Composer Jennifer Higdon won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her Violin Concerto, which premiered Feb. 6, 2009, in Indianapolis. ((Candace DiCarlo))
GRAMMY winner Jennifer Higdon (b. Brooklyn, NY, December 31, 1962) is one of the most performed living American composers working today.
She is the recipient of many awards, including a Pew Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship and two awards from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. Her list of commissioners range from the Philadelphia Orchestra to the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra; from eighth blackbird to the Tokyo String Quartet; and from The President's Own Marine Band to such artists as Hilary Hahn. Higdon received a 2010 GRAMMY for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for her Percussion Concerto. She holds the Rock Chair in Composition at The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
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Jennifer Higdon
Friday, May 07, 2010
Jennifer Higdon recently won the Pulitzer Prize for her musical compositions, yet she didn't pick up a musical instrument - a pawn-shop flute her mother brought home - until she was fifteen. Higdon tells Kurt that her childhood home was more steeped in the Beatles than ...
Pulitzer Prize Winner Jennifer Higdon
Friday, April 16, 2010
Composer Jennifer Higdon on her Pulitzer Prize.
Jennifer Higdon wins Pulitzer Prize for Music
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
