the soloist, performing in memory of his partner of nearly 50 years.
And Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 17 in G was superbly performed with Emanuel Ax as soloist.
He was a strong, clear soloist who phrased as a singer does, with an organized narrative sense.
There was the inevitable blockbuster concerto, Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 2, with Yefim Bronfman as indomitable soloist.
The international soloist Joyce di Donato returns to the title role alongside Alice Coote as Prince Charming.
She joined Ballet Theater in 1974, becoming a soloist in 1978 and a principal dancer in 1982.
From the start, "Incantations" is emphatically an ensemble piece rather than a heroic platform for a soloist.
On Friday, he will conduct Ravel's Piano Concerto, Wagner and Shostakovich, with Yuja Wang as the soloist.
In 2011, she became a member of Ballet Theater where, last summer, she was promoted to soloist.
It was less than a year ago that Jeffrey Cirio joined American Ballet Theater as a soloist.
The soloist more often acted the part of a solitary wanderer, traversing the damaged landscapes of modernity.
The centerpiece was a rare performance of Reger's 45-minute Piano Concerto with Peter Serkin as soloist.
She spent the remainder of her prime at the Dutch National Ballet in Europe as a soloist.
Around this point a piano soloist (here Tomoko Mukaiyama) enters, playing fitful strands of steely high chords.
I was especially looking forward to hearing the Piano Concerto No. 1, with Emanuel Ax as soloist.
The soloist, John Orfe, sounded magnificent throughout, whether pummeling or delicately shaping Ligeti's emotionally varied piano motifs.
Matthew Ball, a first soloist who recently made his debut in the role, would take his place.
But he left his bed to perform as the soloist in his own concerto, one last time.
He combined Third Stream notions and 12-tone technique in "Concerto for Jazz Soloist and Orchestra" (1962).
His final season also includes the premiere of Caroline Shaw's Piano Concerto, with Jonathan Biss as soloist.
The international soloist Jan Vogler performs the part originally conceived for Katinka Kleijn, while Manfred Honeck conducts.
Rather inevitably, that means a performance of "The Four Seasons," with Krista Bennion Feeney as the soloist.
"Su" was written for Wu Wei, who has played the work internationally and was the soloist here.
The distinguished pianist Radu Lupu was the soloist for a curiously wan performance of the Mozart concerto.
The superb soprano Barbara Hannigan was the soloist in this eerie, intricate and ravishing 30-minute work.
The American Ballet Theater soloist secured a coveted role, Giselle, and finds time for extra coaching sessions.
Beside her was Harrison Ball, a soloist replacing Anthony Huxley at short notice, elegant and notably buoyant.
Each soloist stayed isolated from the others; each solo had a different handful of movements, obsessively reiterated.
If you talk about him, it's almost like you're part of the chorus and not a soloist.
"Some women constrain themselves to get the step right," said Skylar Brandt, a soloist at Ballet Theater.
Alban Gerhardt is the soloist; the conductor, Simone Young, was born and started her career in Sydney.
Kirill Karabits conducts the "Symphonic Dances" and the Piano Concerto No. 2; Mikhail Pletnev is the soloist.
The brilliant pianist Yefim Bronfman was the soloist in a pristine, elegant account of Beethoven's youthful concerto.
In the early 20th century, concertos were sometimes performed in arrangements for piano and soloist, a rarity now.
Anthony McGill, the Philharmonic's extraordinary principal clarinetist, was the soloist in an elegant account of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto.
A founding member of the Composers String Quartet, Ms. Ajemian also had an active career as a soloist.
Mr. McKenzie also promoted Blaine Hoven, 30, who joined Ballet Theater in 2004, to the rank of soloist.
Peck, who still dances as a soloist with the troupe, is a man of great skill and productivity.
In addition, Carter Brey, the orchestra's eminent principal cellist, is the soloist in Schumann's infrequently heard Cello Concerto.
In reaction, the orchestra does not exactly roll over; rather, it seems to grow intrigued by the soloist.
But the season's chief star so far has been a soloist: Calvin Royal III, now reaching his maturity.
On Tuesday, that means Shostakovich, Scriabin and Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2212, with Denis Matsuev as the soloist.
The star soloist at the Houston Ballet has built an online reputation centered on self-expression and fearlessness.
Carter Brey is the cello soloist, and the vocalists in the Mozart include Miah Persson and Nicholas Phan.
She is not just the primary—in most cases, the only—choreographer but also, ordinarily, the primary soloist.
Mr. Peck will stop dancing with the company, where he is now a soloist, after the spring season.
Mr. Fain was the soloist, and he blazed through some of Mr. Glass's flashiest riffs with impressive authority.
And you get a glimpse of the great American dancer David Hallberg in the film, who's the lead male soloist there, but he's a guest soloist and we were trying to make a film that says something about the Russian psyche, about Putin's Russia, and Mother Russia, if you like.
The 2018 awards are her first time at the show as a soloist after leaving girl group Fifth Harmony.
"'The Nutcracker' is one of those quintessential Christmas events" says Melissa Hamilton, a first soloist at the Royal Ballet.
In the Cello Concerto (1966), scored for a large chamber ensemble, the soloist is like the first among equals.
On Thursday, audiences can hear Frank Huang, the Philharmonic's new concertmaster, as soloist in Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 2664.
To see the lanky soloist dispatch this 38-minute, hyper-virtuosic piece was like watching an arduous athletic feat.
Under Mr. Heras-Casado, the orchestra played with plush sound and, during stormy exchanges with the soloist, bracing intensity.
In between came Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, with the stirring young Stefan Jackiw as soloist.
One of those dancers is the soloist Blaine Hoven, who is collaborating with Ms. Lang for the third time.
The bulk is Beethoven: the "Eroica" Symphony and the Piano Concerto No. 3, with the sublime soloist Benjamin Grosvenor.
