Name: Xenia Pestov

Occupation: Not exactly sure. I ATTEMPT to play and write music... and I prepare pianos. Want someone to insert bolts between the strings of your eleven foot Steinway - you know who to call.

Secret Ambition: to become a rock star?

Age: Very, very young - a child prodigy, in fact.

Eye colour: unknown

Location: Wellington, New Zealand

Things I like: SOUNDS!!! I eat music:

Amalgam! that's us. NZ composers!!! - of course;

School of Music - where I waste time every day;

John Cage -Mmm, mushrooms; Ligeti rocks;

Stockhausen.org; Steve Reich is the man; The delicious Luciano Berio; Messiaen; (as well as Rancid; Lady Day; the

Beasties, and others.) Hanson - ha!

Things I dislike: neoclassicists and nasty deep-sea creatures...

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