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LIKE ANY parents, Paul and Pauline Wong are
proud of their daughter’s achievements.

At age feur and a half she
won her first music competi-
tion playing a Beethoven
sonatina at the Coquitlam

piano.

Tinkling at the ivories as
early as the age of three,
Karen could read and com-

oe talented pianist.

LOVES A CHALLENGE
Child pianist in tune with talent

Music Festival for children
12 and under.

fcunder of the prestigious
Leeds competition in
England, invited Karen to
attend a master class during

the Harrogate International
Festival last summer.

class honors in the theory
exam — no mean feat for a
10 year old.

Pauline Wong attributes

WEWS photo Stuart Davis

KAREN WONG and her parrot Maxie relax at the piano. Wong, a North Vancouver resident, is gaining much acclaim as a

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part of her daughter‘’s suc-
cess to family support and a

the beginning. She knows
how a child feels."

CREATIVITY

She says that Tso is a
traditional teacher, drilling
her students with the basics,
but allowing plenty of room
for using the imagination
and creative play.

Pauline says Karen is her
own prime motivator. ‘She
never gets tired,’’ her mother
says. ‘‘The more difficult the
piece, the more she loves it.
She loves a challenge.”

Pauline is well aware of
the problems child prodigies
face — particularly if pushed
by ambitious parents — and

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the prodigy’s potential bur-
nout in the teens. But she

The prodigy’s latest suc- capable piano instructor, says she and her husband are . a
Karen Wong is a happy- RECOGNIZED cess was being awarded the Ellen Tso. doing their best to avoid :
go-lucky 10 year old from silver medal from the ““We were lucky to find these problems.
North Vancouver who does Although only 10 year Toronto Conservatory of her (Tso) when we moved to “We want Karen to finish a
well at school, is crazy about’ pose music before she old, Karen has won interna- Music for the highest mark B.C. seven years ago from high school before she goes .
horses, keeps birds, and is started lessons half a year tional recognition. in B.C. in the 1985 grade Montreal,"* says Pauline. onto a music school — that ‘
exceptional at playing the — later. Fanny Waterman, co- nine piano exam and first ‘‘They got along well from is if she wants to go io a

music school,"’ says Pauline.
“She could get into Julliard
with no problem, but, at the
moment, we're just pleased
she has so many interests.’’

Karen can't decide
whether she wants to be a
concert pianist or a scientist
— as she is interested in both
fields. But at age 10 she has
lots of time to make up her
mind.

For now she’s busy keep-
ing her top marks at
Fromme Elementary School,
performing science experi-
ments and dreaming about
horses.

Being a whiz kid at the
piano is just another project
for Karen Wong.

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