Katherine Hoover

Katherine Hoover (December 2, 1937 – September 21, 2018) was an American composer of contemporary classical music and chamber music, flutist, composition and theory educator, poet, and conductor. Her career as a composer began in the 1970s, when few women composers earned recognition in classical music. She composed pieces for solo flute, mixed ensembles, chamber orchestra, choir, full orchestra, and many other combinations of instruments and voice. Two works of hers were co-written under the pseudonym Kathryn Scott. Some of her flute pieces incorporate Native American themes. Her work has received many honors, including a National Endowment for the Arts Composer’s Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in composition, and the National Flute Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award, where she is remembered by as an “artist, flutist, teacher, entrepreneur, poet, and, most notably, a distinguished composer.” Life and career Katherine Lacey Hoover was born on December 2, 1937, in Elkins, West Virginia, where her mother’s family was from. They lived in Washington, D.C., at 2017 Hillyer Pl NW, near Dupont Circle. She remembers her love for music started at the age of