Jennifer Higdon
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"Jennifer Higdon" is an American composer of european classical music/classical music. She has received many awards including the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Music for her Violin Concerto and the 2009 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for her Percussion Concerto.

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This is the first time this has happened that I didn't know how [the soloist] sounded.

Now, very few composers write for themselves.

I try to get the personality of the person involved. I like writing concertos because I can tailor the works like a good suit of clothes, to show off the things they do well and that they show off.