Brett Leighton is an Australian freelance

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and

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who has lived in Europe for more than 40 years and was Professor of Organ at the

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, 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

Press

* Concert reviews in Oberösterreichische Nachrichten
Apr. 13, 2005Jun. 24, 2005Oct. 13, 2006
(in German)
Concert announcement in Der Vinschger, calling his music "first-class and legendary"
(in German)

(in German).
Concert announcement in La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, Jan. 22, 2005
(in Italian)

calling Leighton "one of the great specialists of the baroque repertoire" (in Spanish). {{DEFAULTSORT:Leighton, Brett Living people Austrian classical organists Australian male classical organists Australian harpsichordists Year of birth missing (living people) Sydney Conservatorium of Music alumni Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Australian organists 21st-century Australian male musicians