Kat s Blog

Music Walk siren that lures many to River District

Posted on September 1st, 2010 by Kat.
Categories: performances, Kat's adventures.

This is an excerpt from an article in the News-Press:

At Space 39, birthday girl Kat Epple and her band performed “world fusion with a hint of jazz” for a room full of admirers who were there to celebrate the birth of Music Walk on Kat’s birthday (tres apropos!) There was Michael St. Amand, Bruce Siciliano, Andi Horowitz, Alice Schaefer and bunches more.
by The Downtown Diva

0 comments.

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

0 comments.

My new electronic promotional kit

Posted on September 21st, 2009 by Kat.
Categories: performances, Kat's adventures.

I have a new electronic promo kit and it is beautiful! Check it out! http://www.katepple.com/katmusic/index.html
It includes short examples of music and a photo montage.

My friend, Michael St Amand from Imagun.com created it for me. He is the best web designer, and a patient man! http://www.imagun.com/. He is also a talented artist http://www.michaelstamand.com/

0 comments.

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

0 comments.

Planet Earth 2.0

Posted on August 29th, 2009 by Kat.
Categories: performances, Peace, Kat's adventures.

I attended Tiite’s art opening and presentation of his Planet Earth 2.0 concept. It was an inspiring event, and incredible artist, Tiite, explained his concept for a new operating system for the Earth, and for humankind. The event was well-attended, and our hosts created a beautiful, elegant event.

I performed “Prelude to World Peace” on bass flute for this extraordinary celebration.

Here is how Tiite described the event:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PLANET EARTH 2.0!

— “Birth of Planet Earth 2.0″ event and exhibit takes place in the salon of Frame Gallery and Gift at 1830 Del Prado Blvd., Cape Coral Florida on Saturday, August 29, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.

[Aug. 26] - Worldwide Peace Marker Project Artist Ambassador for The United States, Kat Epple, will perform her original composition titled “Prelude to World Peace” at the “Birth of Planet Earth 2.0″ event Saturday.
For those of you who will be participating from “cyberspace” stay tuned for the follow-up video.

[Aug. 24th] - Two new social media components of Planet Earth 2.0 make their debut today. Tiité posts the first entry in our new Planet Earth 2.0 Blog. Titled “Calendar of Dreams” the short essay references his new painting of the same name. He writes in part, “…you can schedule your own dreams now that we have a calendar of dreams to do so.” Read more and leave comments at
In concert with the new blog, our new Flickr image site, “Planet Earth 2.0 Art” is unveiled. This site debuts with “Calendar of Dreams,” the first of a series of large scale, down-loadable and printable copies of new key works by Tiité. You can access our new image site simply by clicking on the illustrations as they appear in our blog… or, directly, through this link: and http://www.tiite.com/

0 comments.

Memorial service for drummer, Jim Chapin

Posted on July 13th, 2009 by Kat.
Categories: Kat's adventures.

I attended Jim Chapin’s memorial celebration in Fort Myers, Florida July 13, 2009. Jim was a ground-breaking drummer, and a friend of mine. Jim’s son, well known musician, Tom Chapin spoke at the service, about his Dad, and he played guitar and sang, “All My Life’s a Circle”, which is a song his brother, Harry Chapin wrote.

0 comments.

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.

0 comments.

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.

0 comments.

anchovies and arugula

Posted on April 5th, 2009 by Kat.
Categories: Kat's adventures.

I went to a birthday party on sanibel last night. It was beautiful! Gorgeous house on the beach, many beautiful children running like deer, good friends, and pizza made to order, fresh from the wood burning pizza oven. I chose anchovies and arugula!

0 comments.