Purchase Tickets Here10,000 Hours is proud to present Emerging Young Artists Anita Pari & Jaeyoung Chong for a piano-cello concert featuring original compositions and finishing off with a Prokofiev Cello Sonata.

Program:

Folk Suite for Solo Cello - Jaeyoung Chong

I. Regal

II. Jig

III. Vast

IV. Briskly

V. Fugue - RegalEscape - Anita Pari

I. Lento, rubato - Moderato - Lento, grave

II. Lento

III. Moderato, pesante

IV. Allegro - AdagioCello Sonata, Op. 119 - Sergei Prokofiev

I. Andante grave

II. Moderato

III. Allegro, ma non troppo

Anita Pari is a composer, pianist, and cellist from Ottawa, currently pursuing a PhD in Composition at McGill University. In recent years, Anita’s music has taken inspiration from a variety of themes, ranging from mental health to the study of birdsongs that she has encountered while birdwatching. Through her creative work, she often reflects on and reimagines aspects of her lived experience, drawing from circumstances and events that have shaped her identity. She has recently received the Luba Zuk Piano Duo Composition Commission Prize from McGill University and been invited to compose a piece for the QUASAR saxophone quartet. Anita’s compositional output includes music for orchestra, wind ensemble, choir, various chamber groups, solo piano, live electronics, and fixed media electronics. Her compositions have been performed by the Prisme Ensemble (“Incongruous”), the McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble (“The Voices that Pull Me from the Darkness”), the McGill Wind Orchestra (“Bright Distance Blurring”), the Composer-Performer Orchestration Research Ensemble (“To A Lullaby”), the Cecilia Quartet (“Nocturne for Strings”), and the Harmonia Choir (“Worlds Apart: Pappy's Song”), among other groups. In addition to her work in composition, Anita frequently performs her own music or interprets other composers’ works in concert. Anita has given solo recitals across Ontario as well as soloist appearances with orchestras such as l'Orchestre classique de Montréal, the National Academy Orchestra, the Lancaster Symphony, and the Frost Symphony Orchestra. In 2019, she recorded and released a CD featuring a selection of her own compositions, which included her four-movement cello sonata “Escape” and her solo piano works “Directions” and “Urban Movement.” Later that year, she went on to perform these works at the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival. Anita holds ARCT diplomas in piano and