Katie Mosehauer is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, filmmaker, and interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the fragile boundary between memory and perception. Drawing from both classical music and independent songwriting traditions, she creates projects that blend virtuosic performance, visual storytelling, and contemporary themes, inviting audiences to look again at what they think they know.

Although music was her first language, Mosehauer spent much of her adult life outside the arts. After years of classical training and performance, she built a career in criminal justice reform and broader social justice advocacy, helping lead efforts to reduce incarceration, expand alternatives to detention, and advance more equitable public policy. The experience left a lasting imprint on her creative practice, deepening her interest in inherited systems, collective memory, and the often-invisible forces that shape individual lives.

As public life grew increasingly fractured and uncertain, artistic practice became a space for exploring complexity, ambiguity, grief, and connection—qualities that rarely fit within policy debates but remain central to how people make meaning of the world.

As a performer, she has appeared with orchestras and ensembles including the Charlottesville Symphony, the Puget Sound Symphony Orchestra, and the Seattle Rock Orchestra, while also performing, recording, and touring extensively with indie bands and cross-genre projects like Glass Heart String Choir, French For Rabbits, and more. Her original music has received recognition from the International Songwriting Competition, the International Acoustic Music Awards, and the One World Music Awards. She is also a voting member of the Recording Academy and has directed and produced critically acclaimed music videos that combine movement, landscape, and cinematic imagery.

Her recent work increasingly dissolves the boundaries between concert music, film, composition, and visual art. In Water Remembers, a four-part audiovisual series pairing canonical classical works with newly composed reflections, Mosehauer revisits music by Liszt, Gluck, Handel, and Tartini as a lens through which to examine continuity, instability, disappearance, and revelation. Across the project, familiar works become sites of rediscovery, asking not only what we remember, but how perception itself shapes what is remembered. Often work across the entire creative process—from arranging and performance to recording, engineering, sound design, filmmaking, and post-production, Mosehauer is drawn to projects in which these disciplines inform one another and become inseparable from the final work.

Based in California's Coachella Valley, Mosehauer finds inspiration in the landscapes she inhabits and the communities she builds, creating work that seeks connection between the personal, the historical, and the natural world.