Owen Rees

Conductor of @queenschoir and @ContrapunctusUK, and Professor of Music @UniofOxford

[Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford @queenschoir]

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🎙️

https://t.co/SSB9N23mhm

[Owen Rees @OwenLRees]

Out now! https://t.co/FsjidXOO33

@QueensCollegeOx @OxMusicFaculty @estherdaponte @helencharlston @GuyCutting

[Contrapunctus @ContrapunctusUK]

🎶 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
https://t.co/m1lNpqYrKw

[PremierClassical @PremierClassica]

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.

💿https://t.co/1OZFOr6cyd https://t.co/ZvtHA7Jylq

[Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford @queenschoir]

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: https://t.co/kINreP8bY3

TODAY 7pm - Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford

[George de Voil @georgedevoil]

4 days left to apply. Fantastic choir and gorgeous repertoire in one of London’s best acoustics.

[Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford @queenschoir]

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.
https://t.co/fiRtsulrYk

[Owen Rees @OwenLRees]

Looking forward to this with @Queenschoir!

[Oxford Song (formerly Oxford Lieder) @OxfordSong]

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! 📣

[Samuel Teague @SamuelGTeague]

Conference booklets are all printed and ready to go for #musiccreativityculture2022 @QueensCollegeOx! Tickets are still available for the concert, featuring @Queenschoir @timeandtruthoxf @OwenLRees from https://t.co/KFg7OeX2eu!

[Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford @queenschoir]

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: https://t.co/1Xwc2fMPok

[Concert Diary UK @concertdiary]

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,

https://t.co/QOe6w9Psrd

[Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford @queenschoir]

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
https://t.co/0Du4ifyFbf

[Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford @queenschoir]

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
https://t.co/tQO69BpT4J

@QueensCollegeOx @UniofOxford

[Contrapunctus @ContrapunctusUK]

Join us tonight at 8.15! Victoria Requiem with works by Morales & Alonso Lobo.
https://t.co/K5FQkHc1dN

[Owen Rees @OwenLRees]

Looking forward to conducting this again!

[Contrapunctus @ContrapunctusUK]

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: https://t.co/K5FQkHc1dN

[Owen Rees @OwenLRees]

Today at 11am - join us LIVE ONLINE or in person @SJE_Arts!
https://t.co/6KPx7glBTz

[Oxford Song (formerly Oxford Lieder) @OxfordSong]

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.
https://t.co/FRbZj2t4SF

[Owen Rees @OwenLRees]

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.
https://t.co/KLRudm6epB

[Oxford Song (formerly Oxford Lieder) @OxfordSong]

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. https://t.co/FRbZj2t4SF

[Owen Rees @OwenLRees]

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. https://t.co/pcfpgzLssm

[Signum Classics @SignumRecords]

Brand new music from @ContrapunctusUK & @OwenLRees - The Sweetest Song Baldwin Partbooks III (album released Feb 5th)

The 1st single is out now - https://t.co/U55MaY76no

[Owen Rees @OwenLRees]

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 https://t.co/0Mx1xgppk2.
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[Owen Rees @OwenLRees]

The pleasure was all ours @ejdougan, and thank you for your wonderful direction of the choir.

[Eamonn Dougan @ejdougan]

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.

[Signum Classics @SignumRecords]

Out TODAY the new single from @Queenschoir - 'A Ceremony of Carols', 'In Dulce Jublio'

LISTEN 🎧 / BUY 🛒- https://t.co/S9NxXT0nXd