Kat s Blog

Feb 21, 2011

Posted on September 1st, 2010 by Kat.
Categories: Kat's upcoming concerts.

It’s official! My next annual concert at Florida Rep Theater (the historic Arcade Theater) will be Monday, Feb 21, 2011 at 7:00PM. Mark your calendars!

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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

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A blast from the past

Posted on August 1st, 2010 by Kat.
Categories: Interviews and press.

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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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“Tranquility Hideaway” - An hour of beautiful flute meditation music

Posted on June 28th, 2010 by Kat.
Categories: News.

Listen to Tranquility Hideaway Here

“Tranquility Hideaway”:
Music for Massage, Meditation, Insomnia, Relaxation, and Balance. One hour of continuous musical serenity, created on the soft, low timbre of the bass flute, accompanied by a subtle heartbeat-like drum.
The music on Tranquility Hideaway was specifically created to inspire peace, connection, calmness, sleep, yoga,healing, soothing, peace, opening, Tai Chi, and alignment. The natural, transparent sound encourages the brain to center, slow down, and de-stress. Because there are “no surprises” in the music, it can be listened to as an effective lullaby, to prepare the mind, body, and spirit for sleep, the spa, introspection, sacred space, intimacy, bodywork, therapy, and reflection.

This music really can help with falling asleep, sleep, sleep, for adults, children, and babies. After many years of promising to create this music for my friends and fans who are massage therapists, hypnotherapists, meditators, insomniacs, parents of children with ADHD and ADD, teachers, spa professionals, trance workers, hospice professionals, leaders of guided meditation, doulas, animal trainers, and healers, it is finally here. The music is not designed for listening sessions, instead, it is an experience of floating in a calm flute lake while still connected to the Earth by a Native Heart Drum.

Flutist and composer, Kat Epple, has been creating music for healing, meditation, and relaxation for decades. She has released 23 music albums internationally on various record labels, was nominated for a Grammy in 1986, won 8 Emmy Awards for her television music scores, and was installed as the Worldwide Peace Marker Project’s Artist/Ambassador for the United States.
Buy Tranquility Hideaway Here

If you want to purchase a physical CD, contact me directly at Music@KatEpple.com for a special sale price, $10 + shipping.

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Music for massage

Posted on June 22nd, 2010 by Kat.
Categories: Kat's upcoming concerts, News.

Music for Massage: An hour of bass flute for Meditation, Insomnia, Relaxation music. Brand new Album: “Tranquility Hideaway” by Kat Epple especially composed for music for massage therapy.
Listen to Tranquility Hideaway

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Fluting around the World

Posted on June 16th, 2010 by Kat.
Categories: Interviews and press.

From Las Vegas to Russia, Kat Epple crosses cultural divides with her magic flute.
by Cathy Chestnut

Everyone knows who Kat Epple is. The lithe, blonde flutist is a fixture on the sidewalk, steps or stage at just about any major cultural event that happens in this area.
With 15 albums to her name, Epple has produced from her North Fort Myers studio music and soundtracks for television programs and networks, including National Geographic, NOVA, CNN, Turner Broadcasting, Guiding Light and Another World.

The recipient of eight Emmy Awards, 10 Addy Awards and a Grammy nomination, Epple’s musicality includes composing ambient electronic music. Her muse has taken her around the world – from the hinterlands of the Amazon in search of indigenous flutes to a concert tour through Russia to major art exhibit openings by modern artist Robert Rauschenberg, with whom she is close friends.

A Lee County resident since 1990, Epple is a self-described “travel junkie” who has been to China, Africa, Europe, Peru, Mexico, Japan, Costa Rica and the Caribbean to learn about different cultures and their musical traditions – and to share her music with them.

What drew you to the flute? I’ve always loved the sound of the flute, even as a child, before I knew what it was. I guess it’s just the sound. Also the mythology and fables around flutes and flute-players, from The Pied Piper to Pan.
Tell me about your flute collection. I have around 200. I’ve been to Africa, China…I love to meet flute makers and flute players and play music with them.

