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Peter Kater (born May 28, 1958 in Munich ) is an American New Age musician. He is one of the most successful pianists of his genre since the 2000s and a two-time Grammy winner.

biography

Kater's parents are from Germany and immigrated to the United States when he was four years old. He grew up in New Jersey and took piano lessons as a child. He later studied classical music but then turned to rock 'n' roll and moved to Boulder , Colorado when he was 18 to work as a piano player and pianist. He composed and improvised his own music and released his first album Spirit in 1983 on the Point of Light label .

From 1987 onwards numerous other albums followed, often several in a year. He wrote music for television documentaries and in 1990 recorded Natives, the first of a series of albums with R. Carlos Nakai . The musician, who descended from the Navajo and Ute , is considered a leading player on the Indian flute . For their joint album Migration , in which other musicians were also involved, they received the NAIRD (National Association of Independent Record Distributors) award for the best new age album.

In the 1990s he worked several times for the Discovery Channel and in 1997 he founded his own label Earth Sea in rural Virginia , where he had settled . He publishes solo piano music and collaborations with up to five musicians, mainly with new age, meditation and inspiration music, including short and long composed pieces as well as improvisations up to CD length. In addition, several albums with classic Christmas carols were released. There are also numerous compositions for film and television as well as incidental music for Broadway performances.

His artistic breakthrough came in 2003 with the album Red Moon , for which he received his first nomination for a Grammy in the category Best New Age Album the following year . After that, he was nominated almost every year, from 2012 to 2018 there were seven nominations in a row. In 2018 he was finally awarded the award for the first time for Dancing on Water . Two years later he won his second Grammy with Wings . He was nominated 14 times from 2003 to 2020.

Discography

Studio and live albums

• Spirit (Point of Light, 1983)
• The Fool & the Hummingbird (Point of Light, 1987)
• For Christmas (Silver Wave, 1987)
• Gateway (Point of Light, 1988)
• Natives (with R. Carlos Nakai, Silver Wave, 1990)
• Homage (Point of Light, January 1991)
• Anthem (Point of Light, July 1991)
• Rooftops (Point of Light, 1991)
• The Season (Silver Wave, November 1991)
• Coming Home (Point of Light, 1992)
• Migration (with R. Carlos Nakai et al., Silver Wave, 1992)
• Two Hearts (Point of Light, 1994)
• Honorable Sky (with R. Carlos Nakai et al., Silver Wave, 1994)
• Pursuit of Happiness (Point of Light, 1994)
• Soul Nature (Silver Wave, January 1996)
• Improvisations in Concert (with R. Carlos Nakai, Silver Wave, 1996)
• Essence (Earth Sea, August 1997)
• Compassion (Earth Sea, February 1998)
• The Dance of Innocents (with Nawang Khechog, Earth Sea, September 1998)
• Songs for Humanity - A Celebration of Ten Years 1988–1998 (with R. Carlos Nakai, Silver Wave, September 1998)
• Birds of Prey (Point of Light, January 1999)
• Heart's Desire (Point of Light, January 2001)
• Through Windows & Walls (with R. Carlos Nakai, Silver Wave, July 2001)
• Inner Works: Piano & Strings (Point of Light, April 2002)
• Red Moon (Silver Wave, February 2003)
• Faces of the Sun (Silver Wave, July 2003)
• Xmas Ecstacy (Silver Wave, September 2003)
• Piano (Point of Light, October 2003)
• Elements Series: Earth (Real Music, August 2005)
• Elements Series: Water (Real Music, August 2005)
• Elements Series: Fire (Real Music, October 2005)
• Elements Series: Air (Real Music, October 2005)
• Point of Light (Wellness, March 2007)
• Healing Series, Vol. 1: Essence (Point of Light, 2008)
• Healing Series, Vol. 2: Compassion (Point of Light, 2008)
• Healing Series, Vol. 3: Ambrosia (Point of Light, 2008)
• Healing Series, Vol. 4: Walk in Beauty (Point of Light, August 2008)
• Healing Series, Vol. 5: Cloud Hands (Point of Light, August 2008)
• In a Dream (with Dominic Miller, featuring Kenny Loggins & Jacques Morelenbaum, Point of Light, October 2008)
• Piano Christmas (Point of Light, August 2009)
• Call of Love (Point of Light, September 2010)
• Wind, Rock, Sea & Flame - Aloha au iā ʻoe (Point of Light, August 2011)
• Spa Euro (Point of Light, August 2011)
• Spa Southwest (Point of Light, August 2011)
• Spa Aqua Pura (Point of Light, August 2011)
• Light Body (Mysterium, August 2012)
• Heart of the Universe (with Snatam Kaur, Point of Light, November 2012)
• Illumination: A Healing Journey (Mysterium, September 2013)
• Ritual (with R. Carlos Nakai, Mysterium, 2014)
• Elements Series: Etheria (Real Music, January 2015)
• Love (Point of Light, May 2015)
• Heart of Silence: Piano and Flute Meditations (with Michael Brant DeMaria, Sounds True, 2015)
• Inner Passion (with Tina Guo, Hearts of Space, February 2016)
• Resonance (New Earth, October 2016)
• Dancing on Water (Point of Light, September 2017)
• She (featuring Peia Luzzi, Real Music, March 2018)
• Wings (Point of Light, August 2019)
• Hawaiʻi: A Tribute to Aloha ʻĀina (Point of Light, April 2020)
• From My Heart (Point of Light, April 2020)

Soundtracks / Film Music

• Moments, Dreams & Visions (TV documentary Greenpeace: Greatest Hits , Point of Light, 1989)
• How the West Was Lost (March 1993)
• How the West Was Lost, Volume Two (with R. Carlos Nakai, January 1995)
• Eco-Challenge: Music from Discovery Channel (with Chris White, R. Carlos Nakai, Earth Sea, May 1999)
• 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama (film, A Train Entertainment, August 2006)
• Civil War: The Untold Story (TV, with Bobby Horton, Point of Light, February 2014)
• Heart of the World - Colorado's National Parks (TV, Point of Light, April 2016)
• The Legend of Secret Pass (Point of Light, March 2017)

Compilations

• The Meditation Music of Peter Kater: Evocative, Expressive Instrumental Music for Meditation (Sounds True, May 2014)

as Flesh & Bone (with his wife Chris White)

• Skeleton Woman (Silver Wave, 1992)
• Pagan Saints (1999)

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1. ^ Peter Kater in the Grammy database, accessed August 12, 2020

Web links

• Official Homepage (English)
• Peter Kater at Allmusic (English)