Kat Vokes is an award-winning composer, vocalist and pianist, specializing in writing for film and multimedia. She is a recipient of the 2022 BMI Pete Carpenter Fellowship and was awarded the 2020 ASCAP Jimmy Van Heusen Award.
Vokes is known for her creative and highly emotive palette and draws inspiration from a wide variety of genres, creating a unique sound world for each project. Most recently, she collaborated with award-winning filmmaker Jasmine Ching-Hui Lee on Come Home My Child, a feature documentary shot over the course of 10 years, as well as with Matty Brown on his thriller The Sand Castle (Netflix). Her music can also be heard on Don Argott's Kelce (Amazon) and Robert Budreau's Queen Of Bones.
As a vocalist, Vokes can be heard on Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt's score for Greta Gerwig's Barbie, among many other works. She has sung in festivals across the United States and abroad and her debut album, Clockwork, was released with Ropeadope Records in 2019.
Vokes graduated with a master’s degree in composition from New York University and is a graduate of Oberlin’s Double Degree program, holding a B.A. in Comparative Literature and a B.M. in Vocal Performance.
Courses:
Scoring Techniques - MPATC-GE 2048
Composing for Film and Multimedia - MPATC-UE 1248 002
Contemporary Scoring Techniques (Lab) - MPATC-GE 2049
Internship in Music Business MPAMB-UE 1320
Music Business Graduate Internship MPABM-GE 2301