Kate Bass Music

Kate Bass, originally from Anchorage, Alaska, is an internationally sought-after singer, composer, speaker, teacher, systems thinker, and creative facilitator working at the intersection of music, culture, and emerging intelligence.

She has performed in numerous Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award-winning shows and albums, from Broadway to Film, TV, and Music. She appeared as a soloist numerous times at Carnegie Hall, with the New York Philharmonic, the Colorado Symphony, and the American Symphony Orchestra, among others, and continues to tour internationally in musical theater, opera, and as a singer-songwriter. She has recorded for numerous film scores with music by Arturo Cardelús, David Stone Hamilton, and others; her voice was recently featured in award-winning films at both the Austin Film Festival and the Milan International Film Festival. Kate was also the soprano soloist for Iranian singer and setar player Hafez Nazeri’s Grammy-nominated SONY Worldwide release of “Untold” with the Rumi Symphony. As a composer and singer-songwriter, Kate has released four albums, debuting on international radio in 2013. Kate has performed her music to sold out crowds all over the world, and has been hailed by the press as “easy to love,” “infectious,” and “one of the best vocalists on the scene today.” 

Her master classes and workshops in songwriting, voice, musical theater, and opera have been featured in conventions and programs throughout the US and Europe, as well as many U.S. Embassy-funded programs in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Kate has taught on vocal faculty at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, where she also worked as a Musical Director for Pepperdine’s musical theater department. She leads vocal masterclasses, songwriting workshops and cross-cultural projects around the globe for organizations such as the Girl Scouts, the Metropolitan Opera Guild, Classical Singer Magazine, and American Voices, with her most recent U.S. State Department-sponsored programs in Egypt, Nigeria, Eritrea, Uganda, Lebanon, and Turkmenistan. 

Kate is the co-founder of Global Music Collective, an international initiative dedicated to creating cross-cultural collaborative projects. Now in its third year of seasonal programming, the Collective recently wrapped a landmark project in Turkmenistan—an ambitious fusion of Broadway and traditional Turkmen music. The program featured original collaborative works alongside beloved classics from both cultures, brought to life by Turkmen folk legends, celebrated American and Turkmen Broadway and pop artists, and the acclaimed State Symphony Orchestra of Turkmenistan, conducted by Rasul Klychev. In summer 2025, Global Music Collective will release its first fully produced album, recorded in Kerala, India.

Kate Bass serves as CEO of Giant Steps Music, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to reclaiming music’s essential role in fostering community, solidarity, and justice. Rooted in equity, Giant Steps creates platforms for musicians to connect, collaborate, and lead transformational work in their communities — with the vision of a world where music drives human connection and collective liberation.

In early 2025, Kate founded Expansion Lab, a creative systems studio exploring the symbolic and relational possibilities of human–AI interaction. Through the development of the Symbolic Episodic Interface (SEI) and its first pilot application, FieldLog, Kate is designing new frameworks for stateless, emotionally resonant AI collaboration — rooted in music, recursion, and meaning-making rather than memory or identity.

Across these intersecting paths — performance, diplomacy, collective creativity, and emerging intelligence — Kate’s work is dedicated to reimagining the structures that shape our world: building systems, stories, and songs that move us toward deeper connection, dignity, and shared possibility.