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Jennifer Higdon

Jennifer Higdon has been played on NTS in shows including Posh Isolation, featured first on 6 September 2018. Songs played include String Poetic, Summer Shimmers and Agnus Dei.

Jennifer Higdon (born December 31, 1962) is an American composer of classical music and flautist.

Higdon was born in Brooklyn, but spent her first 10 years in Atlanta before moving to Tennessee. With almost no advanced flute training, she studied at Bowling Green State University towards a degree in flute performance. While at Bowling Green she met Robert Spano, who was teaching a conducting course there; Spano would go on to be the foremost champion of Higdon's music…

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String Poetic
Jennifer Koh, Reiko Uchida, Jennifer Higdon, Lou Harrison, John Adams, Carl Ruggles
Cedille Records2008
String Poetic
Jennifer Koh, Reiko Uchida, Jennifer Higdon, Lou Harrison, John Adams, Carl RugglesCedille Records2008
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Summer Shimmers
Jennifer Higdon
Koch International Classics2008
Summer Shimmers
Jennifer HigdonKoch International Classics2008
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Agnus Dei
Robert Spano, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Choruses, Adams, Barber, Corigliano, Higdon, Nmon Ford
Telarc2009
Agnus Dei
Robert Spano, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Choruses, Adams, Barber, Corigliano, Higdon, Nmon FordTelarc2009
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