Director of Music

The Choir

Owen Rees is Fellow in Music and Organist (Director of Music) at The Queen’s College. He directs the Chapel Choir of The Queen’s College, and also conducts the Cambridge Taverner Choir and the professional early-music choir Contrapunctus. His work as a conductor has taken him to the USA, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France, Norway, and the Netherlands, and he is increasingly busy as a leader of choral workshops. He has broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and 4, and in several other countries. His CD recordings with Queen’s and other choirs - on the Hyperion, Herald, Guild and Unicorn Kanchana labels - encompass a wide variety of choral repertory, and have attracted consistently high critical acclaim. He has brought to the concert hall and recording studio substantial repertories of magnificent Renaissance music, particularly from Portugal, Spain, and England, including many previously unknown or little-known works. His interpretations of these repertories have been acclaimed as ‘rare examples of scholarship and musicianship combining to result in performances that are both impressive and immediately attractive to the listener’, and he has been described as ‘one of the most energetic and persuasive voices’ in this field.

He is very happy to discuss choral and organ-award opportunities at Queen’s with potential applicants at any time of year. If you would like further information, or to arrange a visit to Queen’s, please contact

Owen Rees
The Queen’s College
Oxford, OX1 4AW
tel. (01865) 279173
owen.rees@queens.ox.ac.uk

For details of Dr Rees’s teaching and research, click here.