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Michael Higgins
Michael Higgins (b.1981) 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. He also studied organ with Andrew Fletcher and was organ scholar at Birmingham Metropolitan Cathedral.
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 works with the Birmingham Bach Choir, Wimbledon Choral Society, Midland Festival Chorus, New London Singers, the National Children’s Choir and National Youth Choirs of Great Britain and is Director of Music at the Church of St John the Baptist, Wimbledon. In 2005, Michael made a successful return visit to Auckland to lead workshops for choral accompanists by invitation of the New Zealand Choral Federation.
Michael was awarded the Joseph Weingarten Memorial Trust Scholarship and completed his studies with Kálmán Dráfi and Sándor Devich at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Budapest.
