“Park has a desire to test and stretch the borders of conventional tonality and metre, but also to etch out the contrast by resolving back into broodingly conventional triadic harmonies and regular pulse.” – The Arts Desk
“Exciting, inventive, vibrant” – MusicWeb International
“clearly a composer to watch” – Organists’ Review
Commissioning
If you are interested in commissioning Owain to write a piece of music, Kate Johnson at Wise Music Classical would be delighted to hear from you. kate.johnson@wisemusic.com | +44 (0)7920 197 354 | wisemusicclassical.com
Above the stars my saviour dwells (2017) –Soprano solo, SATB divisi Read More
A commissioned gift for Wendy Russell
Publisher: Novello Listen
Duration: 03:45
Ascendit Deus (2019) – SATB Read More
For Ashley Grote and Norwich Cathedral Choir
Publisher: Novello
Recordings:
Duration: 03:00
Ave Regina Caelorum (2017) –SATB Read More
Publisher: Novello
Duration: 03:30
Awake my soul (2019) – SATB Read More
For Wells Cathedral Choir, and dedicated to Iain Ball MBE, Chairman of the Wells Cathedral Chorister Trust 2004–2015 Listen | Score
Duration: 04:00
Preces and responses (2019) – SATB Read More
Commissioned by Alexander Ross for Kirsty Ross
First performed by Stephen Layton and The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge Listen
Duration: 06:00
Shakespeare Love Songs (2013) –SATB divisi Read More
1. Love is a Smoke / 2. Love, whose month is ever May / 3. So sweet a kiss / 4. When love speaks
Commissioned by The Maesbury Singers and Iain MacLeod-Jones
Publisher: Novello
Recordings: Trinity Consort (live)
Duration: 10:00
Shakespeare Songs of Night-time (2014)–SATB divisi Read More
1. Light thickens / 2. Weary with toil / 3. Now it is the time of night / 4. Let fall the windows of thine eyes / 5. Be not afeard / 6. The Cloud Capp’d Towers
Commissioned by Stephen Layton and The Holst Singers
Duration: 20:00
Sweet Day (2010)–SSATB Read More
Commissioned by Stephen Layton and The Holst Singers
Recordings: The Tallis Scholars (live)
Duration: 04:45
Guardian Angel (2018)–SSAATTBB with violin solo Read More
Antiphon for the angels
Commissioned by VOCES8 and Rachel Podger
Duration: 07:30
Cradle Lullaby (2012) –S divisi with piano or organ Read More
Commissioned by Wells Cathedral Chorister Parents Association
Publisher: Novello
Recordings: Wells Cathedral Choir (video)
Duration: 04:00
Gentle Mary laid her child (2017) – SATB with piano Read More
Commissioned by Wimbledon Choral Society and Neil Ferris
Publisher: Novello
Duration: 04:00
God is gone up (2019) – SATB with organRead More
Commissioned by St David’s Cathedral and Oliver Waterer
Duration: 04:00
Trinity Te Deum (2019) –SATB with brass, organ and percussion (or organ) Read More
Commissioned by Trinity College Cambridge for the Installation of Dame Sally Davies as Master of Trinity College on Tuesday 8 October 2019. Version for brass first performed at the Installation Ceremony in Trinity College Chapel by The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, Trinity Brass, Luke Fitzgerald (organ) and Stephen Layton (conductor). Listen | Watch
Duration: 6:30
While Shepherds Watched (2010)–SATB with organ (or string quartet) Read More
Commissioned by David Ogden and Holy Trinity Church, Westbury-on-Trym
Recordings: Wells Cathedral School Chapel Choir (video)
Duration: 03:30
Upper voices
As now the sun’s declining rays (2012) – SS a cappella Read More
Commissioned by Wells Cathedral Choir and Matthew Owens
Duration: 02:00
Preces and Responses (2013) –Upper voices with organ Read More
Commissioned by Diocesan Choirs Association of Wells and Bath
Duration: 04:30
Lower voices
Fantasia on English Children’s Songs (2013) –ATTBB Read More
Commissioned by Opus Anglicanum and John Rowlands-Pritchard
Duration: 10:00
Lully, lulla (2012)–ATB divisi Read More
Commissioned by Wells Cathedral Choir and Matthew Owens
Publisher: Novello
Duration: 03:00
On the Infancy of our Saviour (2014) – ATTBB Read More
Commissioned by Opus Anglicanum and John Rowlands-Pritchard
Publisher: Novello
Recordings: The Gesualdo Six (video)
Duration: 04:30
Sequence: ‘In Parenthesis’ (2015) – ATTBB and Narrator Read More
Commissioned by Opus Anglicanum and John Rowlands-Pritchard
Duration: 13:00
“Park has a desire to test and stretch the borders of conventional tonality and metre, but also to etch out the contrast by resolving back into broodingly conventional triadic harmonies and regular pulse.” – The Arts Desk