That same balance informs Mr. Salonen's own charismatic Cello Concerto, which here had an eloquent soloist in Truls Mork.
Then the thoughtful pianist David Fray was an elegant soloist in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor.
The orchestra gently eggs the soloist on into the third section, inaugurated with frosty Adamsian fragments of trumpet fanfare.
Mr. Hallberg is relentlessly ambitious throughout: He must join Ballet Theater; he must become a soloist, then a principal.
He designed a program in which he shared billing with a video artist, choreographer, soloist and even another composer.
Belting out songs of praise, she began appearing with choirs at gospel festivals and eventually emerged as a soloist.
American Ballet soloist Misty Copeland put on her first pair of ballet shoes in a Boys & Girls Club gym.
The staples here, Mendelssohn's "Scottish" Symphony and Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto (with Vadim Gluzman as the soloist), offer nothing special.
If there was a highlight, it was Caroline Shaw's self-effacing violin concerto, "Lo," with the composer as soloist.
The program also includes Brahms's Symphony No. 2 and Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20, with Emanuel Ax as soloist.
And the program included the pianist Stephen Hough as soloist in a vibrant performance of Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto.
I'll now have my first chance to hear it live, led by Ms. Malkki, with Wu Wei as soloist.
The Georgian pianist Alexander Toradze, long considered an insightful representative of the Romantic tradition, was the soloist in the Second.
"Ilimba" — Chris Potter, soloist; track from The Dreamer Is The Dream by Chris Potter Best Gospel Album Crossover — Travis Greene
When the movement became an active dialogue between soloist and ensemble, Mr. Lisiecki's playing mixed youthful impetuousness with mature pensiveness.
DePrince, who recently appeared in a video for Beyoncé's hit "Lemonade," is currently a soloist at the Dutch National Ballet.
As a soloist, Supa Bwe has released quite a few others, including the recent Magic City and The Dead Occasion.
He has long seemed more than a soloist because, as a partner, he has accompanied leading ballerinas for many seasons.
Mr. Pérez, who shares the rank of soloist with Ms. Rodríguez, offered a self-choreographed solo with impressively fast footwork.
In the first movement, the soloist (the Philharmonic's mellow principal tuba, Alan Baer) noodles over restless activity in the ensemble.
To further set off the soloist, Mr. Corigliano scores the work just for string orchestra, with some final brass flourishes.
The one signal that did come through was that here was a star soloist leaving everyone else in the dust.
On Friday and Saturday, the spirited pianist Jeffrey Kahane does double duty as conductor and soloist in three concertos — Nos.
In Elliott Carter's Piano Concerto , written three decades later, the soloist is all but trampled underfoot by a rampaging orchestra.
Ms. Reichlen dances the soloist — mistress of ceremonies — in "Rubies" in two performances, the "Diamonds" ballerina in the two others.
Here he is as a soloist and conductor in Bach's Double Concerto with a youth orchestra in his native Bolivia.
The concert began with a vanishingly rare sight at the Philharmonic: two women appearing together as concerto soloist and conductor.
Till Fellner is the soloist in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5, which precedes a performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 5.
But her work as a soloist — just her endlessly flexible, creatively employed voice and an electric guitar — is equally compelling.
Then a boy soloist sings "Here I go up to the altar of God" on a phrase that spirals higher.
The tenor soloist in "Das Lied" was to have been Simon O'Neill, but he called in sick on Thursday morning.
The ensemble serves as a kind of velvety pillow, atop which Mr. Shankar weaves coppery skeins for himself, as soloist.
In the finale, this emperor soloist tossed aside majestic reserve and engaged the musicians in a sly game of wits.
And the soloist in the concerto is the brilliant and probing young Italian pianist Beatrice Rana, in her Philharmonic debut.
A busy performing and recording career followed, as he became a favored soloist with major orchestras and at prestigious festivals.
As they accelerated into the coda, this conductor, orchestra and soloist joined with a momentum that resulted in real delirium.
After the soloist Jeffrey Edwards accused Mr. Martins of verbal and physical abuse in 1993, no evident action was taken.
In her first spring as a soloist at American Ballet Theater, Catherine Hurlin is tearing through roles with effervescent daring.
In classical ballet, it's considered a milestone when a ballerina dances their first soloist role without the uniform corps de ballet.
Mr. Lindberg favors what he calls zigzag melodies, which allow the soloist to cover two layers of harmony at a time.
An acclaimed soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra for over two decades, he currently teaches cello at the University of Maryland.
The Golden Cockerel, marvelously performed on Monday by the young soloist Skylar Brandt, has the right inhuman brilliance — fast and staccato.
Jeffrey Edwards, a very refined soloist, told Robin Pogrebin, of the Times , that in 1993 he was physically abused by Martins.
The lawsuit says Rowe has been chosen to be a featured soloist 27 times since she joined the orchestra in 2004.
Mr. Peck still dances with City Ballet as a soloist; for the last two years he's also been its resident choreographer.
She has been a featured soloist with the orchestra 27 times, more than any other principal musician, according to the lawsuit.
That rare occurrence at the Philharmonic, this week: an unexpected program, with a major soloist, led by a heavyweight guest conductor.
As ever, there are ideas in abundance: the relationship between composer and performer, between composition and performance, between soloist and collaborator.
I want the song "Last full Measure of Devotion" sung by a good male soloist at any church or memorial service.
This one, from 1970, features a performance of Aaron Copland's Clarinet Concerto with Stanley Drucker (talk about Philharmonic legends) as soloist.
A few weeks later, he achieved the same milestone with the Philadelphia Orchestra as the soloist in Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto.
She began singing in the choir of her father's New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, and soon became a star soloist.
Mr. Peck remains a dancer (soloist rank) at New York City Ballet, where he has been the resident choreographer since 2014.
While she had been a standout vocal soloist at church, she had originally planned on going to college to study accounting.
