Kathryn Toyama

Almost 30 years of not touching the piano, many life lessons and healing transitions Kathryn finally returns 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 feel and also 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. Kathryn is also involved with a non-profit organization called Healing With Harmony, whose philosophy echoes her own, comforting the mind, body and spirit through music.
Solo Piano Publications Reviewer Kathy Parsons writes: "Hope for Harmony is a gorgeous debut from pianist/composer Kathryn Toyama. Gentle, subtle, and very soothing. the music has the spontaneous feeling of improvisation, and much of it is more ambient than melodic, 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."
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 acoustic 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 any 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.