Sunday, 22 June 2008
Peter Kater
Artist: Peter Kater
Genre(s):
New Age
Soundtrack
Other
Discography:
Elements Series: Water
Year: 2005
Tracks: 8
Elements Series: Fire
Year: 2005
Tracks: 7
Elements Series: Earth
Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
Elements Series: Air
Year: 2005
Tracks: 4
Red Moon
Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
Piano
Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
Inner Works: Piano and Strings
Year: 2002
Tracks: 13
Heart's Desire
Year: 2001
Tracks: 9
Birds of Prey
Year: 1999
Tracks: 9
Discovery Channel: Eco Challenge
Year: 1998
Tracks: 19
Essence
Year: 1997
Tracks: 1
Compassion
Year: 1997
Tracks: 1
Two Hearts
Year: 1994
Tracks: 10
Pursuit of Happiness
Year: 1994
Tracks: 8
The Fool and The Hummingbird
Year: 1992
Tracks: 7
Homage
Year: 1992
Tracks: 10
Coming Home
Year: 1992
Tracks: 8
Anthem
Year: 1991
Tracks: 9
Gateway
Year: 1988
Tracks: 8
The Fool And The Hummingbirg
Year: 1987
Tracks: 7
For Christmas
Year: 1987
Tracks: 13
Inside-Out
Year: 1984
Tracks: 8
Soul Nature
Year:
Tracks: 14
Pianist/composer Peter Kater is known for his lashings for television system, film, and dramatic art, as well as for his possess recordings of light malarky and new geezerhood music. Born in Germany, Kater touched from Munich to New Jersey when he was four. He began pianissimo lessons triad long time after and studied classical music until taking up rock candy & twine in his early teens. At the age of 18, Kater touched to Boulder, CO, where he played makeshift music and lived for over a decennary earlier moving to rural Virginia, where he reinforced EarthSea Studios. Until the gap of EarthSea in early 1997, Kater had recorded only for the Silverwave label, starting with his debut acquittance, Spirit, in 1983. He went on to press release over 20 albums on Silverwave, including extremely successful collaborations with R. Carlos Nakai that resulted in, among others, How the West Was Lost, Vols. dozen and Migration (1992), which likewise standard the NAIRD Best New Age Album Indie Award. Several of Kater and Nakai's recordings rosebush to the Top 20 of Billboard's new age chart, and a few of Kater's have releases -- which range of mountains from solo to quintet card -- take charted in the Top 25. Since starting his EarthSea label, Kater has released track record that include 1998's Compassionateness and another collaboration with Nakai entitled Winds of Devotion (1999). Source Music set outHeart's Desire in early 2001, and Internal Works: Piano & Strings, Red ink Moon, and Dec 25 Ecstacy came in the following geezerhood. In 2005 Kater issued the four-part Element Series: Earth, Water, Air, and Fire, the last of which got him a Grammy nomination for Best New Age Album.