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
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
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
On Sunday 15th March, The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge and Stephen Layton gave the international premiere of ‘The Wings of the Wind’ in the Abbey at Saint-Maurice, Switzerland. The choir also performed works by Tallis, Byrd, Rautavaara and Whitacre, and also gave… Continue Reading
Owain has finished a new setting of the evening canticles, The Gloucester Service, for the RSCM Millennium Youth Choir. The work will be broadcast from Gloucester Cathedral as part of BBC’s Choral Evensong on Wednesday 29th October at 3.30pm, and then… Continue Reading
On Wednesday April 3rd and Sunday April 7th, Owain’s new anthem, Alleluia, was broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s choral evensong. The RSCM Millennium Youth Choir sang from St Mary Redcliffe Church in Bristol, where Owain was once Head Chorister. The broadcast… Continue Reading
Three of Owain’s compositions have been broadcast on national radio over the Christmas period. On the 23rd December, Cradle Lullaby was selected by Andrew McGregor on BBC Radio 3’s CD Review Show as his pick of the album, Jingle Wells. Then, on… Continue Reading
Let Christians all with Joyful Mirth, a carol setting words found in an old church gallery in Dorset, has been announced as the winner of the Full Choir category in ‘A Carol for Christmas’ competition. Owain’s carol will be performed… Continue Reading
‘Let thine heart keep my commandments‘ is broadcast with interview on BBC Radio 3’s ‘The Choir’, presented by Aled Jones. The broadcast features all finalists from the King James Bible Composition Awards 2011.