British composer Owen Leech is based in London.  Following studies with Robert Saxton and Raymond Warren at the University of Bristol, and with Kurt Schwertsik at Dartington International Summer School and, he received a Polish Government Scholarship to study with the distinguished Polish composer Włodzimierz Kotoński at the Chopin Academy in Warsaw. His music has been widely performed in the United Kingdom and also in the USA, Canada, Spain, Poland and Japan by such distinguished performers as the English Northern Philharmonia and Elgar Howarth, the Schubert Ensemble of London, cellist Jamie Walton and the Composers’ Ensemble.

Recent commissions have resulted in something of a focus on piano and string chamber music - including a number for the internationally acclaimed Schubert Ensemble. They have performed the piano quartet 'A deeper season'  at the Cheltenham International Festival of Music, London’s South Bank Centre, at the Chelmsford and Newbury Spring Festivals and on tour in Canada.  In May 2005, ‘Schulz’s Hourglass’  for cello and piano received its first London hearing at the Wigmore Hall, performed by Jamie Walton and Daniel Grimwood (for whom it was commissioned), closely followed by the première of ‘Into the ring of dancing shadows’, a piano quintet for the Schubert Ensemble, at the Newbury Spring Festival.

A more recent work for piano quartet ‘The wind in the ash’ (commission by the American cellist Yehuda Hanani for his New England chamber series, Close Encounters with Music ) was premiered in Massachusetts later that year. In 2006, he gave the first performance of his ‘Dithyramb’ for flute and piano with the Slovak flautist Lenka Hrehorová in The Hague. His music has also been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Australia’s ABC Radio National, and WPRB Radio Princeton in the US. Current projects include a viola concerto for Rivka Golani, an orchestral work for Dame Alice Owen's School and works for two Spanish contemporary music ensembles.