Multi-Platinum selling Pianist-Composer-Producer, Peter Kater, has received 6 Grammy Award Nominations in the last 7 years with his recent nomination being for his In A Dream collaboration (2009) with long time STING guitarist, Dominic Miller. In 2008 Peter received a Grammy Award nomination for his Ambrosia recording. In 2007 he garnered a Grammy nomination for his Faces Of The Sun recording on SilverWave Records. In 2006 for his Element Series: Fire CD on the Real Music. His Piano album was nominated in 2005 and his Red Moon recording received a Grammy nod in 2004. He’s been nominated for and won many awards for his music and is a proud recipient of the United Nations’ Environment Leadership Award. Peter is known for the diversity and technical and emotional quality and intensity of his music. He follows his own Muse (a prolific one at that) through a variety of instrumental genres never sitting comfortably in any single one. His love, respect and commitment to the natural world fuels much of his creative urges and instincts.

It all began in 1983 when Peter released his first solo piano album, SPIRIT, on his own Source Records, becoming one of only a small handful of instrumental artists spear-heading an entirely new genre of music which we’ve now come to know as New Age Music. After about 6 years and several National Top 10 Contemporary Jazz recordings, Peter made a strong and unexpected left hand turn and in 1990 literally introduced Native American music to the masses with his groundbreaking collaboration with R. Carlos Nakai called Natives, followed by the Award Winning Migration recording and Peter’s soundtrack to the 13 hour Discovery Channel mini-series, How The West Was Lost. Peter’s early contemporary instrumental recordings; his visionary soundtracks for television and film; and his collaborations with Native American and Tibetan artists helped create the foundation for the existence of an entirely new genre of music and some very successful and resourceful new record labels. Millions of sales units later the New Age and Native American Music markets have outsold and performed most other niche genres. In 1997, Peter saw a need for music more appropriate to Healing Arts and Healing therapies and released his Essence and Compassion CD’s as the first two records of his new Healing Series. Just recently he’s added 3 new albums to this series, his Ambrosia, Walk In Beauty and Cloud Hands recordings. Peter’s music for the Healing Arts has become a staple for many practitioners of many Healing modalities and Spa’s across the world.