Owen Bloomfield is an active Cambridge, Ontario based community musician and composer. He has written for and been performed by a variety of ensembles and soloists including sopranos Natasha Campbell and Marion Samuel-Stevens, guitarist Keven Ramasser, clarinetists Tilly Kooyman and Stephen Fox, piano duo Christopher Bowlby and Iwana Kaminska Bowlby, The Cambridge Concert Band, the Grand Philharmonic Youth Choir. and the Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Orchestra. His works have been performed in locales as far-flung as Amsterdam, Boston, Whitehorse and Honolulu. Wanderer, written for Bohlen-Pierce tuned clarinet duet is one of the original works written for that instrument and has been performed at festivals around the world. Owen has worked in the Interdisciplinary medium as the pianist for the group SlanT performing Songs for Sky Woman by Peter Skoggard and his own composition Tilt! with text by Yukon writer Lawrie Crawford. An earlier partnership with Lawrie produced the interdisciplinary piece Variations on Gestalt. 2017 saw the premiere of River Flow: Confluence of Music, Words and Dance, a large interdisciplinary work with writer Rae Crossman and choreographer Michele Hopkins involving SlanT, dancers Matteo Tores and Clara Isley and students dancers. The production was supported with a generous donation from the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund. Owen has been a part of other unique projects. One in particular was a unique piece for the Indigenous drum group Mino Ode Kwewak N’Gamawak and the community singing group Inshallah, where the music chosen by each group affects the creation of a unique version of the music with each performance. In August of 2021 Owen organized a pre-recorded webcast concert of his vocal music that included the premiere of the new song cycle Slagflower Songs, a setting of poetry by Thomas Leduc. 2022 saw the premiere of his first symphony, In Tempore Mutationes, performed by the Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Orchestra, and a work for solo mandolin in Germany.
Outside of the concert hall Owen has written much music for church services and educational purposes and has run workshops and camps that explore creative music making. Besides composing he maintains a busy teaching studio and is a music director at St. James Anglican Church in Fergus, Ontario. He is a member of the Ontario Registered Music Teachers Association Cambridge Branch, an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre, and a member of the Canadian League of Composers.
Owen completed his Bachelor of Music composition at Wilfrid Laurier University with Peter Hatch, Glenn Buhr and James Harley, and his Master of Music in Composition at UBC studying with Kieth Hamel.
Outside of the concert hall Owen has written much music for church services and educational purposes and has run workshops and camps that explore creative music making. Besides composing he maintains a busy teaching studio and is a music director at St. James Anglican Church in Fergus, Ontario. He is a member of the Ontario Registered Music Teachers Association Cambridge Branch, an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre, and a member of the Canadian League of Composers.
Owen completed his Bachelor of Music composition at Wilfrid Laurier University with Peter Hatch, Glenn Buhr and James Harley, and his Master of Music in Composition at UBC studying with Kieth Hamel.