Hazel Leach

Composer and conductor of the United Women's Orchestra. Born in 1956 in Newcastle/England. Studied at the Newcastle School of Music, completing a combined jazz (sax) and classical (flute) course which included commercial composition & arranging. She moved to Holland in 1979 and is employed as a lecturer in theory, songwriting and arranging in the jazz & pop department of the Arnhem Conservatorium (Artez) since 1985.