Hazel Leach
Hazel Leach (* 1956 in Whitley Bay ) is a British jazz musician and composer.
Act
After attending school, she studied music (saxophone and flute) in Newcastle upon Tyne until 1977 . She then worked in the Ivy Benson Big Band and other ensembles. From 1979 to 1984 she deepened her education in Leeuwarden before working as a jazz lecturer at the Arnhem Conservatory . In 1992 she founded the United Women's Orchestra , which she led together with Christina Fuchs until it was dissolved in 2009 , and for which she wrote her own compositions (3 CDs). She has also been working with the Seattle Women's Jazz Orchestra since 2005, and with the Composers' Orchestra Berlin since 2010 . The International Building Exhibition Lausitz commissioned them with The Secret of Schlabendorf a contemporary village music as part of "Paradies 2", which in 2011 received the BKM Prize for Cultural Education .
She has lived in the Netherlands since 1979. Since 1997 she has also been writing vocal and choral works.
Prizes and awards
Several compositions by Leach have received awards at international competitions: “À la Mode” was highlighted as Menzione Speciale in the Sardinian composition competition “Scrivere in Jazz” in 1998 and “Cerasarda” received first prize at Scrivere in Jazz 2000. “Mabel's Birthday” was the winner of the Julius Hemphill Awards 2000. In 2002 she invited MusicOmi to New York City as composer in residence .
Discographic notes
- Songs from the Edge ( JazzHausMusik 2012, with Simin Tander , Tessa Zoutendijk, Esmée Olthuis , Laia Genc )
- Composers' Orchestra Berlin: Free Range Music (JazzHausMusik 2014)
- Composers' Orchestra Berlin: Postcard Collection (JazzHausMusik 2018)
- Hazel Leach & Composers' Orchestra Berlin: Plays the Music of Dirk Strakhof: Vanishing Points (JazzHausMusik 2020)
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leach, Hazel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Whitley Bay |