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Hazel Leach

Born: March 20, 1956

Born in Tynemouth, Northumberland in 1956. Having studied at the Newcastle School of Music (classical & light music) she spent the next few years working as a free-lance musician/arranger, playing flute and saxophone.
The move to Holland came in 1979, where she studied for several years at the Muziek Pedagogische Akademie in Leeuwarden with Henk Alkema and Hiepko de Boer. From 1985-2010 she was a lecturer in music at the Arnhem Conservatorium, teaching arranging, songwriting and a wide range of jazz theory-related subjects.

From 1992-2009 she was bandleader and composer for The United Women’s Orchestra, an international big band based in Germany. With the UWO she has produced 3 CDs, and several of her pieces for concert bigband have won international awards: in 1998  "Á la Mode" was awarded a "Menzione Speciale" in the "Scrivere in Jazz" composition concours in Sardinia,  “Mabel's Birthday” was a prizewinner in the Hemphill Awards 2000 (Jazz Composers Alliance, USA) and "Cerasarda" was awarded the 1st prize during "Scrivere in Jazz" 2000.

Free Range Music

By Hazel Leach

Label: JazzHausMusik
Released: 2014
Track listing: Spinoff; Synthadventures of a Spacehero; Mata Hari; Kleiner Stau; Belphegor; Oracao; Postcard No. 1; Totales Tanzverbot; Zamboni; Berlin.

Free Range Music

By Composers' Orchestra Berlin

Label: JazzHausMusik
Released: 2014

Free Range Music

By The Composers' Orchestra Berlin

Label: JazzHausMusik
Released: 2014

Free Range Music

by Jack Bowers
June 19, 2014

Hazel Leach has had quite a musical career. After college, where she studied classical flute as well as jazz / pop saxophone, the Englishwoman spent a number of years as a freelance musician / arranger before moving to Holland in 1979. Six years later she was named lecturer in music at the Arnheim Conservatoire, and in ...