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8<br />
Thursday <strong>December</strong> <strong>14</strong> <strong>2023</strong><br />
Young flautists<br />
shine in<br />
international<br />
championships<br />
NOTEWORTHY:<br />
• By Sasha Watson<br />
LOUISE SHEN and Claire Kim,<br />
two young flute players who<br />
dream of becoming professional<br />
musicians, are one step closer to<br />
their goal.<br />
Louise, a year 9 Burnside High<br />
School student, was first in the<br />
13 to <strong>14</strong>-year-old age category in<br />
the Lyrical Flute International<br />
Championship, an Australianbased<br />
online competition held<br />
last month.<br />
The 13-year-old of Halswell<br />
was also third in creative presentation<br />
and highly commended<br />
for the U16s ensemble, where she<br />
performed with Claire.<br />
Year 9 Rangi Ruru Girls’<br />
School student Claire, 13, also<br />
won the 13 to 16-year-old creative<br />
presentation.<br />
Said Louise’s mother, Flora Qu<br />
Jun Jie: “Louise is an enthusiastic<br />
student with a passion and<br />
thinks winning the prize is not<br />
the most important thing.<br />
“What is more important is<br />
the process of the competition<br />
especially the tacit understanding<br />
and interaction between her<br />
and the piano accompanist.”<br />
Both girls are students of Natasha<br />
Chernousova, a musician<br />
with more than 20 years of experience,<br />
who performed in the<br />
orchestra of the Perm Theatre of<br />
Opera and Ballet in Russia from<br />
1999 to 2012.<br />
The theatre, often named<br />
“Tchaikovsky’s House” after<br />
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is<br />
located in Chernousova’s home<br />
city of Perm, about 1000km from<br />
Moscow.<br />
Throughout her time with the<br />
theatre, she performed numerous<br />
stage works of Tchaikovsky,<br />
including the ballets Swan Lake<br />
and The Nutcracker, the 1812<br />
Overture, the Romeo and Juliet<br />
Overture-Fantasy, and several<br />
symphonies all over Europe,<br />
America and Canada.<br />
Said Chernousova: “It was<br />
among my fondest memories, as<br />
every day we met new people, experienced<br />
different cultures and<br />
learnt about many countries.<br />
“After my time in the theatre, I<br />
met a very nice Kiwi man online,<br />
Eric Reeves, and talked to him<br />
for several months before we met<br />
in Phuket, Thailand. We had a<br />
wonderful holiday.”<br />
A short while later, Chernousava<br />
decided to make the move<br />
to New Zealand and married<br />
Natasha Chernousova with winning students Louise<br />
Chen and Claire Kim.<br />
her now husband in 2016. A few<br />
months later, she began to teach<br />
flute to her first student, Louise.<br />
“Music is my passion. I aim to<br />
inspire and challenge my students<br />
to become the best possible<br />
versions of themselves inside and<br />
outside of music,” she said.<br />
“My goal is to make every lesson<br />
as productive, educational,<br />
and fulfilling as possible. I aim<br />
to provide the students the<br />
tools and resources to be able to<br />
achieve what they wish for.”<br />
She teaches the flute, recorder,<br />
piccolo and piano to both adults<br />
and children, and offers beginner<br />
and advanced lessons privately.<br />
Chernousova also teaches<br />
part-time at Cashmere High<br />
School and Avonside Girls High,<br />
and plays for the Philharmonic<br />
Orchestra and the Risingholme<br />
Orchestra.<br />
Claire, who lives in Ilam, has<br />
been practising under Chernousova’s<br />
guidance for about four<br />
years and has been playing the<br />
flute for about five and a half<br />
years.<br />
“I love the sound of woodwind<br />
instruments. My passion started<br />
from a recorder group of a few<br />
people to playing an instrument<br />
I love and enjoy,” said Claire.<br />
“It is something that can<br />
help me, challenge me, support<br />
me, ease me . . . I want to make<br />
people love it as well . . . be connected<br />
and feel and understand<br />
what the piece of music is trying<br />
to portray and say.”<br />
To find out more, go to:<br />
nzmusicteachers.co.nz/<br />
natalia-chernousova/<br />
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