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{{Short description|Australian organist. and harpsichordist}}
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'''Brett Leighton''' is a musician with some notability in Europe. His expertise is the ] and ].


⚫ '''Brett Leighton''' is an Australian freelance ] and ] who has lived in Europe for more than 40 years{{Citation needed|date=May 2012}} and was Professor of Organ at the ] in ], Austria from 1994 until retirement in November 2020. He is featured on four CD releases including Orgel Landschaft Ober-Österreich II (1998),<ref>Weinberg Records SW 010070-2</ref> Brett Leighton an der West-Orgel in Taufkirchen/Pram (1998)<ref>Symicon CD 123</ref> Music for Organ and Zink (2005),<ref>http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/7004174/a/Music+for+Organ+and+Zink+%2F+Sherwin,+Leighton.htm as of April 8, 2007</ref> The World's Oldest Organ<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ohscatalog.org/woolor.html |title=The World's Oldest Organ |accessdate=2007-04-08 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927175643/http://www.ohscatalog.org/woolor.html |archivedate=2007-09-27 }}</ref> and
===Professional===
The Organ of the Stadtkirche St.Marien, Celle.
⚫ Leighton is Professor of Organ and Harpsichord at the Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität in Linz, Austria. He is featured on at least four CD releases including Orgel Landschaft Ober-Österreich II (1998) <ref> Weinberg Records SW 010070-2 </ref>, Brett Leighton an der West-Orgel in Taufkirchen/Pram (1998) <ref> Symicon CD 123 </ref> Music for Organ and Zink (2005)<ref> http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/7004174/a/Music+for+Organ+and+Zink+%2F+Sherwin,+Leighton.htm as of April 8, 2007 </ref> and The World's Oldest Organ <ref> http://www.ohscatalog.org/woolor.html as of April 8, 2007 </ref> and he is a judge for the 2007 Paul Hofhaimer Prize of Austria. <ref> Announcement at http://www.innsbruck.at/io30/download/Dokumente/Content/Kultur/Musikschule/Hofhaimer/Announcement2007.pdf?disposition=inline as of April 8, 2007 </ref>
<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.musicaomnia.org/release/the-organ-at-celle-digital-download/ | title=The Organ at Celle – Digital Download – }}</ref>
He was 1977 Student of the Year at the NSW State Conservatorium of Music (Sydney, Australia) - where his teacher was David Rumsey - Brett Leighton has lived in Europe for over 20 years. Further organ studies took him to Anton Heiler and Michael Radulescu in Vienna (Wiener Musikhochschule, 1981), and harpsichord with Jean-Claude Zehnder in Basel and Ton Koopman in Amsterdam. His many prizes and awards include the prestigious Paul Hofhaimer Prize of the City of Innsbruck in 1979. Since then, Brett Leighton has been an active recitalist in Europe, Japan, Australia, Mexico and the USA. His repertoire spans almost all styles with an emphasis on historically researched performance practice. In addition, Leighton has played numerous first performances of contemporary organ works. He has broadcast and recorded CDs as soloist and in ensemble in Europe and Australia. In addition to teaching, Leighton is a regular performer at many European festivals and summer courses and has acted as consultant for the construction of new organs, especially in Austria.
He has three times served on the jury of the competition for Paul Hofhaimer Prize of the City of Innsbruck (2004, 2007 and 2019) and will do so again in 2022 for its twentieth edition.{{citation needed|date=September 2022}}


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⚫ *Concert reviews in Oberösterreichische Nachrichten: , , (in German)
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⚫ *, calling Leighton "one of the great specialists of the baroque repertoire" (in Spanish).


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⚫ * Concert reviews in Oberösterreichische Nachrichten: {{dead link|date=January 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, {{dead link|date=January 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, {{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (in German)
=== Teenager ===
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Some random guy who moved from New Zealand to Canada.
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⚫ * {{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (in Italian)
=== References ===
⚫ * , calling Leighton "one of the great specialists of the baroque repertoire" (in Spanish).
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Brett Leighton is an Australian freelance organist and harpsichordist who has lived in Europe for more than 40 years and was Professor of Organ at the Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität in Linz, Austria from 1994 until retirement in November 2020. He is featured on four CD releases including Orgel Landschaft Ober-Österreich II (1998), Brett Leighton an der West-Orgel in Taufkirchen/Pram (1998) Music for Organ and Zink (2005), The World's Oldest Organ and The Organ of the Stadtkirche St.Marien, Celle. He has three times served on the jury of the competition for Paul Hofhaimer Prize of the City of Innsbruck (2004, 2007 and 2019) and will do so again in 2022 for its twentieth edition.

References

  1. Weinberg Records SW 010070-2
  2. Symicon CD 123
  3. http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/7004174/a/Music+for+Organ+and+Zink+%2F+Sherwin,+Leighton.htm as of April 8, 2007
  4. "The World's Oldest Organ". Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 8 April 2007.
  5. "The Organ at Celle – Digital Download –".

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