orchestrant

plural orchestrants

1. A musician who plays an instrument in an orchestra.

   The situation started to change in the mid-1970s when blind auditions were introduced and the proportion of female orchestrants went up (Goldin and Rouse 2000).

   2020, Anton Bespalov, Martin C. Michel, Thomas Steckler, Good Research Practice in Non-Clinical Pharmacology and Biomedicine, page 93

   2 more examples

   At this conjuncture a gentleman in a blouse, affected perchance by the heat of the weather or by inordinate libations of cocoa, and stung to desperation by the prolonged absence of the Wild Woman and the monotonous iteration of the flageolet and kettle-drum, cried out, "Attrape, Mayeux!" and flung a roasted apple at the orchestrant.

   1864 July 30, George Augustus Sala, “Quite Alone”, in All the Year Round, volume 11, page 583

   Later on he complemented his studies at the Grand Opera in Paris, worked as an orchestrant at the Vanemuine from 1906-1910 and thereafter as a conductor at the Vanemuine from 1916-1940.

   2005, Vardo Rumessen, Eduard Tubin and his time, page 75