noun
definition
The performer in music who takes the accompanying part.
Examples of accompanists in a Sentence
In the early 1960s the BBC made him one of a new group of its staff accompanists.
The College is delighted that Graham Johnson, one of the world's leading accompanists, is the inaugural visiting artist.
There seems no good reason why in modern performances the pianoforte should not be used for the purpose; if only accompanists can be trained to acquire the necessary delicacy of touch, and can be made to understand that, if they cannot extemporize the necessary polyphony, and so have to play something definitely written for them, it is not a mass of interesting detail which they are to bring to the public ear.