Terry Winter Owens

Terry Winter Owens



Terry Winter Owens is an internationally published composer based in New York City. Her music has been widely performed in Europe and, to a lesser extent, in the US. Her long-time interest in astronomy, astrophysics and poetry is reflected in a recent series of compositions for piano and narrator. A CD of her piano music of the 1990’s, “Exposed on the Cliffs of the Heart”(title from a Rilke poem) in a performance by Portuguese virtuoso Francisco Monteiro was produced by AM&M Records, Portugal and is available from Amazon. Her catalogue also includes works for two pianos, chamber and vocal ensembles, and symphony orchestra.
Influenced by the Post-Webernian school , Owens's music has evolved over the years in a modal/atonal direction which she calls the Resonant Continuum. Her compositions are transparent in texture with soaring pointillistic phrases. She also composes in traditional, historical idioms exemplified by her “Homage To Corelli” written in the Baroque style and an album of piano pieces, “Serenades to the Composers” in 19th century harmonic and stylistic idioms. Her score for “The Clearing”, a silent film with continuous music, is scored for two flutes, piano and timpani. “The Clearing” was selected for the 1994 New York Expo and has been screened at international film festivals. http://www.nohofilm.org/store/1995.htm “The Lost Children of Coney Island”, her third collaboration with filmmaker Douglas Morse was premiered at The Kitchen in Sept. 2000 with funding from the American Composers Forum and Meet the Composer. Owens improvised at the piano a la the tradition of the silent film.
Owens has performed widely as a pianist and harpsichordist and given many recitals of the music of Gurdjieff/DeHartmann. She directed a Baroque and Elizabethan Chamber Ensemble and performed as a harpsichordist with the Collegium Musicum of the College of Staten Island. She has been a free-lance editor for various publishers and prepared orchestral/vocal computer-notated scores from hand-written manuscripts for the Kurt Weill Foundation. She teaches piano and composition privately and was awarded teaching grants by the New York State Council on the Arts. Owens received a BA in Music from The City College of NY and did graduate work in Musicology at New York University. She studied piano with Lisa Grad and composition with Ralph Shapey. She currently serves as the Independent Composers Representative of the Society of Composers.

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