Katherine Hoover is an American

United States

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 flautist, conductor and composer. She was born in Elkins

Elkins, West Virginia

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, West Virginia

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, and graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree and performer's certificate from the Eastman School of Music

Eastman School of Music

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 in 1959. She continued her studies at the Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan School of Music

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 graduating with Master's in Music Theory. While working on her degree she taught on the faculty at the Manhanttan School. Hoover served as Composer-In-Residence at the Festival of Women Composers at Indiana University

Indiana University

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 in 1996. Hoover lives and works in New York

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Honors and awards

• National Endowment Composer's Fellowship, 1979
• Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award in Composition, 1994
• National Flute Association's Newly Published Music Competition award, 1987, 1991, 1993, 1994

Works

Selected works include:

• Clarinet Concerto
• Winter Sands
• Turnabout
• Eleni : A Greek Tragedy
• Double Concerto
• Night Skies

Her works have been recorded and issued on CD, including:

• Night Skies: Orchestral Music of Katherine Hoover, Parnassus Records Classical CD