On the heels of her chart-topping debut album, Easter Island’s only professional classical musician, award-winning pioneering pianist and humanitarian Mahani Teave brings her eagerly anticipated debut U.S. concert tour to PAC NYC as part of our Opening Celebration. Mahani’s performance will include works by Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninov, and premieres by Chilean composers José Miguel Tobar and Alejandro Arévalo. Experience the recital debut of what BBC Music Magazine calls Mahani’s “…natural pianism…genuine virtuosity…sincere, pure and magnificent artistry.”
Photo by Fidget and Rushmore Films.
Program:
Part I
Johann Sebastian Bach:
Chromatic Fantasie and Fugue in D minor
Frederic Chopin:
Nocturne Op. 9 No. 1
Mazurka Op. 67 No. 2
Mazurka Op. 67 No. 4
Nocturne Op. 72
Barcarolle Op. 60 in F # Major
Scherzo No. 1 in b minor Op. 20
Part II
Ancestral Rapa Nui/José Miguel Tobar
I hē a Hotumatu’a
Alejandro Arevalo:
Suite Rapa Nui
-E te ‘ua Matavai
-Mai Hive te ‘Ariki
Franz Liszt:
Ballade No. 2 in B minor
Sergei Rachmaninov:
Moment Musical Op. 16 No. 1
Moment Musical Op. 16 No. 4
Mahani Teave
Award-winning pianist and cultural ambassador Mahani Teave is a pioneering artist who bridges the creative world with education and environmental activism, and the only professional classical musician on her native Easter Island. Twice topping the Billboard charts with her debut album, Rapa Nui Odyssey, she received raves from critics, including BBC Music Magazine, which noted her “natural pianism” and “magnificent artistry.”