Jennifer Higdon

Jennifer Higdon (born December 31, 1962 in Brooklyn , New York ) is an American composer of classical music .

Life

Higdon was born in Brooklyn in 1962 and grew up in Atlanta and Tennessee . She studied music at Bowling Green State University and took flute lessons . Robert Spano was one of her teachers . Higdon graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music , where she studied with David Loeb , among others . She received a PhD in Composition from the University of Pennsylvania .

After graduating, Higdon taught herself at the Curtis Institute of Music, where she holds the Milton L. Rock Chair . She worked as a composer with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra 2005/2006 and the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra 2006/2007 and the Philadelphia Orchestra 2007/2008.

She became known to a larger audience through Hilary Hahn's CD, published by Deutsche Grammophon in 2010 , on which she played a work composed by Higdon in addition to the well-known Violin Concerto op. 35 by Peter Tschaikovsky .

Grammy Awards 2008 , nomination for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for Zaka by Eighth Blackbird
Grammy Awards 2010 Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for her Percussion Concerto .
2010 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her Violin Concerto, which premiered on February 6, 2009 in Indianapolis and was recorded by Hilary Hahn in 2010 .
In 2016 the world premiere of her opera Cold Mountain received the International Opera Award .
In 2018, Higdon was awarded the Nemmers Prize for Composition .
In 2019 she was elected to the American Philosophical Society .

personal data
SURNAME	Higdon, Jennifer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American composer
DATE OF BIRTH	December 31, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brooklyn , New York , United States