RACHEL LEACH
Composer/ Presenter/ Animateur
photo c. Kevin Leighton
Rachel Leach was born in Sheffield. She studied composition with Simon Bainbridge, Robert Saxton and Louis Andreissen. Her music has been recorded by NMC and published by Faber. She has won several awards including, with ETO, the RPS award for best education project for One Day, Two Dawns. In 2013 she was awarded Honorary Membership of the RCM in recognition of her education work
Rachel has worked within the education departments of most of the UK’s orchestras and opera companies. The majority of her work is for the London Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Rachel has written more pieces for the LSO than any other composer as well as over fifteen community operas, including seven for ETO, five for Primary Shakespeare Company.
Alongside this she is increasingly in demand as a concert presenter. She is the presenter of the LSO St Lukes lunchtime concert series and regularly presents children’s concerts and pre-concert events for LSO, LPO, BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the Royal College of Music
Recently she was a keynote speaker at the FOBISIA Music Conference in Singapore and she spent a month as Guest Animateur with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra