MICHAEL HIGGINS studied 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. Michael was Organ Scholar at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint Chad, Birmingham, and has recently been appointed Director of Music at St. John's, Wimbledon.

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 National Youth Choirs and National Children's Choir of Great Britain. In 2005, Michael made a successful return visit to Auckland to lead workshops for choral accompanists by invitation of the New Zealand Choral Federation.

As a composer, he has answered a number of commissions, including songs for a set of educational books published in Singapore by Prentice Hall, 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.