Ms. Messmer, a former American Ballet Theater soloist of note who joined this company in 2015, stayed an ice queen throughout.
A drastic change of mood after intermission brought Mahler's "Kindertotenlieder," with the veteran mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter as soloist.
She met with Cynthia Phelps, the Philharmonic's principal violist, who will be the soloist in the première, and studied her sound.
Mr. Tao was 13, dreading how an audience might react to learning that he was their soloist instead of Ms. Argerich.
Mr. Applebaum (willowy, elegant) and Mr. Villarini-Velez (a high-energy and valorous athlete) were promoted in October to soloist rank.
He was also the soloist at the premiere of "The Wound-Dresser" (1989), Mr. Adams's reflective orchestral setting of Whitman's poem.
Ms. Lee did, appearing in comedy skits and singing and dancing as a soloist with a line of dancers behind her.
On top of being a YouTube phenom with 157K followers on Instagram and counting, he's a star soloist at the Houston Ballet.
On April 1, she called Morgan with an offer: a soloist contract at MCB, the same rank she'd once held at NYCB.
Here, too, artful irregularities of tempo, beautifully coordinated between the soloist and ensemble, imbued the music with an organic, pleasantly unpredictable motion.
She joined ABT in 2001 and in 2007 became the company's second African-American female soloist and the first in two decades.
Then Renée Fleming was the soloist in an early Messiaen work, "Poèmes Pour Mi," a rapturous 30-minute cycle of love songs.
Then the pianist Aaron Diehl will be the soloist in Gershwin's Concerto in F. The program ends with Dvorak's "New World" Symphony.
" "It was always going to be the exploration of that for Season 6, and what that would mean is being a soloist.
The soloist was the lyrical, incisive Alisa Weilerstein, who released a flawless recording of the concerto with the Czechs several years ago.
It mattered to Michaela DePrince, a soloist in the Dutch National Ballet who discovered her connection to dance at a young age.
Silva does not pretend to be a great soloist; he does not play to the gallery or for his personal highlights reel.
The harpsichordist de nos jours Mahan Esfahani is the soloist in two relatively recent concertos, by Manuel de Falla and Bohuslav Martinu.
Recently, they met at Mr. Peck's office at Lincoln Center, where he is the resident choreographer for City Ballet and a soloist.
Mr. Wooley was a guest soloist in the Philharmonic's Fure performances, along with the bassoonist Rebekah Heller and the bassist Brandon Lopez.
At the beginning of the concerto, the soloist whistles a folk-like melody; later on, the score calls for intense scraping sounds.
She prefaced it with the premiere of "Markings," a brief piece for soloist, strings and harp by John Williams (yes, that one).
The conductor Ludovic Morlot led a program that included a Chinese superstar soloist, the pianist Yuja Wang, in Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto.
The conductor Manfred Honeck pairs Beethoven's First Piano Concerto (featuring the brilliant pianist Inon Barnatan as soloist) with Mahler's First Symphony. (Feb.
Mr. Vlatkovic was a splendid horn soloist, doing full justice to lyrical passages but really coming into his own in virtuosic display.
I also look forward to my appearances at Carnegie Hall next season in a recital and as soloist with the Boston Symphony.
A rendition of Brahms's Violin Concerto — with Maxim Vengerov as soloist — thrilled during some high-octane passages, but sometimes also sounded labored.
Period instruments all around in this concert, as a leading fortepianist joins a strong quartet led by the noted soloist Alina Ibragimova.
Renaud Capuçon was a spellbinding soloist, as in this excerpt from a 2015 performance with the Berlin Philharmonic, with the composer conducting.
Joining him will be Justin Peck, City Ballet's resident choreographer and soloist, along with Craig Hall and Rebecca Krohn, both ballet masters.
At one point at City Ballet, where he attained the rank of soloist, Mr. Tomlinson expressed doubts about why he was there.
Saturday she presents Adventurine, a string quartet plus a jazz quartet, with the alto saxophonist Miguel Zenón as a featured soloist. thestonenyc.
She is currently number two in Canada in our age group, first in Alberta, and she is the top soloist in the country!
At his stop, I hopped out and held the door firm as our soloist readied his cane and steadied himself on his feet.
The initial conceit is of reflections: a central soloist or pair in a circle of light twinned or flanked by others in dimness.
The program ended with "… wie stille brannte das Licht" ("… how silently burned the light"), with the brightly focused soprano Tony Arnold as soloist.
It began with Glinka's upbeat "Ruslan and Ludmila" Overture and included Rachmaninoff's hyper-Romantic Piano Concerto No. 2, with Evgeny Kissin as soloist.
Antique violin's return: Last month, a soloist with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London left his 310-year-old instrument on a train.
The following season the orchestra will give the world premiere of his piano concerto, which it commissioned, with Kirill Gerstein as the soloist.
The soloist was Cynthia Phelps, the Philharmonic's impressive principal violist, who played the world premiere of the concerto this summer in North Carolina.
She was a soloist with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, but after moving to City Ballet she filled mostly character roles, Dr. Kupersmith said.
Yuja Wang is the soloist for the tumultuous Brahms Piano Concerto No. 27800; after that comes Prokofiev's Symphony No. 27-230-5656, nyphil.
By then, young Vittorio already had a few years of singing under his belt, having been a soloist in the Sistine Chapel Choir.
More enticing is the prospect of the ever-reliable Yefim Bronfman as the soloist in Bartok's Piano Concerto No. 2.212-875-5656, nyphil.
This group, directed by the former American Ballet Theater soloist Sascha Radetsky, acts as a bridge between ballet training and a professional career.
The career of a high-wattage soloist demands not only prowess but also politesse: pressing the flesh, dining with patrons, smiling at audiences.
Troy Schumacher, a soloist with New York City Ballet, founded this company in 2010 to create contemporary ballets with a focus on collaboration.
Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24 (with the probing pianist Radu Lupu as soloist) and Schumann's exuberant Second Symphony fill out the program. (carnegiehall.
In 2001, she joined the prestigious American Ballet and in 2007 became their second black female soloist and the first in 20 years.
She joined the corps one year later, and was promoted to the rank of soloist in 2006, followed by principal dancer in 2012.
This soloist got a chance to display the full range of his technique during a sudden storm scene, driven by slashing clarinet runs.
When he was a student at the San Francisco Ballet School, Gloria Govrin, a former New York City Ballet soloist, was in charge.
Calvin Royal III, a member of the corps de ballet who has been in the spotlight with solo roles, was promoted to soloist.
He made his Broadway debut at 17, and won a Grammy Award in 2015 as principal soloist on Hamilton s original Broadway cast recording.
Only after the piece had been going for a minute or so did the percussion soloist, Colin Currie, sneak onstage and pick up mallets.
The Beethoven companion here was that composer's Third Piano Concerto, with Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner, a 19-year-old master's candidate at Juilliard, as soloist.
For the concerto, Ms. Zhang had a soloist she had worked with before, the Macedonian pianist Simon Trpceski, and they made a dynamic team.
Mr. Vaziev offered the pass after Mr. Dmitrichenko, a former soloist, explained how he was trying to return to the profession, Mr. Dmitrichenko said.
Basie, the rhythmically spring-loaded pianist and bandleader, had more than a star soloist in Young, who changed the language of the tenor saxophone.
Conducting three concertos from the keyboard, Mr. Kahane seemed less the star soloist than the empowering leader of a collaboration among gifted, eager artists.
" Tina Campt simply responded, "The concept of a chorus as opposed to soloist … a modality of creating over the singularity that is so privileged.
Thomas Kotcheff's "Go And" receives its premiere at this matinee, and Demarre McGill joins the group as the soloist for Kevin Puts's Flute Concerto.
The baritone Gerald Finley sang in the choir as a student in the 1980s, before progressing to stardom of his own as a soloist.
Then the pianist Yuja Wang, also concluding her Perspectives series at Carnegie, was a fearless soloist in Prokofiev's seldom-heard Piano Concerto No. 5.
Other performances will feature members of the Rome International Dance Academy, Antonella Perazzo's Movin' Beat Company and the tap soloist Davide Accossato from Turin.
Dvorak is the focus on Sunday, with works that include the Symphony No. 8 and the Violin Concerto, with Renaud Capuçon as the soloist.
A former dancer with the Kirov (now Mariinsky) Ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia, Ms. Part, 39, joined Ballet Theater in 2002 as a soloist.
On Mondays, the day most ballet dancers spend soaking their aching feet, Skylar Brandt, a soloist at American Ballet Theater, takes a different route.
Adrián Sandí, a brilliantly cool yet tender soloist, produced a burnt, hazy siren near the end, then utter gentleness, before a wailing, emphatic coda.
In addition to being featured as a trumpet soloist, Mr. Sheldon honed his comic chops in goofy exchanges and vocal duets with Mr. Griffin.
They play Mozart: the overture to "The Marriage of Figaro"; the "Jupiter" Symphony; and the Violin Concerto No. 5, with Nancy Zhou as soloist.
Mr. Peck, a City Ballet soloist and its resident choreographer, isn't stopping at the choreography; he's also in the cast of his sneaker ballet.
With the violinist Joshua Bell as soloist, he also gave a magnificent performance of Bernstein's "Serenade (after Plato's Symposium)," a de facto violin concerto.
Both in N.W.A. and as a soloist, Ice Cube helped revolutionize rap with his cleareyed lyrics about police brutality, white supremacy and gang life.
Nobody, anywhere, conducts Sibelius better than Osmo Vanska: Hear the First and Third Symphonies, as well as the Violin Concerto, with the soloist Hilary Hahn.
When Amsterdam's storied Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra lost a soloist to a last-minute cancellation during a tour of Mexico City, he was invited to play.
The featured soloist was Sergei Roldugin, a cellist who is Mr Putin's close friend—and a central figure in the Panama papers leaks last month.
He could blend to the point of invisibility within a saxophone section, but he was also a gallant soloist with a special gift for ballads.
Mr. Dmitrichenko, whose specialty as a Bolshoi soloist was playing villains, said he had not sensed so much as a ripple of disapproval while exercising.
He returned to land periodically, when his finances were at ebb tide, appearing as a soloist, performing in Limeliters reunion tours and making many records.
This piece is related to classic Graham in the drama it creates between its isolated female soloist (Xin Ying) and the ensemble of four couples.
The pianist Peter Serkin will be the soloist in Reger's Piano Concerto, a work advocated by Rudolf Serkin, Peter's father, who performed and recorded it.
Soloist: Marie-Pierre Langlamet Paris Théâtre du Châtelet - New York City Ballet - "Les Étés de la Danse" (July 7, 11, 15, 16): Estancia (full work).
The first, on Wednesday, offers three Copland works, including Schumann's Second Symphony and the seldom-heard jazz-infused Piano Concerto, featuring Inon Barnatan as soloist.
The vocal lines are lyrical and mostly moderate: as clean, clear and calm as the voice of the soprano Sarah Shafer, a well-chosen soloist.
Next, Mr. Gersen conducted the young musicians in a stirring rendition of Tchaikovsky's smoldering Piano Concerto No. 1, with Steven Lin as the able soloist.
This gently dignified piece, with childlike simplicity and few extremes, all but dares its soloist to achieve majesty at a whisper, to only suggest virtuosity.
This Saturday, as a tribute to Previn's memory at the opening weekend of Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony will assay the concerto, with Mutter as soloist.
Jerome Burns was a joy to watch as the soloist in "Michael's Journey" from "Thursday," perhaps the greatest trumpet concerto not to have that name.
