Artist description Impossible to categorise this Welsh born, Zimbabwe raised, British Composer has been at the leading edge of contemporary music for some 30 years. Albert Alan Owen also studied in Paris with the legendary teacher Nadia Boulanger: she called him 'gifted and inspired'. With his seminal, ground-breaking, genre-defying work 'Mysteries' (1973), he created a new sound in music that was both a critical and commercial success when it was recorded in 1979. Following on from this came the highly acclaimed album 'Following The Light' in 1982. This work established him as one of the finest and most original composers of his generation. His reputation was confirmed by the invitation to write and arrange the Grande Finale for the Royal Gala Concert at Wembley (London) to mark the arrival of Halley's Comet. A steadfast refusal to allow himself to be associated with any one type of music has led A.A.Owen to work freely in many different contexts - records, film and the concert hall (many of the major venues in the UK). Now living in the hills of his beloved Wales he continues to create and record his unique music at his own state-of-the-art facility - Techno Arts Productions. 'Voyager' - his most recent CD - was released on the Vigiesse (Rome) label at MIDEM'98 in Cannes.

Music Style Minimalist, Classical, Jazz, New Age

Musical Influences Debussy, Ravel, Bill Evans.

Instruments Keyboards and Piano, Violin

Albums Following The Light, High Places, The Source of Light, Violin Recital, String Up, A.A.Owen's Song Shop Vol.1 - Us Girls, Voyager.

Press Reviews "This original and gifted composer" - Monthly Guide to Recorded Music; "Owen's music has the emotion that ECM recordings often lack, but none of the intellectual pretension that characterises the German label" - Jazz Journal; "The composer is clearly gifted, a fascinating record of which Debussy himself would have been proud" - Crescendo; "One is reminded of Debussy and Bax, but also of the more lyrical Weather Report" - Jazz Journal; "...cleverly effortless modulations make up a kind of electronic age tone poem..." - Classical Music Magazine

Location Aberystwyth, Wales - United Kingdom

Copyright notice. All material on MP3.com is protected by copyright law and by international treaties. You may download this material and make reasonable number of copies of this material only for your own personal use. You may not otherwise reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, or create derivative works of this material, unless authorized by the appropriate copyright owner(s).