KatherineHoover
composer
flutist
conductor
Interview with Katherine Hoover
Interview conducted by Victoria Bond
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Music:
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• “Kokopeli” for solo flute, Katherine Hoover, flute
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•“Thin Ice” for piano solo, Mirian Conti, piano
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•“Double Concerto” for 2 violins & string orchestra; David Perry & Suzanne Beia, violins, with The Wisconsin Philomusica, Vartan Manoogian, conductor
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•From “Canyon Echoes”, for flute & guitar; Laurel Zucker, flute, Richard Savino, guitar, movement 3, “She Mourns”, and movement 4, “He Returns”
Music:
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•“Dream Dances” for piano
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•“Winter Spritis” for solo flute, Katherine Hoover, flute
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•“String Quartet 2”
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•“Clarinet Concerto
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•El Andalus for voice and piano
Thin Ice
January 30 | Lawrence University, Madison, WI
Gloria Chuang, pianist
Divertimento
February 13, 2011 | NYC, NY | Our Saviour’s Atonement Lutheran, 178 Bennett Ave.
ISSA Sonus Ensemble
Laura Falzon (flute) | Emily Ondracek (violin) | Edmundo Ramirez (viola) | Aminda Asher/Adrian Daurov (cello)
Toccata*
February 20, 2011 | Capitol Lakes, Madison, WI
Gloria Chuang, pianist
Performances | Podcasts | New Releases
Divertimento
January 15 & 16, 2011 | Watertown, MA
Kaleidoscope Chamber Ensemble
* premiere
Facebook News
posted by Yizhar Dagan
Wendela van Swol played your beautiful flute solo compositions Winter Spirits, Kokopeli and To Greet the Sun last Thursday March 17th in Gent Belgium. Enchanting music with wonderful melodies played with profound sensitivity and colorful expressions. Bravo for you Katherine and Bravo for Wendela.
Piano Works
Mirian Conti, pianist
Includes:
Dream Dances
Preludes
Thin Ice
Line Drawings
Pieces for Piano
from Parnassus Records
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New Compositions
Published by Papagena Press; available via Theodore Presser Co.
Etudes for Flute
Toccata, for Piano
2011 Performances
National Flute Convention, Charlotte, NC | August 15, 2011
Concert of works by Hoover and Higdon
Peace is the Way
Clowning Around
DoReMi Music Wonderland Recital Hall, Hong Kong | August 28, 2011 @ 4:15 PM
Stanley Wong, pianist, will perform Dream Dances and Thin Ice
Turner Impressions*
1. The Grand Canal (6’ 30”)
2. A Steamboat in a Snowstorm (4’+)
3. The Music Room (6’+)
4. A First Rater (5’ 30”)
These pieces were written over a period of five years, as I chose among the incredible richness of the paintings of J. M. W. Turner (1775 - 1851), a most prolific artist best known for his paintings of the sea. Actually his work spans many subjects and various styles, from highly detailed to impressionistic. These four short tone poems were inspired by specific works. The first, of Venice at dawn, hangs in the Metropolitan Museum in New York, where I spent hours gazing at it, and watching people enter the room enter and be immediately drawn by its colorful beauty, as I was. The second painting is a whirlwind of snow: Turner was on a small boat in the English Channel in a storm so severe that the passengers did not expect to survive. The third is an unfinished interior of an enormous room with two women in a near corner, one of whom is playing a harpsichord. In this piece I have directly quoted a sonata by Haydn, whose music was much performed in England; in fact he visited London during Turner’s lifetime. The last movement concerns troop ships in a harbor. These huge vessels tower several stories, a most impressive feat of engineering, and a testament to the hubris of the British Empire, which intended to rule the world. In this movement I have used “tatoos”; actual drum patterns which were used as navy signals at that time. I have also quoted bits and pieces of Thomas Arne’s famous “Rule Brittania.”
March 5, 2011 in Plymouth, Michigan
Plymouth Symphony | Nan Washburn, conductor
CD release!
Katherine Hoover’s composition for bassoon and piano Journey was commissioned by a consortium of bassoonists and spearheaded by Peter Kolkay, the first bassoonist ever to be sponsored by the Concert Artists Guild.
Peter Kolkay and Alexandra Nguyen, piano | CAG records
Katherine Hoover | Website by Mary-Ann Tu |copyright 2012
NEW CD release!
Odyssey, a 2-set CD of american flute music is scheduled to be released this month featuring Mimi Stillman, flute and Charles Abramovic, piano. Mountain & Mesa by Katherine Hoover is one of the works performed.
In February 2012 Katherine spent several days giving classes at the University of Wisconsin in Whitewater, ending with a concert of her works by faculty, alums and students, and rewarded with a standing ovation.
A trip to Spain followed shortly, with classes of flutists, and performances of various of her works, arranged by composer-flutist-conductor Peter Bacchus in Barcelona and flutist Wendela Van Swol in Cordoba. Wendela is an outstanding performer with an excellent group of students. Katherine enjoyed the teaching, the company, the food, the sights, and her first time on a motorcycle.
Christopher Creviston and Hannah Gruber premiered Katherine’s “Ayres” for soprano saxophone and piano in New York on February 24th, with 8 other performances scheduled throughout February and March, from upstate New York to Oregon and Arizona. Chris commissioned the work along with James Forman.
Katherine returned from Spain in time to hear Mary Kathleen Ernst perform “Dream Dances” on the “Women’s Work” series at the Player’s Theater in New York on March 11th.
On Monday, April 2 at 7:30pm the amazing bassoonist Peter Kolkay and pianist Alexandra Nguyen will be performing Hoover’s “Journey” at Merkin Hall, in a concert co-sponsored by Concert Artists Guild and the League of Composers; Peter spearheaded a commission by a consortium of 31 bassoonists for this piece.
"Incantations" for women's chorus, flute and percussion
- based on contemporary Mayan women's poems.
The New York Treble Singers with Virginia Davidson, conductor
Date: April 10 at 12:30 PM
Location: Church of Transfiguration, | East 29th Street at 5th Avenue
Performance followed by forum with the composer, questions encouraged!
