Best New Age Album

For Your Consideration

Untethered Heart

Multi-Grammy winning Peter Kater weaves together passionate piano and lush orchestral strings, capturing the raw beauty of emotional release and personal transformation. It marks both a culmination and a threshold—a powerful farewell to what was and an open-armed curiosity of what’s to come. With every note, it reflects the liberation found in letting go and the strength discovered in surrender to an Untethered Heart.

UNTETHERED HEART
Released 2025

CREDITS

  • Produced by Peter Kater

  • Peter Kater: piano, synthesizers

  • Kristin Hoffmann: vocals

  • Strings arranged and conducted by R.J. Miller

  • Recorded at Skywalker Sound Scoring Stage, a Lucasfilm, Ltd. company, Marin County, CA

  • Recording Engineers: Leslie Ann Jones & Dann Michael Thompson

  • Assistant Engineer: Robert Gatley

  • Mixed by Peter Kater

  • Photos: Aaron Eskaran

  • Stylist: Angel Deihl

  • CD Package Design: Jeff Burne Design

  • Mastered by Dave Glasser at Airshow Mastering

  • All songs composed by Peter Kater and published by Kater Music/BMI

BIO

2 x Grammy winning/multi-platinum selling pianist/composer Peter Kater has been a leading innovator of contemporary instrumental music for 4 decades. He’s received many awards and accolades for his rich and diverse music including 14 Grammy Award nominations and two Grammy wins. He’s released over 70 critically acclaimed recordings and has scored the music for over 100 television and film productions including 11 On & Off-Broadway dramatic plays. From solo piano and contemporary jazz ensembles to full orchestral works his crossgenre music is heard all over the world from the Olympics to Carnegie Hall. He is known for his many groundbreaking collaborations with musicians such as Native American flutist R. Carlos Nakai; Sting guitarist Dominic Miller and Sacred Chantress Snatam Kaur. And as an avid environmentalist and humanitarian Peter is a proud recipient of the Environment Leadership Award from the United Nations.

DISCLAIMER

Untethered Heart has received many wonderful reviews and enjoyed top level charting, however, due to strict regulations set forth by NARAS none of those accolades are listed here. Please base your voting on the quality and appeal of the music you listen to. Please vote conscientiously and with integrity.

Thank you very much for listening to my music and for your consideration.

— Peter