{"id":245329,"date":"2026-03-31T17:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/245329\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T17:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:21:07","slug":"san-francisco-symphonys-newest-cellist-starla-breshears-age-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/245329\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Symphony\u2019s Newest Cellist, Starla Breshears, Age 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In last Tuesday\u2019s (3\/24) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfcv.org\/articles\/music-news\/new-sf-symphony-cellist-orchestras-youngest-player#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">San Francisco Classical Voice<\/a>, Janos Gereben writes, \u201cNot long ago, symphony orchestras in Europe and the U.S. consisted of \u2018mature\u2019 white men, and there are still living memories of the first woman or the first Black musician joining a major orchestra. Those days are mercifully gone, but when an 18-year-old receives a contract with the San Francisco Symphony, that\u2019s still\u2026 interesting. The orchestra\u2019s newest and youngest member is cellist Starla Breshears. Her contract is set to begin next season. She is a 2025 graduate of the SF Conservatory of Music\u2019s Pre-College Program, and is set to graduate from high school this year\u2026. Breshears served as principal cello in the SFS Youth Orchestra during the 2024-2025 season and as assistant principal cello in the San Francisco Choral Society. SFS Principal Cello Rainer Eudeikis [said], \u2018Starla\u2019s exceptional musicianship and facility set her apart, both during her blind audition and throughout her trial with the orchestra.\u2019 \u2026 Breshears is a Kohl Scholar currently studying at the Colburn Music Academy with Clive Greensmith. She was formerly a Joseph Chan Scholarship recipient at the SF Conservatory of Music Pre-College Academy \u2026 She began studying cello at age three.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In last Tuesday\u2019s (3\/24) San Francisco Classical Voice, Janos Gereben writes, \u201cNot long ago, symphony orchestras in Europe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[27835,101,103,102,104,106,105,3183,53764],"class_list":["post-245329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-musicians","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-students","tag-youth-orchestras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}