Kay's untimely death in August this year has deprived us of a pioneer composer and healing practitioner. American by birth but a world musician in outlook and practice,she spent many years composing to aid healing, meditation and relaxation and raising awareness of music's health-promoting power. Versatile on numerous flutes, she used a whole range of sonorities and always with melody and structure, creating work that trancends all usual boundaries.

In 2001 Kay made a welcome return visit to the UK as a leading exponent at the Colour and Healing Conference in Cambridge. As well as demonstrating the effects of her skilled toning (scanning with sound) to astonished group workshops, she was injecting energy into every conversation and otherwise routine activity -and despite a massive heatwave.

Experimental as ever, she gave a life performance of Rainbow Path at one of the concluding evening sessions, adding perfume as a new enticement to our senses to the already rich experience of sound and mandala colours. She will be sorely missed.
The full range of Kay's available recordings can be found in the WRPM catalogue, including a new collection of choral work with women's choirs which was released earlier this year.