Other ARP models followed: the even smaller Pro-Soloist, with preset sounds; the String Ensemble; and the polyphonic Omni, which became the company's best seller.
ANTHONY TOMMASINI An earlier version of this article misidentified the soloist in a performance of Mahler's Fourth Symphony by the forces of Trinity Wall Street.
An intensely responsive soloist, he maneuvers with assurance as Mr. Alexander dances about him, bright chords and buzzing inflections laying fresh bait at every turn.
"I struggled internally with being cast in Tea as a person with Asian heritage," said Georgina Pazcoguin, a City Ballet soloist who is part Filipino.
But before that, as the soloist perched on the plank as if on a dock, gazing into the distance, I was reminded of something else.
The beginning of the Sibelius concerto was deliberate and hushed, a mist through which the soloist, Augustin Hadelich, pulled a soft, silvery thread of sound.
The other focuses on British music, with Tippett's oratorio "A Child of Our Time" following Sheku Kanneh-Mason as the soloist in Elgar's Cello Concerto.
Mr. Roditi most recently recorded as a guest soloist with the all-female Diva Jazz Orchestra on the album "Diva & the Boys," released last year.
Its three sections — to music by Alice Coltrane, Laura Nyro and the Voices of East Harlem — carry the soloist through states of grieving and rejoicing.
The beguiling young soprano Julia Bullock was the soloist in Mr. Berger's mysterious and hazy 22-minute work — settings of seven love poems by Petrarch.
As in soloist competitions (which are usually accompanied by allegations that the wrong performer won), it is almost impossible to judge the musical quality of choirs.
Praised for the beauty and integrity of his interpretations, he is now a globe-trotting guest conductor (his wife, Marielle Labèque, is often the piano soloist).
Tyler Angle, as usual a heavenly partner, was just as scrupulous on his own, though Ana Sophia Scheller, in the female soloist role, was depressingly wooden.
As a soloist, meanwhile, he acknowledges Bach's six Cello Suites as his cornerstone: sublime works which fill him with a mixture of fascination, awe and fear.
Korngold's caloric and deftly scored Violin Concerto gave the orchestra more chances to shine giddily, though the real point here is virtuosic display by the soloist.
" The concerts, conducted by David Robertson, include Mr. Williams's bravura tuba concerto with the orchestra's own Alan Baer as soloist, and Holst's ever popular "The Planets.
The soloist for six songs from Mahler's "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" was to have been the bass-baritone Eric Owens, the Philharmonic's artist in residence this season.
A music review on Saturday about the Met Orchestra, at Carnegie Hall, misspelled the given name of the piano soloist in Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No.2.
Mr. Cirio is a company soloist still in his first year with Ballet Theater; this was his first full-length role at the Metropolitan Opera House.
The song is the first posthumous No. 1 for a lead soloist since The Notorious B.I.G.'s "Mo Money Mo Problems" in 1997, according to Billboard.
At 12 he joined a choir conducted by a prominent cantor, Joshua Samuel Weisser, who featured him as a soloist on a Yiddish-language radio program.
Though Ms. Pazcoguin is a soloist, she's long registered as one of the company's most memorable dancers; the blaze and drive she shows here are stunning.
In June, she will appear in Carnegie's main hall as the soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto, one of her signature works.
The soprano Aphrodite Patoulidou was an entrancing soloist in Vivier's "Lonely Child," a head trip of a piece in a musical language both direct and mysterious.
In the meantime, you can hear his soloist turn in Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A, part of a radio broadcast preserved on the orchestra's SoundCloud page.
And as a saxophone soloist, Mr. Richardson went in every direction but the one you expected; he played arcing, bluesy, honeydew phrases without submitting to cliché.
In "The Tenant," Mr. Whiteside, along with the Ballet Theater soloist Cassandra Trenary, stars in Mr. Pita's dance-play, inspired by the novel by Roland Topor.
Steven Stucky's "Radical Light," a tribute of sorts to Sibelius, opens the bill, followed by the conductor's own "Mania," with Jonathan Roozeman as the cello soloist.
Anchoring the program is Steve Reich's "Cello Counterpoint" from 2003, in which the live soloist weaves through the kinetically sparkling texture of seven recorded cello lines.
The soloist Devon Teuscher makes her New York debut in the dual role of Odette-Odile at the Wednesday matinee, alongside Alexandre Hammoudi as Prince Siegfried.
A similar frostiness permeated a recent performance in Berlin of Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto that was often at odds with its more freewheeling soloist, Daniel Barenboim.
First, Mr. Say will be the soloist in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 in C; then he will play his own Second Piano Concerto ("Silk Road").
During this period he toured as a soloist and chamber musician, demonstrating a versatility with both period and modern instruments that was unusual for the time.
In "Rubies," Ms. Reichlen's gleaming, sly, huge-scaled performance of the soloist role has long seemed definitive, while Mr. de Luz's charmingly assertive style is effective.
As combative, provocative and sincere an advocate for his instrument as any soloist I know, Mr. Esfahani was once called a "harpsichord ninja" by the BBC.
There are six supporting dancers (three men, three women); and, as with Mr. Peck's premiere, every soloist is often shown as part of an inclusive ensemble.
During this period he toured as a soloist and chamber musician, demonstrating a versatility with both period and modern instruments that was unusual for the time.
For a more rewarding solution to Mr. Lang's indisposition, Mr. Corea might have simply replaced Mr. Lang as soloist and presented his personal take on Gershwin.
"It is all a matter of giving the soloist more freedom to explore harmonically," Mr. Tyner said in 1963, when the quartet was in its prime.
And while she's happy to have been promoted to soloist, she said she was also glad to have spent four years in the corps de ballet.
The extraordinary story of her seven-decades-long career as a soloist is perhaps best told through the five historic concerts that cemented her place in history.
They watch a soloist in the center or an encounter that looks like an aestheticized scuffle, combining the weight-sharing of contact improvisation with more aggressive intent.
