Debut # 5 ~ NAR World Chart for May 2007
"Hope for Harmony is a gorgeous debut... Gentle, subtle, and very soothing... setting a mood of quiet yet intense peacefulness... so effortlessly floats on a cloud of sound.... Passionate yet serene, the music follows the path of a spiritual journey that hopes for harmony within each individual and reaches out to global peace through acceptance and tolerant understanding."
Kathy Parsons, Solo Piano Publications
Long after leaving the pressures of piano competition, and more than 25 years of personal transitions and many life lessons, Kathryn finally returned to the piano for catharsis, expressing her heartfelt truths through her music with the belief that musical vibrations which are emotionally positive can reach the heart and improve how we relate to each other. Based on the results of scientific auditory research which reveal how emotional resonance can be felt through music, she hopes that her music can evoke a sense of comfort, personal healing and spiritual connection.
As an artist expressing her deepest truths, Kathryn feels that the depth of her reality can only be captured by recording it “in the moment” and preserving each original expression from start to end, just as a live performance would be recorded without any creative alterations or enhancements. She feels that the most honest performance she can give is to keep the integrity of each composition by recording each track without digital editing. Kathryn composes her music by letting the melodic structure develop intuitively. She says that before the melody can come to her, she must first open her heart, and then her musical expression begins to unfold. In today's wonderful digital era, recording artists are blessed with the liberty to edit and enhance their compositions, but it is important to Kathryn as an artist, to offer the entire truth of her artistic expression.