Aesthetx Magazine
Kat
Epple
Kat Epple,
also known as Emerald Web, creates ethereal, progressive music on
a wide variety of instruments including , flutes, synthesizers, and
Digital sampling keyboards. She has released 13 music albums internationally
on various record labels, and in 1986, one of those albums was nominated
for a Grammy Award. For her work in television soundtracks, she has
won 8 Emmy Awards, and has 10 Addy Awards to her credit for Music
in Advertising.
In her Ft. Myers, Florida Based Studio, Kat also composes original
New Age/Jazz/World Music and has produced film and television soundtracks
for National Geographic, Nova, CNN, Carl Sagan, Another World, The
Travel Channel, Turner Broadcasting System, History Channel, HGN, The
Guiding Light, and NASA among others, and was Music Director for the
feature-length film, Captiva Island.
Kat's
live performances include: A concert tour of Planetariums around
the US, solo performances
at the Guggenheim Museum in NYC, and Bibao,
Spain, a commissioned composition for the SW Florida Symphony Orchestra,
featured performer at the National Gallery, Washington DC, concerts
at the Hollywood Palace, L.A., concert tour of Russia, ongoing performances
on various ethnic flutes and electronics, Gallery and Museum openings
in NYC and Europe for the renowned artist, Robert
Rauschenberg, music
Director and co-composer for the dance performance piece, "CALUSA" with
the David Parsons Dance Troupe.
Kat Epple
is listed in "Who's Who in Entertainment" and
Who's Who in Emerging Leaders". She has taught a course in "Music
and Consciousness" at JFK University.
She has traveled to the far reaches of the globe including China,
Africa, Russia, The Amazon, Europe, Peru, Mexico, Japan, Costa Rica,
and the Caribbean, to learn of the people, natural environment, and
the music of other cultures. She uses music in her work toward environmental
and humanitarian awareness, and has amassed a large collection of flutes
from other cultures around the world, which she features in her original
compositions.
*Kat
Epple portrait by Greg Biolchini
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