Since 2001, Kathy Raimey's CD, "Flowers of Fire", has been embraced by a loyal following of listeners. It is utilized for massage therapy sessions, yoga classes, meditation, and just for the sheer relaxation it evokes.
It has received internatio [+]Since 2001, Kathy Raimey's CD, "Flowers of Fire", has been embraced by a loyal following of listeners. It is utilized for massage therapy sessions, yoga classes, meditation, and just for the sheer relaxation it evokes.
It has received international airplay in Japan, Romania and Canada, and numerous radio stations in the U.S. from Alaska to New York City have added it to their new age program playlists. A sampling of these include:
LOVE FM - Fukuoka, JAPAN
CHGA - Maniwaki, Quebec, CANADA
Radio ARAD - Arad, ROMANIA
KEUL - Girdwood, Alaska
KTEP - El Paso, Texas
KUMD - Duluth, Minnesota
WAWL - Chattanooga, Tennessee
WBAI - New York, NY
WDBX - Carbondale, Illinois
WDPS - Dayton, Ohio
WKNH - Keene, New Hampshire
WXPR - Rhinelander, Wisconsin
WMBR - Cambridge, Massachusetts
WSIA - Staten Island, NY
WZBC - Boston, Massachusetts
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Kathy has been making music since early childhood, with compositions encompassing a variety of formats and styles including works for solo piano, video soundtrack, choral music, electroacoustic music, an odd assortment of unclassifiable work, and singer/songwriter material.
She began playing professionally as a church organist at the age of 13, and has been a music educator since 1978 in such diverse locales as Cincinnati, Ohio, Vienna, Austria, and Atlanta, Georgia.
She holds degrees in Piano Performance from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, and Furman University; and pursued further study in Vienna, Austria. Her main teachers included Maria Regina Seidlhofer, David Bar-Illan, Jeanne Kirstein, Ruby Morgan, John Noel Roberts, and Lee Gleim, her mother and very first teacher. As well, she studied with chamber ensemble coach, Lee Fizer, of the LaSalle Quartet, and jazz pianist, Ted Howe.
Recently inspired by Pauline Oliveros and her Deep Listening techniques, Kathy's interest in improvisation began at an early age and continues to play a vital role in her music, teaching, and visual art.
Her award-winning watercolor, "Improvisation", is the basis for the cover art on "Flowers of Fire". She writes:
"Essential to all of us, improvisation is as natural as breathing. It is unedited body-soul-and-brain-storming freedom. In its commitmen
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