orchestrant

noun

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

   “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.”

   “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.”

   “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).”