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Katherine Hoover (December 2, 1937 – September 21, 2018) is remembered by the National Flute Association as an "artist—flutist, teacher, entrepreneur, poet, and, most notably, a distinguished composer".[1] Her work received many honors, including a National Endowment Composer's Fellowship, an Academy of Arts and Letters Award in composition, the National Flute Association's Lifetime Achievement Award.[2]

Katherine Hoover
Born	Katherine Lacy Hoover (1937-12-02)2 December 1937 Elkins, West Virginia, U.S.
Died	21 September 2018(2018-09-21) (aged 80) New York City, New York, U.S.
Resting place	Cremated; ashes scattered in a place of family significance.
Alma mater	Eastman School of Music (Bachelor of Music in Music Theory) (Performer's Certificate in Flute) Manhattan School of Music (Master of Music in Music Theory)
Occupation	Composer Flutist Educator Publisher Author
Years active	1959–2018
Title	Co-Founder of Papagena Press (1988)
Spouse(s)	Richard V. Goodwin (m. 1985-2018) John Christopher Schwab (m. 1964-1972)
Children	1 (son)
Parents	Samuel Randolph Hoover (father) Katherine Fletcher Lacy (mother)
Musical career
Genres	Contemporary classical music Contemporary chamber music
Instrument(s)	flutes piano
Labels	Theodore Presser Boelke Boemart/Schott Songs of Peer Carl Fischer Warner Chappell Music Papagena Press
Musical artist
Website	katherinehoover.com

Her career as a composer began at a time when few women composers earned recognition in classical music in the 1970s.[3] As shown in her list of known work, below, she has composed pieces for solo flute, mixed ensembles, chamber orchestra, choir acapella, full orchestra and many other combinations of instruments and voice. Some of her flute pieces incorporated Native American themes.[4]

Early life and education

Hoover was born in Elkins, West Virginia, on December 2, 1937. Her mother was a painter/artist and editor, and her father was a biochemist. Her family lived in Washington, D.C., then moved to Philadelphia during World War II. She attended school in Philadelphia.[5]

She remembered hearing Mozart's music on a record player when she was three years old.[5] She also recalled reading music as early as four years old,[5] before she could read words.[6] Her parents supported her artistic interests, rescuing a piano being disposed of by a neighbor and starting her at piano lessons at five years old.[5] She began flute lessons at age eight. During this time, she discovered that she had perfect-pitch.[5] During interviews, she has shared she received "mediocre music instruction" during her early years.[7]

Hoover began her academic studies at the University of Rochester in 1955. After two years of general studies she was accepted to Eastman School of Music, where she studied with flutist Joseph Mariano,[8][9] and began studying composition. She graduated with a Bachelor of Music in Music Theory and a Performer's Certificate in Flute in 1959.[10] Unfortunately, her composition classes left a bad impression. Hoover comments, "There were no women involved with composition at all. [I got] rather discouraged – being the only woman in my classes, not being paid attention to and so forth."[7]

Hoover attended the Yale Summer Sessions in 1960 and 1961, where she studied flute, theory, and composition. During this time, she also studied with flutist William Kincaid in Philadelphia.[1] She later wrote that she owed " much of her success to her mentor, William Kincaid, teaching her more about music than any other composer".[8]

Teaching career

From 1962–1969, Hoover taught flute at the Juilliard Preparatory School as well as a few other small schools, including the Third Street Music School.[11] It was at the Third Street Music School that she received her first positive experience as a composer. She was asked to compose a piece for a school concert, a duet for violins, which was very well received.[7] She married John Schwab in 1964.[12] They divorced after eight years.

