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): Emperor Go-Yōzei • Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba (1585–1635) • Herman Boerhaave • Jana Veselá • Katie Volynets • Steve Bruce • Wardy Alfaro

Born in the same month (December 1962): Ben Watt • Bertrand Gachot • Fred Rutten • Gary Fleder • Jeffrey Donaldson • John de Wolf • Mark Few • Mark Starr • Nikos Karageorgiou • Nixon Kiprotich • Paul Dobson (footballer) • Roxanne Swentzell • Steve Elkington • Tammy Jackson • Tyrone Corbin