Originally from Fairbanks, Alaska, Katie Cox has built a diverse and dynamic career as a performer, educator, curator, and arts administrator. Based in Brooklyn, NY, she has dedicated her work to contemporary music and theater. Katie has collaborated with notable contemporary ensembles such as Transit, Contemporaneous, Ensemble Signal, S.E.M. Ensemble, and Bang on a Can, as well as contemporary theater groups including Experiments in Opera, the Little Opera Theatre of NY, and Opera on Tap. She is a member of the music collective Hotel Elefant and Joseph Phillips’s group Numinous. Additionally, Katie is the co-founder of Corvus, the resident new music ensemble for Composing in the Wilderness and the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival. She also serves as the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Wild Shore New Music, a contemporary chamber music festival based in her home state of Alaska.
Active in contemporary music in New York, some of her performance highlights include the Park Avenue Armory’s production of British artist and Turner Prize winner Martin Creed’s The Back Door in 2016 Lincoln Center’s Out of Doors, and the Mostly Mozart premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Luther Adams’s Sila: Breath of the World in 2014. In 2019, she appeared in the world premiere of Joseph C. Phillips’s mono-opera The Grey Land at Roulette Intermedium, also recorded on New Amsterdam Records (2020). In September 2024, she worked with Meredith Monk and her vocal ensemble on the North American premiere of Indra’s Net at the Park Avenue Armory. Additional composers Katie has worked with include Richard Carrick, Conrad Winslow, Anna Clyne, Carlisle Floyd, Leaha Villareal, Christopher Cerrone, Kamala Sankaram, Anna Pidgorna, and Mary Kouyoumdjian.
As an arts administrator and curator, she has played roles in supporting and advancing creative work. She previously served as Program Manager for Exploring the Metropolis, an organization that worked to resolve workspace issues for NYC’s performing artists. To serve this mission, she ran and organized the EtM Con Edison Composer Residencies and the EtM Choreographer + Composer Residencies. From 2020- 2023, she co-founded and served as Executive Director of Redtail Artist Residencies in partnership with the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, a collaborative residency program for choreographers and composers. Since 2013, she has been the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Wild Shore New Music, an annual festival spanning over 500 miles in Alaska that promotes collaboration with contemporary musicians and Alaska artists. Wild Shore has presented musicians such as members of Eighth Blackbird, Bang on a Can All-Stars, and Mivos Quartet. In 2024, Katie and fellow Wild Shore founders created a program around the Alaskan premiere of Raven Chacon’s “For Zitkála-Šá” with ethnomusicologist and violinist Heidi Aklaseaq Senungetuk. Though Wild Shore, Katie has organized and collaborated with Alaskan musicians, poets, scientists, and visual artists to curate seasons about Alaskan themes around place and identity and presented events with the National Park Service, Bunnell Street Arts Center, the Anchorage Museum, University of Alaska, and the Alaska Lieutenant Governor’s office.
As an educator, Katie has taught flute privately for over 25 years and is a trained teaching artist. Since 2014, she has worked with the Little Orchestra Society on several residency programs in New York City public schools, the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, and Queens Library. Other organizations Katie has taught and collaborated with include the New York Philharmonic’s Very Young Composers program, Community Word Project, and Wingspan Arts.
Katie earned her Bachelor of Music degree from Concordia College in Moorhead, MN, where she studied with Deborah Harris, and her Master of Music degree from the Bob Cole Conservatory at California State University, Long Beach, under the tootilege of John Barcellona. Other primary teachers include Dorli McWayne and Rena Urso-Trapani.
Active in contemporary music in New York, some of her performance highlights include the Park Avenue Armory’s production of British artist and Turner Prize winner Martin Creed’s The Back Door in 2016 Lincoln Center’s Out of Doors, and the Mostly Mozart premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Luther Adams’s Sila: Breath of the World in 2014. In 2019, she appeared in the world premiere of Joseph C. Phillips’s mono-opera The Grey Land at Roulette Intermedium, also recorded on New Amsterdam Records (2020). In September 2024, she worked with Meredith Monk and her vocal ensemble on the North American premiere of Indra’s Net at the Park Avenue Armory. Additional composers Katie has worked with include Richard Carrick, Conrad Winslow, Anna Clyne, Carlisle Floyd, Leaha Villareal, Christopher Cerrone, Kamala Sankaram, Anna Pidgorna, and Mary Kouyoumdjian.
As an arts administrator and curator, she has played roles in supporting and advancing creative work. She previously served as Program Manager for Exploring the Metropolis, an organization that worked to resolve workspace issues for NYC’s performing artists. To serve this mission, she ran and organized the EtM Con Edison Composer Residencies and the EtM Choreographer + Composer Residencies. From 2020- 2023, she co-founded and served as Executive Director of Redtail Artist Residencies in partnership with the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, a collaborative residency program for choreographers and composers. Since 2013, she has been the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Wild Shore New Music, an annual festival spanning over 500 miles in Alaska that promotes collaboration with contemporary musicians and Alaska artists. Wild Shore has presented musicians such as members of Eighth Blackbird, Bang on a Can All-Stars, and Mivos Quartet. In 2024, Katie and fellow Wild Shore founders created a program around the Alaskan premiere of Raven Chacon’s “For Zitkála-Šá” with ethnomusicologist and violinist Heidi Aklaseaq Senungetuk. Though Wild Shore, Katie has organized and collaborated with Alaskan musicians, poets, scientists, and visual artists to curate seasons about Alaskan themes around place and identity and presented events with the National Park Service, Bunnell Street Arts Center, the Anchorage Museum, University of Alaska, and the Alaska Lieutenant Governor’s office.
As an educator, Katie has taught flute privately for over 25 years and is a trained teaching artist. Since 2014, she has worked with the Little Orchestra Society on several residency programs in New York City public schools, the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, and Queens Library. Other organizations Katie has taught and collaborated with include the New York Philharmonic’s Very Young Composers program, Community Word Project, and Wingspan Arts.
Katie earned her Bachelor of Music degree from Concordia College in Moorhead, MN, where she studied with Deborah Harris, and her Master of Music degree from the Bob Cole Conservatory at California State University, Long Beach, under the tootilege of John Barcellona. Other primary teachers include Dorli McWayne and Rena Urso-Trapani.