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Synthesist, flutist, and composer, Kat Epple has released 28 albums of original music. This Emmy, Edward R Murrow, and Peabody Award-winning musician performs native, jazz, New Age, film score, electronic, and World Music. Kat Epple has created music for film and television including: National Geographic, Nova, CNN, The Travel Channel, History Channel, The Guiding Light, PBS, Apple Computers, Carl Sagan, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Holocaust Museum, Hong Kong Science Museum, and NASA among others.

Kat Epple was a founding member of the vintage synthesizer band, Emerald Web, which was a band that recorded, performed in Planetariums, composed soundtracks for Carl Sagan, and concert toured around the US, from 1978-1990. They were known for innovative synthesizer orchestration and created a unique blend of "electronic space music" and acoustic instruments. The band consisted of Kat Epple and Bob Stohl who composed on keyboards, digital orchestrations, flutes, and Lyricon. Their 13 albums include: "Dragon Wings and Wizard Tales", "Whispered Visions", "Sound Trek", "Valley of the Birds", "Aqua Regia", "Nocturne", "Lights of the Ivory Plains", "Traces of Time", "Catspaw", "Dreamspun", and "Manatee Dreams of Neptune". In addition to self-published albums, the band was also signed with record labels Fortuna Records, Celestial Harmonies, Passport's Audion Records, and Scarlet Records. Early music of Emerald Web (1979-1984) was re-issued in 2013 by Finders Keepers Record Company.

Some of Kat Epple's concert venues have included: The United Nations, London's Union Chapel, Hollywood Palace, and The Museum of Modern Art, as a solo artist, with Symphony Orchestra, The Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Heavy Metal, New Age, and Electronic bands.

Kat Epple is featured, and a collaborator on "Ghost", the fourteenth studio album by legendary heavy metal guitarist, Canadian musician Devin Townsend. It is the fourth of five albums in the Devin Townsend Project series. It was released on June 20, 2011. Townsend has stated that the album "is the mellowest (by far) and prettiest record I've done so far". Kat Epple also performed live with The Devin Townsend Project when "Ghost" was performed in its entirety once, on November 13, 2011, at the Union Chapel in London, England. The performance was filmed and recorded for the By a Thread – Live in London 2011 CD/DVD box set, along with performances of the other 3 Devin Townsend Project albums

Kat Epple travels around the world, to collect unique indigenous music instruments from various cultures, which she often incorporates in her original compositions.