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Katherine Hoover (b.1937)
Flutist and composer Katherine Hoover has been the recipient of many award, including a National Endowment Composer’s Fellowship, an Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Composition. Four of her works have won the National Flute Associaton’s Newly Published Music Competition - including “Kokopeli” for solo flute in 1990, which is considered by many to be a “staple” of contemporary flute repertoire. Hoover holds a B.M. in Music Theory and a Performer’s Certificate in Flute from the Eastman School of Music and a M.M. in Music Theory from the Manhattan School of Music, where she taught for many years. A student of Joseph Mariano and William Kincaid, Hoover has performed and recorded solo and chamber music and has played with major opera and ballet companies in New York.
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Selected Recordings
Katherine Hoover: Kokopeli -Katherine Hoover Plays; Women Composers - The Lost Tradition Found
Wendall Dobbs: Flute and Company - The Music of Katherine Hoover
Selected Works
Peace is the Way (5C, 2A) 10P100000003
Three for Eight (7C, A) 10P100000001
Concertante "Dragon Court" (Solo P/C, 2 Solo C, Solo A,{4C tutti, A tutti, B tutti, Opt CB}) 10P1000PP178
Lyric Trio (fl, vc, pf) 25P100000001
Two for Two (Alto/Bass flute, pf) 37P1000PH175
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