04/09/2007 KTK PRODUCTIONS
was created in 1992 by composer/pianist Katie Kuhn as a means of producing, publishing and distributing her music.Her debut CD of all original piano solos, "Mandalay," has received numerous popular music awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). Her second CD, "Saudade" is being played on over 40 radio stations nationwide and was listed as a nominations entry in eight separate categories for the 40th Annual Grammy Awards by the National Academy of the Recording Arts & Sciences. It is also being licensed and distributed in Taiwan and Hong Kong by Groove Records, Ltd.
"A Christmas Full of Miracles," is a collection of eight standard Christmas songs and four original compositions all performed on a nine foot concert grand Fazioli piano colored with violin by Carol Dalrymple in four of the pieces and vocal by Kimberli Ransom on two tracks. Songs include "I Wonder as I Wander," "Oh Holy Night," "Silent Night".
Here are what the critics are saying about Katie’s music
:Wayne Wong, WZRU, North Carolina
"The ebony and ivory impressions of pianist Katie Kuhn awakens the spirit with ‘Saudade’, a beautiful collection of original compositions that truly warms the heart with flowing emotional gentleness in every note."
William Athey, The Event, Salt Lake City
"…Kuhn is playing a beautiful instrument and she absolutely loves the instrument - that emotion and that passion are demonstrated all over ‘A Christmas Full of Miracles.’ Her original compositions…are just as beautiful as the standards she interprets…’A Christmas Full of Miracles’ is as ‘grand’ a recording from start to finish as the instrument Kuhn uses."
Martin Renzhofer , Salt Lake Tribune
On "Saudade": " From the first gentle notes of ‘She Speaks through the Wind,’ Katie Kuhn’s second CD takes the listener on a meditative journey…The 17 solo piano compositions - with occasional violin coloring by Carol Dalrymple - are thoughtful and beautiful."
On "Mandalay": " Kuhn’s compositions…have a gentle relaxing quality."
Barry Scholl, Catalyst, Salt Lake City
"…Her spacious melodic compositions are more demanding and rhythmically propulsive than standard new age music and show an awareness of formal composition that eludes many of her contemporaries…Kuhns’s immaculately recorded piano instrumentals are capricious and lyrical."
Ben Fulton, Private Eye, Salt Lake City
"…pianist and composer Katie Kuhn offers some of the most emollient balms to be found from the keys of a piano. Peaceful, cascading, stirring and sentimentally beautiful, Kuhn specializes in the kind of piano music many would call the aural equivalent of a bubble bath. So get ready to be whisked away."
Colin Mangham, Aspen Daily News
"Indeed, ‘Mandalay’ is a fine recording that resides as much in soothing melodies as it does passionate flair. ( When music this pleasant wafts through a room it’s easy to become lost in it.)"
Ann Piccinnini, Chicago Tribune
"…hauntingly soothing."
Stefene Russell, Salt Lake City Magazine
"… Katie Kuhn’s own music is sweet, spellbinding and starry."
Traci Borhani , Napra Review
"…The music is gentle and evocative, and the title, (‘Saudade’) which means a very deep longing, an ardent desire, infuses the songs with its fervor…This is a heartwarming album suitable for those stolen quiet moments alone, or for cultivating a peaceful, uplifting atmosphere in the company of others."
04/09/2007