0:00:24 > 0:00:26APPLAUSE
0:00:31 > 0:00:35Actually, I think it's a huge mistake to play Bach to start with.
0:00:35 > 0:00:39Why? I'll tell you why. Because, you know, this is a 15-minute audition.
0:00:39 > 0:00:44You need to make a statement. You need to impress the jury.
0:00:44 > 0:00:46And what would you like me to make an impression with?
0:00:46 > 0:00:49Well, I think in my mind you would start
0:00:49 > 0:00:51with probably a Rachmaninoff sonata.
0:00:53 > 0:00:55Are you BLEEP insane?!
0:00:56 > 0:00:58I love music.
0:00:58 > 0:00:59MAN SPEAKS IN FRENCH
0:01:05 > 0:01:07Maybe I don't always love practising,
0:01:07 > 0:01:11maybe I don't always love myself, but I always love music.
0:01:11 > 0:01:14I'm serving something higher. You know, it's my religion.
0:01:14 > 0:01:17It's, you know... I really do believe
0:01:17 > 0:01:19it's the most beautiful thing in the world.
0:01:25 > 0:01:27APPLAUSE
0:01:34 > 0:01:37MAN: Bravo! Bravo!
0:01:52 > 0:01:54HE SPEAKS FRENCH
0:02:05 > 0:02:07HE SPEAKS FRENCH
0:02:13 > 0:02:15APPLAUSE
0:02:41 > 0:02:43OK, I'm ready.
0:02:44 > 0:02:46SHE SIGHS
0:02:46 > 0:02:50Moszkowski, Schumann, Scarlatti.
0:02:54 > 0:02:55I'm tired.
0:02:55 > 0:02:57My bed!
0:03:02 > 0:03:03SHE SIGHS
0:03:14 > 0:03:16SHE HUMS MELODY
0:03:16 > 0:03:19You should sing a fifth first and then just take it down.
0:03:19 > 0:03:22Same thing. SHE HUMS MELODY
0:03:26 > 0:03:31Marika's spending Valentine's Day in New York City.
0:03:31 > 0:03:34Yeah. In a classroom. Yeah!
0:03:35 > 0:03:37That's Carnegie Hall.
0:03:37 > 0:03:40Have you ever played there? Yes, I played two times there.
0:03:40 > 0:03:43So... Is it nice to walk back by it?
0:03:43 > 0:03:47Well, yeah, but I see it every weekend. THEY LAUGH
0:03:47 > 0:03:51Yeah, but the important thing is to play in it. Play there. HE LAUGHS
0:04:12 > 0:04:14IN FRENCH
0:04:31 > 0:04:34Do you spend a lot of time waiting when you come?
0:04:34 > 0:04:37Yeah, well, usually what I do is...
0:04:37 > 0:04:42I'll just wait until I take to her lesson and then...go.
0:04:42 > 0:04:44Nothing else I can do.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04OK, you know... I started really badly.
0:05:04 > 0:05:08Well, what happened is that your guitar is stuck.
0:05:08 > 0:05:11MARIKA LAUGHS You know, you're strumming the air
0:05:11 > 0:05:13instead of strumming the strings.
0:05:13 > 0:05:15You're doing this and...
0:05:17 > 0:05:19Yeah, this has to sound like...
0:05:19 > 0:05:22Like a very energetic strumming of a guitar.
0:05:22 > 0:05:24Marika's a very intense kid
0:05:24 > 0:05:29and intensity is...is a two-edged sword.
0:05:32 > 0:05:34Just relax and just play.
0:05:35 > 0:05:38If she plays a wrong note, she gets so angry with herself
0:05:38 > 0:05:40that that's all you can see.
0:05:40 > 0:05:42I mean, if she could hit herself she would!
0:05:56 > 0:05:58See, now you sound like something,
0:05:58 > 0:06:02because you sound like you have character in the playing instead of fear. Uh-huh.
0:06:05 > 0:06:08How did it go? It went well.
0:06:08 > 0:06:11I just got my grade report from Pre-Coll Division.
0:06:11 > 0:06:13And it's pretty good.
0:06:13 > 0:06:17I have As, that means honours,
0:06:17 > 0:06:20so...I'm happy, yeah. HE LAUGHS
0:06:20 > 0:06:22A nice way to finish the day.
0:06:24 > 0:06:26ALL SING IN FRENCH
0:06:28 > 0:06:30WOMAN SPEAKS IN FRENCH
0:07:50 > 0:07:52APPLAUSE
0:08:03 > 0:08:06Air Canada to Montreal passenger Marika Bournaki.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09Please would you go to gate 320.