Manhattan School of Music

In 1969, Hoover began teaching flute and theory at the Manhattan School of Music. She shared that, as a theory teacher she learned a great deal about compositional techniques,[6] as it forced her to carefully analyze a wide spectrum of music scores. Also, during this time at Manhattan, she continued her graduate studies and received her Master of Music in Music Theory in 1974. It was also where she studied how other people identify with sounds.[13] She was a faculty member of Manhattan School of Music for seventeen years.[14][5][11]

Teachers College, Columbia University

Hoover became a faculty member at the Teachers College, Columbia University (1984-1989), where she taught theory and composition to graduate students.[11]

Compositions

The first publication of her work was Three Carols (1972) for choir and flute, published by Carl Fischer.

Hoover was honored as a finalist for the Kennedy-Friedheim Contest's Outstanding New American Chamber Work award (1978). Her successes continued, becoming a finalist once again and being awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Composer's Fellowship (1979).

Of her cpmpositions she wrote "I have feelings of pride for the successes writing works for specific performers using other instruments...Stitch-te Naku for Cello and Orchestra, for cellist Sharon Robinson and [the] Clarinet Concerto, for jazz clarinetist Eddie Daniels.[5]

Hoover co-founded Papagena Press, with her husband (Richard Goodwin, m.1985 ) in 1988 to publish her works. The first piece to be published was Kokopeli (1990), a work for solo flute inspired by the Hopi tribe and the American Southwest. It won the National Flute Association's Newly Published Music Competition (1991). This was Hoover's second of six NFA Newly Published Music awards.[1] She wrote that "Out of all of my achievements in music, I was overcome with the success of Kokopeli."[15]

The composer John Corigliano wrote of her: "Katherine Hoover is an extraordinary composer. She has a wide and fascinating vocabulary which she uses with enormous skill. Her music is fresh and individual. It is dazzlingly crafted and will reach an audience as it provides interest to the professional musician. I do not know why her works are not yet being played by the major institutions of this country, but I am sure that she will attain the status she deserves in time. She is just too good not to be recognized, and I predict that her time will come soon."[16]

A little known fact is that Katherine Hoover also composed under the pseudonym Kathryn Scott[17]

Promoting women in music

Hoover was involved with women's arts organizations and has worked to bring the works of women composers to the public's notice. She began work with the Women's Inter-Art Center in New York (1977). Here she organized Festivals I, II, and III of Women's Music which presented music by fifty-five historical and contemporary women composers.[15][18]

She was the composer in residence for the Fourth Festival of Women Composers at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (1996).

Poetry

Hoover had always written poetry since her youth finding both a striking difference and similarity between music and words. “This Way About”(2015).[19] was her first book of poetry where she shares glimpses into her life.[20]

Honors and awards

• Member Laureate, Sigma Alpha Iota[21]
• Kennedy Center Friedheim Award, Outstanding New American Chamber Work, finalist, 1978, 1979
• National Endowment for the Arts Composer's Fellowship, 1979[22]
• National Flute Association Newly Published Music Competition, 1987, 1991, 1993, 1994, 2006, 2020(co-winner)[1]
• New York State Music Teachers' Association, Composer of the Year, 1989[23]
• American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award in Composition, 1994[24]
• New York Flute Club Tribute Concert for Katherine Hoover, 2013[8]
• National Flute Association Lifetime Achievement Award, 2016[1]
• Global Music Awards, Silver Medalist, May 2018[25]

