Carleigh’s Recent engagements include Zdenka (Arabella) and Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) in Royal Academy Opera scenes, soloist in Ravel’s Chansons madécasses for the Academy’s celebratory Ravel concert, performances at London’s Tête à Tête Festival, and participation in Glyndebourne Festival’s Opera Lab, led by Jessica Walker and Stephen Langridge.

Carleigh is a prize winner in several vocal competitions, including first prize in the Major Van Someren-Godfrey Prize and second prize in both the Isabel Jay Memorial Prize and the Blyth-Buesst Operatic Prize. 

As well as participating in Leeds Song as a Young Artist, Carleigh’s upcoming engagements include Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) in Royal Academy scenes, covering Female Chorus (The Rape of Lucretia) with the Royal Academy Opera Studio, and projects and performances at the National Institute for Dramatic Art in Brussels exploring the integration of wax and voice through George Crumb’s Apparition. 

Carleigh holds a Bachelor of Music from the University of British Columbia, where her roles included Hannah (Die Passagierin, Canadian premiere), Marcellina (Le nozze di Figaro), La Marchesa Melibea (Il viaggio a Reims), and Zweite Dame (Die Zauberflöte), as well as female soloist in Duruflé’s Requiem with the UBC Symphony Orchestra. She has toured as a soloist with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, sung in masterclasses with Susan Bullock, Sondra Radvanovsky, Judith Forst, and Katherine Ciesinski, and co-produced a multidisciplinary reimagining of Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder with WhatLab Studios as part of their Deep End Residency Program.