Michael Higgins is a composer, pianist, and Artistic Director of the professional chamber choir Sonoro.

Michael’s music is published exclusively by Oxford University Press, and has been performed internationally by ensembles including the BBC Symphony Chorus, Choralis (Washington DC), the Irish Youth Choir, Papagena, Rodolfus Choir, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra Youth Chorus, St Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Choir and St Martin’s Voices.

As a pianist, Michael is in demand with some of the UK’s leading choirs, and regularly works with the BBC Singers, London Voices and the National Youth Choir.

Michael studied piano with Margaret Newman at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, and at the Royal Academy of Music, London, with Iain Ledingham and Julius Drake. He continued his studies with Kálmán Dráfi at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, supported by an award from the Joseph Weingarten Memorial Trust. He has also been honoured as an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.

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