There doesn’t seem to be much Owain Park can’t do, musically speaking.

An award-winning organist and organ scholar, a trumpeter and bass singer, Park also composes (for the Tallis Scholars and the Aurora Orchestra, among others) and conducts ensembles including the (now-endangered) BBC Singers, the Academy of Ancient Music, London Mozart Players, Cappella Cracoviensis and Cambridge Chorale.

Owain Park (third left) amid The Gesualdo Six. Photo © Ash Mills.

Park is now touring Australia with The Gesualdo Six, the vocal consort he directs and with whom he has garnered world-wide acclaim for interpretations of Renaissance and contemporary music.

Limelight grabbed some moments of Park’s thinly-spread time to find out what music he finds the most moving. Enjoy the trip. 

Benjamin Britten: Curlew River

“I have such fond memories of performing this at university,” says Park. “It was my first involvement with an opera, and inspired me to take part in contemporary productions of works by Jonathan Dove and Thea Musgrave. It’s an amazing piece, with...