Kevin Kern "Always Near"
  • Love's First Smile
  • A Time Remembered
  • Sundial Dreams
  • Le Jardin
  • Above The Clouds
  • Always Near
  • And The Light Is Forever
  • The Touch of Love
  • Through The Arbor
  • Safe In Your Embrace
  • Return to Love
  • Where Paths Meet
  • Through Your Eyes
  • Softly Falling
  • Love's First Smile
    Genre: New Age
    MP3 (06:11) [14.46 MB]
  • A Time Remembered
    Genre: New Age
    MP3 (04:18) [10.15 MB]
  • Sundial Dreams
    Genre: New Age
    MP3 (04:48) [11.3 MB]
  • Le Jardin
    Genre: New Age
    MP3 (04:54) [11.52 MB]
  • Above The Clouds
    Genre: New Age
    MP3 (05:29) [12.86 MB]
  • Always Near
    Genre: New Age
    MP3 (05:23) [12.64 MB]
  • And The Light Is Forever
    Genre: New Age
    MP3 (03:23) [8.04 MB]
  • The Touch of Love
    Genre: New Age
    MP3 (04:21) [10.26 MB]
  • Through The Arbor
    Genre: New Age
    MP3 (03:49) [9.03 MB]
  • Safe In Your Embrace
    Genre: New Age
    MP3 (03:48) [9.02 MB]
  • Return to Love
    Genre: New Age
    MP3 (04:27) [10.49 MB]
  • Where Paths Meet
    Genre: (Choose a Genre)
    MP3 (05:17) [12.4 MB]
  • Through Your Eyes
    Genre: New Age
    MP3 (03:51) [9.13 MB]
  • Softly Falling
    Genre: New Age
    MP3 (04:23) [10.35 MB]
Biography
When Real Music President Terence Yallop heard carols being played one Christmas Day at a hotel in San Francisco and approached the pianist, he was excited about both Kevin’s talent for exceptional arrangements and for his pianistic skill. He didn't yet know that Kevin had been a child prodigy who was discovered, hands on the keyboard over his head, playing “Silent Night” when he was only 18 months old and that by the time he was two, Kevin could play 20 Christmas carols using both hands.

When Kevin was a child, he watched the world series on television and then replayed the emotion and excitement of each inning for his father who had been at work and unable to watch. This not only fed a passion for baseball (“I live and die for the summer games”) but honed Kevin's talent for “sound painting,” something which fed the creative collaboration between Kevin and Terence. This collaboration has resulted in seven albums for Real Music to date — In the Enchanted Garden, Beyond the Sundial, Summer Daydreams, In My Life, Embracing the Wind, More Than Words (a “best of” compilation with two new tracks) and the June 2003 release, The Winding Path. All have achieved top positions on Billboard's New Age Chart.

Born in Detroit, Kevin began studying with a private tutor at age four and made his professional debut at 14 with the Well Tempered Clavichord, a teenage casual group of which he was a founding member. Though Kevin felt obliged to question his career direction as a teen, briefly wondering if he might like to be a poet, the joy of making music won the day.

Kevin studied under Detroit Symphony pianist, Mischa Kottler, and attended the University of Michigan School of Music. He has also attended the New England Conservatory of Music, receiving a Bachelor of Music as well as a Master’s Degree in Performance. He spent several years playing in and around the Boston area before moving to San Francisco in 1990, where he began performing at a variety of live venues. His unique approach and ability to communicate earned a spot on the faculty as a theory teacher and vocal accompanist at Jazz Camp West in Santa Cruz in 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1998.

Some say Kevin's compositions can be compared melodically to classical music and wonder which composer's music influences him most. Primarily Bach's, which Kevin says is like the pyramids; the stones, or notes, fit together without mortar.
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