Kathie Touin

Kathie Touin grew up in Southern California where she began playing the piano seriously at age seven, first learning classical music and then in her teens moving into jazz and rock.

She joined her first band at 15, and played in several groups through high school - everything from heavy metal to progressive rock and pop.

After graduating high school, Kathie attended the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. She studied composition, arranging, performance, production and engineering.

Leaving with a certificate in Professional Music studies, she returned to California where she worked in a variety of bands, and focused on writing her own songs and compositions.

After a few years she went solo and quickly landed her first recording contract.

The following year she released Soliloquy, an album of classical piano pieces, to much acclaim. It sold out its first run. Her original composition featured on the album - Silver Song - received international airplay.

She also began working for the record label that had released Soliloquy and was instrumental in securing a deal to re-issue an album by legendary keyboardist, Keith Emerson (The Nice; Emerson, Lake & Palmer).

When the label folded a few years later, Kathie moved north to Hansville, Washington, a beautiful small community at the north end of the Kitsap Peninsula in Western Washington. There amidst the peace, quiet and wild beauty, Kathie formed her own production company, Loro Cove Productions.

Within two years of moving there, she released an album simply titled Christmas - a collection of holiday instrumentals, performed on keyboards, piano and guitars.

Soon after its release, Kathie was back writing again. A growing collection of original songs began to take on the shape of an album, which she demoed at her home. But before she could begin the final recording process, her life took a remarkable turn... she met and married a wonderful Englishman.

Packing her demo tapes and scribbled lyric sheets, she arrived in Ealing, West London to join her new husband where, shortly after, she set up a 24-track home recording studio and got to work on the collection of songs she had created.

Within six months, Kathie had completed her first album of all original words and music - Butterfly Bones, a deeply personal, occasionally silly, sometimes sweet, sometimes edgy retrospective of the events of the past few years in her life.

Released in 2005, the album showcases beautifully refined Kathie's songwriting, and led to comparisons with Aimee Mann, Sarah McLachlan, Tori Amos and Maria McKee.

Butterfly Bones has been critically-acclaimed by musicians, djs and fans and in March 2007 was signed up by Proper Distribution for an exclusive UK distribution deal. The album is also available through this website.

In September 2007 Kathie Touin released her latest CD, Soliloquy Deluxe, which contains 21 tracks of beautiful piano music.

Based on her sold-out album Soliloquy, it features re-mastered tracks, newly-released bonus tracks and specially-created artwork to create a beautiful package. The music includes Debussy's Clair de Lune, Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, Keith Emerson's A Blade of Grass and three original compositions by Kathie.

Kathie Touin's contemporary and classical music has attracted worldwide airplay.

Kathie has been interviewed about her music on-air on Radio London, Biggles FM (where she also played some live music), Ward Radio and Voice America; and in print in WestSide magazine, the Ealing Gazette newspaper and the Ealing Today email newsletter.

Her music has also been positively reviewed in Rock'n'Reel magazine.