His teachers have included Claire Coci, Peter Hurford, Russell Saunders, and Frederick Swann. He earned the Bachelor and Master of Music degrees at the Manhattan School of Music, and the Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music. Higgs held his first position as a church organist at age ten as a teenager, he performed classical music as well as rock, gospel, and soul music. His performances for colleagues include national, regional and pedagogy conventions of the American Guild of Organists, as well as national conventions of the American Pipe Organ Builders Association, the American Institute of Organbuilders, the Westfield Center, and the Organ Historical Society and in London, the Annual Congress of the Incorporated Association of Organists, and the International Congress of Organists.Ī native of New York City, Mr. Albans International Festival and Competition, and the Cambridge Summer Festival. In England he has appeared several times at the Oundle International Festival and Organ Academy, the St. Higgs performs, teaches, and adjudicates at festivals and competitions throughout the world, including the International Organ Festivals of Calgary, Alberta Dublin, Ireland Odense, Denmark Redlands and San Anselmo, California and the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival. Since his 1987 debut with the San Francisco Symphony, he has played many Christmas concerts to capacity audiences at San Francisco’s Davies Symphony Hall, and in recent years, he has continued this tradition at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. His performances with numerous ensembles have included the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Orpheus Ensemble, Chanticleer, and the Empire Brass. Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny, Ireland and the Church of St. Stephan’s Cathedral, Vienna the Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas St. He performs extensively throughout the United States and abroad, and has inaugurated many important new instruments including St. One of America’s leading concert organists, David Higgs is also Chair of the Organ Department at the Eastman School of Music. You are here: Home > Artist Roster > Higgs, David
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