Teresa Marraco started taking piano lessons when she was five years old. The artist who now records as Antinoë couldn’t reach the pedals yet, but she quickly discovered that she loved to play. Her teacher, Clara, taught her not just how to read sheet music but how to be creative, to envision and ultimately realize ideas beyond what was written in the score. “She would ask, ‘What does this song tell you? Can you sing something about it? Can you draw something about it?’ It triggered my imagination,” Marraco says. She continued to study with Clara until she was 17.

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