Welsh based | Songwriter | Composer | Arranger | Remixer | Music Producer | Zirenz | Singer | Radio DJ

Rebecca (Bex) Hazard of the Duo Zirenz started her music journey at the age of 10 composing her first choral piece for her school choir for a BBC carol competition. Bex continued song writing playing guitar and piano and went on to winning an opportunity to record and perform at BBC Pebble Mill Studios Birmingham. Her vocal training began when she joined the Award Winning Cantamus Girls Choir under the direction of Pamela Cook MBE. 

Rebecca Hazard in 1989 won an entrance scholarship to study at the prestigious The Royal Academy of Music London and obtained both an Undergraduate with (Hons) in voice & performance and Postgraduate with (Merit) in Opera voice from the RAM as well as winning numerous prizes and awards while studying at the RAM including the Early Music Prize, the Arthur Burcher Memorial Prize, the Grisi and Mario Prize for singers the Alfred Alexander Award & Paton Award and the John Ogden Scholarship from Mansfield Arts Council. She was vocal coached in Opera by Yvonne Minton OBE, Josephine Veasey CBE, Dame Felicity Palmer DBE and contemporary pop and rock, musical theatre with Anne- Marie Speed and Mary Hammond. Bex as an Undergraduate at the RAM also studied composition with both Roy Teed and Nigel Clark and for her postgraduate final recital she composed an avant-garde style song circle for humpback whale, contralto (low) voice, piano and violin called Songs of the sea which received accolade from RAM professor Mary Thomas herself a contemporary music songstress for the likes of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.

As the duo Zirenz Bex Hazard & Cat Llewelyn, kicked off their career together winning an Honourable Mention Award from the world renowned John Lennon Song writing competition USA in 2003. Over the last decade as Trance producers and vocalists Zirenz have hit #no.1 and Top #10 successes in the iTunes, Deezer and Beatport Charts with their vocal trance singles and album releases. Zirenz music has been influenced by a plethora of composers of Classical Mozart, Puccini, Holst, of Film Morricone, Williams, Vangelis, Zimmer, Elfman of EDM Armin Van Buuren, David Guetta, Paul Okenfold, Ferry Corsten of pop Max Martin, Pet shop boys, Krftwerk and the legendary Jean-Michel Jarre have all made a great impact on the music of Zirenz.  In 2021 their track “Edge of Space” was part of Trance music history too when included in A State Of Trance All Time TOP #1000 list by the five-time Ranked World no.#1 DJ Armin van Buuren.

As Radio DJ’s Zirenz for several years hosted the Afterworld Sessions Radio show focussing on the best of Trance music which broadcast weekly on Romanian Radio Cluj Public broadcasting station on Cluj-Napoca 95,6 FM and syndicated to several award winning online digital radio stations broadcasting from UK, USA, France, Holland, Greece, Ireland and Mexico to thousands of listeners each week. 

In 2013 Bex Hazard signed a Worldwide distribution deal with Believe Digital for her Afterworld Recordings Label. Then in 2016 Llewelyn & Hazard Zirenz signed a Publishing Plus Sync deal with Simon Platz and his Award Winning Bucks Music Group ltd London and began to experiment on new musical directions and formulated the pOpera project. 

The pOpera project brings together 25 years of Zirenz music diversity and Knowledge combining all their skills of music production, DJ editing and mixing with their love and understanding of Singing and performing many different styles and genres of music including Classical Opera, Music theatre, Trance, EDM and Pop. Zirenz have been developing a way to modernize, re-imagine the music of Purcell to Puccini and more by crafting new fresh arrangements with some additional composition and lyrical or libretto content. 

Zirenz have been performing LIVE Shows “pOpera Zirenz In Concert” and “pOpera by Candlelight” which sees them performing in theatres and churches in Wales & England with future plans to take the pOpera project abroad to Europe and the shores of West Africa. 

The pOpera project is constantly developing and Zirenz Llewelyn & Hazard are currently working on refining a sample collection of Opera Arias with SAB Choir to be used as new innovative vocal repertoire for existing BTEC performing arts courses in the UK. The principal aim is to bringing the world of Opera to a new diverse contemporary range of performance students who would not have considered singing Opera as soloists or as a choir before and these new arrangements we hope will begin to give BTEC performing arts students the chance to start to explore the amazing world of Opera in some cases for the very first time. 

The development of the pOpera project is ongoing and Zirenz Llewelyn & Hazard have plans to work on reimagining several OPERAs as well as continuing to add well know works to their pOpera project repertoire. 

If you would like to know more about the pOpera projects and Llewelyn & Hazard latest work or give support in anyway then please contact us via email (music at zirenz dot com) or for composition, arranging, collaboration or licensing requests please contact our publishing manager Rhiannon Bramley at Bucks Music Group Ltd.