The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
Jennifer Higdon
Music
1999 Grantee
Born 1962
Richly textured works for orchestra and chamber ensemble are the expression of Jennifer Higdon’s creativity. Higdon received a B.M. from Bowling Green State University, an Artist’s Diploma from the Curtis Institute of Music, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Among her awards and honors are fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Meet The Composer, the Musical Fund Society and the American Composers’ Forum, as well as two awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has received commissions from Network for New Music, the Philadelphia Singers, the Chamber Music Society of Philadelphia for a quintet for Gary Graffman and the Lark Quartet, and the American Composers Orchestra, among others. She is also one of eight composers commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra to write a concerto for orchestra in celebration of their Centennial. In 1998, she released Autumn Music, performed by the Moran Quintet (Crystal CDs), and running the edgE (CRI CD 780). She is on faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music.
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