Owen Bloomfield is an active Cambridge, Ontario based community musician and composer. He has written for and been performed by a variety of performers including soloists, choirs, chamber ensembles and orchestras. His works have been performed in locales as far-flung as Amsterdam, Boston, Whitehorse, Honolulu and Germany. Wanderer, written for Bohlen-Pierce tuned clarinet duo is one of the original works written for that instrument and has been performed at festivals around the world. Owen has composed a number of works in the Interdisciplinary medium and in 2017 he shared in a grant from the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund for the creation and premiere of River Flow: Confluence of Music, Words and Dance, a large work in partnership with writer Rae Crossman and choreographer Michele Hopkins. 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. In 2023 he composed his first mini-opera, Invisible, for the Opera From Scratch workshop in Halifax, Nova Scotia. 2024 saw the premiere of Do Not Wish For Any Other Life, a setting of text by the New York writer Richard Jeffrey Newman, by the ensemble The _____ Experiment.
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.
Owen is a dedicated teacher of piano, theory and composition running a busy private studio in Cambridge. He is the current Music Director for Cedar Hill United Church in Cambridge. 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.
Owen is a dedicated teacher of piano, theory and composition running a busy private studio in Cambridge. He is the current Music Director for Cedar Hill United Church in Cambridge. 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.