0:08:58 > 0:09:00When I listen to Marika play...
0:09:00 > 0:09:06I find that she has this beautiful tonality.
0:09:06 > 0:09:09She has something that cannot be taught.
0:09:09 > 0:09:13You learn technique, you learn peddling,
0:09:13 > 0:09:18you learn to read music, but you don't learn heart.
0:09:18 > 0:09:23Heart is something which you have to feel, you just sense.
0:09:24 > 0:09:27THEY SPEAK FRENCH
0:09:27 > 0:09:29MARIKA:
0:09:42 > 0:09:43HE LAUGHS
0:09:46 > 0:09:47Non!
0:09:52 > 0:09:55Sometimes...I just don't really want to practise
0:09:55 > 0:09:58or maybe I'm better off being in Montreal, being with my friends
0:09:58 > 0:10:01and having fun and go to parties,
0:10:01 > 0:10:04but in the end I really like what I do.
0:10:04 > 0:10:06I'm sure it can bring me really far.
0:10:06 > 0:10:10And it makes me happy and people around me happy, so why not do it?
0:11:12 > 0:11:14APPLAUSE
0:11:33 > 0:11:35HE SPEAKS FRENCH
0:11:37 > 0:11:39Stupendous. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much.
0:11:43 > 0:11:45Excellent. Excellent.
0:11:45 > 0:11:48Excellent. Amazing. I have grandchildren
0:11:48 > 0:11:51and I try to get them to learn, but...
0:11:51 > 0:11:54I mean, that has to be... That's a gift.
0:11:54 > 0:11:58Sure. I liked your pretty hands. MARIKA LAUGHS
0:11:58 > 0:12:00Thank you.
0:12:00 > 0:12:03Thank you very much. Thank you.
0:12:31 > 0:12:34The instruction enclosed.
0:12:34 > 0:12:36SHE SPEAKS FRENCH
0:12:36 > 0:12:38THEY LAUGH
0:12:38 > 0:12:41"Press card. Apply pressure."
0:13:14 > 0:13:16Yes!
0:13:35 > 0:13:38ALL: Surprise!
0:13:38 > 0:13:40LAUGHTER
0:13:51 > 0:13:53ALL CONVERSE IN FRENCH
0:13:53 > 0:13:56LAUGHTER
0:13:56 > 0:14:01"Apply pressure..." "Apply pressure on left and right sides with arms."
0:14:01 > 0:14:03LAUGHTER
0:14:03 > 0:14:07"Think about how special you are to so many people."
0:14:07 > 0:14:09ALL: Awww!
0:14:09 > 0:14:11"Marika, during the course of these two years
0:14:11 > 0:14:14"we've seen you grow and become who you are today.
0:14:14 > 0:14:16"It's hard to let someone go so soon, but we know that this
0:14:16 > 0:14:17"will help you and you will be
0:14:17 > 0:14:20"the great pianist that you deserve to be someday.
0:14:20 > 0:14:23"Not having you around will be... will be a big change
0:14:23 > 0:14:26"and will be the empty space in our group at our lunch table."
0:14:26 > 0:14:29Aww! "We still can't believe that all this is ending so fast
0:14:29 > 0:14:32"and, in short, just know that we will no doubt miss you.
0:14:32 > 0:14:35"Also remember to be true to yourself
0:14:35 > 0:14:37"and don't be afraid to show anyone the real Marika."
0:14:49 > 0:14:50'APPLAUSE'
0:14:57 > 0:14:59I hate brushing my teeth.
0:15:26 > 0:15:28SHE GROANS
0:15:30 > 0:15:33There's this song, I don't know if you know it,
0:15:33 > 0:15:35Jack Johnson, Banana Pancakes.
0:15:35 > 0:15:39And it's like, well... I'll just play it.
0:15:39 > 0:15:43But, basically, it's says go back to sleep.
0:15:43 > 0:15:46So it's like... My mum was listening to it and she was, like,
0:15:46 > 0:15:49"This is what you listen to in the morning? This is not good."
0:15:49 > 0:15:51# So can't you see that it's just raining
0:15:51 > 0:15:53# Ain't no need to go outside. #
0:15:53 > 0:15:54MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:54 > 0:15:56SHE LAUGHS Oh!
0:15:56 > 0:15:59# Ain't no need to go outside
0:16:00 > 0:16:03# Baby, you hardly even notice
0:16:03 > 0:16:05# When I tried...
0:16:05 > 0:16:07It's always hard to move away, I think.
