Elizabeth Kate

Elizabeth Kate is a Brooklyn-based cellist and vocalist working in contemporary classical music. Her practice centers on expanding the repertoire for vocalizing cellists, merging voice and instrument into a single expressive body.  As One, her most recent solo project, is a compositional and performative exploration of the bodies relationship to sound. By merging the voice with the cello, she has created a singular entity where body and instrument unite as equal partners. Through improvisation, vocalization, commissioning, and composing, her artistic research uses techniques to direct audience attention between the cello and voice, manipulating auditory focus to alter both the listener’s experience and perception of control.

Elizabeth is a 2025 New Music USA Creator Fund recipient, commissioning Seare Farhat to create Sacred Sound Fractured Space, a concert-length work for voice, cello, and resonating sound objects. The project was additionally supported by ChamberQueer and Millay Artists Residency, premiering at ChamberQueers Annual June Festival at Greenwood Cemetery in June 2026. 

As a chamber musician, Elizabeth is a founding member of AREPO, a contemporary ensemble for accordion, cello, clarinet, and electric guitar. AREPO’s debut album ‘Listening Time’ was featured in Bandcamp’s Best Contemporary Music for March 2025. Elizabeth has also performed with artists such as Jen Shyu, Eighth Blackbird, Bang on a Can, Yarn/Wire, Cassandra Jenkins, & Collide-O-Scope Ensemble.  She holds a BM and BA from Oberlin College and Conservatory and an MM from the Norwegian Academy of Music.

Instagram: @elizabethkatehk

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