Illustration by Dane Thibeault
Interview by Michael Zarathus-Cook
Canada, it seems, still isn’t ready to support the ambitions of some of its most forward-thinking homegrown artists. Anastasia Rizikov, the Toronto-born pianist of Ukrainian descent, is one. The child prodigy (she won the Vladimir Horowitz International Competition in Kyiv at the age of seven) has been living in Paris for the past seven years, crossing the Atlantic at age 18 and never looking back. She’s not even sure what gets programmed in Canada these days, only that her well-worn staples like the Appassionata Sonata and Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 were seen as provincial and boring upon her move to Europe. In Canada, they are bread and butter—what people want to hear and almost all that they will pay for.
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