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By NANCY WEATHERLEY

HOW DOES A 13 year
old boy deal with the
fact he is a musical
genius?

The North Shore has more
than its share of such
prodigies, and these gifted
children must somehow
cope with school, friends,
and the day to day problems
of growing up as well as the
fact that they have genius.

Nicholas Maloff Jr. is one
such child. At 13 he has just
received an extraordinarily
high 92 per cent in the
Canadian Music Com-
petition held in Ontario.

He placed first in his
section of the competition,
and was glowingly praised by
his judges. That is just the
- latest triumph in a list of

honors that is quite
astounding.
Nicholas (he hates

nicknames) is small and
intense, soft-spoken and
spectacled.

And he is at his most
- animated when talking about

NICHOLAS Maloff
Jr. of North
Vancouver, sits at
the piano where he
spends much of his
time. He just
received the highest
mark in his
category at the
Canadian Music
Competition. (Eric
Eggertson photo)

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his music.
He studies year round and

~ generally practices about

three and a half hours a day,
although he slows down a bit
in the summer. He has little
leisure time.

What is his motivation?

“Tm never satisfied” he
says of his music, “I always
want to get it better...If
you're always satisfied you’
never get any better.”

His greatest moments
happen when he's playing
and everything comes
together. Unaware of
judges, audience, or
anything except the music,
he says he hears and sees
himself playing as though he
were offstage watching, or
listening to a recording.

He says the sensation is
like flying.

But what does Nicholas

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Maloff Jr. do for fun?

He answers that he likes
computers, electronics, and
radio control.

He also
reading...about
and electronics.

But what about fun books?

‘Tm not too crazy about
fun books, you don’t learn
very much from them” he
answers. Because of his
limited leisure time, he
doesn’t like to waste time
reading fun books but
concentrates on ‘factual
books.’

Nicholas will spend the
rest of the summer studying .
music at U.B.C. and the fall
will find him in his first year
of highschool at Hand-
sworth.

He hopes, after being a
concert pianist, to move into
the field of conducting.

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