Known works, chronological

Manuscript [26]	Compositions [26]	Publisher [26][27]	Instrumentation(s) [26][28][27][29]	ASCAPworkID [27]	OCLC [29]	Notes [26]
1972	Three Carols	C. Fischer, Inc.	ch[SSA],fl	500462806	24406874	First published work. Theme, Christmas.
1973	Seven Haiku	Papagena Press	sop,fl	490721930	26083491
1973	Wings	Papagena Press	mez,fl,cl,vn,pn		21083846	Performed Dec. 15, 1974, New-York Historical Society
1974	Songs of Joy	C. Fischer, Inc.	(stab,vo,kbd)/(brass quartet)	190102266	1152939091	Christmas theme
1974	Trio for flutes	Papagena Press	3fl	500422742	33025763
1975	Divertimento	Papagena Press	fl,vn,va,vc / fl,str[trio]	340219829	19003296
1975	Homage To Bartok	Papagena Press	fl,ob,cl,hn,bn	380233667	41501015	Inspired by Béla Bartók, (1881-1945)
1976	Four English Songs	Papagena Press	stab,bn,ob,pn	360294460	38201399
1976	Sinfonia	Papagena Press	bn[quartet]	490380022	878843774	Written for the New York Bassoon Quartet
1976	Two dances		fL,ob,gtr		38201372
1977	Nocturne Fantasy	Papagena Press	fl,hp,str[orch]		991222697	Cataloged by New York Women Composers[30]
1977	To Many A Well	Papagena Press	mez,pn			Cataloged by New York Women Composers[30]
1977	(Three) Pieces for piano	Katherine Hoover	pn	500381804
1978	Set for Clarinet	BoelkeBomart/Schott	2cl	490582966	681438640	Cataloged by New York Women Composers[30]
1974	Trio (1974)	Papagena Press	vn,vc,pn	500351202	689373475	Finalist Kennedy-Friedheim, 1979
1979	Selima	Papagena Press	sop,cl,pn	490455942	19254558	Cataloged by New York Women Composers[30]
1980	Suite for Saxophones	Papagena Press	sax[satb]	490537372	27076481	Cataloged by New York Women Composers[30]
1981	Images	Papagena Press	cl,vn,pn	390413515	37276876	Cataloged by New York Women Composers[30]
1981	Medieval Suite	T. Presser Co.	fL,pn // fl,orch[chamber/full]	430321529	756986608	Based on Barbara Tuchman's history of medieval France A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century.[31]
1981	Psalm 23	Papagena Press	stab,org/orch[sm] // fL,ob,cl,bn,2hn,str[+]	460325175	30747830	Premiered Cathedral of St. John, NYC
1981	Suite for Two Flutes	BoelkeBomart/Schott	2fl	490584722	680287474,
1982	Duo(Six Simple Duets)	BoelkeBomart/Schott	2fl		679993029
1982	From the Testament of Francois Villon	Papagena Press	bass/bar,bn,str[quartet]		41501023
1982	Reflections	BoelkeBomart/Schott	fl	480194216	42227877	Variations on a Norwegian chant written outdoors at Artpark, NY
1982	Serenade	Papagena Press	cl,2vn,va,vc,bn,pn		30393167	Cataloged by New York Women Composers[30]
1982	Aria	Papagena Press	bn/vc/v,pn // cl,str[qt]		37334345	Cataloged by New York Women Composers[30]
1983	Allegro & Andante	Papagena Press	pn		20145576	Instructional
1983	Lyric Trio	Papagena Press	fL,vc,pn	420303326	21065779	NFA Newly Published Music Award, 1994
1983	Pieces for Piano	Papagena Press	pn	460685867	33945845
1983	Songs of Celebration	WC Music Corp.	2satb,kbd brass[quartet]	190087604		Theme, Christmas
1984	Medieval Suite	T. Presser Co.	fL,pn	430321529	756986608	NFA Newly Published Music Award, 1987
1984	The Last Invocation	Papagena Press	2satb		30747827	Inspired by Walt Whitman
1984	Sonata, for brass quintet	Papagena Press	brass quintet		30580689
1985	Aria and Allegro Giocoso	Papagena Press	bn/vc/v,pn // cl,2vn,va,vc	310262132	36123853	Aria: c1982, Allegro giocoso: c1985.
1985	(Nuit d'Ete) Summer Night	T. Presser Co.	fl,hn[F],vn,vn,va,vc,cbn,perc // FL,hn,pn	490579774	681170566	Premiered by New York Concerto Orchestra, Lincoln Center, 1985
