Deanna Choi

1. Age / âge
17

2. Hometown / ville
Kingston

3. Instrument
Violin

4. How do you feel you will benefit from participation in the NYOC? Comment pensez-vous que votre participation à lONJC puisse vous aider?
A once-in-a-lifetime unforgettable experience playing music with phenomenally-talented Canadian youth. Growing and developing as a musician a performer a group member an artist. Meeting new people students and teachers from all across Canada.

5. What are your interests outside classical music / Avez-vous d’autres intérêts à part la musique classique ?
Broadway musicals. Oscar Wilde. Poetry. Thunderstorms. Cheesecake. Crosswords. Watercolours. Science Fiction. Figure skating. Hiking up very small mountains.

6. What are your professional goals? / Décrivez quelques-unes de vos ambitions professionnelles.
At this point I haven't the faintest clue. Complete in a PhD in something... maybe absent-mindedness. Or Psychology. They're really the same thing.

7. What has recently played on your iPod? / Qu’écoutez-vous ces jours-ci sur votre iPod?
Bat Boy the Musical.

8. What is there about you that you think people might be surprised to know? / Y a-t-il quelque chose à votre propos qui est un peu surprenant ou hors de l’ordinaire?
I wear mismatching socks. Always.

9. If you weren't touring with the NYOC what would you be doing with your summer? Si vous ne faisiez pas partie de l' ONJC que feriez-vous cet été?
Working or volunteering... Something lousy like that.

Who is your favourite classical musician? / Quel est votre artiste (classique) préféré ?
Does Victor Borge count? If not, then Oistrazukdupperlehnrichpovich. A nice Cyborg made up of Oistrakh, Zukerman, Du Pre, Perlman, Ehnes, Richter, and Rostropovich.

Who is your favourite non-classical musician? / Quel est votre artiste (non classique) préféré ?
Regina Spektor. The Beatles. The Last Shadow Puppets. The Clash. Ella Fitzgerald. Patti LuPone.

Why did you choose your instrument / Pourquoi avez-vous choisi cet instrument ?
Because I watched my older sister playing the violin. In retrospect I should've watched professional poker instead.