Album Release: Fantasia – Works For Trumpet & Organ
My piece, “Warm, Hazy Rain” for flugelhorn & organ is featured on Matilda Lloyd & Richard Gowers new album, Fantasia. Continue Reading
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BBC Singers announce new Chief Conductor
I’m thrilled to be stepping into the role of Chief Conductor of the BBC Singers from autumn 2026. Continue Reading
Celebrating 100 Years of the BBC Singers
Congratulations to the BBC Singers on their 100th birthday! It was fantastic to be a part of their birthday celebrations, and conduct the singers, alongside the BBC Symphony Orchestra, at the Barbican. On 2 October 1924, the BBC Wireless Chorus… Continue Reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 signs to Hazard Chase
Owain has signed to leading classical music company, Hazard Chase for Worldwide General Management. Hazard Chase have also signed The Gesualdo Six for Worldwide General Management. Click here to find out more about Hazard Chase.
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
The Snow Child: Reviews from the Fringe
Click here to watch the video from the final performance at the Edinburgh Fringe in August 2016. The Herald BASED on a dark and somewhat disturbing short horror fairy-tale by Angela Carter, The Snow Child tells a chilling tale… Continue Reading