1985	Sweet Thievery	Papagena Press	stab / ch	490712271	30747831	Madrigal in 4 voice.
1986	Eleni: A Greek Tragedy	T. Presser Co.	[3333 4331 timp,perc,gtr,alto,str]	350150991	1039702763	Tone poem based on Nicholas Gage's book Eleni
1987	Clarinet Concerto	T. Presser Co.	cl,pn // [2212 1 Sax, 2330, 2 Perc, Str]	330391518	607081234	Premiered by Eddie Daniels Santa Fe Symphony
1985	Qwindtet	Papagena Press	fl,ob,cl,bn,hn	470085219	21190883
1988	Quintet "Da Pacem"	Papagena Press	pn,2vn,va,vc	470090767	37276904	Premiered by New Jersey Chamber Music Society, Lincoln Center
1989	Double concerto	Papagena Press	2vn, str[orch], (pn)	340367795	21190883
1989	Ritual	Papagena Press	cl,pn	480215765	27038609
1989	Two Sketches	Papagena Press	[2223(2) 2210 pn,hp,vc,timp,perc,str]	500427461	42777874
1990	Kokopeli	Papagena Press	fl // fl, accompanied	410105470	981366319	NFA Newly Published Music Award, 1991
1990	Sound Bytes	Papagena Press	2fl	490729905	25826554
1991	Canyon Echoes	Papagena Press	fl,gtr	330453308	27758942	NFA Newly Published Music Award, 1993
1991	Sonata, for oboe & piano	Papagena Press	ob,pn	490706135	985585677
1992	Night Skies	Papagena Press	[4333 6440 hp timp perc str]	440215198	35728503	Inspired by "Landscape with Stars" by Henri Edmond Cross
1994	Stitch-Te Naku	Papagena Press	[vc solo,2222,4210,pn+vc,tp,2perc,str]	490850676	48771942	Inspired by SW Indian creation story, Grandmother Spider
1995	Central American Songs	Papagena Press	v[med],fl,perc,pn	331043240	755284130	Inspired by Izok Amar - Go, edited by Zoe Anglese
1996	Three for Eight	Papagena Press	fl/picc,(2-6)fl[C],afl)	500553413	36123814	Commissioned by the New York and Long Island Flute Clubs
1996	Dances and Variations	Papagena Press	fl,hp	340381760		PBS Documentary Deborah Novak's New Music
1997	Psalm 100	Papagena Press	satb,kbd
1997	The Heart Speaks	Papagena Press	v,pno	500553413	1098303265	Inspired by poems from Teasdale & Wickham
1997	Winter Spirits	Papagena Press	fl	530449346	40219789	Premiered by Jeffrey Khaner, NFA Convention, 1997
1998	Echo	Songs of Peer LTD	stab ch, v[a cappella]	350336924	1103212693	Poem by Christina Rossetti
1998	Kyrie	Songs of Peer LTD	12fl,(org/bell) // ch,pn	410130406	48943921	Premiered by Tucson Flute Club, NFA Convention, 1998
1998	Masks	Papagena Press	fL,pn	430558006	39904429	Premiered by J. Foster & S. Jacob, NFA Convention, 1998
1998	String Quartet	Papagena Press	2vn,va,vc	470113689	747546214	Written for Colorado Quartet, 3rd mv is a Hopi lullaby
1999	Blow Thou Winter Wind	Papagena Press	stab		1256051189
1999	Caprice	Papagena Press	fl,gtr	330788224	47253307	Inspired by Red Event by James Michael Smith
2000	Quito Suite	Papagena Press	fL,bn,gtr	470116220		Alt. title: Dizi dance, 3rd mvmt. Mountain and Mesa
2001	Celebration	Papagena Press	fL, perc // fl[ensemble]	331043222	680171795	Celebrating Joseph Mariano's 90th birthday
2001	Mariposas	Papagena Press	fL[orch]	430721347	48446562	Loosely based on the emergence and flights of butterflies
2001	Shadows	Papagena Press	va,pn		663974620	In Memorium 9/11; Premiered by Marka Gustavsson & Lisa Moore, at Bard 2009
2002	Antics	Papagena Press	2fl	310635088	755014926	Premiered NFA convention, 2002
2002	Two Pieces (Fauré)	Papagena Press	2fl,pn	893217725	51318813	Re-arranged for modern flute
2002	Requiem	Songs of Peer LTD	ch[satb],satb[solo],br[choir],perc,org/pn,2speakers	891821567	755191040	Memoriam 9/11, words, Whitman and the Requiem (Latin, English)
2003	At The Piano	Papagena Press	pn	310719185	55635549	Instructional
