Jennifer Higdon

Higdon won a 2010 GRAMMY in the category of Best Contemporary Classical Composition for her Percussion Concerto, a 25-minute work for solo percussion and orchestra. The recording is performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Marin Alsop, conducting. Colin Currie is the soloist.

Higdon would like to thank Colin Currie, Marin Alsop and the London Philharmonic for such a wonderful recording. She would also like to thank the co-commissioners of this work--the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.

Higdon is writing a concerto for the group eighth blackbird and orchestra. The work, On a Wire will be premiered in June by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Robert Spano, conducting, and will also be featured by the ASO during the 2010 National Conference of the League of American Orchestras. Other commissioning groups will be announced soon.

The Grand Tetons Music Festival, Donald Runnicles, Music Director, has commissioned Higdon to write a work to be premiered during the 2011 Festival.

The San Francisco Opera has commissioned Higdon to write an opera to be premiered in Fall of 2013.

February 19 & 20, 2010
Concerto for Orchestra
Higdon will be in residence with the Boise Philharmonic, Robert Franz, Music Director, as they perform her Concerto for Orchestra. Be a part of the audience to hear the work that launched Higdon's career as an award-winning composer.

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Jennifer Higdon's 2004 Dooryard Bloom for baritone and orchestra is featured on the 2009 Transmigration recorded by Nmon Ford, baritone soloist with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (Robert Spano, cond.). Other works on the recording include John Adams' On the Transmigration of Souls, Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings and Agnus Dei and John Coriligano's Elegy. This recording won a 2010 GRAMMY for Best Surround Sound and it is available through amazon.com.