Leila is a Manchester based musician who enjoys a lively and varied freelance career. A graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music, Leila is a versatile flautist, a dedicated teacher and passionate about inclusive music making.
Leila
Marshall
Flute | Piccolo
Performer | Teacher
Inclusive Music Facilitator
About
Hailing from Edinburgh, Leila began learning the flute at the age of ten. Nurtured by the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland junior department and later the Edinburgh Youth Orchestra, she developed a passion for performing from a young age. A graduate of the RCS, Leila gained her Bachelor of Music degree under the tutelage of Katherine Bryan. In 2017, she won the Edinburgh Competition Festival concerto prize and was awarded the Colin MacLean Bursary Award to further her studies. Leila went on to graduate with Distinction from the Master of Music program at the Royal Northern College of Music where she studied with Kevin Gowland and Laura Jellicoe. Highlights of her time at the RNCM include winning the Hallé Professional Enterprise Scheme, performing Mahlers' Fifth Symphony under the baton of Vassily Sinaisky, and appearing as a soloist with the RNCM New Ensemble to perform 'Terrestre' by Kaija Saariaho. At the RNCM she was a founding member of wind quintet Festivo Winds. Festivo won the June Emerson Launchpad Award, the John Fewkes Chamber Prize for winds and were ‘Audience favourite’ at the Christopher Rowland Chamber Ensemble of the Year competition.
Leila performs regularly across the North West and Scotland in a variety of settings. She regularly guests on flute and piccolo with groups such as The Manchester Concert Orchestra, New Sinfonia, Kaleidoscope Orchestra, London Film Orchestra, The Brigantes Orchestra and has appeared with some of the top orchestras in the UK such as the Hallé, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Northern Chamber Orchestra and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
An active chamber musician, Leila recently appeared with Festivo Winds and special guest Jessica Tomlinson to perform a unique program of music for winds with folk influences - culminating in a performance of Leoš Janáčeks' wind sextet - Mládí. Festivo received an Ida Carroll Trust award to perform this program at Low Four Studios in Manchester. Alongside celebrated guitarist Sasha Savaloni, Leila recorded 'Mill Memories' by Scottish composer Savourna Stevenson with Delphian Records. The album 'Building Castles: Live Music Now Scotland celebrates 40 years' launches later this year.
Leila is passionate about music education and balances performing with her teaching and outreach commitments. She believes strongly in the human right to access high quality music making opportunities and finds joy in incorporating her playing into her music facilitation work. Supported by Live Music Now Leila recently completed a year long residency at Redbridge High School working with the Duke of Edinburgh students, culminating in a creative song writing project.
Media
CPE Bach - Sonata in A minor
Live performance, 2018
Kaija Saariaho - Terrestre
Live performance, RNCM New Ensemble, 2018
Bofan Ma, 'Maybe it Might Be...'
Antony Burgess Centre, 2020
Alto flute, Mezzo, Guitar, Electronics
Philippe Gaubert
Live performance, 2018
Piano: Ben Powell
Teaching
With over ten years of experience, Leila is a dedicated and inspiring teacher for flautists for all stages and abilities. She currently teaches piano and flute at Ashton on Mersey School and is a staff member at Yorkshire Young Musicians - delivering one-to-one flute lessons and coaching ensembles. She is experienced in successfully guiding students through exams, auditions and competitions, but equally enjoys working with those who just want to learn for pleasure.
Leila has previously enjoyed working with Opera North (In Harmony) as part of their education program and during her time there gained training and experience teaching early years, musicianship and music for SEND students.
She teaches privately from her home in North Manchester, can offer lessons online and has a full DBS certificate. Get in touch via the contact page to enquire about private lessons with Leila.
Leila has been teaching my daughter flute for nearly a year now. She is easily the best teacher she has had. My daughter picked up some bad habits when playing and struggled with rhythm. Leila was the only teacher with the perseverance and the right teaching techniques to overcome this. My daughter really likes her and finds her very good.
Leila is teaching flute with passion and attention to details. She succeeded in motivating our daughter to make quick progress. We felt overjoyed that our daughter achieved distinction in her recent ABRSM grade 3 test after learning with Leila!
Leila is a fantastic professor. Excellent judge of character, she understood very quickly my motivation and preferred ways of learning, but also what blocks or slows me down. I've been tutored for a year and a half and have genuinely seen myself progressing. I highly recommend Leila to all adults with busy schedules wanting to learn flute!
Leila has taught my son Harry (age 10) for the past year and in this time I have found her to be very professional, reliable and a fantastic teacher. Harry's playing has come on leaps and bounds thanks to Leila's input and he has recently achieved a distinction in his grade 1 exam. I would highly recommend Leila to anyone looking for a flute teacher.