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Katherine Hoover (born December 2, 1937, in Elkins, West Virginia) is an American composer and flutist. She holds a performer’s certificate in flute and a Bachelor of Music in music theory from the Eastman School of Music, and a Masters in Music from the Manhattan School of Music. Hoover was a faculty member of the Manhattan School of Music for fifteen years and taught flute at the Juilliard Preparatory School. Katherine Hoover has won numerous awards for her compositions, and her music has been hailed as “fresh and individual…dazzlingly crafted.”〔papagenapress.com〕 == Biography == Hoover was raised in a “non-musical family.”〔E. Grimes, “Meet the Composers: Katherine Hoover.” ''Ear: Magazine of New Music'' (1986) 20-22〕 Her mother was a painter and father was a scientist, and they discouraged her from pursuing music as a career,.〔Heidi Kay Begay,“Finding the Hopi-Indian Traits in Katherine Hoover’s Kokopeli and Winter Spirits for Solo Flute.” (2009)〕 However, for Hoover, music was the most important part of her life. She recalls being able to read music as early as four years old, before she could even read words.〔E. Grimes, “Meet the Composers: Katherine Hoover.” ''Ear: Magazine of New Music'' (1986) 20-22〕 After her family moved to Philadelphia, Hoover began playing the flute. At age fifteen, she began playing the piano. She received “mediocre music instruction” in high school.〔Eileen Yarrison, “The ‘Medieval Suite’ for Flute and Piano by Katherine Hoover: AnExamination, Analysis, and Performance Guide” (1996)〕 Because her parents discouraged her from pursuing a music major, she began her academic studies at the University of Rochester in 1955, but two years later she transferred to the Eastman School of Music where she studied with flutist Joseph Mariano, began studying composition, and graduated in 1959 with a Bachelor of Music in Music Theory and a Performer’s Certificate in Flute. Unfortunately, her composition classes left a bad impression. Hoover comments, “There were no women involved with composition at all. (got ) rather discouraged – being the only woman in my classes, not being paid attention to and so forth.”〔Eileen Yarrison, “The ‘Medieval Suite’ for Flute and Piano by Katherine Hoover: AnExamination, Analysis, and Performance Guide” (1996)〕 After graduating from Eastman, Hoover moved to Manhattan and spent the next ten years focusing on performing and teaching. In the summers of 1960 and 1961, Hoover attended the Yale Summer Session where she studied flute, theory, and composition. During this time, she studied with flutist William Kincaid in Philadelphia. From 1961-1967 Hoover taught flute at the Juilliard Preparatory School as well as a few other small schools including the Third Street Music School. It was here at the Third Street Music School that Hoover had her first positive experience as a composer. She was asked to compose a piece for a school concert, a duet for violins, which was very well received.〔Eileen Yarrison, “The ‘Medieval Suite’ for Flute and Piano by Katherine Hoover: AnExamination, Analysis, and Performance Guide” (1996)〕 In 1969, Hoover began teaching flute and theory at the Manhattan School of music, a position she held for fifteen years. During her time at Manhattan, Hoover continued her graduate studies and received her Masters in Music Theory in 1974. In 1972 Hoover had her first publication of a composition, ''Three Carols'' for choir and flute, published by Carl Fischer. Hoover was also a faculty member of the Teacher’s College, Columbia University from 1986-1989 where she taught flute and composition to graduate students. In 1990, Hoover wrote Kokopeli, a work for solo flute inspired by the Hopi tribe and the great American Southwest. At this time, Hoover began Papagena Press, which was founded to publish her works. Kokopeli was the first publication of Papagena Press and won the National Flute Association’s Newly Published Music Competition in 1991 (Hoover’s second of four NFA Newly Published Music awards). Katherine Hoover has been very involved with women’s arts organizations and has worked to bring the works of women composers to the public’s notice. In 1977, she began work with the Women’s Inter-Art Center in New York. Here she organized Festivals I, II, and III of Women’s Music which presented music by fifty-five historical and contemporary women composers. In 1996, Hoover was the composer in residence for the Fourth Festival of Women Composers at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Katherine Hoover currently lives with her husband Richard Goodwin in New York where she is still actively composing and still promoting an interest in compositions, historical and contemporary, by women composers. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Katherine Hoover」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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