0:16:07 > 0:16:10When I first moved here,
0:16:10 > 0:16:13I wasn't used...to be on my own
0:16:13 > 0:16:15and doing everything on my own.
0:16:15 > 0:16:18You know, not having my parents drive me.
0:16:18 > 0:16:21I had to figure out, you know, how to travel.
0:16:21 > 0:16:24It was an hour at first, but, you know, like, go to school,
0:16:24 > 0:16:26the train, I had to figure out the train system.
0:16:26 > 0:16:28I had no-one to show me.
0:16:28 > 0:16:30Ow!
0:16:30 > 0:16:33I swear I will fall in front of you.
0:16:34 > 0:16:38See, it's very tidy. It's very... SHE LAUGHS
0:16:39 > 0:16:41Whoops!
0:16:41 > 0:16:45I think I know myself better, because I'm, you know, by myself.
0:16:45 > 0:16:48I get a lot of time with myself, you know,
0:16:48 > 0:16:51to think about my likes and dislikes.
0:16:51 > 0:16:56And also I get to do whatever I want to do whenever I want to do.
0:16:56 > 0:16:58I used to actually care what I looked like.
0:16:58 > 0:17:02"Oh, I know what I'm going to wear...my sweat pants!"
0:17:02 > 0:17:04SHE LAUGHS
0:17:04 > 0:17:06# Waking up too early
0:17:06 > 0:17:08# Maybe you could sleep in
0:17:08 > 0:17:11# Make you banana pancakes See?
0:17:11 > 0:17:13Oh! Why?!
0:17:13 > 0:17:16Pretend like it's the weekend now.
0:17:16 > 0:17:18SHE LAUGHS
0:17:18 > 0:17:20Ohh!
0:17:20 > 0:17:23Shit! I suck at life!
0:17:23 > 0:17:26# There ain't no need to go outside
0:17:26 > 0:17:30# Just so easy when the whole world
0:17:30 > 0:17:33# Fits inside of your arms Stop!
0:17:33 > 0:17:37# Don't really need to pay attention to the alarm
0:17:37 > 0:17:39# Wake up slow
0:17:40 > 0:17:43# Wake up slow. #
0:17:53 > 0:17:58It's like... It's all the same level. Yeah.
0:17:58 > 0:18:01Yeah. All right, so what do you do about it?
0:18:01 > 0:18:03I...change it.
0:18:03 > 0:18:07Right. But you can't change it when you're sitting there going...
0:18:11 > 0:18:12And now change up.
0:18:12 > 0:18:15Do you think this should be...?
0:18:15 > 0:18:16No.
0:18:18 > 0:18:21Everything you do wrong is on your face immediately,
0:18:21 > 0:18:23whether it's a sound you don't like,
0:18:23 > 0:18:25whether it's a note that you missed,
0:18:25 > 0:18:25whether it's just fumbling a trill or something,
0:18:25 > 0:18:28whether it's just fumbling a trill or something,
0:18:28 > 0:18:30it's immediately on your face.
0:18:33 > 0:18:35Seriously.
0:18:42 > 0:18:45Marika is definitely a colt.
0:18:45 > 0:18:49A very vibrant and a very energetic one.
0:18:49 > 0:18:52She does need to be tamed sometimes.
0:18:52 > 0:18:56But, you know, sometimes you wonder how much taming you want to do,
0:18:56 > 0:18:59because you don't want her to lose that spirit.
0:18:59 > 0:19:01SHE SIGHS
0:19:01 > 0:19:04# Ain't no need, ain't no need
0:19:04 > 0:19:08# Rain all day and I really, really, really don't mind
0:19:08 > 0:19:11# Can't you see, can't you see
0:19:13 > 0:19:15# You got to wake up slow. #
0:19:22 > 0:19:25OK...we're going.
0:19:26 > 0:19:28Ooh! Caramel!
0:19:28 > 0:19:30Would you like some caramel?
0:19:30 > 0:19:32Home-made.
0:19:35 > 0:19:38THEY SPEAK IN FRENCH
0:19:58 > 0:20:00MARIKA SIGHS
0:20:01 > 0:20:03HE SPEAKS FRENCH
0:20:06 > 0:20:09THEY CONVERSE IN FRENCH
0:20:15 > 0:20:18# YMCA! # SHE LAUGHS
0:20:18 > 0:20:21We are going to Ottawa.
0:20:21 > 0:20:24Or Getsno. Where? Yeah. Same thing.
0:20:24 > 0:20:28I mean, Getsno is right on the other side of the Ottawa River.
