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AFTER LEAVING her North Vancouver home and friends at

Handsworth Secondary

seven
Cerovsek has settled nicely into

years. ago, 21-year-old Katja
ife in Bloomington, Indiana.

She was in town recently to give a stunning piano recital at the

Vancouver Playhouse.

Not the conservatory type

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tespondence courses, and, just
one month later, graduated from
Indiana University with a Bachelor
of Music degree.

While her parents have always
provided her with a great deal of
emotional support, Cerovsek is
proud that she hasn‘t had to rely
on them for financial support.
Apart from a Canada Council

rant, she’s paid her entire way
through university on the money
she earns from recitals.

With a master’s degree under
her arm (which, by the way, she
earned with a perfect 4.0 grade
point average}, Cerovsek is now
completing her PhD from Indiana
University under the watchful eye
of the Beaux Arts Trio’s Menahem
Pressler, who she considers to be a
“fantastic musician who makes
you believe in yourself.”’

Her regime is rigorous: three to
six hours of practising a day in ad-
dition to classes, which leaves little
time for performing.

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“Life is pretty normal right
now,” she says, ‘‘A lot of people
think it’s glamorous, but it’s not.”

At this point Cerovsek isn’t sure
where she’s going to finish her
PhD. But one thing's for sure: it
won't be at a music conservatory.

“’m not fulliard-oriented. |
don’t want to be in an incredibly
competitive environment,”’ she
says.

But what is it like being the
“under-achiever’’ of the family?
(At age 14 Corey was one of the
most sought-after violinists in the
world and by age 18 had already

“obtained his PhD in music and

mathematics).

As is characteristic of Katja
Cerovsek, the response is both in-
telligent and light-hearted.

“It might have bothered me a
bit when we were kids, but ! real-
ized there’s no sense in competing
— besides, we play different in-
struments. Corey is so far ahead of
everyone, anyway. He’s matured a
lot in the last year, and now we're
good friends.”’

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