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American Public Media’s Performance Today host Fred Child chats with Mahani Teave about her journey and her new album and documentary.

Classical Music Magazine, from the BBC, said about Mahani Teave’s debut album: “There’s genuine virtuosity, without one note of bluff, bluster or vulgarity….wide expressive range exquisitely controlled and intensely poetic…sincere, pure and magnificent artistry.”

“Tthis isn’t your ordinary “Piano Recital!!” Concertonet says, “Perhaps being raised on a remote island in the South Pacific brings with it a nuanced suavity. Mahani Teave’s style has a gauzy, breezy trim in the sails. What a splendid sendoff.”

“In the end, every career is a moonshot,” said Matthew Gurewitsch in Graydon Carter’s Air Mail, where he chats with the pianist on the heels of the release of her debut disc. They talk about how while she was still in her 20s, she had begun to make her mark in competitions and the concert circuit….yet Rapa Nui was calling her back. “There was this umbilical cord connecting me to the island,” Teave recalls. “‘Honey,’ it was saying, ‘you’ve had all these opportunities. There are lots of other children back home waiting to have them, too. Only you can do this.”