What is the most fascinating thing you learned about music or anthropology in collecting flutes? Almost every culture has its own version of flutes. You can travel down the Amazon and see a flute in one village, and a few miles away, the next village has a different flute, different dance tradition, different language.
How did you meet Robert Rauschenberg? At the home of Dr. John and Mrs. Fran Fenning [in Fort Myers]. I was blowing on empty wine bottles and he was playing with chopsticks, playing on the plates and the wine bottles, and we were making music together.

You’ve traveled with him all over the world for art openings, from New York City to Spain, to France. What is it like traveling with him? He is such an inspiration to me. He’s opened up a lot of the world to me, with art, travel, etcetera. He and I sometimes talk about how art and music are so similar. When I approach visual art, I approach it as music. That’s the way I see it.

He did your last album cover for Azure Pieces of Life? Yes. I was really honored. [The piece is titled Catfish Tails.]
As a friend and a colleague, what is it like being close to someone so world renowned? I always feel like I’m in the company of greatness. Traveling with him is like traveling with a rock star.

You play at a lot of interesting gigs, from New York to Los Angeles to Las Vegas. How does that happen? I’m really good at staying in touch with people and in my travels, I meet a lot of people. That’s just the web we weave of people we get to know.

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Article in North Fort Myers Weekly Newspaper

Posted on June 16th, 2010 by Kat.
Categories: Interviews and press.

When did you move to North Fort Myers? How long did you live there for? 
I moved from San Francisco to North Fort Myers in 1989. I had just been signed with a new  record company, and wanted to move to a more peaceful environment to compose music. I grew to love southwest Florida, so twenty years later, I am still here! 

What inspired you to become a musician? 
As a child, I always loved the sound of the flute. I also loved the legends and the lore about flute players. The Pied Piper of Hamelin, the Greek legend of Pan, and the Native American Medicine flute player are all examples of stories about the power of the flute.  I learned to play the flute, then started to collect and play flutes from other cultures.  I  became a composer, a sound engineer, and recorded music for my own albums, then became a composer of music for television shows and film scores.

What do you enjoy most about what you do? 
 Playing the flute can be a beautiful, healing, spiritual experience. I guess that is my favorite thing.

Why did you agree to play for the benefit concert? 
I appreciate the work Calusa Musicale does to support and  encourage young musicians in Southwest Florida. I am happy to be a part of their event.

Do you have anything else you would like to add? 
I will be performing all original music with my keyboardist/composer friend Chuck Grinnell.

short bio:
Emmy Award-winning, and Grammy-nominated composer and flutist, Kat Epple, has released 23 albums of original music, composes television and film scores including “National Geographic,” PBS, “Nova,” and “Guiding Light,” and has performed at the Guggenheim Museums, Metropolitan Museum, United Nations, and the National Gallery. She travels throughout the world collecting flutes from other cultures and features some of those flutes in her live performances. Her music has been described as celestial, yet earthy, primeval, and innovative. 

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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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Kat’s presentation

Posted on May 26th, 2010 by Kat.
Categories: Kat's upcoming concerts.

I present a program for organizations, churches, community centers, and children, where I talk about music, flutes, and my musical adventures. Here is a description:

“Interesting travels, stories, sounds, moods, and magic of the flute”

 An informal concert and talk about flutes from around the world, presented by Emmy Award-winning and Grammy nominated flutist and composer, Kat Epple.  Kat has traveled to the far reaches of the globe to learn about the people, natural environment, music, and flutes from around the world, and to perform in concert. She has acquired a large collection of flutes from these various exotic locales, which she features in her original compositions, and will be playing some of these unusual flutes, and telling interesting stories about them. Kat is a film and television music soundtrack producer/composer for television shows such as “National Geographic”, “Travel Channel” and “Guiding Light”, and will talk about composing music for film, digital orchestration, and examine how music influences us. She will also play some music from her 23 internationally released music albums.The program is fun, interesting, and informative.

Contact me if you or your organization is interested in having me guest speak at your event. Music@KatEpple.com
Visit my website at Kat Epple

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