0:20:28 > 0:20:32And why are we going today though? Well, what do you think?
0:20:32 > 0:20:35Oh, yeah, to practise on Glenn Gould's piano! Ooh!
0:20:35 > 0:20:37Ooh!
0:21:01 > 0:21:03HE LAUGHS
0:21:03 > 0:21:06I'll get a full scholarship to go to college.
0:21:06 > 0:21:10Oh, yeah. I'll get to the top of the list, I'll be number one.
0:21:10 > 0:21:13And I'll get all the money, scholarship.
0:21:13 > 0:21:17Well, you know what... that would be nice.
0:21:17 > 0:21:18I know.
0:21:38 > 0:21:42C'est ca? That's not what it sounded like.
0:21:42 > 0:21:44HE HUMS MELODY
0:21:44 > 0:21:47THEY BOTH HUM MELODY
0:21:52 > 0:21:56OK. That's what it was? Yeah.
0:21:58 > 0:22:01Oh, my God! Look at his sunglasses!
0:22:03 > 0:22:05Unbelievable! Do you have them with you?
0:22:05 > 0:22:08See, it's like it could be one of them.
0:22:08 > 0:22:11SHE LAUGHS Look at this. It's unbelievable!
0:22:11 > 0:22:13I should... It's exactly the same style
0:22:13 > 0:22:16as the last one down there, the red one. Can I have them, please?
0:22:18 > 0:22:19Wow! Right?
0:23:27 > 0:23:30Playing on Gould's famous and favourite Steinway piano,
0:23:30 > 0:23:35we have a treat for you, 16-year-old musical star Marika Bournaki
0:23:35 > 0:23:37will perform the prelude
0:23:37 > 0:23:41of Johann Sebastian Bach's English Suite No.2 in F minor.
0:24:59 > 0:25:00APPLAUSE
0:25:54 > 0:25:56SHE LAUGHS
0:25:56 > 0:25:59Wow! Oh, yeah!
0:25:59 > 0:26:03Well, we have the same taste in sunglasses. I mean, yeah.
0:26:03 > 0:26:05SHE LAUGHS AND SIGHS
0:26:08 > 0:26:09Ooh!
0:26:21 > 0:26:25She remembers me from earlier than I do remember her.
0:26:25 > 0:26:27No. Yeah.
0:26:33 > 0:26:37Did you think he was cute when you first saw him? No.
0:26:37 > 0:26:38Of course.
0:26:40 > 0:26:45Now I just go on my knees and I ask, "Will you marry me?"
0:26:45 > 0:26:46No.
0:27:12 > 0:27:13CHATTER
0:27:20 > 0:27:24I've never seen my dad play in this kind of setting ever.
0:27:24 > 0:27:26So this is a first.
0:27:26 > 0:27:28I'm excited.
0:27:31 > 0:27:34See, now he's nervous. He's practising, huh?
0:27:36 > 0:27:39Yeah, yeah. What about me when I want to warm up?
0:27:39 > 0:27:42I have to scout pianos in hotels.
0:27:42 > 0:27:44SHE LAUGHS
0:27:50 > 0:27:54When you're a pianist, you sit at the piano,
0:27:54 > 0:28:00but I remember when I was younger, like, when my knees were shaking.
0:28:00 > 0:28:05And, you know, when you're standing up, you feel it much more than when you're sitting.
0:28:51 > 0:28:52CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:29:01 > 0:29:02TV PLAYS
0:29:41 > 0:29:43It's like going to a job interview.
0:29:43 > 0:29:47If an important agent books you everywhere in the world,
0:29:47 > 0:29:49I mean, you're starting your career.
0:29:50 > 0:29:54So, yes, it's potentially a career maker.
0:29:57 > 0:29:59What if I suck?
0:29:59 > 0:30:02Well, they either say...
0:30:02 > 0:30:07"Thank you very much," or they say,
0:30:07 > 0:30:10"Even if you sucked, it sounded pretty good."
0:30:10 > 0:30:11SHE LAUGHS
0:30:29 > 0:30:33Probably. Where? House management. Here.
0:30:48 > 0:30:49I'm so BLEEP tired.
0:32:00 > 0:32:02I don't think you realise how dirty this is.
0:32:02 > 0:32:04Like, let me complain.
0:32:04 > 0:32:08Do you see how dirty this is? Do you see how this is dirty?
0:32:08 > 0:32:11Do you see how dirty this is?!
0:32:11 > 0:32:14HE SIGHS I've never seen a place like this!
0:32:14 > 0:32:15How am I supposed...
