Owen REES specialises in Portuguese, Spanish, and English sacred music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He is Professor in Music at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of The Queen’s College, Oxford. He has published studies of the music of Thome Luis de Victoria, Cristóbal de Morales, Francisco Guerrero, and William Byrd, and of musical sources and repertories from Portugal and Spain. His first book, Polyphony in Portugal, considers music at the Monastery of Santa Cruz in Coimbra, Portugal. He was co-editor (with Bernadette Nelson) of Cristóbal de Morales: Sources, Influences, Reception (Boydell). His most recent book, The Requiem of Tomás Luis de Victoria (1603) (Cambridge University Press, 2019) received the Robert M. Stevenson Award of the American Musicological Society. His work as a scholar regularly bears fruit in terms of performance and recordings: he directs the ensemble Contrapunctus – which has recently released the third and final disc in its series presenting music from the Baldwin Partbooks – and the Choir of The Queen’s College, Oxford.
