what people say
"[Three Broken Love Songs] showed much intensity, even large elements of Gershwin in the first movement."
Glyn Mon Hughes - Liverpool Daily Post
"From the pastoaral portraits of Forest Symphony to the black comedy Freaks!, Gavin Higgins' musical imagination embraces light and dark. Paul Hindmarsh charts the musical evolution of this gifted young composer."
Interview from Brass Band World Magazine, November 09 - issue 189, pg 20 - 21.
"Less 'high flown' in all senses, Gavin Higgins's Rage Dances is a sequence as evocative of the symphonic band as of the jazz ensemble; and with an unpredictable follow-through the composer likened to that of Manga cartoons popular in Japan, albeit with a distinct sense of 'arrival' by the end."
Richard Whitehouse - Classical Source
"At twenty six years of age, Gavin Higgins is one of the brightest stars amongst a flourishing generation of talented young composers..."
Interview from 4BR, 30 March, 2010
"Talented composer Gavin Higgins is one guy who should be blowing his own trumpet. His eclectic and colourful scores have been raising eyebrows in the Muso office - for all the right reasons...This is one composer who has certainly whet our appetites."
Article from MUSO Magazine february/march 2010 - issue 44, pg 14 - 15.
"[Ivory Ghosts] made quite an impression on the audience and rightly so...For all its brevity this is music that can cast a powerful spell and the atmospheric sounds Higgins creates were exploited by the band to haunting and moving effect"