Danville Cellist Performing at Prestigious San Francisco Music Festival

A recent San Ramon Valley High graduate will have an opportunity to play and learn with some of the most talented musicians in the country at a San Francisco festival later this month.

Faithlina Chan, with two of her new classmates at the University of Pugent Sound, will perform at the Yehudi Menuhin Chamber Music Festival in San Francisco Jan. 29 to Feb. 3.

Chan, who plays the cello in the group called Trio Consonare, will be rubbing shoulders with world class musicians from around the world at the festival.

"I was a bit surprised but extremely excited," Chan said after she learned she would be part of the festival. "It seemed like a wonderful learning experience for us and a time for our trio to really develop our sound together."

The trio is Chan with the cello, Jinshil Yi on the piano and Jonathan Mei with the violin.

Chan and Mei are met during freshman orientation and quickly became friends. They were then teamed up with Yi by Puget Sound artist-in-residence David Requiro, because of the dedication the three show to music.

 “We sight-read through an entire 30-page Mendelssohn movement without stopping once,” Yi said about the first time the trio played together. “Of course it wasn’t perfect, refined, or flawless—but the flow, the magic, the consonance was there. I knew, in those 11 minutes, that I had met the perfect piano trio, here at Puget Sound.”

Chan fell in love with music at an early age and has been playing the cello for 12 years. Last year, as a student at San Ramon Valley, she was a member of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra and continues to be part of the Community Presbyterian Church, playing the cello for the worship band.

"My aspiration as a musician is simply to be able to share the gift of music to others in a powerful way and to inspire and touch lives through music," Chan said. "And I believe that cello is a perfect instrument for that."

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