Fourteen year old Fantee Jones of Roseville, CA accomplished her first public performance at the age seven as a solo pianist at the Yamaha Music Exchange in Sacramento, CA, and again as a piano soloist with the Sacramento Youth Symphony Premier Orchestra at age ten.

Ms. Jones was invited to New York's Carnegie Hall for an international piano competition winner recital held at Weill Recital Hall in May 2005. She has also performed on Princess Cruise Lines, Mondavi Center Jackson Hall, California Theater, Vacaville Performing Arts Theater, and many others.

She has attended many master classes/summer camps, with renowned pianists.

The teachers that she has studied with include: Yin Chengzong, Lara Downes,

Thomas Hecht, John Perry, Dmitry Rachmanov, Marc Silverman, Lee Kum Sing,

and Pawel Skrzypek.

Besides playing piano, she also plays violin and flute. Fantee has been a

member of the Sacramento Youth Symphony since 2002, and is currently playing

in the Premier Orchestra first violin section.

Fantee began piano training with her mother at the age of three. She is currently

under the tutelage of Tien Hsieh. She is a ninth grader at Granite Bay High

School. Her personal plans are to become concert pianist and have a successful

future.