0:32:15 > 0:32:18How am I supposed to sleep? SHE SOBS
0:32:18 > 0:32:22It's the same crap, it's just because it's brown you can't see it!
0:32:22 > 0:32:25It's so BLEEP ghetto!
0:32:25 > 0:32:28What the BLEEP?! Marika.
0:32:28 > 0:32:30Where's the light?
0:32:50 > 0:32:52Oh.
0:33:05 > 0:33:08Just sleep...and be ready for your rehearsal.
0:33:08 > 0:33:10Uh-huh.
0:33:15 > 0:33:17Yesterday she didn't sleep at all,
0:33:17 > 0:33:20so we basically went through two days without sleeping.
0:33:23 > 0:33:25Me and David...
0:33:25 > 0:33:28I'm with my boyfriend every day, I see him every day
0:33:28 > 0:33:31and when I leave, I feel like I'm leaving somebody behind.
0:33:33 > 0:33:37But, I mean, that's fine. Like, I'm in London. What the hell.
0:33:37 > 0:33:38Why am I complaining?
0:33:40 > 0:33:43I was just thinking, like, the image of a college student
0:33:43 > 0:33:48is, like, jeans and a big sweatshirt, you know, it's...
0:33:48 > 0:33:50Yeah, more relaxed. Comfort.
0:33:50 > 0:33:52So it's kind of like...
0:33:52 > 0:33:57No, I mean, in a way, for you, it's just that you dress like this
0:33:57 > 0:33:59just the way you want every day. I mean, it's stages.
0:33:59 > 0:34:02And then when you have a concert, you have to have, like... You know,
0:34:02 > 0:34:06it's like Superman. I mean, just... You put your suit on.
0:34:06 > 0:34:10Catwoman, I would like. OK, Catwoman. Sorry about that.
0:34:12 > 0:34:14No, but I'm talking about my personal style.
0:34:14 > 0:34:19Concert is not my personal... Well, it should be. Yeah.
0:34:19 > 0:34:22Yeah, it should be, because I think you're also making a statement
0:34:22 > 0:34:25when you dress in a certain way when you play a concert.
0:34:25 > 0:34:27Yeah. You know?
0:34:34 > 0:34:38It looks really bad! It looks really bad.
0:34:38 > 0:34:41It-It looks cheap.
0:34:41 > 0:34:44This looks cheap. It looks like a maid outfit.
0:34:46 > 0:34:48I don't want to look for concert clothes, it pisses me off.
0:34:48 > 0:34:50I don't understand this whole BLEEP obsession.
0:34:50 > 0:34:52There's no obsession, I look fine.
0:34:52 > 0:34:55OK, I have pretty blonde hair. It's fine.
0:34:55 > 0:34:58You leave me alone.
0:35:34 > 0:35:38One of the questions they'll probably ask you on Tuesday is...
0:35:38 > 0:35:41why do you want to be a concert pianist?
0:35:41 > 0:35:43Uh-huh.
0:35:43 > 0:35:46What do you enjoy about being a concert pianist?
0:35:48 > 0:35:50Nothing.
0:35:52 > 0:35:54Well, do you enjoyed the practising?
0:35:54 > 0:36:00Yeah. OK, so...that's one part of... that's one part of the answer.
0:36:00 > 0:36:02What else?
0:36:03 > 0:36:07I can bullshit, but that's about it. OK. So what's the bullshit?
0:36:07 > 0:36:11That I like to perform, that I like to get ready for a performance.
0:36:11 > 0:36:13I get very motivated.
0:36:13 > 0:36:16I want to communicate something to the public.
0:36:16 > 0:36:20I'm not just playing for myself in the practice room,
0:36:20 > 0:36:22but finally it's kind of the gratification
0:36:22 > 0:36:25when you get to play for the public.
0:36:25 > 0:36:29You have to play for other people and share what you've been working on.
0:36:29 > 0:36:33Actually, it's funny because this is the answer you would give when you were, like, 13 years old.
0:36:33 > 0:36:37I know, but that's because I was... SHE LAUGHS
0:36:37 > 0:36:40You were mature then than now? No, it's not mature. I was set up.
0:36:40 > 0:36:44You set me up. I set you up? Yeah, I had, like, a written...
0:36:44 > 0:36:47I never told you. Yeah, you did, like, kind of.
0:36:47 > 0:36:50Like, I had a written answer to say.
0:36:50 > 0:36:55It's kind of how it was tweaked. But now it's not how I feel at all.
0:36:55 > 0:36:57I don't want to travel, I don't want...
