Jennifer Higdon

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jennifer Higdon
Occupation	Composer
Date Of Birth	Dec 31, 1962(1962-12-31)
Age	62
Birthplace	New York
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Capricorn

Jennifer Higdon Biography

Jennifer Higdon is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on December 31, 1962 in New York, New York, United States. Classical music composer who was awarded the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Music for her Violin Concerto. She also received a Grammy Award in 2009 for Best Contemporary Composition for her Percussion Concerto.

She studied composition under George Crumb at the University of Pennsylvania.

Jennifer Elaine Higdon (born December 31, 1962) is an American composer of classical music. She has been a professor of composition at the Curtis Institute of Music since 1994. 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, in 2010, 2018, and 2020. She was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019.

She wrote her first opera based on Charles Frazier’s 1997 novel, Cold Mountain with a libretto by Gene Scheer. It was co-commissioned by The Santa Fe Opera and Opera Philadelphia and premiered in Santa Fe in 2015.

Her family was residing in Brooklyn when she was born, but they soon moved to Atlanta where she spent the first 10 years of her life. They then relocated to Tennessee. She met her partner Cheryl Lawson in high school.

Jennifer Higdon Net Worth

Jennifer Higdon is one of the richest Composer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jennifer Higdon 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She was a self-taught flautist who performed in concert band in high school, but had minimal exposure to classical music until college. She majored in flute performance at Bowling Green State University.

She used Charles Frazier’s “Cold Mountain” as the basis for an opera that was commissioned by Santa Fe Opera and Opera Philadelphia.

Higdon was born in Brooklyn, New York. She spent the first 10 years of her life in Atlanta, Georgia before moving to Seymour, Tennessee. Her father, Charles Higdon, was a painter and made efforts to expose his children to different types of art. He took them to various exhibitions of new and experimental art that gave her her earliest exposure to art and helped her to form an idea of what art was. She also developed an interest in photography and writing at an early age. Despite her early introduction to art, she received very little exposure to classical music in her home. Instead, her early musical education came from listening to rock and folk music from the 1960s. It was not until high school that she joined concert band, where she began playing percussion. At about the same time, she picked up a flute her mother had bought, and she began teaching herself to play using an old flute method book. She played flute in her high school’s concert band and percussion in marching band, but heard little classical music before her college years.

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Facts & Trivia

Jennifer Ranked on the list of most popular Composer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Jennifer Higdon celebrates birthday on December 31 of every year.

Top Facts about Jennifer Higdon

1. Jennifer Higdon is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer.
2. She was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1962.
3. Higdon has composed over 100 works for various ensembles.
4. Her most famous piece is the orchestral work “blue cathedral.”
5. Higdon has received numerous awards and honors for her compositions.
6. She is a professor of composition at Curtis Institute of Music.
7. Higdon’s music often features intricate rhythms and colorful harmonies.
8. She draws inspiration from nature and the world around her.
9. Higdon’s music has been performed by major orchestras worldwide.
10. She is one of the most frequently performed living composers today.

Why is Jennifer Higdon important?

Higdon has been a featured composer at festivals including Grand Teton, Tanglewood, Vail, Norfolk, Winnipeg and Cabrillo. She has won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition three times. The first was in 2010 for her Percussion Concerto. The second was in 2018 for her Viola Concerto.

What is Jennifer Higdon currently working on?

May 6,7,8,2022. The Houston Symphony , under the baton of Robert Spano, will perform the World Premiere of Higdon’s double percussion concerto, Duo Duel. The soloists are the Symphony’s Matthew Strauss and Svet Stoyanov. Higdon will attend all performances and the Houston Symphony will record the work.

Where is Jennifer Higdon from?

Brooklyn, New York, NY

What has Jennifer Higdon composed?

Higdon has become something of a concerto specialist over the past decade, producing works for oboe (2005, later adapted for soprano saxophone), a bluegrass trio (the Concerto 4-3 from 2007), and piano (2009). And it was the Violin Concerto (2010), composed for Hilary Hahn, that earned Higdon the Pulitzer.

What is blue cathedral about?

About this Piece “It was about deciding if life was going to be about living or about death ,” she told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 2005. “I was surprised it turned out so positively.” In an experience of catharsis, Higdon crafted a sonic journey through a sacred space and upward into the heavens.