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Katherine Hoover (b. 1937, Elkins, West Virginia) is the recipient of a National Endowment Composer's Fellowship and many other awards, including an Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Composition. Four of her pieces have won the National Flute Association's Newly Published Music Competition. Her tone poem Eleni: A Greek Tragedy, has been performed by 13 orchestras; her Cello Concerto was performed by Sharon Robinson with the Long Beach (California) Symphony; and her Clarinet Concerto was premiered by Eddie Daniels and the Santa Fe Symphony. Ms. Hoover conducted the premiere of her Night Skies, a 25-minute work for large orchestra, with the Harrisburg Symphony. Deborah Novak chronicled the creation and premiere of Hoover's Dances and Variations in the public television documentary New Music, which won three national awards. The Montclaire and Colorado Quartets; Dorian, Sylvan, and Richards Quintets; and Huntingdon, Verdehr, and Eroica Trios have featured Hoover! 's works, and The New Jersey Chamber Music Society premiered her Quintet (Da Pacem) for piano and strings at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center. Julius Baker, Eugenia Zukerman, Carol Wincenc, and Metropolitan Opera bass John Cheek have also presented her work. This CD was recorded in Huntington, West Virginia by Denny Chandler. Post Production by Denny Chandler, Marnie Hall and Jonathan Marcus. This CD is made possible by The West Virginia Commission for the Arts and The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, with other support provided by Marshall University's College of Fine Arts, Graduate School Research Committee, Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs. Cover: Williams River, courtesy of the West Virginia Division of Tourism. Graphic Design: Marnie Hall. © 2001 Leonarda Productions, Inc. All rights reserved. Made in the U.S.A.