0:36:57 > 0:36:59I see it as the compromise.
0:36:59 > 0:37:02I like to play for myself, I like to learn.
0:37:02 > 0:37:06Is this because you are attached too much to New York? No!
0:37:06 > 0:37:07It has nothing to do with that.
0:37:07 > 0:37:11It just has to do with that I'm not 12 any more
0:37:11 > 0:37:14and it's not about playing and signing autographs
0:37:14 > 0:37:17and, like, thinking I'm so cool because I'm going to places
0:37:17 > 0:37:19and I'm missing school.
0:37:19 > 0:37:25You know, it's like... I like my routine, I like to practise,
0:37:25 > 0:37:30I like to, you know, play for a couple of people.
0:37:30 > 0:37:32I'm not...like a rock star.
0:38:03 > 0:38:08I think there are some challenges as a woman that you don't have as a man.
0:38:08 > 0:38:14I've noticed, for example, that since she's been dating David, that...
0:38:14 > 0:38:18And especially now I've had a chance to see them together, it's nice.
0:38:18 > 0:38:21Look, she has to go through those things.
0:38:21 > 0:38:25That's what life is all about.
0:38:25 > 0:38:28But clearly, you know, when you get...
0:38:28 > 0:38:32How will I put it?
0:38:32 > 0:38:38Emotional, but in a soft way, I think it takes a bit...
0:38:38 > 0:38:41some of your edge off,
0:38:41 > 0:38:46you know, what you're doing career-wise.
0:38:59 > 0:39:02Don't clap. OK.
0:39:02 > 0:39:04HE HUMS MELODY
0:39:12 > 0:39:13Shut up!
0:39:15 > 0:39:17Slow. OK.
0:39:22 > 0:39:26OK, so tell me what your strategy is right now for Marika?
0:39:26 > 0:39:29Strategy? In terms of what?
0:39:29 > 0:39:34For her career? Oh, basically, I just want to keep her, you know, as calm as possible.
0:39:49 > 0:39:54Not now! I know, but whatever!
0:39:57 > 0:39:59I think I'm being sick.
0:39:59 > 0:40:01SHE SPLUTTERS OK.
0:40:07 > 0:40:08This is Marika Bournaki.
0:40:08 > 0:40:12I'm supposed to be playing in the hall this morning.
0:40:12 > 0:40:13'OK.' OK, thank you.
0:40:32 > 0:40:34We got some good feedback.
0:40:34 > 0:40:37They want to establish, you know, a good relationship, trust,
0:40:37 > 0:40:43and plan ahead, because it's not going to be, you know, a short...
0:40:43 > 0:40:46Invest, huh? Yeah. Invest in the future.
0:40:46 > 0:40:49And they were giving an example of an artist they've taken on.
0:40:49 > 0:40:53What was it, like, 2002, I think. Yeah.
0:40:53 > 0:40:58And that is just starting now to really emerge.
0:40:58 > 0:41:01So as an example of how they like to invest for the longer term.
0:41:01 > 0:41:05And take things...
0:41:05 > 0:41:09not necessarily in a slower pace,
0:41:09 > 0:41:15but take time to build...to build the career.
0:41:17 > 0:41:19So are you proud of Marika?
0:41:19 > 0:41:24If I'm...? Sorry? Proud! Of course I'm proud. I'm always proud of her.
0:41:25 > 0:41:28Uh-huh. She did good today.
0:41:40 > 0:41:42BIRDSONG
0:41:51 > 0:41:54I haven't been, like, in Montreal for summer
0:41:54 > 0:41:56in, like, five years or something.
0:41:56 > 0:42:01But I'll be going in and out of the city. But it's OK, it feels OK.
0:42:02 > 0:42:04My room's a mess right now.
0:42:04 > 0:42:08I have clothes everywhere and my mom's stuff everywhere because she's moving out soon.
0:42:08 > 0:42:12And...I don't know, it doesn't really feel like my room,
0:42:12 > 0:42:15cos I haven't been in here for so long.
0:42:15 > 0:42:17But...it's OK.
0:44:22 > 0:44:23HE SPEAKS IN FRENCH
0:44:30 > 0:44:32THEY SPEAK FRENCH
0:44:36 > 0:44:38I just hit the piano?!
0:44:40 > 0:44:41HE SPEAKS FRENCH
0:44:43 > 0:44:45OK. It's OK.
0:44:52 > 0:44:57Well, my parents officially got divorced in April, officially.
0:44:57 > 0:44:59But they've been talking about it since September.