Rockmore performed as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Toronto Symphony and often alongside her sister, the famous pianist Nadia Reisenberg.
Mr. Hanick, who played Milton Babbitt's 12-tone Second Piano Concerto at the Juilliard School in January, is becoming the soloist of choice for such thorny works.
As a soloist, Selway has moved away from the drums, which are a natural extension of his body, showing his side as a guitarist, singer, and composer.
Each movement begins with a cadenza, so the soloist (the conjurer of the title) can establish the character of the percussion choir and make clear who's boss.
Another male soloist, Alexei Hammoudi, a tall dancer partnering Ms. Seo on Wednesday, brought poignancy to Act II and impressive attack in Act III to the Prince.
The song recently became the first posthumous No. 1 for a lead soloist since The Notorious B.I.G.'s "Mo Money Mo Problems" in 1997, according to Billboard.
Ravel's "La Valse" and Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" frame a performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3, featuring the formidable pianist Maria João Pires as soloist.
Titania was Simone Messmer, a striking long-term soloist of American Ballet Theater who, after a short time with San Francisco Ballet, is now a principal here.
At the end of the performance, Didier Bramaz, a principal soloist who played Bottom with beautiful humanity, was honored for 20 years' service to Miami City Ballet.
At least among partnerships in which the pianist is a recognized soloist in his own right, I can think of no finer duo in lieder than this.
In the company hierarchy, Ms. Fentroy is a second soloist, and it's to Mr. Forsythe's credit that he has given her the spotlight and drawn her out.
The highlight of the concert, though, was the performance of Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto with the fast-rising, stunningly-gifted Italian pianist Beatrice Rana as the soloist.
Later in the spring, after a number of soloist engagements, she will record Mr. Aho's double concerto for harp and English horn with the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra.
I don't want to be a soloist, I want to be in an orchestra, and there are so many talented people who haven't gotten their first shot.
The work opens with its male soloist dressed as a construction worker, in a blue hard hat and white jumpsuit, carefully laying down a perimeter of tape.
As part of it, Calvin Royal III, an African-American soloist at American Ballet Theater, performed the "Agon" pas de deux with Unity Phelan of City Ballet.
He envisioned a career as a concert pianist and made his debut in 1945 at Town Hall in New York, as the first black instrumental soloist there.
She was a soloist in Solti's milestone recording of Mahler's epic Eighth Symphony, also with the Chicago Symphony, in Vienna; it won three Grammy Awards in 1972.
But even without knowing this, most listeners, I think, will intuitively sense when the soloist in Mozart's slow movements becomes the pianist equivalent of a prima donna.
A circle of metal rings in the center suggested the campfire spotlight in which the flamenco soloist traditionally performs, but Ms. Yerbabuena was not the dominant figure.
Next month, for example, Ms. Cuckson will be the soloist with the Stuttgart State Orchestra for the European premiere of a violin concerto by Georg Friedrich Haas.
Monday's concert involves the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra playing Lutoslawski's Symphony No. 53 and Mr. Adès's own piano concerto, "In Seven Days," with the soloist Kirill Gerstein.
Her final performances — in "Apollo" last Sunday afternoon and as a demi-soloist in "Theme and Variations" on Tuesday and Saturday — are in ballets by George Balanchine.
And this alternation between soloist and support matches the music, even if it is not a concerto but a string quintet by Brahms (G major, Op. 111).
These pairings are clustered around Ravel's Piano Concerto, with Mr. Greilsammer as both the soloist and conductor, one of the most exciting accounts of this piece available.
Ms. Arnold was also the soloist for the American premiere of Matthew Ricketts's "Song Cycle" for soprano, viola (Gabriela Diaz) and recorders (Héloïse Degrugillier, switching between two).
But Mr. Harding and Mr. Aimard, the splendid soloist in the Beethoven concerto, also showed that a certain amount of restraint can lend deeper dignity to valor.
In separate interviews, they expressed similar ideas about interpreting the Brahms concerto, both likening it to a kind of chamber music rather than a showpiece for a soloist.
The Pie Jesu, written for soprano or treble soloist, was sung here by the massed boys: a nice tribute to their fallen leader, whether or not so intended.
The lineup of five programs, with four companies on each, includes the Australian troupe Bangarra Dance Theatre, the Kuchipudi soloist Shantala Shivalingappa and the storied flamenco dancer Farruquito.
The dancer, 32, with green eyes and an unruly shock of dishwater blond hair, looked fit if somewhat chunkier than in his halcyon days as a Bolshoi soloist.
In 2011 she made her conducting debut in Paris, simultaneously leading and singing Ligeti's crazed "Mysteries of the Macabre," a daunting enough assignment purely as a soprano soloist.
Confronted with D.J.-turntables, a megaphone and clicking metal frogs — not to mention three percussion stations — the soloist resorts to hitting a metal barrel with a giant hammer.
On Thursday, Compañía Rocío Molina presents "Danzaora & Vinática," which refers to the "new language" of the captivating soloist Rocío Molina, combining flamenco, ballet, Spanish classical dance and more.
It brings Korngold's Violin Concerto (the soloist is the unmissable Leonidas Kavakos), along with Corigliano and Dvorak on Tuesday at Stern, and Shostakovich's titanic "Leningrad" Symphony on Wednesday.
While Mr. Wa Lehulere took up the Dadaist legacy of putting found objects to symbolic use, the Brooklyn-based soloist Narcissister fired up the torch of Dada outrageousness.
Joshua Bell brings the famed London chamber orchestra to Lincoln Center, leading it from the concertmaster's chair and acting as the soloist in Wieniawski's Violin Concerto No. 2.
On Thursday, there's Mahler's Symphony No. 1, and the soloist Janine Jansen, a Perspectives artist this season, joins in for Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1.212-247-7800, carnegiehall.
