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Bret Higgins

Born: December 26, 1974

Bret Higgins is a composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist based in Toronto, Canada. He leads a varied career that includes writing music for film and television, original music for ensembles, co-writes, producing, arranging, and performing & recording with an array of artists from across a broad spectrum of contemporary music.

The bassist's prolific work as a composer has won him numerous awards, grants, residencies, and scholarships. His music has been heard in clubs, theatres, and concert halls throughout North America, Europe, Australia, Brazil and Chile. Additionally, he has received a number of music commissions by notable performing ensembles.

Scoring The Unseen

By Bret Higgins

Label: Bommba Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: High Treason (Runs In The Blood); Nocturnalia; Magnetic Mountain; Port Of Shadows; Taming The Garden; Weird Homecoming; Perchance To Dream; Licorice Spurs; I Drink The Thunder; Lonesome Palm; Cardboard Cloud; I Can't See Tomorrow; Walking Distance.

Bret Higgins: Scoring The Unseen

by Glenn Astarita
August 23, 2026

Bret Higgins has built a career as a bassist among adventurous improvisers, but on Scoring the Unseen he steps fully into the role of film composer, minus the inconvenience of an actual film. The concept, soundtracks for movies that exist only in imagination, could easily be read as a gimmick on paper. On wax, it plays ...

Illusion Machine

By Bret Higgins

Label: Chant Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Shadowboxing, Hunter, Last Man Standing, Euculipsa, Astral Soul Shake, Sun Gazers, Stern, Bebop, Moon Catchers

Bret Higgins' Atlas Revolt

By Bret Higgins

Label: Tzadik
Released: 2016
Track listing: Atlas Revolt; El Metate; All About the Starry Dark; Zagazig; Electric Sinner; Sanan; Meat for Dogs; Flashbulb Memories; Vorticism; Jakaranda.

Bret Higgins' Atlas Revolt: Bret Higgins' Atlas Revolt

by Vic Albani
May 9, 2016

Non ce ne eravamo dimenticati. Chiediamo scusa per il ritardo poiché di questo disco si sarebbe dovuto parlare già diverso tempo fa ma... i pompieri, le cavallette e via di conserva. Come è ormai ben noto, John Zorn licenzia spesso per la sua attivissima Tzadik molti dischi di notevole spessore qualitativo ed interesse. ...

Bret Higgins' Atlas Revolt

By Bret Higgins

Label: Tzadik
Released: 2015
Track listing: Atlas Revolt; El Metate; All About The Starry Dark; Zagazig; Electric Sinner; Sanan; Meat For Dogs; Flashbulb Memories; Vorticism; Jakaranda.

Bret Higgins' Atlas Revolt: Bret Higgins' Atlas Revolt

by Glenn Astarita
December 26, 2015

Canadian bassist Bret Higgins' Atlas Revolt ensemble celebrates its inaugural outing on composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer John Zorn's diverse and far-reaching Tzadik record label. Consequently, Higgins is a member of the Canadian band Zebrina --cited as bringing “Jewish music into the 21st century" --and features venerable American clarinetist Ben Goldberg on the 2014 Tzadik release Hamidbar ...

Bret Higgins' Atlas Revolt: Bret Higgins' Atlas Revolt

by Dan Bilawsky
August 28, 2015

The eponymous debut from Toronto-based bassist Bret Higgins' Atlas Revolt is a tough one to pin down and an easy one to get pleasantly lost in. Higgins regularly walks through different musical worlds, working with the folk-rock outfit Great Lake Swimmers, the Balkan-klezmer band Beyond The Pale, the folk-ish Ozere, and the trippy ...