MILENIO’S INTERVIEW WITH THE GREAT KAT “GREAT KAT BEETHOVEN”

 MILENIO’S INTERVIEW WITH THE GREAT KAT “GREAT KAT BEETHOVEN”

“She does not skimp on technique and shouts to challenge the speed on the guitar, she is The Great Kat, who reinvents the great scores. She executes pieces like ‘The Fifth Symphony’ or Bach’s ‘Brandenburg Concerto’ at the maximum speed at guitar and violin, with a crushing and powerful technique.“

By Israel Morales,Milenio (Mexico)

http://impreso.milenio.com/node/9012668

“Soy la mesías del metal, la reencarnación de Beethoven, soy la diosa de la música clásica”.

“I am the messiah of metal, the reincarnation of Beethoven, I am the goddess of classical music.”

Honor Classical with metal

Great Kat Beethoven

She does not skimp on technique and shouts to challenge the speed on the guitar, she is The Great Kat, who reinvents the great scores.
  21/08/2011 • The Black Sheep

Great Kat has classical music in her veins, then applies the arts in all its aspects. Technique, CDs, demonic voices are all imbued with the great classical composers, especially Beethoven, who she says she is his musical reincarnation.

 That’s why her new album is called Beethoven Shreds (which are the seven songs from their DVD of the same name), and she executes pieces like “The Fifth Symphony” or Bach’s “Brandenburg Concerto” at the maximum speed on guitar and violin, with a crushing and powerful technique.

The star who conceptualizes the great scores talked to us a bit about her concerns and why shred metal exists in her image and likeness.
 For those who do not know, who is Great Kat?

I graduated from the Juilliard conservatory on violin. I won the Artists International Violin Competition (in categories of violin and violin soloist), held at Carnegie Recital Hall.  Then I became the world’s fastest guitarist. I’m in the top 10 fastest guitarists of all time by Guitar One Magazine. And I represent the resurrection of classical music to the world.

  What about your new record do we find?

In Beethoven Shreds we find adaptations in my crushing and fast style of  “Beethoven’s 5th Symphony”, “Paganini’s” Caprice # 24 “, Bach’s “Brandenburg Concerto # 3”, “Torture techniques”, “IslamoFascists”, “Bach’s the Art of the Fugue” and the famous piece “The flight of the bumble-bee,” all at high-speed with metal arrangements and orchestrations.

Do you listen to only classical music?

Yes, Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Wagner, Vivaldi, Paganini, thanks to them I am quickly revolutionizing the music of classical metal.

If you were to encounter Beethoven and Paganini these days, what would you say?

I am the reincarnation of their music for the world.

 Do you have a favorite band of metal?

I am the messiah of metal, I am the reincarnation of Beethoven, I am the goddess of music.

How do you define your style?

My style is grinding, crushing, virtuoso, I am the creator of classical shred metal. If people appreciate the music this way they would forget their problems. Listen to classical music, that wakes up their genius and intelligence and allows them to cope with intelligence the obstacles of this world.

 Of the videos, what is your favorite?

“Blood”, from “Beethoven’s Guitar Shred” DVD, you can see my clip http://www.greatkat.com/metalvideos/blood.wmv 

Do you live for music?

Yes, I work to promote, rehearse, and spread the gospel of metal shred the world.

Why don’t we see you at the big metal festivals in the world?

When organizers appreciate good music, then I will be invited, as they only go to get drunk rather instead of seeking for better shows. I think we still are not ready to appreciate my powerful and full of energy show.  It is also because perhaps unlike many bands, I mastered the technique so powerfully, and my music can only be compared with that of Ludwig Van Beethoven.

 What do you think about the productions on vinyl?

There will be a version of my new album in LP format, and I already have a vinyl edition of Satan says.

And of Mexico, what can you tell me?

I have already been presented as a solo classical violinist and know I have many slaves in Mexico, who understand the power of my music. On my website you can read a brief biography of the hero of the Revolution, Emiliano Zapata, the Attila of the South, where I put his quote, which I like a lot, saying: “It is better to die standing than live on your knees” .

Check out her website www.greatkat.com 

Israel Morales

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