Edward Higginbottom

Edward Higginbottom (born 16 November 1946, Kendal) is a music scholar, organist, choirmaster and conductor.

[2] Most of his career has been as organist at New College, Oxford, where he led their choir for more than 35 years and produced a large number of choral recordings.

[2] As a graduate student, he spent time in France (1970–1972), studying the organ with Marie-Claire Alain while working on his doctoral thesis.

[7] In spite of his retirement, however, he was named in March 2019 as the Director of Chapel Music at St Peter's College, Oxford for the 2019/20 academic year, pending the appointment of a successor to Jeremy Summerly in 2020.

[8] Edward and his wife Caroline have 7 adult children,[3] including his son (who was also a chorister) Orlando, better known professionally as Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, an animal chiropractor, a jeweller, a doctor, a teacher, a timpanist, and a writer.