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She was born in Brooklyn , spent her first 10 years in Atlanta and studied at Bowling Green State University (for a degree in flute performance) and the University Of Pennsylvania . Her ''Concerto for Orchestra'' (2002) was commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra and ''City Scape'' (2002) by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra . Her composition teachers include David Loeb and George Crumb . She met her champion, the conductor most responsible for her current success, Robert Spano , in 1985, when Spano was teaching a conducting course at BGSU. Higdon now teaches at the Curtis Institute Of Music . She is also serving as the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Composer-in-Residence in 2005-2006. Her musical style, redolent of the music of Christopher Rouse , uses elements of traditional tonality and a rudimentary reworking of Octatonic Scale s. REFERENCES Home Page |
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