The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, conducted by Stephen Layton, premiered Judas mercator pessimus at evensong in Trinity College Chapel. The work was commissioned by the choir, and will be performed a further two times in this academic year before it… Continue Reading
Opus Anglicanum have commissioned Owain to write a new ten-minute work, Fantasia on English Children’s songs. The composition will feature children’s nursery rhymes including The Grand Old Duke of York, Oranges and Lemons and Upon Paul’s Steeple. Opus Anglicanum will perform the work three times in… Continue Reading
Owain has just finished setting four Shakespeare texts to music for unaccompanied SATB choir. The Maesbury Singers, a choir based in the South-West conducted by Iain MacLeod Jones, commissioned the set of songs. ‘Love is a smoke’, ‘Love, whose month… Continue Reading
Owain has been commissioned to write a “celebratory organ piece for Pentecost based on Herbert Howells’ tune ‘Salisbury’” for Choir and Organ Magazine’s New Music series. The piece will be published in the May/June issue, and premiered by David Halls… Continue Reading