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Conductor and Musical Director
Of his debut in Austria, The Wiener Zeitung (Vienna News) proclaimed: "Maestro Owen must be a genius... how flowing and musical this young American was able to realize the music from the podium."
An invitation from Kurt Masur to conduct a reading with the New York Philharmonic followed shortly and now Maestro Owen has a busy career conducting both symphonic and operatic repertoire in Europe and the United States. This season, Maestro Owen has been engaged as Artistic Director and Conductor of The Bleecker Street Opera and will be conducting productions of Madama Butterfly (Puccini) and Carmen (Bizet) among other works. Last season, he was Music Director of the Amore Opera (the successor to the Amato Opera) and conducted productions of La Boheme (Puccini) and Hansel and Gretel (Humperdink). Mr. Owen is also Music Director and conductor of Camerata New York Orchestra and has worked with artists such as Alec Baldwin, Aprile Millo, Nathaniel Rosen and Alvin Ailey in concerts in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and in Europe. Mo. Owen is also a cover conductor at the New York Philharmonic and over the past three seasons has covered concerts of Sir Colin Davis and Maestro Charles Dutoit. From 2005-7, Maestro Owen was a staff conductor at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and Duesseldorf Symphony in Germany. Mr. Owen was also a visiting conducting associate at the San Francisco Opera and interim music director of the Westchester-Putnam Youth Symphony.
Mr. Owen has conducted in Germany with the Staatskapelle Symphony Weimar, Ost/West Symphonie and Kammer Orchester, the Duisburg Symphony and the Duesseldorf Symphony; in Vienna with the Europa Symphony, Camerata Internazionale and Pro-Arte Orchestra; in Mexico with the Monterrey Symphony; in Poland with the Rzeszow Philharmonic, the Silesian Philharmonic and the Baltic Opera. In the United States, he has conducted, among others, the New York Philharmonic, the Jacksonville Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra and was a conducting associate at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Recent guest-conducting engagements include the Belgrade National Philharmonic, the Hamptons Music Festival and the Altoona Symphony where Mr. Owen was a candidate for music director. Mr. Owen has been featured in the New York Times, Opera News, Newsday and on New York classical radio stations WQXR and WMNR as well as on Polish and Mexican Radio and Television. Mr. Owen was a semifinalist in the 7th Fitelberg International Competition for Young Conductors. He also recently completed a recording for Albany Records of the opera "Rain" by R. Owen Sr., which had its fully staged world premiere in Lincoln Center under his direction in 2003.
Mr. Owen was born in 1971 in New York City into a musical family. He began studying piano and voice at age five and started his professional performing career at age eight as a boy soloist at the Metropolitan Opera. Mr. Owen graduated from Dartmouth College, where he was a recipient of the Gerald Tracy piano scholarship. He received a Masters degree in accompanying from the Manhattan School of Music and studied conducting at the University for Music and the Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria. An accomplished pianist, Mr. Owen regularly gives recitals with his wife, a professional cellist. Mr. Owen resides with his wife and two sons in Brewster, New York.
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