Solo Flute
Kat Epple performs in concert around the world, as a solo artist, a lecturer/storyteller, and with her different music ensembles.
TBE Kat Epple has performed music at many iconic venues such as the Guggenheim Museums, New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, The United Nations, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Italy, National Gallery, London’s Union Chapel, Naples Winter Wine Festival, with The Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and for many art openings. For twenty years, legendary visual artist, Robert Rauschenberg commissioned her to perform at his art openings internationally. In addition to her work as a solo artist, she currently performs and records with The Devin Townsend Project, Emerald Web, Sonic Combine, and Anthropology Band. She often travels the world collecting flutes from other cultures which she features in her original compositions and performances.
Kat Epple performs in concert around the world, as a solo artist, a lecturer/storyteller, and with her different music ensembles.
Solo flute performance
As a Solo flautist, Kat's music creates a beautiful, celestial ambiance as the sound of the various flutes seems to waft and float from canyon walls, to the rainforest, to a cool Celtic stream, as she performs on classical flute, bass flute, Native American flute, and various flutes from around the world. The solo flute sound is perfect acoustically or with sound amplification, when a soft, elegant background is desired, or as a truly unique sound on the concert stage.
Storytelling/Lecture/Concert
Kat Epple offers several different lecture/concert programs for schools, museums, community club luncheons, libraries, art centers, and house concerts.
“Around the World with Flutes.”
Composer, flutist, and storyteller, Kat Epple, will transport the audience to exotic locales, with a treasure trove of indigenous flutes that she has collected from her extensive travels around the world. This concert/talk includes a discussion of the music of various cultures, how music affects us, her work as a composer for tv and film, and some of her amazing musical adventures, as she performs on a variety of interesting flutes made of wood, silver, tin, bamboo, and bone.
“This is definitely not a flute recital! It is fun, interesting, informative, and sometimes hilarious!”
“Music of the Calusa”
This presentation includes “Calusa-inspired” music and a talk about these ancient indigenous people who lived in Southwest Florida for many generations. The music is created on native instruments based on the written descriptions by the Spaniards who arrived in Southwest Florida in the 1500s, when Pedro Menendez D'Aviles met Chief Calos. Kat’s instruments are made of materials that would have been available to the Calusa at that time in history, and that are similar to the musical instruments that were played by neighboring tribes. These “Calusa-Inspired” instruments include conch-shell horn, cane flute, voice, bird-bone flute, shells and wooden percussion.
The Power of Music
Each of the brief narratives is followed by a short piece of live music which is composed specifically to demonstrate that concept. For example, I will talk about the fact that music can make us smile, or it can scare us. Music can make us want to dance, or it can take us on a peaceful hike through the forest. It can describe a butterfly, osprey, elephant or Calusa village.
The music will be played on a variety of interesting flutes from around the world, that are made of wood, silver, tin, bamboo, and bone.
The duration can be modified to fit the time slot, ranging from 10 minutes to 45 minutes, and can include a Question and Answer session.
Stories and Music with artist and my friend Robert Rauschenberg
Kat Epple will talk about some of the adventures she shared with her friend Bob Rauschenberg, and will perform live flute music that relates to the narrative. For over 20 years, Kat performed as solo musician at museums and galleries internationally for Rauschenberg’s art show openings. Some of the anecdotes include fun times they spent together at the Guggenheim Museums, traveling in Europe, sitting around the kitchen table at his homes in Captiva and Manhattan, music collaborations, recording an album together, and talking about how music and art are related.