(American, b. Elkins, West Virginia, 1937)
Katherine Hoover was born in West Virginia and resides in New York, where she maintains an active career as composer, conductor, and flutist. She attended Eastman, Bryn Mawr, Yale and the Manhattan School of Music. She is a flutist and teacher as well as composer. She has written choral and vocal solo works, but her major output is instrumental, especially flute. She has taught at Juilliard and the Manhattan School of Music, but now works with graduate students in composition and flute at Teachers College, Columbia University.