Ian Higginson was born on Merseyside and moved to Gloucestershire in 1983. He is well known as an organist, conductor, accompanist, composer and arranger and has performed in many of the country's leading cathedrals, churches and concert halls. Ian studied the organ with Ian Tracey (Liverpool Cathedral) and John Scott (St Paul's Cathedral). He has also studied conducting with the late Dr Melville Cook, Jonathan Delmar and Sir David Willcocks.

In addition to conducting Cheltenham Choral Society (a post which he has held since 1989) and the English Concertanté Singers and Orchestra, Ian has also conducted Choral workshops both in the UK and the USA. He is also Organist to the Cathedral Singers of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, and Organist and Director of Music at St George's Parish Church, Tuffley, Gloucester.

Ian has made numerous recordings for labels such as Wealdon, Free for Good and Parish Recordings, both as an organist and a conductor. He is a Fellow of both the London College of Music and the Trinity College, London and is a member of the Guild of Church Musicians.

As a composer, Ian has had many of his compositions and arrangements published and performed both in the UK and USA. One of his most recent works was the setting of a Requiem mass which has won much critical acclaim from both sides of the Atlantic. Ian's publishers include Boosey & Hawkes, Animus Publishing and Parish Publications (a thriving music publishing and recording company he runs jointly with his wife Janine).

Ian Higginson