Another Grieg staple, the Piano Concerto in A minor, was offered next, with the pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet conveying the music's rhapsodic sweep and bold contrasts as soloist.
The line between soloist and group is often blurry — to the extent that, when Ms. Monk cast the show, she didn't give out specific roles: Everyone learned everything.
"I was very happy being a soloist, and I never wanted to enter an orchestra," she said, recalling her hesitation before she decided to go for the tryouts.
Unity Phelan, a soloist with City Ballet, said that one of the best parts of class is when everyone signs on, and you can hear snippets of voices.
Emanuel Ax plays twice, as the soloist in Haydn's Piano Concerto No. 11 and Stravinsky's Capriccio; on either side, Jaap Van Zweden conducts Mozart's first and last symphonies.
You don't have to know about the history of the concerto genre to "get" that this form involves a back-and-forth between a soloist and an orchestra.
Mr. Salonen wrote the work for his friend the cello virtuoso Anssi Karttunen, but the soloist here, Jonathan Roozeman, a young Finnish-Dutch cellist, proved a virtuoso himself.
Mr. Tuckwell, Australian by birth, was a master of the French horn, one of the more difficult instruments in the orchestra to play well, especially as a soloist.
Classical Music As combative, provocative and sincere an advocate for his instrument as any soloist I know, Mr. Esfahani was once called a "harpsichord ninja" by the BBC.
And there was a 19-year-old cello soloist, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, the first black musician to win the BBC's Young Musician Award in its 38-year history.
Renée Anne Louprette played the Organ Concerto beautifully, and K. Scott Warren conducted St. Ignatius choirs in Poulenc's crowning Gloria, with Wendy Baker as an excellent soprano soloist.
The chirpy Symphony No. 2212 and the sparkling "Linz" Symphony bracket a performance of the Piano Concerto No. 2501, with the rising star pianist Benjamin Grosvenor as soloist.
The program will include music performed by the Momenta Quartet and a short film choreographed by Trenary for herself and the Ballet Theater soloist Calvin Royal III. colabdance.
The Piano Concerto (1926), offered with the soloist Inon Barnatan, is arguably Copland's deepest engagement with jazz—and with Gershwin, whose "Rhapsody in Blue" is a close relation.
A tall, striking dancer who combined sensuous grace with nuanced force, Ms. Meehan came to notice as a leading soloist in the Hawkins troupe from 1961 to 1970.
The program will include music performed by the Momenta Quartet and a short film choreographed by Trenary for herself and the Ballet Theater soloist Calvin Royal III. colabdance.
At a recent rehearsal, one of the dancers, Claire Kretzschmar — a City Ballet soloist — aimed her arms as if she were about to shoot a bow and arrow.
But adding some of Bryant's fully array of scoring moves—and more of his soloist mentality—to Leonard's selfless approach might end up creating a perfect offensive force.
Sergei Redkin is the soloist for the fourth concerto, composed for Paul Wittgenstein, who lost his right arm during World War I. Sergei Babayan performs the boisterous fifth concerto.
Dreams and Daggers — Cécile McLorin Salvant Best Improvised Jazz Solo "Can't Remember Why" — Sara Caswell, soloist; track from Whispers On The Wind by Chuck Owen and the Jazz Surge
At the BBC Proms this summer, Christa Schönfeldinger was the glass harmonica soloist in the British premiere of an orchestral opus by Jörg Widmann, a German composer, called "Armonica".
Tall, quiet, mature, handsome, self-effacing, the dancer Craig Hall, a soloist with New York City Ballet, bade one kind of farewell on Sunday afternoon with grace and warmth.
The symphony's featured soloist was the synthesized "diva" Hatsune Miku, a singing digital avatar created by the Japanese company Crypton Future Media, who sang and danced Mr. Tomita's score.
This conductorless ensemble pairs it with Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto (the soloist is Vadim Gluzman) and Mendelssohn's "Scottish" Symphony as part of its four-concert series at Carnegie Hall. Feb.
Justin Peck, a soloist with City Ballet as well as its resident choreographer, came to Paris a month earlier than his colleagues to work with the Paris Opera Ballet.
For Georgina Pazcoguin, the New York City Ballet soloist who plays Victoria in the current Broadway revival of that Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, the role fulfills a childhood dream.
The piece begins in trickster style, with the soloist playing a funky ostinato modelled on Henry Mancini's "Peter Gunn" theme and a detuned honky-tonk piano adding offbeat accents.
The program offers works by Wagner and Tchaikovsky, as well as the premiere of Julia Adolphe's "Unearth, Release," a concerto for viola that will feature Cynthia Phelps as soloist.
Once again, the troupe's director, Eric Gauthier, a former soloist with Stuttgart Ballet, has assembled a medley of works by contemporary European, Israeli and Taiwanese choreographers, all impeccably danced.
Although electronic music was uncommon at the time, Rockmore went on to perform as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic, The Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Over an 18-month period, researcher Robert McCauley and his team from Curtin University recorded soloist fish, or fish that talk together, off the western coast of the country.
It's more important, however, to observe that Ballet Theater keeps becoming more of a company — with a profusion of talented dancers at corps and soloist levels — and increasingly stylish.
JOSHUA BARONE The 35-year-old Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi made a wonderful impression last weekend as a soloist with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, conducted by Thomas Dausgaard.
And on this program, it spiked when Melissa Toogood — a member of the Cunningham company's final generation — shared the stage with the American Ballet Theater soloist Calvin Royal III.
Mellow and unobtrusive, with a heavy debt to Minimalism and its rock-infused progeny, his music is at its best when he's his own softly suggestive electric guitar soloist.
It profiles Alex Honnold, the world's foremost free soloist, as he attempts his greatest and most dangerous feat yet: climbing Yosemite's El Capitan without any ropes or safety gear.
