clarinetist

American  

[klar-uh-net-ist] / ˌklær əˈnɛt ɪst /

noun

1. a musician who plays the clarinet, especially one who plays skillfully or professionally.

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Example Sentences

Here, across 12 minutes, the orchestra turns a four-note motif into a vivid tone poem—shifting moods and colors, restless movement, and a brilliant closing spotlight for virtuoso clarinetist Jimmy Hamilton.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Modern Jazz Quartet recorded two albums there, one with the clarinetist Jimmy Giuffre and the other with the saxophonist Sonny Rollins.

From The Wall Street Journal

His longstanding collaboration with clarinetist John Carter set the template for post-bop in L.A., charged with possibility but lyrical and yearning.

From Los Angeles Times

Still, neither Nézet-Séguin nor the Philadelphia Orchestra are quite fluent in jazz, even given the principal clarinetist Ricardo Morales’s luxuriously, rapturously gooey upward glissando in the famous wail that opens “Rhapsody.”

From New York Times

The clarinetist Afendi Yusuf beautifully rendered the solos that represent a woman who lures men off the street to be robbed; Yusef’s playing was reluctantly beckoning at first and then more fluid, confident and complicit.

From New York Times