The Great Kat
Guitar virtuoso the Great Kat was born Katherine Thomas in Swindon, England. After her family moved to Long Island, Thomas began studying music, taking up piano at age seven and violin two years later. Thomas won a scholarship to Juilliard and studied classical music, but upon graduating with honors, she took up heavy metal guitar in addition to violin and retooled herself as the Great Kat. Billing herself as the "High Priestess of Shred Guitar" and "the Reincarnation of Beethoven," the Great Kat issued her debut album, Worship Me or Die, in 1987. 1990's Beethoven on Speed continued her approach of blending originals with speed metal arrangements of well-known classical pieces. A spate of similar albums followed over the '90s, including Guitar Goddess and Bloody Vivaldi, and her persona and stage show became increasingly S&M-themed. In 2000, the Great Kat issued a six-and-a-half-minute CD titled Rossini's Rape, which featured a run through the William Tell Overture.
© Steve Huey /TiVo
Similar artists
-
Worship Me Or Die!
Metal - Released by Rhino Atlantic on Jan 1, 1987
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Beethoven's Minuet In G For Guitar, Violin And Piano
Metal - Released by TPR Music on Apr 24, 2020
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Chef Great Kat Cooks Russian Caviar And Blini With Rimsky-korsakov
Metal - Released by TPR Music on May 24, 2019
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Beethoven On Speed
Metal - Released by Rhino Atlantic on Sep 18, 1990
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Paganini's Caprice No. 24
Metal - Released by TPR Music on Oct 27, 2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
-
-
-
Schumann’s Träumerei
Metal - Released by TPR Music on Jan 18, 2024
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Vivaldi's Double Guitar Concerto L'estro Armonico
Metal - Released by TPR Music on Jan 18, 2024
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Song Of India By Rimsky-Korsakov
Metal - Released by TPR Music on Mar 8, 2024
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Oh My Darling, Clementine
Metal - Released by TPR Music on Jan 19, 2024
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Offenbach's The Tales Of Hoffmann Barcarolle
Metal - Released by TPR Music on Feb 12, 2024
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Wagner’s The Ring Siegfried’s Funeral March Götterdämmerung
Metal - Released by TPR Music on Jan 11, 2024
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Beethoven's Für Elise For Guitar, Violin And Piano
Metal - Released by TPR Music on Oct 9, 2020
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Donizetti’s Una Furtiva Lagrima
Metal - Released by TPR Music on Jan 18, 2024
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
666 Halloween Mashup
Metal - Released by TPR Music on Aug 31, 2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Chopin's Piano Sonata Funeral March For Guitar And Piano
Metal - Released by TPR Music on Oct 17, 2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
-
Bach, Dvorak, Liszt And ShredDiva
Metal - Released by TPR Music on Jun 23, 2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo