Dr. Cathie Apple is an active performer, teacher and freelancer in Sacramento, where she has founded and is a member of Citywater modern music ensemble. She maintains a private teaching studio in Sacramento and is the flute instructor at the Sacramento School of Music, the Pacific Institute of Music, and Northridge Music Center. She regularly performs with baroque ensembles Camerata Capistrano and the Sacramento Baroque Soloists, as well as with the Townsend Opera Players, Sacramento Choral Society and the Academy at All Hallows Symphony Orchestra.

Previous appointments include second flutist with the Las Vegas Philharmonic and adjunct faculty at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Southern Utah University. While in Las Vegas, Cathie founded NEXTET new music ensemble, and performed with them at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in the summer of 2001.

Cathie earned her Doctorate from the University of Michigan, where she studied with Amy Porter. While in Michigan, Cathie also taught at Interlochen Arts Camp and was the yoga instructor for Amy Porter’s Anatomy of Sound workshop.

In addition to extensive flute studies, Cathie studied shakuhachi with Ann Arbor-based shakuhachi master Michael Chikuzen Gould, and traverso with Claire Guimond and Louise Carslake.

Traverso: Cathie is playing on a Rod Cameron traverso, modeled after a Bressan from 1730’s London, on loan from the San Francisco Early Music Society.

Contact Cathie at cathie@citywatermusic.com