todoliszts @ 2008-12-18T05:10:00

2008-12-18T05:10:31Z

Who am I? Kat, see volsunga_cor if you must

Aika Kotone
20/junior
violin performance
Tokyo, Japan

One. Aika's musical career began at three after her parents debated what to do with their disappointment of a girl. She was enrolled in a Suzuki class. They weren't expecting her to love it.
Two. The New York Philharmonic toured in Asia when she was ten, and she decided then that she wanted to go to America to study music. The fact that her parents derided the performance influenced her even more.
Three. Aika's musical influences are the drive to prove her parents wrong about her and her intense love of romanticism. She reads a lot of Byron and Goethe, since they appeal to her romantic sensibilities. The sense of unloved tragedy appeals to her own self-worth problems.
Four. Aika puts off an act of being a diva as a means of covering up her crippling bouts of self-doubt about whether she can prove her parents wrong and whether she can be the virtuoso she wants to be.
Five. Aika's favorite movies are Casablanca and Doctor Zhivago.
Six. Her younger brother is five years younger than her and the apple of her parents' eyes. She resented him throughout her childhood since he was the favored child, but they've managed to repair the rift now that she's an ocean away. He's planning on moving to the US to study engineering, having had enough of their overbearing parents.
Seven. Aika falls in love too easily and too often, frequently falling for the worst kinds of jerks. One of her many boyfriends, who she was convinced she was in love with, stalked her relentlessly for three months. Another was arrested for larceny, precipitating their breakup.
Eight. Despite crippling bouts of self-doubt, Aika uses all the bitterness she feels towards her family and her frustration with herself and channels it into her playing. While she's technically flawless, she plays too angrily and heavily a lot of the time. Her Mozart sounds like Beethoven, and her Beethoven like Strauss.
Nine. Aika has spoken to her parents exactly six times in the past two years. She has yet to go back to Japan and has no intentions of doing so before she can go back in an Asian tour with the New York Philharmonic.
Ten. Aika's favorite extra-musical hobby is writing concert reviews for the school paper. If she can get to an event, she'll review and critique it as she sees fit, though her opinions are not always popular.
Shhh! Aika is thoroughly convinced that while the music is an insane pressure, it's also the only thing keeping her from having a complete emotional meltdown