Conductor of @queenschoir and @ContrapunctusUK, and Professor of Music @UniofOxford
Oxford
Joined July 2014
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Owen Rees retweeted
Prof Rees was on BBC Radio 3 talking about That Sweet City, which launches tomorrow! Listen to the full interview on BBC Sounds, where he discusses the inspiration behind the music and the contexts in which the composers wrote.
Starting at 1:28:08🎙️
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0023y…
Out now! lnk.to/HarmoniesOfDevotion
@QueensCollegeOx @OxMusicFaculty @estherdaponte @helencharlston @GuyCutting
🎶 RELEASED TODAY 🎶
Contrapunctus’s latest album delves into the Italian motet repertory of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. So much wonderful music to discover!
BUY / STREAM NOW
lnk.to/HarmoniesOfDevotion
Owen Rees retweeted
This remarkable album by @Queenschoir, @OwenLRees and @AAMorchestra is out today on @SignumRecords🎼
Including three world premiere recordings from scores newly edited from their 18th-century sources, it explores the choral music of Giovanni Bononcini.
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Owen Rees retweeted
Today is the day!! We’re so excited to get rehearsing in the @SheldonianOxUni with @AAMorchestra and our incredible soloists today and perform this incredible work!!! Only 4 TICKETS remain so snap them up now: tickettailor.com/events/choi…
TODAY 7pm - Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford
Owen Rees retweeted
4 days left to apply. Fantastic choir and gorgeous repertoire in one of London’s best acoustics.
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Join us on BBC Radio 3 for our broadcast of Choral Evensong today at 4pm. We are broadcasting live from our chapel with music by Parsons, Tomkins and de Grigny.
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001dpd…
Looking forward to this with @Queenschoir!
This year’s Oxford Lieder Festival features our usual rich mix of song recitals with chamber and #choral music. We’re delighted to welcome @quatuor_hanson @CastalianQtet @Queenschoir @MertonCollChoir @MCGirlsChoir & others. Don’t miss the full programme announcement on Monday! 📣
Owen Rees retweeted
Conference booklets are all printed and ready to go for #musiccreativityculture2022 @QueensCollegeOx! Tickets are still available for the concert, featuring @Queenschoir @timeandtruthoxf @OwenLRees from queenschoir.com/tickets! – at Oxford, England
Owen Rees retweeted
A sneak peak into rehearsals for our concert of Music for Restored Times with @timeandtruthoxf !
This clip is from John Blow’s ‘I Will Hearken’. The concert will also feature music by Cooke, Humfrey, Locke, Wise, and Purcell. For tickets, see here: tickettailor.com/events/choi…
Owen Rees retweeted
Can't get enough of Bach? You're in luck: @Queenschoir, @OwenLRees & @OxfordPhil sing 🎵 St John Passion 🎵 7pm on Thursday 14th April at @SheldonianOxUni with @dannormski, @stoutbaritone, @MhairiLawson, @katieemilybray, @proudsongster,
@TGHambleton,
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Owen Rees retweeted
Tickets now on sale for our Taverner w/ @OwenLRees’s professional consort, Contrapunctus!
Glorious music, gorgeous space, same team that won a Diapason D’Or in January 2020 for recording this rep - don’t miss out!
Sat 5th Mar
8pm
@QueensCollegeOx
tickettailor.com/events/choi…
Owen Rees retweeted
Thrilled our #Handel #Messiah w/ @AAMorchestra has 100,000+ views!
A brilliant experience, enthusiastically received around the world - do have a listen!
Soloists: @AshleyRiches @TedLBlack @estherdbrazil @rowan_pierce
youtu.be/XiBHbadRVBU
@QueensCollegeOx @UniofOxford
Owen Rees retweeted
Join us tonight at 8.15! Victoria Requiem with works by Morales & Alonso Lobo.
contrapunctus.org.uk/tickets
Looking forward to conducting this again!
Join Contrapunctus on Saturday 6 November for a performance of #Victoria’s Requiem & works by #Morales & Alonso #Lobo in the stunning setting of @QueensCollegeOx Chapel.
Book now: contrapunctus.org.uk/tickets
Today at 11am - join us LIVE ONLINE or in person @SJE_Arts!
oxfordlieder.co.uk/event/134…
TODAY, 11am
🎥 Online & in person
A concert devoted entirely to the music of Jonathan Dove @dovecomposer – and with the composer at the keyboard – including his song cycles 'Out of Winter' for tenor & piano, & 'The Passing of the Year' for choir & piano.
oxfordlieder.co.uk/event/134…
Delighted to be conducting @Queenschoir in @dovecomposer’s thrilling ‘The Passing of the Year’ in a performance in the @OxfordLieder Festival tomorrow morning with Jonathan Dove himself at the piano.
oxfordlieder.co.uk/event/134…
We've just released some more £5 tickets for under-35s for this concert. Join us tomorrow morning at 11am @SJE_Arts to hear Jonathan Dove performing his own works, including the brilliant 'The Passing of the Year' with @Queenschoir @QueensCollegeOx. oxfordlieder.co.uk/event/134…
As a taster of the new recording from @Contrapunctus - the final album in our series surveying the music of the Baldwin Partbooks @TudorPartbooks - here is one of the finest expressive masterpieces of the late Renaissance: Byrd's Tristitia et anxietas. smarturl.it/TheSweetestSongs
Brand new music from @ContrapunctusUK & @OwenLRees - The Sweetest Song Baldwin Partbooks III (album released Feb 5th)
The 1st single is out now - smarturl.it/TheSweetestSongs
A stimulating article about Sheppard's wonderful Media vita by David Allen in the New York Times. Includes comments on the piece and performing it by the directors of various recordings, including mine with @Contrapunctus on @SignumRecords nytimes.com/2020/12/30/arts/….
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The pleasure was all ours @ejdougan, and thank you for your wonderful direction of the choir.
Conducting @Queenschoir this term has been a real privilege and a much needed lifeline - the services, singing and spirit of the choir reaffirming just how much live music brings to people. Thanks @OwenLRees for entrusting your wonderful choir to me for a short while.
Owen Rees retweeted
Out TODAY the new single from @Queenschoir - 'A Ceremony of Carols', 'In Dulce Jublio'
LISTEN 🎧 / BUY 🛒- smarturl.it/ACeremonyofCarol…