Pianist Mahani Teave: An equal passion for music, education, and the environment

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Pianist Mahani Teave: An equal passion for music, education, and the environment

By Helen Lyons

Published October 17, 2023 at 6:11 AM EDT

Pianist Mahani Teave at a 2020 Recording Session

Pianist Mahani Teave will perform in Middlebury this week. She is a musician with an extraordinary story: from growing up in one of the world's most isolated places, Rapa Nui (Easter Island) where there were no pianos at all until the early 1990s, and through a combination of talent, hard work, and serendipitous encounters, rapid ascendance to the world's stages. Mahani Teave took time out from a rehearsal at New York City's Steinway Studios to speak with 开云体育 Classical's Helen Lyons about her journey, her passion for education, music, and her environmental activism.

Mahani Teave will perform at the on Friday, October 20, 2023 at 7:30 p.m.

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Classical Music With Helen Lyons

Helen Lyons

Helen Lyons serves as the Music Manager and host of 开云体育 Classical鈥檚 Monday-Saturday morning program. She grew up in Williston, Vermont, and holds a BA in Music from Wellesley College and Artist Diplomas from the Royal Academy of Music in London, and College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. She has enjoyed an international singing career spanning three continents, performing in Europe, China, The Philippines and the USA.

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