Nebraska Crossroads Music Festival Artistic Director Erik Higgins grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska where he started playing double bass in the Lincoln Public Schools strings program. Higgins studied at Indiana University, the Academy of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Munich, Germany, and has held positions in the Hamburg State Opera, A Far Cry Chamber Orchestra in Boston, and the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra in Denmark. An avid early music specialist as well, he has been a regularly performing member with the Handel and Haydn Society in Boston, Concerto Copenhagen in Denmark, and many other period ensembles.
Erik is the founder and current Artistic Director of the Nebraska Crossroads Music Festival and produces and participates in many musical projects spanning genre and tradition, including folk, pop, and traditional music projects, around the world.