Described by The New Yorker magazine as one of the "prime movers of the local avant-garde", and an "exacting avant-classical guitarist" by TimeOut NY, Patrick Higgins is a New York based composer/performer of experimental music. Higgins has composed works for some of the nations leading classical ensembles, ranging from chamber orchestra works, percussion cycles, and string quartets to smaller ensembles and soloists. He has scored works for television, museum exhibitions, and films both short-form and feature-length. Higgins plays guitar and composes in the ensemble ZS, hailed by the New York Times as one of the strongest avant-garde bands in New York.

As a soloist, he performs both classical acoustic and electric guitar in genre-bending contexts, utilizing extended technique and electronic processing. A work of "visionary [...] master-craftsmanship on guitar" (Tiny Mix Tapes), his record of quadraphonic guitar compositions STEREO was named to the Best of 2012 by Impose Magazine, and his electro-acoustic project Bachanalia has received numerous plaudits for its re-interpretation of the Baroque master's work. A unique double LP of Higgins' String Quartet No.2 and its electro-acoustic "remix" Glacia is out Nov.12th 2013 on Ex Cathedra Records.

Patrick Higgin's music has been performed internationally in over 18 countries, including performances at some of the world's leading concert venues and music festivals: Merkin Concert Hall, Issue Project Room, Roulette, The Stone, 92Y Tribeca, (le) Poisson Rouge, Club Unit (Tokyo), Vacant Gallery (Tokyo), Donau Festival (Austria), Incubate (Netherlands), Berghain (Germany), Magazin 4 (Belgium), Sonic (France), Puxian Grand Theater (China) and many more. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.