Kate Amrine

Biography

A passionate and creative performer, Kate Amrine is a trumpet player balancing a multifaceted career from developing new repertoire and curating concerts to freelancing with many different groups in the New York City area. Kate enjoys a varied career freelancing with ensembles such as Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Little Orchestra Society, Wordless Music Orchestra, Experiential Orchestra, Broadway Sinfonietta, Contemporaneous, Protestra, Rodney Marsalis Philadelphia Big Brass, and her chamber groups eGALitarian Brass and Spark Duo.

Kate loves performing in musical theater productions and most recently played lead trumpet on Annie for its run at Madison Square Garden. She is an active sub on Broadway and has held the trumpet chair on several off Broadway shows: Alice by Heart, Whisper House, Sugar, Audrey the New Musical, Drat the Cat, and The Jerusalem Syndrome. Kate played lead trumpet on Annie in Macau China and joined the National tour for performances across the US in 2024-2025. Kate played lead trumpet for the International tour of Chicago the Musical in South Korea for 15 weeks in summer 2023. She also completed another tour on Lead trumpet with the Broadway Sinfonietta performing the movie Spiderman Into the Spiderverse Live across the US in fall 2023. Kate held the trumpet/tambourine chair for a streaming production of Beehive the 60's musical at Papermill Playhouse. Other theater highlights include substitute appearances in Wicked on Broadway, How the Grinch Stole Christmas at Madison Square Garden, Annie - National tour, and performing in Ragtime on Ellis Island.

Outside of the theater realm, Kate is very dedicated to commissioning and performing new music, premiering over 30 pieces both as a soloist and a chamber musician. Kate’s second album This is My Letter to the World was released in early 2020 on the Innova record label. Her album features new music for trumpet inspired by politics and social concepts and addresses issues including gun violence, identity and the experience of being a woman, meditation, and immigration. As an educator, Kate enjoys teaching private lessons in her own studio and as an Adjunct Instructor at New York University.