New Recording: The Very Best Time of Year
Cambridge Chorale have launched their new festive recording, “The Very Best Time of Year”. Continue Reading
Compositions
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
‘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 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
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
VOCES8 & Rachel Podger commission
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
Martin Mass with Capella Cracoviensis
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
The Poppy Red released worldwide
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
BBC Singers debut
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
ORA Advent Calendar
‘Shepherds’ Cradle Song’ has been included in ORA’s 2017 Advent Calendar. Listen to Owain’s piece on Spotify here.
New work for Angels of Creation Commissions
Owain is writing a new work for the Angels of Creation Commissions, a collection of organ works composed for and premiered by Sebastian Thomson. The work will be given its premiere in Worcester Cathedral in Autumn 2017. Find out more about… Continue Reading
Owain’s music on Spotify
Owain’s new commission from Tenebrae, Footsteps, has been featured in unCLASSIFIED’s New Releases Playlist on Spotify. The work will be performed across the UK later this year, with the World Premiere in Hull, the 2017 City of Culture, on 18… Continue Reading
Footsteps: Launch of Tenebrae Commission
The award-winning professional vocal ensemble, Tenebrae, commissioned a unique new choral work by Owain Park, Footsteps, to accompany the revival of Path of Miracles by Joby Talbot, which returns this year for an extensive UK tour. Footsteps allows Tenebrae to perform alongside choirs near its touring locations… Continue Reading