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Jennifer Higdon

Name: Jennifer Higdon
Bio: Jennifer Higdon is one of America’s most acclaimed and most frequently performed living composers. She has is a major figure in contemporary Classical music, receiving the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Music for her Violin Concerto, a 2010 Grammy for her Percussion Concerto and a 2018 Grammy for her Viola Concerto. Most recently, Higdon received the Nemmers Prize from Northwestern University which is given to contemporary classical composers of exceptional achievement who have significantly influenced the field of composition. Higdon enjoys several hundred performances a year of her works, and blue cathedral is one of today’s most performed contemporary orchestral works, with more than 600 performances worldwide. Her works have been recorded on more than sixty CDs. Higdon’s first opera, Cold Mountain, won the prestigious International Opera Award for Best World Premiere and the opera recording was nominated for 2 Grammy awards. Dr. Higdon holds the Rock Chair in Composition at The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Her music is published exclusively by Lawdon Press.

Higdon was Composer Laureate for the UMKC Barr Institute from 2016–2018. All of her published works can be found in the library catalog.
Professional website: http://jenniferhigdon.com/
Scores: Air; All Things Majestic; Amazing Grace; Amazing Grace; Amazing Grace for Flute Choir; Amazing Grace for String Quartet; American Canvas; An Exaltation of Larks; Bentley Roses; Blue Hills of Mist; Book of Brass; Bop; Celebration Fanfare; Celestial Hymns; Ceremonies; Ceremonies Suite; City Scape; Civil Words; Clarinet Sonata; Cold Mountain; Color Through; Concerto 4-3; Concerto for Orchestra; Crescent Line; Dance Card; Dark Wood; Dash; Dooryard Bloom; Duo Duel; Echo Dash; Falling; Falling Deeper; Fanfare Quintet; Fanfare Ritmico; Flute Poetic; Flute Songs - Morning Opens; A Gentle Notion; Harp Concerto; Hear My Voice; Hop & Toe Dance; Impressions; In the Shadow of the Mountain; In the Shadow of Sirius; Kelly's Field; Light; $Light Refracted I - Jennifer Higdon$ Light Refracted; The Light That We Can Hear; Like Clockwork; Lilacs; Loco; Love Came Down; Low Brass Concerto; Machine; Music Box of Light; Mysterium; Nocturne - Cello and Piano; Nocturne - flute and piano; Nocturne - Violin and Piano; Notes of Gratitude; O Magnum Mysterium; On the Death of the Righteous; Piano Concerto; Piano Trio; Poetic Soprano Sax; Rhythm Stand; Road Stories; Ruminations; Secret and Glass Gardens; Smash; Summer Music; Tuba Concerto; Summer Shimmers; Wise Moon; Yes, No, Maybe?; Aria from Cold mountain for oboe & piano; The absence, remember; O magnum mysterium : organ version; Short Brass Organ Mass; Lilacs for mezzo & piano; Civil Words; Civil Words; A Quiet Moment; Lilacs; O magnum mysterium : a capella version; Twilight; Dash; Dash; Tuba Songs; Little river songs; The Light That We Can Hear; Mandolin concerto; String : from the 2nd movement of The concerto for orchestra; Amazing grace