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 world-wide distributor for four of Katherine's works.
Songs of Peer LTD. is the world-wide distributor for four of Katherine's works.
WC Music Corp. is the world-wide 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 whom improved this website.
Katherine's husband and son have established this website to memorialize Katherine and her legacy. Every effort will be made to accurately and precisely detail her life, philosophy, and work. Unfortunately, she was taken from us suddenly. Thankfully, Papagena Press will continue forward, managed by her family.
Exploring rooms and computers full of her music, notes, and research would take the family years to review and document fully. Thankfully, an archive is being established to preserve her work and to facilitate research. This website will improve as discoveries become updates. Missing research notes, program notes, arrangements, and remembrances will be added as we move forth. The family is looking forward to corresponding with her peers and protoges in search of such details.
Katherine's family wishes to thank everyone for their support. Gloriously, she survives through her music and poems.