0:44:59 > 0:45:03And it was actually really funny because just, like, two nights ago,
0:45:03 > 0:45:07we actually talked about it and nobody's talked about it.
0:45:07 > 0:45:09And any time I come home,
0:45:09 > 0:45:13my mom kind of blamed me a little bit about,
0:45:13 > 0:45:16"Since you've been gone, everything's been different."
0:45:16 > 0:45:17You know, stuff like that.
0:46:38 > 0:46:43I am going to the YCA office, which I hope won't be a problem
0:46:43 > 0:46:47cos it's Saturday, but I'm just going to drop off my CDs.
0:46:50 > 0:46:56'The YCA, Young Concert Artists, organises auditions every year.
0:46:56 > 0:47:00'For the people that they name as winners, they really help to make
0:47:00 > 0:47:05'it through the next step of getting major management in their careers.'
0:47:05 > 0:47:09This is so creepy, you can see inside!
0:47:09 > 0:47:10OK.
0:47:10 > 0:47:13'It can be very important if you win.'
0:47:13 > 0:47:17You have winners of these auditions that became
0:47:17 > 0:47:19very, very successful artists.
0:47:19 > 0:47:23The jury will ask you which piece you would like to perform first
0:47:23 > 0:47:25and then they will request other works.
0:47:25 > 0:47:28The audition altogether is about 15 minutes. C'est ca.
0:47:28 > 0:47:31So, my point is, coming back to Bach...
0:47:31 > 0:47:33Yes.
0:47:33 > 0:47:34Is that, you know...
0:47:47 > 0:47:49No, no, you shouldn't.
0:47:49 > 0:47:50You shouldn't. Are you kidding me?
0:47:50 > 0:47:51You shouldn't. Are you kidding me?
0:47:51 > 0:47:54I am not kidding you at all. I am not kidding at all.
0:47:54 > 0:47:59Actually I think it's a huge mistake to play Bach to start with. Why?
0:47:59 > 0:48:03I'll tell you why, because this is a 15-minute audition,
0:48:03 > 0:48:07you need to make a statement, you need to impress the jury.
0:48:07 > 0:48:10And what would you like me to make an impression with?
0:48:10 > 0:48:15I think, in my mind, you would start with probably Rachmaninoff's sonata.
0:48:17 > 0:48:20Are you BLEEP insane? Not at all.
0:48:23 > 0:48:26Do you understand you have 15 minutes to make yourself
0:48:26 > 0:48:28feel comfortable and establish yourself?
0:48:28 > 0:48:31No, it's your choice.
0:48:31 > 0:48:34In the end, you're the one who decides, but I'm telling you,
0:48:34 > 0:48:38I mean, these people will be auditioning 100 people.
0:48:49 > 0:48:54I'm not a robot, you know,
0:48:54 > 0:49:00and I think that that's what the hardest part is.
0:49:00 > 0:49:03It's kind of, you have to put it on automatic sometimes,
0:49:03 > 0:49:06without it being automatic, you know, the whole practising thing
0:49:06 > 0:49:09and the whole, you know, giving up everything
0:49:09 > 0:49:13and, you know, life gets in my way, that's what happens to me.
0:49:17 > 0:49:20I mean, I've been preparing for YCA for...
0:49:20 > 0:49:23very seriously for, like, a month and a half.
0:49:23 > 0:49:26So, you want to do this? OK.
0:49:26 > 0:49:29I might mess up or, you know, just...
0:49:29 > 0:49:32Any more disclaimers?
0:49:32 > 0:49:35Um, no, I think I'm good.
0:49:35 > 0:49:38I might mess up also a lot, but, OK.
0:49:38 > 0:49:39You just said that.
0:49:39 > 0:49:44Veda, she gave me a lesson and I tell her,
0:49:44 > 0:49:48well, this is coming up in a week and a half, and then she freaks out.
0:49:48 > 0:49:51See, this is the problem.
0:49:51 > 0:49:53Off-camera, please.
0:49:53 > 0:49:57"How can you? Why do you do this and...?" So then she tested me.
0:50:05 > 0:50:09She asked for the things that were the weakest.
0:50:09 > 0:50:13My confidence went all out and, again,
0:50:13 > 0:50:18I was in this vulnerable position which she always puts me in.
0:50:18 > 0:50:21When did you play this? You performed this? Yes.
0:50:21 > 0:50:23I played a lot of things, a lot wrong.
0:50:23 > 0:50:26Yeah, you're still playing a lot of things wrong.
0:50:26 > 0:50:31She proved to me in any way that I am not 100% ready
0:50:31 > 0:50:34and, like, my dad was disagreeing, that's why also it was heated.
