Owen Bloomfield
Owen Bloomfield is a Cambridge, Ontario based composer and community musician. His music has been performed across Canada, the United States and in Europe, being described as dramatic, lyrical, and deeply moving. Owen writes for a variety of ensembles and soloists, with recent performances by the chamber wind group The _____ Experiment of Do Not Wish For Any Other Life (Kitchener,2024), soprano Mele Santos of the mini-opera Invisible (Halifax,2023), the Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Orchestra the symphony In Tempore Mutationes (Waterloo, 2022), mandolinist Daniel Ahlert for Reflection for solo Mandolin (Westerdelt, Germany, 2022). Owen also collaborates in interdisciplinary works that include dance, acting and music outside of conventional musical theatre forms (River Flow, and Tilt! with the group SlanT), and has worked in reconciliation projects such as Woman of the Drum with the community singing group Inshallah and the indigenous women’s drum circle Mino Ode Kwewak N’gamowak (the Good Hearted Women).
Owen is a member of the Canadian League of Composers and an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre. He has a BMus in composition from Wilfrid Laurier University and a MMus from the University of British Columbia.