I usually perform solo piano, but sometimes I'm lucky enough to team up with a singer or cellist or flute player. My album, "The Seeker," has an orchestra of FANTASTIC musicians from the Local 47 in L.A.
Influences
Tchaikovsky and The Beatles are my top influences - when I was a child my siblings and I would ecstatically dance in the living room to the strains of The 1812 Overture, and the first album I purchased with my own money was "Meet the Beatles," I must have been 9 or 10 - followed closely by Frederic Chopin, John Denver, Ludwig van Beethoven, Moody Blues, McCoy Tyner, Laura Nyro, Keith Jarrett, Claude Debussy, Joni Mitchell, and, especially, my piano teachers, Carolyn Denham and Marilyn Thompson.
Sounds Like
Kate Moody :)
inscapes reviews
“inscapes” is Kate Moody’s fourth CD to date, but is a happy first for me. A pianist, composer, conductor, and educator, Moody brings vast musical experience as well as knowledge to her music, making it much more than pop or background music while staying accessible and easy to grasp. Emotionally rich and full of grace, the music is soothing and calming yet complex enough to reveal new things each time it is heard. The title is defined as “the essential quality of a thing, place, person, etc., especially as expressed in an artistic work,” and the music expressed here is both deeply personal and universally understandable. It will quite possibly be one of my favorite albums of the year...
“inscapes” is an outstanding CD in every way, from the cover artwork and informative liner notes to the first note through the last. Discover the music of Kate Moody, and I think you’ll be as moved as I have been. It is available from www.katemusic.com, cdbaby.com, and iTunes. Highly recommended!
Kathy Parsons
Solo Piano Publications
“It is so nice that you put our love to music!”
- Ana and Peter R. long-time fans
“I wanted to tell you what a gentle pleasure it has been to listen to Kate Moody’s piano music...she inhabits a magical and private place with her reflections in sound. It brings me peace.”
-Alan S.
“It's refreshing to hear modern classical music that is melodic and beautiful!”
- John Iverson, Shades of Classics
“Thanks so much for the CD (inscapes) ...I keep it in my office; it has a calming effect when I am hurrying. So I actually get more done because I stop wasting my energy hurrying. “
- Jon J., CPA
BIO:
pianist, composer, teacher, author.
The Seeker - Best Instrumental Album,
Just Plain Folks 2004 Music Awards.
Composer and pianist Kate Moody has produced five CDs of original music and is the author of two books of music, one a compilation of piano solos and the other a book of teaching pieces for piano.
Moody performs solo and ensemble concerts throughout the country and also presents workshops of Music and Meditation where she teaches “Connect the Dots,” a series of meditative visualizations for healing and well-being.
Moody teaches piano and composition in the San Francisco Bay Area. She presents workshops for teachers about teaching composition and notation to beginning music students, a method which helps develop creative skills and makes music theory relevant. She also directs “Create Your Own Musical” workshops for children.
Kate’s recent recorded releases include The Seeker, an album of orchestral music, and Welcome to Piania, a musical journey of evocative solo piano pieces. The Seeker is a symphony in four movements: Wake-up Call, River of Love, Angels & Eskimos, and Shining Through. The CD, recorded at Capitol Studios, also features George Doering on Fantasy for Electric Guitar & Orchestra. Kate’s most recent solo piano CD, inscapes, was released in October, 2007. She wrote and performed the soundtrack for the Prenatal Yoga Instructional DVD Series from Rudra Press.
“Moody brings vast musical experience as well as knowledge to her music, making it
much more than pop or background music while staying accessible and easy to grasp. Emotionally rich and full of grace, the music is soothing and calming yet complex
enough to reveal new things each time it is heard... the music expressed here is
both deeply personal and universally understandable.”
-Kathy Parsons, Solo Piano Publications
“It is so nice that you put our love to music!”
- Ana and Peter Renkow, long-time fans
"Gentle and comfortable enough to be Easy Listening, Kate's style is also rich enough and thoughtful enough to be categorized as Contemporary Classical and dramatically emotional enough to remind one of film scores." - cdbaby.com
Kate's 4 CDs are available at cdbaby.com. "inscapes" http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/katemoody4 is an album of solo pianos with a meditative arc. "Welcome To Piania" http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/katemoody1 is a collection of solo piano journeys. "The Seeker" http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/katemoody2 is beautiful orchestral music, recorded at Capitol Studios Studio A, winner of the Just Plain Folks 2004 Best Intrumental Album Award. "Grateful Heart" http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/katemoody3 is an album of contemporary instrumental music featuring piano, flute, saxophone, bass and percussion.
It is a magical interval when the mundane laws of time and space are temporarily suspended, and the Thin Veil between the worlds is lifted. Communicating with ancestors and departed loved ones is easy at this time, for they journey through this world on their way to the Summerlands.
Some days you may feel as if you are invisible, that life is going on around you and you aren’t part of it. Remember that at soul level we are all one, all connected to one another. It doesn’t cost anything to make the effort to smile at the person passing by you on the street, to hold the door open for someone or to exchange a few words with the next one in line, or to thank the one who serves you in a shop. You may be the only person who will acknowledge them that day. It is these little touches that make us all feel part of society, part of each other. When we raise the spirits of another, that energy comes back to us magnified, so everyone benefits, if we all did this what a difference it would make to the world. Start today reach out to someone and be the one to make a difference!
Most people achieved their greatest success one step beyond what looked like their greatest failure. - Brian Tracy
Today go the extra mile; you owe it to yourself and to your dreams to just stretch yourself a little further. You are so close, closer than you could ever possibly imagine. Go within and tune into your higher self see it, feel it, smell it, and taste it, now step up and claim what is rightly yours! Never Ever Give Up!
Welcome to my circle of friends :-) I look forward to getting to know you. I hope you are having a lovely week my new friend
Walk and touch peace every moment. Walk and touch happiness every moment. Each step brings a fresh breeze. Each step makes a flower bloom. Kiss the Earth with your feet. Bring the Earth your love and happiness. The Earth will be safe when we feel safe in ourselves. ~Thich Nhat Hanh
"You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you."
Hi Kate, i hope you are making good music. I have started a new band at work. It's a jazz combo called 'The Quiet Men.' I was relieved to see the rocker guitarist and the r&b monster guitarist leave, and now we are putting together a new repertoire for a small group which is one guitar, one bass, one keyboard, one flute and one drums.
Kate, Thank you for adding me to your circle of friends. I'm excited that my romance suspense novel 'Love On a Carousel' with a 12-song CD soundtrack is due out this fall. 5 of the songs are uploaded on myspace. The CD is available for sale on my profile page. A short description of my book can be found on my blog. Wishing you a wonderful summer.
We are the sages of today living the intent of all the past masters of higher consciousness. A new age of eternal truth as experience and lifestyle awakens the collective consciousness of humanity as we understand ahimsa to be the foundations of thought... ..
WAKING UP, WE ARE THE KNOWER OF PURPOSE.
as we ascend in the realization to be a part of all, the more of collectives joys and pleasures we feel in the oneness that we become. we know to be at the receiving end of grace to cause happiness and address collective pains. in our doing is inspired work of source. in our knowing is joy and lightness. in our journey is transformation of human to angel. compassion and abundance flows naturally and humanity ascends. as ARIVEN, we are the awake- gently prodding humanity to its beautiful momentum of transformation.
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