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Kater and wife Chris White, a writer, have a 4-year-old girl and a 1-year-old boy, so when they were just getting settled in Rappahannock he noticed a poster advertising a meeting of the Mothering Co-op.
“We were anxious to develop some friends for the kids and some relief for us,” he said. “I just think it’s a real neat thing to have, especially out here.”
Kater, as a composer, recording artist and writer of musical scores, could basically live anywhere “that’s within an hour and a half from an airport.” Armed with FAX machine, telephone and musical equipment, he can compose just as easily in Rappahannock as anywhere, he said.
Describing the music he will be performing at the benefit, he said:
“When I need to categorize myself, I call myself a contemporary pianist-composer.” He said his solo music is evocative of “anyone from Keith Jarrett to Gershwin.”
His instrumental music can “relax and uplift at the same time,” he said.
Rater’s 11 albums have sold about 250,000 copies worldwide, and his current album, “Rooftops,” is in the Top 10 of all three national airplay charts for new-acoustic music.
He performed about 100 concerts last year, but has cut down to less than half that rate this year, as the move to Rappahannock affords him more time to spend with his young family.
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