As she prepares to join the Sarasota Music Festival faculty for the first time, violinist Sandy Yamamoto hopes to inspire the same kind of enthusiasm for chamber music among the students she works with that she enjoyed as a festival fellow nearly 30 years ago.

“Sarasota for me was one of the most fun festivals” because students, who were accustomed to dormitory life, got to stay in the same hotel as the faculty, she said.

But there was also the music.

”I loved my chamber music experience. I got to play a lot of chamber music there, working with some really wonderful coaches. I remember working on the Brahms sextet with Tim Eddy and getting to perform that and performing with faculty was really exciting.”

Her career has been built around chamber music and she spent many years perfor

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