2003	El Andalus	Papagena Press	va/vc,pn	310676561	57467029	Comm. AZ Friends of Music for Sharon Robinson, Premiered 2004
2003	For Peace: Prayer in Time of War	Papagena Press	women's chorus a capella		1180386449
2003	Peace Is the Way	Songs of Peer LTD	stab,ch	896870784	1000298821	Inspired by the 2003 invasion of Iraq and a quote from A.J. Muste
2003	Three Sketches	Papagena Press	pic,pn	500941342	55635512
2004	Peace Is the Way	Papagena Press	6fl,(fl),(fl),(fl[+])		174042913	Inspired by the 2003 invasion of Iraq and a quote from A.J. Muste
2004	Preludes for piano	Papagena Press	pn	460685885	65209628
2004	String Quartet No.2	Papagena Press	2vn,va,vc	470149007	225935863	Written for the Colorado Quartet
2004	To Greet The Sun	Papagena Press	fl	501001249	66380518	Premiered by Alexa Still, NFA Convention 2005
2006	Concertante "Dragon court"	Papagena Press	afl,bfl,(cbfl),15fl,solo: 2fl,fl/pic	334304499	297186178	In memory of Frayda Osten
2006	Collage	Papagena Press	2pn			Originally noted katherinehoover.com, 4 mvts total
2006	Incantations	Papagena Press	fch[SSA],fl,perc	390900300	82200548	Mayan women’s poetry; for NY Treble Singers
2006	Turner Impressions	Papagena Press	[3333,4331,3perc,hp,pn,hpd]	883080613	725342529	Inspired by paintings of J. M. W. Turner.
2006	Two for Two	Papagena Press	afl/bfl,pn	501001267	701810557
2007	Dancing	Papagena Press	vn,pn		905827954	Inspired by quote from Ezra Pound, 1972
2007	Line Drawings	Papagena Press	pn		767817924	Based on work by Saul Steinberg, Premiered by Marian Conti
2008	Dream Dances	Papagena Press	pn	343574574		Varied dances woven together; premiered by Marian Conti
2008	Passacaglia & Romp	Papagena Press	2pn			Commissioned by Pianofest premiered 2009
2008	Mountain & Mesa	Papagena Press	fL,pn	880877968	456187099	Premiered by Mimi Stillman and Jeremy Gill, NFA Convention, 2009
2009	Journey	Papagena Press	bn,pn	880877969	625311599	For Peter Kolkay
2009	The Word in Flower	Papagena Press	mez,fl,gtr		740049030	Premiered: Oct 17, 2009, by K. Ciesinsky, B. Boyd, N. Goluseswas
2009	Thin Ice	Papagena Press	pn	883939769	664680784	Premiere by Marian Conti
2010	Shoes For Two Clarinets And Piano	Papagena Press	2cl,pn	880877970		cataloguing in process
2011	Ayres	Papagena Press	ssax,pn	884491072	818319359	Based on lute songs, English Renaissance composer John Dowland
2011	Clowning Around	Papagena Press	4+fl,(afl),(perc)	884431800	884431800	NFA convention, movement choreographed by Zara Lawler
2011	Etudes	Papagena Press	Flute	884431798	748937764	Mark Sparks, NFA convention, 2015
2011	Toccata	Papagena Press	Solo Piano	884431799	748937762
2012	Blessing	Songs of Peer LTD.	ch	904363213	1180386449	cataloguing in process
2012	In Memoriam, Ravi Shankar	Papagena Press	vn		1048884372
2012	Spirit Flight	Papagena Press	fl	888935890	892634593	Commissioned by Wendela van Swol, of Cordoba, Spain
2012	Two Preludes	Papagena Press	fl,vib/mar	886801645	868240801
2013	Five Pieces	Papagena Press	3v,v,cl,fl,hn,ob	60044413		Re-arrangement of public domain
2014	Dancing	Papagena Press	4fl,perc,afl	905827954	1024248018	Commissioned by and dedicated to Julie Rosenfeld
2015	Four Winds	Papagena Press	fl,pn/orch,(pn)	892067111	932333515	Premiered by Mark Sparks
2016	Blow	Papagena Press	ten,bar,ch	880877970		Recorded 4TAY 4048
2019	Canyon Shadows	Papagena Press	Flute, Native Flute, Percussion	330714384		Posthumously edited by Joanne Lazzaro. Original K. Hoover manuscript 1997. NFA Newly Published Music Award, co-winner, 2020
unknown	Sanctus	Songs of Peer LTD.	ch,pn	904363212		performed and recorded

