List of compositions by Jennifer Higdon

List of compositions by Jennifer Higdon. All works are in alphabetical order.

Opera

• Cold Mountain: (premiered The Santa Fe Opera, 1 August 2015)
• Woman With Eyes Closed: (premiered Pittsburgh Opera, April 2025)

Chamber

Flute

• Amazing Grace
• Autumn Reflection
• DASH
• The Jeffrey Mode
• Legacy
• Lullaby
• Mountain Songs
• Music Box of Light
• rapid.fire (for solo flute)
• running the edgE
• Song (for solo flute)
• Steeley Pause
• Trio Song
• Wedding Hymn

Mixed Instrumentation

• Autumn Music
• Ceremonies
• Ceremonies Suite
• Dark Wood
• Dash
• Music Box of Light
• Piano Trio
• Quiet Art
• Scenes from the Poet's Dreams
• Smash
• Soliloquy
• Sonata for Viola and Piano
• String Poetic
• String Trio
• Summer Shimmers
• Trio Songs
• Trumpet Songs
• wissahickon poeTrees
• Zaka
• Zango Bandango

Clarinet and ensemble

• Celestial Hymns
• DASH
• Light Refracted
• Soliloquy

String quartets

• Amazing Grace
• An Exaltation of Larks
• Impressions
• Sky Quartet
• Southern Harmony
• Voices

Saxophone

• Bop
• Lullaby
• Sax Sonata
• Short Stories

Percussion

• Like Clockwork
• Splendid Wood
• ZONES

Piano and piano ensemble

• Bentley Roses
• Piano Trio (2003)
• Piano Trio Color Through (2016)
• Scenes from the Poet's Dreams
• Secret & Glass Gardens (for solo piano)
• Summer Shimmers

Choral

• Deep in the Night (1997)
• O magnum mysterium (2002)
• On the Death of the Righteous (2009)
• A Quiet Moment (1999)
• Sanctus (2001)
• Sing, Sing (1999)
• The Singing Rooms (2007)
• somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond (2006)
• Southern Grace (1998)
• The Singing Art (2004)
• Voice of the Bard (2005)

Vocal

• Bentley Roses
• breaking
• Dooryard Bloom
• Falling
• Hop and Toe Dance
• In Our Quiet
• Lullaby
• Morning Opens
• Notes on Love
• Red
• Threaded
• To Home
• Wedding Hymn

Orchestral

• All Things Majestic (2011)
• blue cathedral (1999)
• Celebration Fanfare (2003)
• City Scape (2002)
• Concerto 4-3 (2007)
• Concerto for Orchestra (2002)
• Dance Card (2015)
• Dooryard Bloom (2004)
• Duo Duel (Double Percussion Concerto) (2020)
• Fanfare Ritmico (1999)
• Harp Concerto (2018)
• Light (2006)
• The Light That We Can Hear (Flute Concerto) (2022)
• Loco (2004)
• Low Brass Concerto (2017)
• Machine (2003)
• Mandolin Concerto (2021)
• Oboe Concerto (2005)
• On a Wire (2010)
• On the Death of the Righteous (2009)
• Percussion Concerto (2005)
• Piano Concerto (2006)
• Shine (1995)
• The Singing Rooms (2007)
• Soliloquy (1989)
• Soprano Sax Concerto (2007)
• Spirit (2006)
• To the Point (2004)
• Trombone Concerto (2005)
• Tuba Concerto (2017)
• Viola Concerto (2015)
• Violin Concerto (2008) - recipient of a 2010 Pulitzer Prize, written for and played by Hilary Hahn
• Wind Shear (2000)

String orchestra

• Celebration Fanfare
• "String" from Concerto for Orchestra
• To The Point

Wind ensemble and band

• Fanfare Ritmico (2002)
• Kelly's Field (2006)
• Oboe Concerto—arranged for solo oboe and wind ensemble (2008)
• Percussion Concerto—arranged for solo percussion and wind ensemble (2009)
• Rhythm Stand (2004)
• Road Stories (2010)
• Soprano Sax Concerto—arranged for solo soprano sax and wind ensemble (2009)

References

• Jennifer Higdon's Website