instrumentalist
I'm not much of a musician, I just like to diddle around.我不是什么音乐家，只是瞎摆弄乐器而已。
The famous jazz musician, Duke Ellington, was a composer, arranger and pianist.著名爵士音乐家艾灵顿公爵是一位作曲家、编曲家和钢琴家。
The restaurant was hopelessly mismanaged by a former rock musician with no business experience.这家餐馆被一个没有做过生意的前摇滚乐手经营得一塌糊涂。
She was a prodigious musician.她是一位不同凡响的音乐家。
Our next act is a very talented young musician.表演下一个节目的是一位才华横溢的年轻音乐家。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Musicians
accompanist
accordionist
arranger
artist
bandleader
concertmaster
cornetist
crossover
drum major
drummer
lyrist
mandolinist
mariachi
mastersinger
minstrel
session musician
sideman
sight-reader
soloist
tenorist

musician | American Dictionary

musician
noun[ C ]
us/mjʊˈzɪʃ·ən/
a person who is skilled in playing music, usually as a job:
a jazz/classical/rock musician

Examples of musician

musician
In the years circa 1400 its ranks included a number of leading musicians.
The study found most musicians to be wholly or partly self-employed, and to work in a variety of often interdependent roles throughout their careers.
This provided them with broad understanding of musicians' language, contexts and the kinds of tasks they were likely to discuss.
Consider how few musicians enjoy practising with a metronome; fewer still like performing with one.
Do musicians really communicate with one another and with their audience?
It provided a medium for the musicians to clarify, evaluate and adapt organisational issues, which did not involve creative issues.
Most musicians believed that it had resolved the harmonic problems of musical theory in the best possible way.
Readers looking for eighteenth-century coverage should note that sources on musicians are strongest between 1790 and 1830 and during the 1850s.
It is offering dramatic changes in the relationship between record companies and consumers and musicians and their fans.
An electronic machine, in effect, is not a tool given to the musician without encumbrances.
Self-definition as a musician arose once they had added additional roles to their professional practice.
It has also moved from the study of major selling artists to look at the lives of 'ordinary' musicians and fans.
Lead singers now competed for camera attention with their surrounding musicians who had begun to develop their own visual cliches.
Probably unknown to the arrangers, adjustments in subtle nuances (bowing, articulation, timbre) appropriate for string writing were made by the veteran string musicians.
The study of documentary sources reveals the musicians to be highly ambitious participants with associations that crossed many professional and social boundaries.
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Collocations withmusician

musician

These are words often used in combination with musician.

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accomplished musician
Also, no synthesizer to date comes close to rendering a piece of instrumental music with the 'feeling' of an accomplishedmusician.
amateur musician
The episode is a good example of the jealousy that an upper-class female amateurmusician could arouse in a male professional.
aspiring musician
She is an aspiringmusician who has been waitressing only to make ends meet.
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