Leigh Carriage

Leigh Carriage is an Australian vocalist, educator and songwriter.[1][2] Her festival performances include the Monterey Jazz Festival,[3] Wangaratta Jazz and Blues Festival,[4] Melbourne Women’s Jazz Festival,[5] Brisbane International Jazz Festival[6] and the Brisbane Festival.[7] Carriage's 2013 album Mandarin Skyline, mixed and mastered by Grammy Award winner Helik Hadir,[8] was nominated for a National Australian Jazz Bell Award,[9] and Weave (2016) won NCEIA Album of the Year.[10]

Carriage is a senior lecturer in the Contemporary Music Program at Southern Cross University, where she has specialised in vocal pedagogy and ensemble direction since 1998.[11] Since 1999 Carriage has coordinated a Visiting Artists mentoring program for Women in Contemporary Music,[12] and the APRA Songwriting Workshop Series for the past 15 years.[13] In 2009, Carriage was awarded a Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning by the Vice Chancellor,[11] and in 2019 she was nominated for an Impact Award for Professional Service.[14] She was awarded a PhD in Composition at Sydney Conservatorium of Music[11] for a dissertation that broadly encompassed her research interests in composition, performance, improvisation, collaboration and recording.