For more than 50 years, Ms. Hoover was a composer, educator, and freelance flutist in New York City. Born in West Virginia (December 2, 1937 – September 21, 2018), Katherine lived 80 years.
She received National Flute Association’s 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award, a National Endowment Composer’s Fellowship and many other awards, including an American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (1994) in Composition.
Since co-founding in 1988, Papagena's catalog has included 90 individual titles of Katherine's work. Many of these have one or more interesting rearrangements.
Please listen to Katherine playing her famed Kokopeli.
Theodore Presser is the world-wide distributor for Papagena Press and most of Katherine Hoover's compositions. Papagena's catalog lists more than 90 of Katherine's works, including her 6 National Flute Association's Newly Published Music Competition winners.
Boelke Boemart / Schott is the european for four of Katherine's works.
Songs of Peer LTD. is a distributor for three of Katherine's works.
WC Music Corp. is a distributor for one of Katherine's works.
Composed from Katherine's bio's, husband and son.
Linked to selected video performances.
Katherine Hoover Performing.
Selected flutists performing Katherine Hoover's works.
... previews, introductions, absrtacts, synopsis, links ...
To those who improved this website.
Katherine survives through her music and poems. The challenge of accumulating and organizing her work and working materials (searching desk drawers, file cabinets, bookcases, credenzas, and closets) has been more significant than expected. Happily, we have successfully transferred most of her archives to The Eastman School of Music's Sibley Music Library Special Collections department. In support, Papagena Press continues to improve and correct this website while documenting discoveries.
Several outside sources have been used in this effort. The United States Copyright Office and Library of Congress resources have provided many details. Additionally, The Pytheas Center for Contemporary Music has been used as it summarizes Katherine's 2012-katherinehoover.com in great detail.
Katherine's family continues to correspond with her friends, peers, and acquaintances to better understand her life and work. Papagena Press and her family wish to thank everyone for their support.
