Rapa Nui Odyssey: Concert pianist Mahani Teave
It was on a beat-up old piano, the only one for 3500km, that concert pianist Mahani Teave first discovered her gift.
But she would have to leave her home on Rapa Nui, Easter Island, to study piano and become an international concert pianist.
That journey took her all over the world
Ten years ago, she returned to open the island’s first music school and has just released an album Rapa Nui Odyssey, funds from which will go to the music school.
And now she has released her debut album Rapa Nui Odyssey a collection of songs close to her heart, she says.
“I recorded pieces that were very close to me, good friends, we had lived many different periods of my life together.”