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Music for museum exhibits and tours

Posted on July 21st, 2010 by Kat.
Categories: Musical Travels, Kat's adventures, News.

Kat Epple specializes in creating custom music for museum exhibitions, gallery installations, educational presentations, museum guided tour, art museums, archaeological documentaries, and historical tours. Featuring historical period music, dramatic passages, regional, interpretive, and ethnic instruments. The authentic, quality, and appropriate original music is composed to be used as background and foreground music in headset, headphone and amplified speaker systems. Interesting original music complements and enhances the voice over and helps to make the content more interesting and fun. Kat Epple music productions can work within a tight budget and time deadlines. A professional, digital, audio soundtrack can be delivered in whatever file format is required. Buy music or commission music for museum tour. Some of the museums and galleries featuring Ms. Epple’s music are: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Florida Natural History Museum, Randell Research Institute, Useppa Island Historical Society, Alliance for the Arts, Imaginarium, Art of the Olympians, Guggenheim Museum, and The Nature Conservancy.

Emmy Award-winning, and Grammy-nominated composer and flutist, Kat Epple, has performed at the Guggenheim Museum, Metropolitan Museum, United Nations, and the National Gallery. She has released 23 CDs of original music, and composes music for television, including “National Geographic”, PBS, CNN, “Nova”, and “Guiding Light”.
Kat Epple website
Contact at: Music@KatEpple.com

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Music for promotional packages of spa, resort, massage, meditation, yoga retreats, motivational workshops

Posted on June 7th, 2010 by Kat.
Categories: Musical Travels, Interviews and press, News.

One hour of music specifically created for release as a cd album for spas, massage studios, hotels, restaurants, resorts, etc. This beautiful professionally produced, relaxing music can be licensed by spas, massage studios, resorts, etc., with their corporate logo, contact info, photos, and text info. “Relaxing healing music for (your establishment’s name here)”. Deal directly with the owners of the music so that you can simply obtain perpetual rights to package this music as your own promotional or sales material. It is the perfect promotional gift for “goodie bags”. Simple contracts are available for quantities from 100 to 10,000. The client has the option to design the album cover, or we can create all the artwork for you, using your logo, and promotional material. The music is classy, elegant, professionally produced, and available to represent your product.
Here are some examples of CD albums cover ideas:
Listen to musical examples
All instrumental music.

Tranquility Hideaway

Listen to other examples

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Enchanted Nature Music: Kat Epple, flute, and DL Turner, harp, in concert under the stars at the breathtaking Happehatchee Center

Posted on September 9th, 2009 by Kat.
Categories: Musical Travels, performances, Peace.

Spellbinding music on flutes and harp on a beautiful “old” Florida landscape, in a serene Southwest Florida oasis.
Some of the music, inspired by the natural beauty of SW Florida, will be created especially for this pristine, natural setting.
“Stepping onto this land is like entering a lost, secret world of natural beauty, enveloping body, mind and spirit.”

September 19, 2009 at 7PM, $15 admission

Happehatchee Center
Estero, Florida
8791 Corkscrew Rd.
Call 239 206 4393
http://happehatcheecenter.org/

Refreshments and seating available, or bring your own.

Emmy Award-winning, and Grammy-nominated composer and flutist, Kat Epple, has traveled throughout the world, collecting flutes from other cultures and will be performing on some of those unique instruments this evening. She has performed at the Guggenheim Museums and the National Gallery, has released 23 CDs of original music, and composes and produces music for television, including “National Geographic” and “PBS Nova”.

Harpist and composer, DL “Harpo” Turner, sweeps across the strings of his Hand-Made instrument “The Rose Crystal Harp”, to create a powerful and evocative musical poetry — rich, profound and deeply emotional. He has released many CDs of his own original music, and produces albums for other musicians in many styles

It was a beautiful evening. We had the equipment all set up and soundchecked, then the rain started. We packed it all back up and out of the rain. At 6:30, the rain stopped, and we set it up again, very quickly. The audience was patient with our late start.

Wonderwhirl Hoopers Tribe performed with their hoops.

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The September Concert Benefit Dinner at the United Nations

Posted on September 5th, 2009 by Kat.
Categories: Musical Travels, performances, Peace, Kat's adventures.

This event went beautifully. Here is a photo.

I will be performing with cellist, Lawrence Zoernig, and vocalist, Inbal Sharett at a benefit for The September Concert Foundation hosted by The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.

Friday, September 11, 2009 at 9:00. Cocktails served from 8:30 PM
at the United Nations Delegates Room
1 United Nations Plaza, New York City
Benefactor $10,000 (table for ten)
Patron $5,000 (table for ten)
Supporter ticket(s) $250 (one individual ticket)

Checks payable to The September Concert Foundation
10 West 56 St, New York, NY 10019
Online via PayPal at www.septemberconcert.org (click on Benefit)

rsvp@septemberconcert.org
212.333.3399

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Travels in Switzerland

Posted on June 27th, 2009 by Kat.
Categories: Musical Travels, Kat's adventures.

