Alex Little is a doctoral student of Prof. Higgs at the Eastman School of Music. Born and raised in the U.K., he was a chorister at Norwich Cathedral before studying at Merton College, Oxford, where he completed his undergraduate degree in music and a master’s degree in musicology. At Merton he was organ scholar then assistant organist, accompanying the college’s two choirs in services, CD recordings, and radio broadcasts, as well as international tours in Europe, North America, and Asia. While at Oxford, Alex studied organ with William Whitehead, and also traveled to Copenhagen and Lund, Sweden, to study with renowned Swedish organist Hans Fagius with a grant from the Royal Philharmonic Society.

Alex won first prize in the Arthur Poister Competition (Syracuse, 2025), and the Lynnwood Farnam Competition (Montreal, 2023), as well second prize at the International Buxtehude Competition (Lübeck, 2023), amongst other prizes. In Rochester, he is currently Director of Music at St. Anne’s Catholic Church, having previously held the position of Assistant Organist at Christ Church Episcopal. He completed his  doctoral research project on the subject of quarter-comma meantone temperament and its effect on compositional style in seventeenth-century North Germany. He is currently completing the requirements for Eastman’s prestigious Artist’s Certificate.