DIRECTORS & STAFF
KATIE COX, Executive Director, Co-Founder
Originally from Fairbanks, flutist Katie Cox resides in Brooklyn, NY. An active contemporary musician in NYC, Katie has performed with leading contemporary ensembles such as Transit, Contemporaneous, Ensemble Signal, Experiments in Opera, Little Opera Theatre of NY, Opera on Tap, Bang on a Can, and 2017 Latin Grammy winners Mariachi Flor de Toloache. She is a member of the NYC ensemble Hotel Elefant, and a member of Corvus, the resident new music ensemble of the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival. Katie is the Executive Director of Wild Shore New Music in Alaska and Program Manager for Exploring the Metropolis in NYC, an arts service organization dedicated to resolving workspace issues for NYC's performing arts communities. Katie has performed at major venues in New York such as Roulette, the Park Avenue Armory, The Kitchen, Hearst Plaza for Lincoln Center Out of Doors (2014), Miller Theatre at Columbia University, Merkin Hall, and Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium, Zankel Hall, and Weill Recital Hall. She has worked with leading composers included 2014 Pulitzer Prize winner John Luther Adams, 2015 Guggenheim Fellow Richard Carrick, Conrad Winslow, Anna Clyne, Carlisle Floyd, and Mary Kouyoumdjian. Katie is also a teaching artist for Little Orchestra Society and teaches private lessons at St. Luke’s School in Manhattan. katie@wildshore.org
Originally from Fairbanks, flutist Katie Cox resides in Brooklyn, NY. An active contemporary musician in NYC, Katie has performed with leading contemporary ensembles such as Transit, Contemporaneous, Ensemble Signal, Experiments in Opera, Little Opera Theatre of NY, Opera on Tap, Bang on a Can, and 2017 Latin Grammy winners Mariachi Flor de Toloache. She is a member of the NYC ensemble Hotel Elefant, and a member of Corvus, the resident new music ensemble of the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival. Katie is the Executive Director of Wild Shore New Music in Alaska and Program Manager for Exploring the Metropolis in NYC, an arts service organization dedicated to resolving workspace issues for NYC's performing arts communities. Katie has performed at major venues in New York such as Roulette, the Park Avenue Armory, The Kitchen, Hearst Plaza for Lincoln Center Out of Doors (2014), Miller Theatre at Columbia University, Merkin Hall, and Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium, Zankel Hall, and Weill Recital Hall. She has worked with leading composers included 2014 Pulitzer Prize winner John Luther Adams, 2015 Guggenheim Fellow Richard Carrick, Conrad Winslow, Anna Clyne, Carlisle Floyd, and Mary Kouyoumdjian. Katie is also a teaching artist for Little Orchestra Society and teaches private lessons at St. Luke’s School in Manhattan. katie@wildshore.org
ANDIE TANNING, Co-Artistic Director, Co-Founder
She is the cofounder and musical director of Wild Shore New Music, now in its eighth year as Alaska’s premier new music festival. She released her debut album, “Dandelion,” in December 2018. Steve Dollar of the National Sawdust Log writes, “The stylistically diverse Dandelion is not only a scrapbook of Tanning’s experiences and influences, but also an open and always surprising collaboration with composers and video artists whose spirits are illuminated through the violinist’s intrepid musicianship and exploratory nature.”
She has toured internationally as a company member of the New York City Players, has served as a multi-instrumentalist in theater groups Object Collection and New Paradise Laboratories, was the fiddle player in the musical, The Snow Child, by John Strand, Georgia Stitt and Bob Banghart, and was a violin sub in the Broadway revival of Oklahoma!. Ongoing musical collaborations include the development of a new song cycle based on the poetry of James Tate with Eve Beglarian, Jim Fletcher and James Moore, and the minimalist rock band Thee Reps. Her album with James Moore, “Gertrudes,” was released on New World Records in 2016. She has performed at LA Opera, The Kitchen, The Pompidou, and Carnegie Hall.
Her work has been reviewed by the New York Times, New Sounds Live, and The Wall Street Journal.
andie@wildshore.org
She is the cofounder and musical director of Wild Shore New Music, now in its eighth year as Alaska’s premier new music festival. She released her debut album, “Dandelion,” in December 2018. Steve Dollar of the National Sawdust Log writes, “The stylistically diverse Dandelion is not only a scrapbook of Tanning’s experiences and influences, but also an open and always surprising collaboration with composers and video artists whose spirits are illuminated through the violinist’s intrepid musicianship and exploratory nature.”
She has toured internationally as a company member of the New York City Players, has served as a multi-instrumentalist in theater groups Object Collection and New Paradise Laboratories, was the fiddle player in the musical, The Snow Child, by John Strand, Georgia Stitt and Bob Banghart, and was a violin sub in the Broadway revival of Oklahoma!. Ongoing musical collaborations include the development of a new song cycle based on the poetry of James Tate with Eve Beglarian, Jim Fletcher and James Moore, and the minimalist rock band Thee Reps. Her album with James Moore, “Gertrudes,” was released on New World Records in 2016. She has performed at LA Opera, The Kitchen, The Pompidou, and Carnegie Hall.
Her work has been reviewed by the New York Times, New Sounds Live, and The Wall Street Journal.
andie@wildshore.org