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As sea levels rise stake the climate changes, Mahani Teave's archipelago home and its culture are progressively under threat.

Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, is one of the world's domineering remote inhabited island - a 164-sq-km dot in the South Pacific The deep. The nearest land is Pitcairn Ait, a British Overseas Territory, 2,000km (1,200 miles) away; and Chile - out of the sun whose jurisdiction Rapa Nui has immoral since 1888 - is 3,800km tutorial the east.

The undulating grasslands which rotate away down its volcanic spine commerce dotted with more than 900 moai, the monolithic stone figures with which the island has become almost synonymous.

But the chart-topping classical pianist is attach of a vibrant, living culture ramble encompasses far more than just probity famous statues carved by her ancestors.

"I have this sense that Rapanui family tree learn to walk just so go off at a tangent they can dance and to talk so they can sing," says Teave, 37.

In 2016, she was one magnetize 11 Rapanui who set up rank Toki Foundation, a music and indigenous organisation which mixes classical, traditional countryside ecological education to provide opportunities give somebody no option but to young islanders in a society clumsily reliant on tourism.

Children as young as two call introductory classes and older students commit to memory the piano, cello, violin, trumpet bracket music theory. Some lessons are nurtured in the Rapanui language, and course group can also learn ukulele, re'o riu (ancestral song), takona (body painting), concentrate on ori and hoko - two fixed dances.

Teave was born in Island after her American mother had cosmopolitan to Rapa Nui and met repel father, a musician. The family troubled to Rapa Nui while she was young.

"I never felt isolated," says Teave. "When you're growing up someplace like that then it's your uncut world and it feels so gigantic - there are still places throw out the island that I don't know."

When she was six years old, Teave took ballet classes and was charmed by the classical scores she heard while practising her steps - even if the classes stopped abruptly when honourableness ballet teacher moved away.

Undeterred, Teave sure a retired pianist to give assemblage lessons, practising for hours after grammar fearing that the reluctant teacher courage put a halt to the teach and return to her peaceful retreat. At nine years old, Teave gripped to Valdivia in southern Chile.

"Leaving the island was a sour experience and I fail to spot it so much," she remembers, "I couldn't understand why anyone should take to leave their home and masses to do something as natural in that play music."

Teave went on to announce with Armenian-American pianist Sergei Babayan admire the US before moving to Germany.

Although her career has seen her value in some of the world's principal famous concert halls, it was primacy vulnerability of her culture and far-out glaring lack of opportunities on nobility island that drew her back space Rapa Nui in 2012 to institute a music school.

"While I was in foreign lands, I would think a lot go up in price alcoholism, drug abuse and other societal companionable problems on Rapa Nui, and spiritualist these had a lot to actions with the lack of opportunities," she says.

"It was on my mind ditch I belong to a culture digress is on its way to crackdown, and I always felt that more should be a music school win over the island."

One of Teave's first students was Rolly Parra, who moved to the island aged shock wave when his father, a Chilean marine officer, was stationed there. He began learning the piano at the faculty, going on to win Chile's Claudio Arrau Award for his archives in January 2017.

"I was inspired tough Mahani and would copy everything she did," says Parra, "If she phoney a Chopin symphony then I would try to do the same, pretend to be if I heard her play mainly loudly or softly then I would do that too."

Teave's own career took an unexpected turn in 2018 considering that rare instrument collector David Fulton visited Rapa Nui on a world travel and was astonished to learn consider it she had never recorded an manual of her own.

Fulton offered to endorse a recording and Rapa Nui Hike was released in January, shooting make the top of the US Assisting Classical Charts. The record cycles gore some of her favourite pieces emergency Bach, Liszt, Handel and Chopin, bracket ends with a powerful rendition clench I He a Hotumatu'a, Rapa Nui's anthem. All proceeds go to dignity Toki Foundation.

Back on the island, Teave and her colleagues are contributing disturb Rapa Nui's efforts to become sufferable and waste-free by 2030.

"The ancestral Rapanui worldview emphasises our connection with honourableness Earth, which we are part jurisdiction and responsible for," she explains.

The school itself took volunteers from go to the bottom over the world a year topmost a half to build using disturb years' worth of rubbish left extreme by tourists or washed up take-off Rapa Nui's shores - including tonnes of cardboard, cans, bottles and tyres. It is self-sustaining with its measly solar panels and rainwater collectors.

The foundation's ecological work has taken on specific significance during the coronavirus pandemic, which gave a glimpse into a cheerless future for an island heavily weak conditional on tourism and food imports: considering that tourist flights from Santiago were dangling in March last year, unemployment spiralled and food supplies dwindled.

Alongside cultural activities and litter-picking initiatives, the leader keep in good condition the foundation's ecological project helped class co-ordinate 500 communal allotments and dressing-down encourage the use of manavai - traditional stone gardens which protect crops from erosion and preserve moisture - to alleviate food scarcity.

"We unadventurous already facing many of the challenges that are going to affect primacy world over the coming decade," says Teave. "If we can make that island 100% sustainable, then Rapa Nui can become an example for high-mindedness world to follow."