Professor Owen Rees

Owen Rees
Tutorial Fellow in Music, Queen's College, Oxford

Owen Rees is a Professor of Music at the University of Oxford, Fellow, Tutor and
Organist of The Queen’s College, and Senior Research Fellow of Somerville
College. He is active as both scholar and performer, and these two areas of his work
inform one another. His research is concerned principally with music from 1450 to
1650, particularly in Spain and Portugal, and in England. His research is frequently
reflected in the performances and recordings of the various vocal groups which he
directs: Contrapunctus, The Choir of The Queen’s College, and The Cambridge
Taverner Choir.

Publications summary

2023 

‘“That Worishh, that Devillishe, and Faithlesse Song”: Byrd’s Salve regina in Context’, in Byrd Studies in the Twenty-First Century, ed. Samantha Bassler, Katie Bank & Katherine Butler (Clemson).

2019

The Requiem of Tomás Luis de Victoria (1603) (Cambridge University Press).

2016

‘The Coimbra Manuscripts and the “Spanish Court Repertory”: The Motet Peccavi Domine’, Musical Exchanges, 1100–1650: Iberian Connections, Iberian Early Music Studies 2 (Kassel: Edition Reichenberger), pp. 191–208.

2011

‘ “Jesu Redemptor”: Polyphonic Funerary Litanies in Portugal’, in Tess Knighton & Bernadette Nelson (eds), Pure Gold: Golden Age Sacred Music in the Iberian World. A Homage to Bruno Turner, DeMusica 15 (Edition Reichenberger), pp. 228–61