Dr. Cathie Apple is an active performer, teacher and freelancer in Sacramento, where she has founded and is a member of Citywater new 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 the Townsend Opera Players, Sacramento Choral Society and Celtic groups Cahersiveen and Lady of the Lake. On traverso, she performs with the Sacramento Baroque Soloists.
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 Michael Chikuzen Gould, and traverso with Claire Guimond and Louise Carslake.