Anita Pari

At 15 Anita Pari graduated from high school and began making big plans for her future in music. It’s a dream more than 10-years in the making.  “I started playing piano when I was three-years-old in a program called Music For Young Children,” says Pari.  “My older sister, Cristella, was six and we were both pretty interested in music so my parents thought it was time for her to start taking music lessons and, although I was a bit young for the program, they decided to take me along.”  By the age of seven, Anita stared playing a second instrument, the cello, spending endless hours perfecting her craft.  “For piano, I do about five hours per day of practising and cello, about two hours,” she says. “I do as much as I have to for what I want to accomplish in a day.”

Anita attended the University of Miami, under full scholarship, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in music under the guidance of professor Santiago Rodriguez, who saw Anita’s potential when she studied under him at a Pennsylvania summer school.  This year she has decided to focus on some composition projects instead of performing, and is taking music courses at Carleton University.