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Mahani Teave

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The debut album by Mahani Teabe, an exceptionally talented pianist from Easter Island!A Japanese-language edition with liner notes is also available!The debut album by Mahani Teabe, an exceptionally talented pianist from Easter Island (Rapa Nui)!As Easter Islands only professional pianist, possessing remarkable musicality, she won first prize at the Claudio Arrau International Piano Competition in 1999 and was subsequently selected as a Steinway & Sands artist, she was destined for a brilliant career on the international concert stage. However, she turned her back on that path, returned to Rapa Nui, and founded a music school for the islands childrena remarkable story in itself.The story behind this recording is equally compelling: David Fulton, renowned worldwide as a collector of famous Cremona-made instruments such as Stradivarius, happened to hear Teave perform while his cruise ship made a