a deeper season (2001)
“Owen Leech’s ‘a deeper season’ used the piano quartet to take us on a journey from the darkness of winter to the exhilaration of spring... an allegory for the sense of renewal brought to the medium”

(Mathew Rye, Daily Telegraph)


“It seizes and holds attention for twelve eventful minutes; an original voice from whom great things may be anticipated”

(Peter Grahame Woolf, Seen&Heard)


“The music was powerful, tremendously exciting and highly effective”

(Deryk Barker, Victoria Times-Colonist)


“..a remarkable work, attractive and engaging, yet tightly argued and individual in its vocabulary”

(Richard Todd, Ottawa Citizen)


into the ring of dancing shadows (2005)
"It is an interesting piece which will have made no enemies for modern music, its ideas born of improvisation at the piano, with 'turning' motifs and dancing rhythms. Peter Buckoke's double-bass was intrinsic to the rich textures, and other bassists should invite their colleagues to slip it in for variety when engaged to play their nth Trout"

(Peter Grahame Woolf, Musical Pointers)


"Owen Leech's Into the Ring of Dancing Shadows reflects a poem of that name by Osip Mandelstam, with twirling, Tippett-like melodies in the upper strings singing together at various intervals while the piano phrases flow round in circles".


(Matthew Rye, The Daily Telegraph)


when the moon rises... (1999)

“Owen Leech’s imaginative and testing miniature variations on a Hungarian folksong”

(Hilary Finch, The Times)





la consolation de l’isolé (1996)

“..contained lovely soprano writing... There was much to admire - the wash of colour subtly deployed throughout the score, a real sense of poetry”

(Yorkshire Evening Press)