The American composer Jennifer Higdon began her formal music education only at the age of 18, turning three years later to composition. She has won a position for herself with a series of compositions in various genres, appealing to a wide audience. She teaches composition at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
Chamber Music
Jennifer Higdon’s Piano Trio chooses colours as movement titles, suggesting characteristic moods. Voices offers three contrasting images, and Impressions suggests a response to impressionism in music and in painting.