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A classical triple threat
'Exceptional' young musician excels in piano, cello and composing
Steven Mazey, The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Saturday, August 01, 2009
She plays the piano, the cello and composes in her spare time, and 11-year-old Anita Pari has won prizes for all three at recent national competitions.
The home-schooled Ottawa musician studies piano with Andrew Tunis, cello with Anne Contant and composition with Colin Mack.
Ottawa audiences will hear her at the keyboard when she performs in a master class with pianist André Laplante on Sunday afternoon presented by the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival.
At the national finals of the Canadian Music Competition in Montreal in early July, Pari competed in piano and cello on the same day. She took home first prize in her age category and a mark of 98 per cent in piano, second prize and a mark of 95 per cent in cello.
In a classical triple crown, she found out two weeks ago she has been awarded first prize nationally in her age group for her composition Sonatina in C major, through the Canadian Federation of Music Teachers' national competition.
Slender and soft spoken, Pari started playing piano at age three and cello at the advanced age of seven.
She has a slight preference for piano, but also loves "the way the cello sings," she said when the Citizen caught up with the other day at the beginning of a piano lesson with Tunis in his studio at the University of Ottawa.
Pari is the only student outside of his university students that Tunis has agreed to teach.
"Her achievement in two disciplines is quite something," says Tunis, who describes her as "an exceptional musical talent with an impeccable ear and a remarkable focus and concentration in her playing. She also has an
instinctive feel for beautiful piano sound, colour and texture. One can easily forget that she is only 11 years old. She has a lively curiosity and a desire to learn all she can about music.
"She really has all the ingredients to become a first-class musician."
Also performing for Laplante Sunday will be Ottawa pianist Suren Barry, 19, a scholarship student at the Glenn Gould School in Toronto who has won several prizes in area competitions, including the Marion Hewitt scholarship at last year's Kiwanis Festival.
