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“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.”
San Francisco Classical Voice chats with Musaics of the Bay Founder and Artistic Director Audrey Vardanega about how she got started her, her unusual career path, and what inspired her to start Musaics of the Bay.
“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.”
Pianist and humanitarian Mahani Teave chatted with Gramophone magazine about her newly released debut recording. “With its heart-warming narrative and underlying message of hope, resilience and empathy, the story of how pianist Mahani Teave came to make her debut recording reads like a fairy tale. (Little wonder that an Emmy Award-winning producer has been inspired to
make a film about it.) But behind most fairy tales are some familiar ingredients: determination, self-belief, a desire to make the world a better place – and a little bit of luck. And Mahani Teave is no exception.”
NPR (at home) Tiny Desk concerts celebrates Copland’s birthday with the Music from Copland House ensemble. Pianist Michael Boriskin, flutist Carol Wincence and violinist perform in Copland’s own studio.
Rapa Nui Odyssey; A Mahani Teave Piano Recital is the debut recording (released January 29) of the pioneering artist who bridges the creative world with environmental activism. Teave’s story is that of a young woman who grew up on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) and left to pursue her dream of being classical pianist, but at the age of 30, on the brink of international success, Teave gave up her career to pursue a new dream, returning to Rapa Nui to found a free music school for the island’s children. She has since become an important cultural ambassador, and icon for her work bridging the creative world with environmental activism. Fifteen-time Emmy award-winning producer and director John Forsen was so inspired by her story, he made a documentary, Song of Rapa Nui, just released on Amazon Prime