0:50:34 > 0:50:36"What are you talking about?"
0:50:46 > 0:50:50It's not just a business, it's not just about making money.
0:50:50 > 0:50:53It's about more than that, you know?
0:50:53 > 0:50:58And once I'm more than that, that's when it's going to happen.
0:50:58 > 0:51:01So I'm still mad at him and he's like, "Yeah, but it's your fault."
0:51:01 > 0:51:03It's not my fault.
0:51:03 > 0:51:06It is my fault, maybe, that I wasn't good enough.
0:51:06 > 0:51:09Maybe it's my fault I wasn't prepared, but
0:51:09 > 0:51:13it's not my fault that he decided to set up this thing against
0:51:13 > 0:51:18even maybe his better judgment or against my teacher's judgment.
0:51:34 > 0:51:37Sometimes I call him because I discover a beautiful thing,
0:51:37 > 0:51:38and he wants it...
0:51:38 > 0:51:41I'm talking to him about it and he wants to get over to,
0:51:41 > 0:51:44"How was practice? How was this? How was that?"
0:51:44 > 0:51:47You know, of course it's because he cares and he wants me to
0:51:47 > 0:51:51be able to make a career because he knows how hard it is
0:51:51 > 0:51:53and because he didn't make it,
0:51:53 > 0:51:57but it's, like, at some point, you kind of have to rise above all that
0:51:57 > 0:52:00and, you know, understand it's not about that.
0:52:00 > 0:52:02What were you trying to tell him about?
0:52:02 > 0:52:06I was telling him about a song, Schumann song.
0:52:06 > 0:52:11I was talking to him about Frauenliebe Und Leben.
0:52:11 > 0:52:15It's a song cycle by Schumann and I listened to it and I cried
0:52:15 > 0:52:20in class because it was so beautiful and it was so sad.
0:52:20 > 0:52:24And I called him to tell him about that and he was talking to me about
0:52:24 > 0:52:29YCA, you know? And it was like, I don't care about YCA.
0:52:29 > 0:52:31I don't care.
0:52:33 > 0:52:36I don't know why I'm crying but it's true, I don't care.
0:52:36 > 0:52:39And it's always about...
0:52:39 > 0:52:40you know,
0:52:40 > 0:52:45my career and concerts and how people think I sound
0:52:45 > 0:52:48and, you know, managers and, you know...
0:52:48 > 0:52:52It's not about that. It's SO not about that.
0:52:58 > 0:53:00What class is this?
0:53:00 > 0:53:03My class?
0:55:34 > 0:55:38My goal now is to make classical music more accessible.
0:55:38 > 0:55:41That is something that I can do because of who I am,
0:55:41 > 0:55:43because of my personality.
0:55:43 > 0:55:48I'm experimenting with the lighting and the set design,
0:55:48 > 0:55:50projections on stage while I play,
0:55:50 > 0:55:55making concerts more interactive with the public
0:55:55 > 0:55:57and with other artists on stage,
0:55:57 > 0:56:00playing in centres, playing for causes.
0:56:03 > 0:56:05It is all part of creating and bringing music
0:56:05 > 0:56:09and sharing music with different people all around the world.
0:56:09 > 0:56:15And whether it's in, again, big classical venues or
0:56:15 > 0:56:18if it's in different places, it doesn't matter,
0:56:18 > 0:56:21it's really bringing and sharing things together through music.
0:56:45 > 0:56:49She was, as we always expect with Marika, amazing.
0:56:53 > 0:56:56The brightest and the best.
0:56:56 > 0:56:58I think Marika is one of those people.
0:57:17 > 0:57:20APPLAUSE
0:57:28 > 0:57:30Hello. Ca va? Oui.
0:57:42 > 0:57:44Whoo!
0:57:44 > 0:57:46APPLAUSE
0:58:28 > 0:58:31APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:58:48 > 0:58:51# There was a house halfway round the world
0:58:51 > 0:58:54# And I was invited in for a small taste of gin
0:58:54 > 0:58:57# There was a hall a thousand birds long
0:58:57 > 0:59:02# But the biggest one of all was in a cage too small
0:59:04 > 0:59:07# I asked the caretaker cos he was the Maker
0:59:07 > 0:59:09# He looked at me and laughed, took another sip from his glass
0:59:09 > 0:59:12# And said, Open up your ears and hearts
0:59:12 > 0:59:17# You put a big bird in a small cage and he'll sing you a song
0:59:19 > 0:59:25# That we all love to sing along... #