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
Interview from Brass Band World Magazine, november 09 - issue 189, pg 20 - 21.
"The composer lays his heart on his sleeve in music marked by some melting harmony playing."
Christopher Thomas - 4barsrest
"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
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Interview 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"
Christopher Thomas - 4barsrest
"[Freaks] was a real tour de force from both band and soloist, modern music which was nevertheless very approachable and audience-friendly."