Catherine Capozzi
Catherine Capozzi is an award-winning film composer, guitarist, and producer. Her genre-bending musical style provides a base for composing innovative scores for films, including: Clickbait (2019), What Metal Girls are Into (2018), Blood of the Tribades (2016), Magnetic (2015), and TEN (2014). Her compositions have received Best Score awards at film festivals, including GenreBlast, Women in Horror, and the Sanford International Film Festival.
After being selected by Queen’s Brian May to win his famed “Red Special” guitar, Catherine founded Axemunkee to highlight her original guitar-based compositions. Axemunkee’s “Acid Django” has been featured multiple times on the History Channel’s hit program, “American Pickers” and other television shows. Catherine tours frequently throughout Europe and has been an invited guest artist for collaborations in the Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa.
Catherine is also the creator of “Bring Us Your Women,” an international, collaborative multimedia spectacle honoring diverse female icons with stories reimagined through film, music, dance and poetry. The unique retellings of these stories aim to inform, empower, and inspire.
Catherine is included in the book: She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul by British rock writer Lucy O’Brien and was the inspiration for a character (Dr. Capozzi, a “mad genetic scientist with a heart of gold”) in Marvel Comics’ Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.
After being selected by Queen’s Brian May to win his famed “Red Special” guitar, Catherine founded Axemunkee to highlight her original guitar-based compositions. Axemunkee’s “Acid Django” has been featured multiple times on the History Channel’s hit program, “American Pickers” and other television shows. Catherine tours frequently throughout Europe and has been an invited guest artist for collaborations in the Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa.
Catherine is also the creator of “Bring Us Your Women,” an international, collaborative multimedia spectacle honoring diverse female icons with stories reimagined through film, music, dance and poetry. The unique retellings of these stories aim to inform, empower, and inspire.
Catherine is included in the book: She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul by British rock writer Lucy O’Brien and was the inspiration for a character (Dr. Capozzi, a “mad genetic scientist with a heart of gold”) in Marvel Comics’ Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.