Katie Down is a sound artist, experimenter,  flutist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, sound practitioner, licensed creative arts therapist,  and Deep Listening® facilitator. Her music intersects the realms of sound art, free improvisation,  folk, Jazz, and world musics and her instrumentarium  includes flute, piano, ukulele, glass percussion, frame drum, doumbek, voice, and steel cello. Katie  has created numerous sound scores for theatre, dance, and independent films, garnering her Drama Desk nominations and the award for best sound design from The Connecticut Critic's Circle for her work at Long Wharf Theatre. She is the recipient of several grants, artist residencies, and composer commissions including the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, The Jerome Foundation, NYSCA, BAM, Watermill, Chashama, Music Omi, and Meet the Composer. Katie’s private practice, SoundWell Creative Arts Therapy, PLLC is based in the Hudson Valley and through a HIPAA compliant Zoom platform. 
 

Katie facilitates trainings and workshops in sound, music, Deep Listening, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, offers clinical supervision for licensed practitioners and graduate students and hosts special events at her creative and healing space, the Sound Well Barn in the Hudson Valley. 

She is co-director of The Arts & Wellbeing Gathering, a consortium of artists and healing arts practitioners working with the intersection of the arts and healing arts professions. 

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Katie is a renowned teacher in soundwork, music therapy and clown. She has traveled internationally presenting at conferences in music therapy, sound, and improvisation in Berlin, Portugal, Belgium and Ecuador and is part of the Play Society, a roving school for clown, voice, movement and creative writing.