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UNCOVERED: Gavin higgins - The Untold Story

Three Choirs festival review – impressive opening salvo full of crackling energy and exuberant fireworks

A packed crowd greeted this year’s curtain raiser for a delightfully Tiggerish premiere of Gavin Higgins’ Fanfare Americana, an exhilarating Elgar’s First and a joyful rendition of Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast

The Guardian - UK

‘Tics are involuntary’: people with Tourette syndrome on Baftas outburst

Those with the condition share varying views of John Davidson’s tic during Sunday’s awards ceremony

The Guardian - UK

Look north: composer Gavin Higgins on his new song cycle celebrating northerness

From the high energy and high rises of Manchester to the wild beauties of the moors and mountains, the north of England has enriched and inspired Gavin Higgins. His newest work explores the idea – and the sounds – of being northern

The Guardian - UK

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The week in classical: The Elixir of Love; Septura; Bone-Afide – review

Donizetti’s sparkling romcom is on a wartime footing in ENO’s sitcom-style new production. And in a great week for brass premieres, enter 22 trombones…

The Guardian - UK

BBCNOW/Martin review – Higgins’ horn concerto is confident, fluent – and life-enhancing

Gavin Higgins’ new work, premiered here, takes inspiration from the Forest of Dean, where he grew up. It was brought to vivid and organic life by Ben Goldscheider

The Guardian - UK

'Doctors said my tic was attention-seeking - but then I had my eureka moment'

After his teachers and doctors accused him of 'showing off', Gavin Higgins suppressed his painful tic for years. Then a life-changing diagnosis proved them all wrong

Daily Mirror

Prom 30: Tredegar Band/BBCNOW/Bancroft review – vivid and expressive love letter to brass bands

Gavin Higgins’s ambitious new ‘concerto grosso’ was brilliantly played by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the Tredegar Band

The Guardian - UK

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Man who uses music to manage his Tourette’s syndrome will have his work performed at BBC Proms

Welsh musicians will perform the piece composed by Gavin Higgins at the Royal Albert Hall tonight

The Independent UK

The top brass: Ahead of two dedicated Proms, can brass bands finally move beyond the cliches?

It’s been 33 years since the last Prom dedicated to brass band music, while Gavin Higgins’ concerto for Brass band and orchestra is the first Proms commission of its kind. It’s time to forget that Hovis ad and celebrate the banding world

The Guardian - UK

‘We hear things no one else notices’: Proms composers on their extraordinary new music

The world’s greatest classical music festival is back. From landing on Mars to the life of a beehive, Thomas Adès, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Jennifer Walshe and others tell us about the work they’ll debut there

The Guardian - UK

Aldeburgh festival review – Gavin Higgins’ Faerie Bride brings otherworldly aura to Aldeburgh

Based on the Lady of the Lake, Higgins’ new cantata was lyrical and highly atmospheric, while Graham Fitkin’s works for two pianos were scintillatingly energetic

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