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Breshears String Trio

Piedmont Center for the Arts
Piedmont, CA

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Jun 08, 2025 3:00 PM

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Name: Breshears String Trio
Start: 2025-06-08T15:00
End: 2025-06-08T17:00
Location: Piedmont Center for the Arts

Breshears String Trio

Featured twice as the Violin Channel's Rising Star of the Week, the Breshears String Quartet, also known as Stars Aligned Siblings / Little Stars Trio, is hailed as "quickly building an international following as an emerging young ensemble of enormous potential". The prodigious all-sibling string quartet ages 11, 14, 16, and 17-years-old, has won numerous awards in chamber music, including 1st Prize in the 2023 Piero Farulli International Competition for Young String Quartets, the Gold Medal in the Saint Paul String Quartet Competition, the Silver Medal in the 2024 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, among many more both international and within the USA.

The Breshears siblings have appeared on NBC TV's Little Big Shots with host Steve Harvey and on ITV's Little Big Shots in the U.K. They have toured internationally at festivals and events in the United Kingdom, Italy, Argentina, Mexico, and in the United States. They have performed as soloists and as a quartet at Iguazú en Concierto Festival in Argentina and at Festival Alfonso Ortiz Tirado in Mexico, Festival Napa Valley, and the Bear Valley Music Festival. They have performed for corporate events such as WNDR22 in Montecito, CA and Workday Rising 2022 in Orlando, Florida. Breshears String Quartet also performs for community outreach events such as the National Guild for Community Arts Education Conference, Classics 4 Kids, and for Steinway Society sponsored outreach to local schools in their community.

The quartet is once again becoming a trio, as 18-year old Dustin Jr. goes off to college! In addition to their chamber music awards, the Breshears Quartet siblings have also received 1st Place in numerous solo competitions. They have performed individually as soloists with over twelve different orchestras since the ages of six. The Breshears String Quartet has performed virtual concerts in Paris, Argentina, and has performed on programs hosted by Christopher O'Riley and Gil Shaham. The quartet was featured on NPR's From The Top, Episode 398, and also on From The Top's virtual concert in a history-making performance as the only all-sibling string quartet to have ever appeared on the show.

The Breshears String Quartet is currently coached by Eugene Chukhlov and Sergei Riabtchenko. The quartet was previously taught and mentored by Ayke Agus, violin protégé and accompanist of the legendary, Jascha Heifetz. Additionally, all four siblings attend the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Pre-College Division.

So now for a while Starla, Valery, and Colin will hold down the fort. Here are their bios:

Starla Breshears, cellist
Starla, age 17, is a pre-college student and a Joseph Chan Full-Scholarship recipient at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, studying cello with Jean-Michel Fonteneau. Starla has been coached by Christine Walevska and Sergei Riabtchenko and has performed for masterclasses with Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Alisa Weilerstein and Amit Peled. Starla has soloed with 18 different orchestras since the age of 6 including the California Youth Symphony, Kalamazoo Junior Symphony, Palo Alto Philharmonic, Symphony Parnassus, and the Nova Vista Symphony. Starla was the 2023 Stulberg International String Competition Bronze Medalist and has also won 1st prize in over a dozen solo competitions including 1st Place ASTA State Solo Competition, 1st place Pacific Musical Society & Foundation Competition and Grand Prize in the Diablo Valley College / Holy Names University Young Artist Competition. As one of the youngest Beares International Violin Society Artists, Starla was the loan recipient of a 1/2 size 19th century Hill cello and a 3/4 size 1808 Lorenzo Ventapane. Starla was a Yellow Barn Young Artist in 2022 and 2023.

Valery Breshears, violinist
Valery, age 15, began violin lessons at age 2 with David Mallory. By the age of 5 Valery started studying at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Pre-college Division under William Barbini, and currently studies with Zhao Wei. Valery has soloed 12 times with orchestra since the age of six including Fremont Symphony Orchestra, Nova Vista Symphony, Parnassus Symphony, South Valley Orchestra, Prometheus Symphony, and California Youth Symphony.. She has won numerous solo competitions, including 1st Place California Youth Symphony Young Artist Competition, winner Parnassus-San Francisco Conservatory of Music Concerto Competition, Fremont Symphony Nafisa Taghioff Award, winner Livermore-Amador Symphony Concerto Competition, 1st Place U.S. International Music Competition, 1st Place ASTA-San Francisco Competition, 1st Place ASTA-Sacramento Competition, 1st Place CAPMT-Sacramento Competition, 1st Place DVC-HNU Strings Competition, 1st Place Classical Masters Competition, and a winner of the 2021 Pacific Musical Society & Foundation Competition. Valery is a recipient of the 2021 Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award.

Colin Breshears, violist
Colin, age 12, began violin lessons at age 3 with David Mallory and Ayke Agus. At age 6, Colin began studying viola with Madeline Prager at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Pre-college Division. As a soloist, he has won 1st Place American Viola Society National Junior Solo Competition, 1st Place CalASTA San Francisco Solo Competition - Novice Division, 1st Place in the Classical Masters Music Festival Competition, 1st Place in the CAPMT Sacramento Go For the Gold Competition, 1st place Pacific Musical Society & Foundation Competition and 1st place Diablo Valley College / Holy Names University String Competition - Viola Division. Since 2018 Colin has performed as a soloist and with his sibling quartet at Iguazú en Concierto festival in Argentina and at Festival Alfonso Ortiz Tirado in Mexico.