Jennifer Higdon

American composer · United States · On the map · Musicians · Born 1962 · age 63

Jennifer Elaine Higdon is an American composer of contemporary classical music. She has received many awards, including the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her Violin Concerto and three Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for her Percussion Concerto in 2010, Viola Concerto in 2018, and Harp...

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2018Nemmers Prize in Music CompositionAward2010Pulitzer Prize for MusicAward1999Pew Fellowship in the ArtsAward1962Born31 December 1962

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Higdon speaking at the 2014 Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music

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Nemmers Prize in Music Composition2018

Pulitzer Prize for Music2010

Pew Fellowship in the Arts1999

Guggenheim Fellowship

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She has received many awards, including the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her Violin Concerto and three Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for her Percussion Concerto in 2010, Viola Concerto in 2018, and Harp Concerto in 2020. Elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019, she was a professor of composition at the Curtis Institute of Music from 1994 to 2021.

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