Katherine Hoover
Katherine (December 2, 1937 – September 21, 2018) was a composer, educator, freelance flutist, and a loving mother who lived in New York City. She received many prestigious awards, including the the National Flute Association’s 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award, a National Endowment Composer’s Fellowship and many other awards, and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (1994) in Composition. As co-founder of Papagena Press (1988), her works encompass over 90 individual titles. Katherine has rearranged many of her compositions with exciting variations of instrumentation. In addition, she has arranged cherished classical pieces for either different or modern instruments. Her legacy will remain to teach future composers and musicians to enjoy and expand their profession.
Courtesy of Papagena Press. Credit Jane Hamborsky.
Katherine playing 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.
- (1987) Medieval Suite
- (1991) Kokopeli
- (1993) Canyon Echos
- (1994) Lyric Trio
- (2006) Two for Two
- (2020) Canyon Shadows (co-winner)
Publication rights to selected works are owned by Theodore Presser, Carl Fischer, Boelke-Boemart / Schott, Songs of Peer LTD., and WC Music Corp.