Album Release: Wishing Tree
I am delighted to share the release of the eleventh album from The Gesualdo Six, Wishing Tree. Continue Reading
Compositions
Wells Cathedral Advent Carol Competition 2026
I am delighted to be serving on the judging panel for the inaugural Wells Cathedral Advent Carol Competition 2026, a new initiative celebrating and supporting the creation of new liturgical choral music. Continue Reading
New Commission: Tenebrae’s 25th Anniversary
I am delighted to have been commissioned by Tenebrae as part of the choir’s 25th anniversary celebrations. My contribution, Canticles for a Passion, is a substantial multi-movement work setting texts by Angela Leighton. Continue Reading
New Commission: Brecon Choir Festival
I am delighted to have been commissioned to write a new piece for The Gesualdo Six’s concert at the Brecon Choir Festival this summer. The work, Prayer, will receive its world premiere on 18 July as part of the festival programme. Continue Reading
Album Release: On Christmas Night
I’m delighted to share the release of On Christmas Night, the newest album from the London Choral Sinfonia, featuring several of my orchestrations. Continue Reading
Five Carols Collection – Now Available Individually
I’m delighted to share that the pieces featured in my collection Five Carols (2021), published by Novello, are now available to buy as individual scores—just in time for the Christmas season! Continue Reading
Album Release: The New Winter Songbook
This new collection of pieces inspired by the winter season features my own piece, Winters distant. Continue Reading
Album Release: A Babe is Born
St. Martin’s Voices have released their new Christmas album, featuring my piece “A Babe is Born”. Continue Reading
Ensemble la Sportelle new release: Hymne à la Vierge
I’m delighted to conduct Ensemble la Sportelle’s new album Hymne à la Vierge — a radiant journey through centuries of music inspired by the Virgin Mary, and featuring my own piece Prière pour Marie. Continue Reading
BBC Singers in Concert with Aaron Azunda Akugbo
I had the privilege of conducting the BBC Singers alongside trumpeter Aaron Azunda Akugbo at Milton Court, exploring the expressive power of the trumpet and voice. Continue Reading
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
New work: Five Nocturnes
It was a treat to hear my new piece, ‘Five Nocturnes’, premiered by the Waverley Singers on Sunday 22 June 2025. Continue Reading
Album release: The Gift of This New Day
I’ve composed a new psalm chant for “The Gift of This New Day”, which features on an album from St Martin’s Voices. 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
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
Shakespeare love songs commission
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
BBC Broadcast
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
The Wells Service
On the 2nd March 2013, Wells Cathedral Choir will premiere Owain’s new setting of the evening canticles, The Wells Service. The choir will be joined by string players from the Athenaeum Chamber Orchestra of the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. The… Continue Reading
Lully, Lulla premiere
Psalm 121 performed by hundreds in Wells Cathedral
As part of the Diocesan Choral Association Festival Evensong, ‘I will lift up mine eyes’, Owain’s commissioned setting of psalm 121, was performed in Wells Cathedral by choirs from around the diocese.