BBC Proms Conducting Debut
I was absolutely delighted to make my conducting debut at the BBC Proms this September, working with the BBC Singers (who are currently celebrating their 100th Anniversary). Continue Reading
New Recording: The Very Best Time of Year
Cambridge Chorale have launched their new festive recording, “The Very Best Time of Year”. Continue Reading
Ensemble la Sportelle announce new Artistic team
I am thrilled to share that I will be one of the Chief Guest Conductors working with Ensemble La Sportelle for their 2024, 2025 & 2026 seasons. As part of this, I will create and direct several programmes for the… Continue Reading
The Gesualdo Six makes debut at the BBC Proms
The Gesualdo Six were privileged to make our debut at the BBC Proms Continue Reading
Helen Charlston & Toby Carr record “Battle Cry”
Delighted that Helen Charlston and Toby Carr’s new album “Battle Cry: She Speaks” is now out, featuring my work “Battle Cry”. This 17 minute song cycle for mezzo and theorbo sets new texts by Georgia Way, and was commissioned by… Continue Reading
BBC Singers announce new Creative Team
I am thrilled to share that I’ll be continuing to work with the BBC Singers as their Principal Guest Conductor. This is alongside the new appointments of Roderick Williams OBE as their Composer in Association and both Anna Lapwood and… Continue Reading
‘Images’ recorded by Anna Lapwood
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
BBC Singers celebrate Cecilia McDowall at 70
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
BBC Singers broadcast Multitude of Voyces
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
BBC Radio 3 Carol Competition
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
BBC Singers on Afternoon Concert
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
New piece: 18th April
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
Music for Virtual Choir
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
New piece: BBC Music Magazine Christmas Carol
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
St David’s Festival Commission
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
CD nominated for BBC Award
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
‘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: performance video
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
Christmas Catalogue
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
Debut album of choral works
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