Conductor & Pianist

Michael Higgins studied piano with Margaret Newman at the Birmingham Conservatoire, later specialising in piano accompaniment and chamber music at the Royal Academy of Music, London, with Julius Drake and Iain Ledingham. 

Abroad, Michael has toured with singers and instrumentalists in Germany, Hungary, Italy, Australia and New Zealand.  He performs regularly in London and throughout the United Kingdom and is Director of Music at the Church of St John the Baptist, Wimbledon. Recent performances include the European premiere of Eric Whitacre’s ‘Animal Crackers, Volume II’ with the National Youth Choir of Great Britain conducted by the composer, Mozart’s ‘Piano Concerto no. 14 in E flat’ with the New London Soloists Orchestra at St Martin in the Fields, a recital with Einar Jóhannesson (Principal Clarinet of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra) and accompanying a choir of Olympians live on BBC1.

As a composer, he has answered a number of commissions, including songs for a set of educational books published in Singapore, and many of his choral and organ works are published worldwide by Kevin Mayhew Publishers.

Michael was awarded the Joseph Weingarten Memorial Trust Scholarship and completed his studies with Kálmán Dráfi at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Budapest.