Bay Harbour: October 19, 2016
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PAGE 12 BAY HARBOUR<br />
Wednesday <strong>October</strong> <strong>19</strong> <strong>2016</strong><br />
Our People<br />
Fiona Pears<br />
From punk rock teenager to<br />
It’s been two years<br />
since Lyttelton violinist<br />
and composer Fiona<br />
Pears has put on a show<br />
in Christchurch. This<br />
weekend she’ll break the<br />
hiatus with a show at Blue<br />
Smoke at The Tannery.<br />
Annabelle Dick talked to<br />
her about her time in the<br />
music industry, marrying<br />
her manager and leaving<br />
school as a 15-year-old,<br />
punk rock delinquent<br />
You’re a musician by trade, how<br />
did you get into music?<br />
I was brought up in a family<br />
that was very musical and my<br />
mother was a piano teacher.<br />
Music was my escape as a young<br />
child. If I didn’t feel good, music<br />
made me feel good no matter<br />
what. When I was taken to my<br />
first violin concert at four-yearsold<br />
and that was it – basically<br />
I screamed the house down “I<br />
want a violin, I want a violin,”<br />
and I got one in my Santa stocking.<br />
I used to play it around the<br />
house all the time no matter<br />
what.<br />
Do you play any other instruments?<br />
I did the piano as a second<br />
instrument and I found it easier<br />
than the violin in a way. When<br />
I got to 12, I had to make a<br />
decision between which one I’d<br />
focus more on and I chose the<br />
violin. I did all my grades on<br />
the piano and I got the chance<br />
to play small concertos with the<br />
Christchurch Symphony Orchestra<br />
so I was lucky.<br />
Is your family very musical?<br />
My sister is the piano gun of<br />
the family. She was the national<br />
concerto winner so she’s incredible<br />
in her own right. My brother<br />
played guitar but he was more<br />
interested in Holdens. He ended<br />
up running a canvas business but<br />
he loves music. Dad never played<br />
an instrument but he sang every<br />
morning to wake us up and<br />
mum also had lots of old records<br />
that I used to play all the time.<br />
So what kind of music did<br />
you listen to growing up?<br />
I loved listening to and playing<br />
music from romantic composers.<br />
A lot of the things I do are done<br />
from emotion and it’s because<br />
romantic music appealed to me<br />
when I was younger. It’s lush and<br />
it’s glorious. By the time I was 11,<br />
I was listening to The Ruts punk<br />
band and the Sex Pistols and so<br />
on. One of my all-time classics<br />
was Rock ‘N’ Roll’s Greatest Hits<br />
and I bought all the Solid Gold<br />
albums. I even have them on my<br />
PUTTING<br />
IN WORK:<br />
Fiona Pears is<br />
preparing for<br />
her nationwide<br />
tour next year<br />
and a new<br />
album.<br />
phone now and I’m not embarrassed<br />
about it.<br />
Where did you grow up?<br />
I grew up in Greenpark until<br />
about seven, then we shifted<br />
into Christchurch and I went<br />
to St Martins School. I started<br />
to rebel when I was a teenager<br />
– maybe it was my personality.<br />
I went to Linwood College for<br />
two years and then I went to<br />
several other high schools very<br />
briefly. Linwood was fantastic<br />
for me but I don’t think I wanted<br />
to be disciplined. I would bunk<br />
off class, but it’s not like I was<br />
smoking behind the toilets, I<br />
was really practicing the violin.<br />
I wanted to run riot and I did<br />
run riot so I left school at 15. I<br />
did study outside of school and<br />
my parents did everything they<br />
could.<br />
So what did you do after high<br />
school?<br />
I studied with a violin teacher<br />
at Canterbury University and he<br />
was very strict and disciplined<br />
with technique and I learnt<br />
so much. My teachers and my<br />
mother have been my grounding<br />
for my whole life. Even though<br />
I stopped regular lessons while I<br />
was a teen, I always went back to<br />
everything I was taught because<br />
it worked. I always held on to the<br />
tit-bits and gold that I’ve been<br />
given from different people over<br />
the years. When I left school, I<br />
made some money from busking<br />
outside Ballantynes with my<br />
punk hair-do, my Dr Martens<br />
and my ripped leather mini skirt.<br />
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