I am delighted that Anna Lapwood has included ‘Images’ on her debut album for solo organ. This luxurious programme, recorded at Ely Cathedral and including some of Lapwood’s world-premiere arrangements, showcases the softer, more subtle side of an instrument more… Continue Reading
Earlier this year I worked with the BBC Singers on a programme of music by Cecilia McDowall, in celebration of her 70th birthday. Throughout the last week in May 2021, BBC Radio 3 broadcast works from this programme, including the… Continue Reading
The works of 12 different composers represented in the 3 Multitude of Voyces collections will be presented by the BBC Singers on Radio 3 this afternoon. This recital represents a significant milestone in the journey of these volumes and the… Continue Reading
As part of the BBC Radio 3 Carol Competition this year, I conducted the BBC Singers for a live Afternoon Concert performance on 16 December 2020. We were joined by presenter Petroc Trelawny at Maida Vale Studios to sing the… Continue Reading
This afternoon, BBC Radio 3 are premiering a rather lovely programme I worked on with the BBC Singers last year. The programme, presented by Fiona Talkington, is available here for 30 days. Closing this week of programmes celebrating the BBC… Continue Reading
My latest piece has a rather nice story attached to it. I was asked by my good friend Helen Charlston if I would set a poem she had written called ‘18th April’. This date has special significance, as it was… Continue Reading
Hello singers! In isolation, I have been thinking about music for choirs that can’t meet in person but are getting together digitally, or Virtual Choirs. I have written a piece called Night Prayer with these forces in mind. The work… Continue Reading
I have written a new carol for the readers of BBC Music Magazine, setting Francis Chesterton’s evocative poem, Here is the little door. About the piece Here are a few words I wrote for the readers: I find Christmas a… Continue Reading
Owain has written a new piece in response to a commission from St David’s Cathedral Festival. ‘God is gone up’ will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 Choral Evensong on Wednesday 29 May as part of the Eve of Ascension… Continue Reading
Owain Park: Choral Works has been nominated for a BBC Music Magazine award. The jury says: “There are many unctuous, somewhat anonymous choral discs. By contrast Park conjures up a brilliant, modern prism of sounds through which we glimpse fragments… Continue Reading
‘Sequence: In Parenthesis’ is a composition by Owain Park, inspired by David Jones’s epic poem, ‘In Parenthesis’, which narrates the experiences of Private John Ball during World War I. In commemoration of the November armistice that signalled the end of… Continue Reading
Images, a work for solo organ, has been recorded by Joseph Wicks on the organ of Truro Cathedral. This work for solo organ was inspired by a passage from ‘Reconciliation’ in Drum Taps by Walt Whitman (1865): “Word over all,… Continue Reading
Here are Owain’s available titles for Christmas and the surrounding seasons. Visit this page for all other works. Christmas Catalogue Works are arranged alphabetically below in the following categories: Chorus a cappella Chorus with one instrument Upper voices Lower voices… Continue Reading
Park: Choral Works (2018) The first complete album of choral works by Owain is now available from iTunes and Hyperion Records. The music has been recorded by The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, directed by Stephen Layton. Tracks include The Wings of… Continue Reading
Owain has completed a new work, ‘Antiphon for the Angels’, in response to a commission from VOCES8 and Rachel Podger for their new concert programme, ‘A Guardian Angel’. The work merges texts by Hildegard von Bingen (in Latin and English translation)… Continue Reading
For his second concert with Capella Cracoviensis, Owain conducts a programme which includes Frank Martin’s Mass for double choir. Alongside the mass setting, six paired motets feature in the programme; renassiance works by Victoria and Byrd are juxtaposed with modern… Continue Reading
To mark the centenary of the end of World War I, the Military Wives Choirs – 69 choirs from across Britain and abroad – commissioned Owain to write a piece for their album, ‘Remember’. The text for Owain’s work, ‘The… Continue Reading
As part of the 2017/18 season at LSO St Luke’s, I worked with the BBC Singers to present a concert featuring the music of two anniversary composers: Claude Debussy and his younger Italian colleague Ildebrando Pizzetti. This concert was broadcast… Continue Reading
I was delighted to make my conducting debut with the BBC Singers at the Temple Winter Festival on 15 December 2017. The concert, which was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3, explored Christmas carols by leading 21st-century composers of choral… Continue Reading
‘Shepherds’ Cradle Song’ has been included in ORA’s 2017 Advent Calendar. Listen to Owain’s piece on Spotify here.