In passages, the soloist seems to be trying out a kind of rag, but while the rhythm has a gentle, low-slung swing, the piano never finds its footing.
The Paris Opera, meanwhile, has stuck to a mix of older, more familiar editions so that singers can easily jump in if a soloist is indisposed, Mr. Carsen explained.
For nearly 34743 years, he has reigned through this silky Dominican dance music: first as the frontman of the Bronx-based band Aventura, then as a soloist since 2011.
In 1955, he photographed Marian Anderson, who was performing in Verdi's "Un Ballo in Maschera," the first African-American soloist to sing on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
The first, on Friday, Saturday and Tuesday, takes in Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring," Ashley Fure's "Filament" and Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5, with Daniil Trifonov as the soloist.
"There once were days so bright," the soloist sings to wistful music that could be outtakes from Copland's opera "The Tender Land," but with a more astringent harmonic language.
But a winning solo, with brightly ballet jumps, came from Craig Salstein, an engaging former company soloist who, after 16 years, here made a farewell appearance with the company.
For ballet dancers, the rank of soloist can be frustrating: In recent years, Ms. Teuscher's biggest fear was that she would grow stagnant as she had seen others do.
His arms raised high, he had the look of a soloist conducting from the piano, sometimes in conflict with the stately, controlled orchestral accompaniment led by Jaap van Zweden.
Lang Lang seems to be the go-to soloist for many orchestras when they try to swell their coffers with a gala concert, and the Philharmonic is no exception.
Ms. Young and her baritone soloist, David Tinervia, fashioned a text based on documents describing the sinking of Ernest Shackleton's ship, the Endurance, on his exploratory journey in 1915.
The choreographer David Parsons has long been drawn to flight; in his enduringly popular "Caught," a soloist, aided by a strobe light, appears airborne for longer than humanly possible.
It was exhausting to listen to, and it might alienate the audience at the New York City Ballet, where Peck is both a soloist and the company's resident choreographer.
But the connections were not obvious when the Andres piece came first, conducted by Courtney Lewis with Jonathan Biss as soloist: Who knows all the Beethoven cadenzas by heart?
Graduating into the company of the Dance Theater of Harlem, he was promoted at the end of his first season to soloist, and joined American Ballet Theater in 2003.
The first two concerts are led by Adam Fischer, and include Beethoven and Bartok on Saturday, and Haydn and Mozart on Sunday, with Leonidas Kavakos as the violin soloist.
Matthias Pintscher leads the Philharmonic this week, and the conductor-composer brings along one of his own works, the violin concerto "Mar'eh," in which Renaud Capuçon is the soloist.
He has remixed songs for the likes of the XX and Spoon, and as a soloist, his work has long incorporated nearly equal parts electronic effects and live performance.
At times, the staging bordered on the twee, as when the soprano soloist, Marlis Petersen, sang "Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit" while floating on a swing suspended from the ceiling.
For this program Mr. Fischer conducts Weber's Overture to "Der Freischütz," Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 78003, with the formidable pianist Marc-André Hamelin as soloist, and Prokofiev's popular Fifth Symphony.
A conductor is under pressure to come up with something fresh to say, which Mr. Jordan did in the Prokofiev and, thanks to the exciting soloist Julia Fischer, the Mendelssohn.
And then there's a shot of the regal composer Duke Ellington urging on a soloist; the Duke seems so close you can almost smell the pomade in his wavy hair.
Garrison, who played with Jones in Ornette Coleman's band, drove the band with hard-charging walking lines, and he was every bit as compelling a soloist as his band mates.
Unhooking a metaphorical Pandora's box of odd sounds and creative flourishes, "Confirmation" is evidence that the London soloist is unafraid to drag his alt-pop wizardry to imaginative new places.
But first, on Sunday David Robertson will take the podium with an all-Strauss lineup that features two tone poems and the "Four Last Songs," with Renée Fleming as soloist.
The subscription series begins the following night with the brilliant violinist Lisa Batiashvili will be the soloist in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, followed by a repeat performance of the Dvorak symphony.
For this American Ballet Theater soloist, who made her New York debut in Alexei Ratmansky's production of "The Sleeping Beauty" opposite James Whiteside, the performance was too fresh to analyze.
On Friday and Saturday he will lead the orchestra in Dvorak's burnished Symphony No. 26 as well as Beethoven's Apollonian Violin Concerto, with the silver-toned Nikolaj Znaider as soloist.
When playing as a soloist, blind pianist Kevin Satizabal said he has previously had to sit close to the conductor and listen for their breathing to know when to begin.
On Thursday, Mr. Huang, 38, who began his tenure last season, revealed the full range of his talents as the soloist in Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor.
"We have to stay underwater for five minutes at first, so it's really hard to sing afterwards," said the baritone Thomas Tatzl, a soloist alongside Christina Landshamer and Robin Tritschler.
As the lone female soloist of "Rubies" — its dangerously commanding mistress of ceremonies — the much younger Emily Kikta was just as terrific an example of Balanchine's view of girl power.
While Mr. Balter's writing for the flute soloist is bafflingly complex, for the other performers he breaks free from traditional notation, offering illustrations and directions in lieu of sheet music.
There is also the premiere of a clarinet concerto, "Astounding Angels," by Jonathan Dawe — with Vasko Dukovski as the soloist — and music by Phil Taylor and Nina C. Young.ensemble-echappe.
Then came the slashing string and wind lines, like rain blowing sideways, with which Beethoven conjures maximum chaos and desperation before the bass soloist suddenly breaks through, singing O Freunde!
She will be the soloist in the Met Orchestra's concert at Carnegie Hall on June 5, singing Mozart's "Exsultate, jubilate" and the solo in the finale of Mahler's Fourth Symphony.
Mr. Dudamel and the soloist, the pianist Sergio Tiempo (making his Philharmonic debut), gave the premiere of this kinetic, three-movement, half-hour work in the fall in Los Angeles.

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