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English repetiteur and conductor.

Stephen Higgins studied music at Worcester College, Oxford, before completing the repetiteur course at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Staying in London, he then spent a year as repetiteur for the National Opera Studio, with support from English National Opera.

He was an apprentice repetiteur with English National Opera and also worked in Finland (Savonlinna Festival) and St Petersburg (La cenerentola). For Scottish Opera he was music director / pianist on small-scale tours of Così fan tutte and the Essentials excerpts series.

(Sources: Programme notes)