Anchorage Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Forum Podcasts

My Life in Music

May 15, 2022 Kathryn Hoffer Season 2022 Episode 515
Anchorage Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Forum Podcasts
My Life in Music
Show Notes

Kathryn Hoffer retired in April as concertmaster of the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra, a position she held for 39 years—over half of ASO’s 76-year history.  She had been a violinist with the symphony since1974. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, Kathryn has made a significant impact on the music community in Anchorage and beyond. In 2010, after 25 years of shaping young musicians, Kathryn retired from her position as an orchestra teacher with the Anchorage School District. That same year she started The Society of Strings, an orchestra for amateur adult string players. In 2015 she took over as director of the Hiland Mountain Correctional Center Women’s Orchestra. ASO’s Executive Director Sherri Burkhart Reddick praised Kathryn as someone our community knows as a gifted musician and an outstanding music educator, and who musicians revere for her generosity and grace.  After her last concert, she drove from Alaska to her new home in northern California, where she will be closer to family and enjoy becoming part of the vibrant art scene there.