Yatri (1945-2014)
Concert and academic career
Yatri brings to this album an impressive background as a classical concert pianist. She recorded and toured internationally for ten years with the Canadian chamber music ensemble CAMERATA as Kathryn Root. She received her Masters Degree in Piano Performance from Indiana University and has taught in three universities.
Glass music
When first introduced to the unique sound of "glass music" by Eric Cadesky of Toronto's Glass Orchestra, she fell in love with the sound. Since having her reconstruction of a Benjamin Franklin Armonica created for her by Gerhard Finkenbeiner in 1989, her crystal music has been heard on radio, television, and on film soundtrack. She performs live within dance and theater performances as well as improvising in holistic health and meditation settings.
Interest in healing and hospice
Yatri's basic nature is quiet and contemplative. In spite of having spent much of her life in the limelight of the concert stage, she is very drawn to healing and meditation. Alongside her musical background, she has also studied various aspects of alternative healing. Her greatest spiritual rewards have come from playing piano for the dying in a hospice setting.
Yatri brings to this album an impressive background as a classical concert pianist. She recorded and toured internationally for ten years with the Canadian chamber music ensemble CAMERATA as Kathryn Root. She received her Masters Degree in Piano Performance from Indiana University and has taught in three universities.
Glass music
When first introduced to the unique sound of "glass music" by Eric Cadesky of Toronto's Glass Orchestra, she fell in love with the sound. Since having her reconstruction of a Benjamin Franklin Armonica created for her by Gerhard Finkenbeiner in 1989, her crystal music has been heard on radio, television, and on film soundtrack. She performs live within dance and theater performances as well as improvising in holistic health and meditation settings.
Interest in healing and hospice
Yatri's basic nature is quiet and contemplative. In spite of having spent much of her life in the limelight of the concert stage, she is very drawn to healing and meditation. Alongside her musical background, she has also studied various aspects of alternative healing. Her greatest spiritual rewards have come from playing piano for the dying in a hospice setting.
The recording of "Crystal Spirit"
With Grammy award-winning engineer Chris Brown at the recording console, Yatri improvised for seven hours in a small studio beneath the Chapel of the Kripalu Center. "My mood during the recording session was contemplative and prayerful, and my intention was to freely go with the music, allowing it to take me where it would, and to basically keep my left-brain out of the picture as much as possible. What I wanted this album to be was a medium for creating stillness."
The bell-like sound and glissandi heard in the album were created by playing the Armonica bowls with some tiny rubber-tipped mallets. Yatri added some synthesized string and nature sounds created on a Roland JV880 during the editing process.
The bell-like sound and glissandi heard in the album were created by playing the Armonica bowls with some tiny rubber-tipped mallets. Yatri added some synthesized string and nature sounds created on a Roland JV880 during the editing process.