Artist description The Great Kat is a Juilliard grad violinist/High Priestess of Guitar Shred RESURRECTING Classical music for the 21st Century with Shred Metal! The Great Kat's new CD WAGNER'S WAR features the BATTLE CRY to WAR: Wagner's THE RIDE OF THE VALKYRIES and the controversial song WAR, showing The Great Kats PATRIOTIC and PRO-AMERICAN ATTITUDE!!!!

Music Style Shred/Classical

Musical Influences Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, Paganini, Hendrix

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Artist History The Great Kat is a graduate from the prestigious Juilliard School on the violin and is the only musician taking authentic Classical Music scores (from Vivaldi, Beethoven, Bach, Wagner, Liszt, and Rossini) and re-orchestrating them with Shred Guitar virtuosity. The Great Kats music is known worldwide for its phenomenal speeds, complicated Classical motives, counterpoint layering, guitar riffs, maniacal screams, heavy rhythms and thrashing sounds. Known as THE HIGH PRIESTESS OF GUITAR SHRED, The Great Kat was recently awarded the TOP 10 FASTEST SHREDDERS OF ALL TIME, by Guitar One Magazine.

Group Members The Great Kat-Guitars, Violins, Vocals with MIDI Orchestra, and various musicians on drums and bass.

Instruments Guitars, Bass, Drums, Violins, Chamber Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra, Opera Singers

Albums WAGNERS WAR, ROSSINIS RAPE, BLOODY VIVALDI, GUITAR GODDESS, BEETHOVEN ON SPEED, WORSHIP ME OR DIE! CDs, DIGITAL BEETHOVEN ON CYBERSPEED CD-ROM

Press Reviews ---QUOTE:The Great Kat Wins Guitar One Magazines TOP 10 FASTEST SHREDDERS OF ALL TIME Award Chris O'Byrne, Guitar One Magazine ---QUOTE:The Great Kat can totally shred. In fact, she's so scary fast on guitar and violin, that once you retrieve your ego from the gutter, you almost have to laugh. Michael Molenda, Guitar Player Magazine ---QUOTE:Inspired by the events of Sept. 11, Kat renders some of musics most famous, aggressive, battle-inspired pieces in shredding-speed metal arrangements that hiss and spit. Dan Aquilante, NY POST ---QUOTE:The wave of the future may well be heavy-metal Beethoven by way of Juilliard. John Rockwell, NY Times

Additional Info Kat Hotline 1-800-KAT-9199

Location Huntington Station, NY - USA

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