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Since then, Papagena Press has released 54 other titles by Ms. Hoover and one by John Davison. Both Ms. Hoover's Lyric Trio (flute, cello and piano) and Canyon Echos (flute and guitar) were chosen winners in the National Flute Association's Newly Published Music Competition.
Ms. Hoover's tone poem Eleni: A Greek Tragedy, has been performed by thirteen orchestras, including the Harrisburg and Fort Worth Symphonies. Stitch-te Naku, for Cello and Orchestra, written for Sharon Robinson, was presented by the Long Beach, CA and Santa Monica Orchestras, the Womens Philharmonic, and Orchestra Sonoma. Her Clarinet Concerto, written for jazz virtuoso Eddie Daniels, was premiered with the Santa Fe Symphony. In January, 1994, Ms. Hoover conducted the premiere of her Night Skies, a 25-minute work for large orchestra, with the Harrisburg Symphony. The Colorado and Montclaire Quartets, Dorian, Sylvan and Richards Quintets, and the Eroica Trio have featured her work. In 1989 the New Jersey Chamber Music Society premiered her Quintet (Da Pacem) for piano and strings at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center. Pianists Joseph Kalichstein, Anne Marie McDermott, Christopher Taylor, and Mirian Conti have performed her work. Flutists Julius Baker, Eugenia Zukerman, Jeffrey Khaner, Mimi Stillman, Carol Wincenc, and Metropolitan Opera bass John Cheek have also presented her pieces. Ms. Hoover attended the Eastman School of Music and holds a Masters in Music Theory from the Manhattan School, where she taught for years. Her main flute study was with Joseph Mariano and William Kincaid; she has given concerto performances at Lincoln Center and performed with ballet and opera companies in New York's major halls, as well as recording solo and chamber repertoire. Ms. Hoover has also attended the Conductors Institute and has led performances in Wisconsin, West Virginia, New York, and Pennsylvania. The commissioning, rehearsing, and premiere of her Dances and Variations at Kennedy Center are the subject of an Emmy-winning documentary, called New Music, by Deborah Novak. Classical Pulse, Jan. 1997: Critic Leslie Gerber picked Hoover's Quintet (Da Pacem) as one of the five best recordings of 1996. In November of 2002 Ms. Hoover's Requiem: A Service of Remembrance 1865/2001 for chorus, soloists, speakers, brass. Percussion, and organ, with poetry by Walt Whitman, was premiered at St. Peter's Lutheran Church in New York City.
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Katherine Hoover was born in West Virginia and resides in New York, where she maintains an active career as composer, conductor, and flutist. She is the recipient of a