Carl Leighton graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music with a First Class Honours degree in the summer of 2022, having studied the piano under the tutelage of renowned performer, Dina Parakhina.
In the summer of 2018, Carl’s performance of Saint Saëns’ Second Piano Concerto under Simon Wright was a great success – since then he has had the privilege to perform many other concertos, including Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto and Saint Saëns’ ‘Africa’. He has seen great success in many competitions, both local (East Coast Musician of the Year, Rothwell Competitive Music Festival) and conservatoire-affiliated. Over more recent years, Carl has had the opportunity to perform aboard in Verona, Venice, Bergen, Krakow, and Budapest. While much of his success in competitions has been in accompaniment and chamber music, Carl remains devoted to further study, and performance, of the solo piano repertoire.
Carl works as both an accompanist and piano tutor at Chetham’s School of Music. He also has a role as a piano tutor at Yorkshire Young Musicians – a junior conservatoire based in Leeds and Hull.