The trip from Venice to St Moritz included a few wrong turns in Brescia, in Northern Italy. After that, we traveled past beautiful Lago d’Iseo, a place I would like to visit some time when I have more time to enjoy it.

I enjoyed hiking in Switzerland with my friends Barbara and Jose, although they were much more accustomed to the altitude than I was.

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Venice Italy sites and performance

Posted on June 12th, 2009 by Kat.
Categories: Musical Travels, Kat's adventures.

I performed on the rooftop terrace at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice Italy. The amplified speakers were aimed both toward the Guggenheim courtyard where the event was to take place, and toward the Grand Canal, so that the guests would hear the sound of the flute and could see me above on the roof, as they arrived in boats and water taxis. So the flute echoed and wafted across the busy canal as all manner of water vessels passed by. As I continued to play, I received all sorts of responses to my music. One boat load of tourists pointed at me high above on the rooftop, and cheered and whistled. As the vaporetto (water bus) chugged by, many of the passengers applauded. My favorite response was as the gondolas floated by, several of the gondoliers answered back with operatic passages. It was quite the jam session!

It was for the Robert Rauschenberg opening for the “Gluts” show, and for his memorial celebration. The new director of the Guggenheim Foundation, Richard Armstrong, spoke at the event.

The museum is located on the Grand Canal.

That weekend, there was a boat parade and regatta. No motorized boats were allowed on the Grand Canal. It was a beautiful day, and it was nice and quiet without boat motors.

Although, it made it impossible to catch a water bus (vaporetto)

There were many beautiful sites and events.

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Kat and Pond Water Experiment concerts in October

Posted on September 4th, 2008 by Kat.
Categories: Musical Travels, performances.

Saturday, Oct 10, Square One Bistro,
111 South Main Street Hendersonville, NC 28792
(828) 698-5598

October, 11 2008 at The Backroom at The Flat Rock Wine Shoppe
2702 Greenville Hwy. Suite C, Flat Rock, North Carolina 28731

Sunday, Oct 12. 2008, 3PM
The Jade Turtle, 102 Resort Ln # B Lake Lure, NC 28746 (828) 625-2727

Outdoor concert with my new band. A blend of jazz, world, blue grass, and new age music.

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Kat’s Birthday 2008

Posted on September 2nd, 2008 by Kat.
Categories: Musical Travels.

I took some time to reflect on my birthday. I spent the evening on the beach on Captiva at my friend Bob Rauschenberg’s beach house. I went out to dinner with my dear friends, Darryl and Mark, on Sanibel Island. Then I went back to the “beach house” to contemplate and hang out on the beach. It was a beautiful, warm, gusty evening on the beach. The moon was at one moment bright, and clear, the next moment obscured by clouds. The gusting winds were courtesy of tropical storm, Fay. I enjoyed doing Kung Fu and summersalts on the wet sand. The beach was deserted, dark, and clean, and the water was magically phosphorescent.
I woke up early the next morning, and went running on the beach.

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Music in North Carolina 08

Posted on August 7th, 2008 by Kat.
Categories: Musical Travels, performances.

We recorded a lot of very cool music. The guys in the band live in a beautiful house on a mountainside in Hendersonville, NC.
Together, we created a brand new sound which will be featured on our upcoming album.

Pete, James, Nathan, and Miko

We will be performing an outdoor concert on October 12th in Lake Lure, North Carolina. It will be the premiere of our new sound!

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My adventures in North Carolina

Posted on August 7th, 2008 by Kat.
Categories: Musical Travels, performances.

I had such a GREAT time in North Carolina!! Hot summer days enhanced by fresh, juicy, cool peaches and fresh white corn sold by charming locals at a roadside produce stand. A crystal clear river trickles, pools, and thunders alongside the winding mountain road.

I recorded a lot of new music with the band, and my concerts were fun.

Black Mountain Light Center was an interesting concert venue, far away from anything but mountains and wilderness. You couldn’t hear ANY traffic noise…..
The dome had very interesting acoustics. It had a complex slap back that created a rhythm when I played flute. The echo was different depending on where I stood in the dome.

I met a beautiful vocalist named Serpentine, and invited her to vocalize with me. The collaboration was unique and spiritual.

http://www.serpentine8.com/

a photo of me on Suzanne’s electric (Duffy) boat on Lake Lure. It is a very nice quiet boat, and the lake is peaceful and lovely.

The sunset on Lake Lure was beautiful!

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