Discography

As a flutist, Hoover has performed other compossers works, as well as her own. The following is a selected list of her recorded performances.

Title	Album details	Work performed	Composer	Instrument
Original Broadway Cast "Jesus Christ Superstar"	Release: ©1971 [32] Label: Decca – DL7-1503 Format: Music LP	Jesus Christ Superstar Soundtrack	Andrew Lloyd Webber	Flute & Piccolo
Music Of Dale Jergenson	Release: ©1977 [33] Label: Grenadilla Records – GS 1013 Format: Music LP	Tanka Pieces	Dale Jergenson	Flute
Sonata da chiesa	Release: ℗1982 [34] Label: Opus One – Number 72 Format: Music Album, Vinyl LP	Sonata Da Chiesa Daysongs Variations (For Solo Flute)	Frank Martin Nancy Laird Chance Ursula Mamlok	Flute / Martin Alto Flute / Chance Flute ['C'] /Mamlok
New Music for Flute	Release: ℗1984 [35] Label: Leonarda Classical Recordings Format: Music LP	The Medieval Suite Reflections	Hoover Hoover	flute flute
Chaitkin/Moore: Chamber Works	Release: 1981 [36] Label: New World Records CRI NWCRL519 Format: Music LP,CD,eMusic	Summersong/The Sylvan Winds	David Chaitkin	Flute
Journeys-Orchestral Works by American Women	Release: ℗1987 [37] Label: Leonarda CD LE-327 Format: Music CD	Summer Night	Hoover	Flute
Kokopeli : Katherine Hoover plays	Release: ℗2001 [38] Label: Parnassus Records Format: Music CD	Sonata no. 2, in G Sonata no. 4, in A Sonata in G, K. 27 Sonata no. 2, in F minor Carmen-Entr'acte Trio of the young Ishmaelite Winter spirits Masks Kokopeli	Pleyel J.C. Bach Mozart Abe Bizet-Delsaux Berlioz Hoover Hoover Hoover	1911 wooden flute/Pleyel 1911 wooden flute/J.C. Bach 1911 wooden flute/Mozart 1911 wooden flute/Abe flute/Bizet-Delsaux flute/Berlioz flute/Hoover flute/Hoover flute/Hoover

References

External links

• Official website
• Katherine Hoover at AllMusic
• Katherine Hoover at Discogs
• Katherine Hoover at Musicalics, The Classical Composers Database
• Thesis/dissertation, M.M. Manhattan School of Music 1972[1]
• Thesis/dissertation, Research project (D.M.A.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1994.[2]

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