Kat Vokes is an award-winning composer, vocalist and pianist, specializing in writing for film and multimedia. She is a recipient of the 2022 BMI Pete Carpenter Fellowship and was awarded the 2020 ASCAP Jimmy Van Heusen Award.

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Vokes is known for her creative and highly emotive palette and draws inspiration from a wide variety of genres, creating a unique sound world for each project. Most recently, she collaborated with award-winning filmmaker Jasmine Ching-Hui Lee on Come Home My Child, a feature documentary shot over the course of 10 years, as well as with Matty Brown on his thriller The Sand Castle (Netflix). Her music can also be heard on Don Argott's Kelce (Amazon) and Robert Budreau's Queen Of Bones.

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Vokes worked with Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt on their score for Greta Gerwig's Barbie, where she also performed as a vocalist. She is the featured singer in the opening titles of season 2 of Hot White Heist, and in the score for the video game Blossom Tales, among many other works. She has sung in festivals across the United States and abroad and her debut album, Clockwork, was released with Ropeadope Records in 2019.

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Vokes graduated with a master’s degree in composition from New York University, where she currently teaches film scoring. She is a graduate of Oberlin’s Double Degree program and holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature and a B.M. in Vocal Performance. She is originally from Hyde Park, Chicago, where she was raised by a Serbian mother and German father.