Professor Lee Higgins
Director
International Centre of Community Music
York St John University
Community Music, Music Education, Applied Ethnomusicology, Participatory Arts Practices
Professor Lee Higgins is the Director of the International Centre of Community Music based at York St John University, UK. He has held previously positions at Boston University, USA, Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, UK and the University of Limerick, Ireland. Lee has been a visiting professor at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany and Westminster Choir College, Princeton, USA. He received his PhD from the Irish Academy of Music and Dance, Ireland and is the President of International Society of Music Education (2016-2018). As a community musician he has worked across the education sector as well as within health settings, prison and probation service, youth and community, adult education, and arts organizations such as orchestras and dance. As a presenter and guest speakemore...
Irish Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Ireland.
PhD, (2006)
Supervisors: Patricia Shehan Campbell, University of Washington, USA
Helen Phelan, University of Limerick, Ireland
Title: Boundary-Walkers: Contexts and Concepts of Community Music
• Winner of ‘Outstanding Dissertation Award 2008.’ The National [USA] Association for Music Education (Community and Adult Education Special Research Interest Group).
Manchester Metropolitan University.
BA (Hons) Creative and Performing Arts (Visual Art/Music), 2:1, (1988)
West London Institute of Higher Education.
Diploma in Music, A Level Music, History of Art, (1985)
Associated Board of Music
Classical Guitar, Grade 8, (1985)