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

A Gentle Notion

All Things Majestic

Amazing Grace for Flute Choir

American Canvas

An Exaltation of Larks

Bentley Roses

Blue Hills of Mist

Bop

Book of Brass

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

Echo Dash

Falling

Falling Deeper

Fanfare Quintet

Fanfare Ritmico

Flute Poetic

Flute Songs - Morning Opens

Harp Concerto

Hear My Voice

Hop & Toe Dance

Impressions

In the Shadow of Sirius

In the Shadow of the Mountain

Kelly's Field

Light

Light Refracted

Like Clockwork

Lilacs

Loco

Love Came Down

Low Brass Concerto

Machine

Music Box of Light

Mysterium

Nocturne - flute and piano

Nocturne - Violin and Piano

Notes of Gratitude

O Magnum Mysterium

Oboe Concerto

On a Wire

On the Death of the Righteous

Percussion Concerto

Piano Concerto

Piano Trio

Poetic Soprano Sax

Quiet Art

Red

Rhythm Stand

Road Stories

Ruminations

Sanctus

Secret and Glass Gardens

Smash

Solid Rock Song

Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond

Soprano Sax Concerto

Southern Harmony

Spirit

Splendid Wood

String Poetic

Summer Shimmers

Summer Music

Telegram

Tenfold

The Gilmore Variation, from "Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Goldberg"

The Grace of Presence

The Light That We Can Hear

The Prayer

Nocturne - Cello and Piano

The Singing Rooms

Threaded

To the Point

Trio Song

Trumpet Songs

Tuba Concerto

Tuba Songs

Tuba Concerto

Viola Concerto

Violin concerto

Voice of the Bard

Wind Shear

Wise Moon

Yes, No, Maybe?

Zaka

Zango Bandango