Jennifer Higdon

Jennifer Elaine Higdon is an American composer of contemporary classical music. 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 for her Percussion Concerto in 2010, Viola Concerto in 2018, and Harp Concerto in 2020. Elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019, she was a professor of composition at the Curtis Institute of Music from 1994 to 2021.

31 December 1962

Born on the same birth date (31 December 1962): Chris Hallam • Tyrone Corbin

Born on the same birth day (31 December): Alycia Parks • Barry Hughes • Gabby Douglas • Herman Boerhaave • King Kelly • Matthew Hoggard • Peter May (cricketer) • Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark • Rex Allen • Steve Bruce

Born in the same month (December 1962): Ben Watt • Felicity Huffman • Gary Fleder • John de Wolf • Kate Spade • Marty Friedman • Michel Petrucciani • Nataliya Grygoryeva (hurdler) • Nikos Karageorgiou • Nixon Kiprotich • Pamela McGee • Roxanne Swentzell • Tammy Jackson • Tim Gaines