Glyn M. Owen

Glyn M. Owen

Owen in his studio near Canterbury, Kent
Born Worcestershire, England
Nationality British
Education Royal College of Music, London
Alma mater Film Composition MMUS
Occupation Composer
Awards Golden Lion at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity
Website ComposedBy.me

Glyn M. Owen is an English composer.

He has written music for companies such as Olympus, Volvo, Disney and Ferrari. He has also produced and composed music featuring in British and American TV shows including The Oprah Winfrey Show and the BBC's The One Show.

The music he has composed for commercials has led to winning a number of awards, including a Golden Lion at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.

Early life

Owen was born and raised in Worcestershire, England. He was educated at the Royal College of Music in London, where he achieved a Masters degree in Film Composition. While studying at the Royal College of Music his tutor was Joseph Horovitz.

Career

Adverts

Throughout his career, Owen has composed music for a number of companies including Audi, BBC, BMW, Braun, Disney, Ferrari, Gillette, ITV, Mercedes, Nivea, Olympus and Sky. The vast majority of this work has been music for adverts.[1]

Springer & Jacoby International created an advert for Olympus in 2005 titled Red-Eyed Baby, which was directed by Noam Murro.[2] The ad featured a baby with red eyes that advertised one of the latest digital cameras.[3][4] The music for the ad was composed by Owen and went on to win a Gold Lion at Cannes. He also composed for the ad "Distorted Dogs", which was also created by Springer & Jacoby International and again directed by Noam Murro. This also went on to win a Gold Lion in 2005.[5] During the same year, the advert "Distorted Dogs" for Olympus also won 1st prize for London's International Advertising Award in the same year.[6] It also went on to win Silver at the Epica Awards in the same year.[7]

In 2007, Owen composed the music for a Volvo advert, titled "The Hunt". The advert was created in partnership with Disney and the film series, The Pirates of the Caribbean.[8] It went on to win a Silver Cyber at Cannes.

A number of years later he composed music to launch BMW's newest SUV, the X6. The promo clip was titled "Experience." In the same year he was commissioned to write a 1950s style song for Braun. The commercial titled "Mafia" was filmed especially for the Cannes Lion Festival in 2009.[9] In 2010, Owen composed the music for the Reebok advert, Zigtech.[10] The advert featured Lewis Hamilton.[11]

Television

Much of Owens work has featured on television shows. His production music features in Celebrity Juice, Child of our Time, Come Dine with Me, Dancing with the Stars, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Relocation Relocation Relocation, The Rob Bryden Show, Songs of Praise, The One Show and the UEFA Champions League.

Other works

More recently, Owen has written tracks for various production libraries including Sony/ATV, DeWolfe, West One and No Sheet Music. This includes the albums Eclectic Folkestra 1 and Eclectic Folkestra 2 published by De Wolfe Music. The opening track "Jumping Jim" has been used by CBeebies and Dettol.[12]

He has composed a number of musical idents in his career. In 2003, Owen created the main theme and idents for Sky Italia from launch and they continue to use his channel theme. He was commissioned by Soundscape Music.[13] Other idents have included ITV3 and ITV's Movie Premiere.[14]

Film

Owens track “Blam” [15] published by APM Music features in the 2014 film Nightcrawler starring Jake Gyllenhaal.

References

  1. ↑ "Meet the Artist, Glyn M Owen". Sonic Core.
  2. ↑ "Olympus - Red-eyed baby". Springer & Jacoby International.
  3. ↑ "Olympus Digital Camera – Would you save or delete?". This is Not Advertising.
  4. ↑ Wilcha, Kristin. ""Grrr" Achieves Greatness At Cannes International Ad Festival". Shoot Online.
  5. ↑ "Cannes Lions 2005 - Winners" (PDF). Cannes Lions.
  6. ↑ "London International Awards 2005 Winners". Coloribus.
  7. ↑ "Europe's Premier Creative Awards - 2005 Winners". EPICA.
  8. ↑ "The Hunt - Enter Volvo's XC90 Treasure Hunt inspired by Disney's Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest". Volvo Cars.
  9. ↑ G, Sylvia. "Advertising People - Who is Glyn M Owen?". Great Ads.
  10. ↑ "What is the name of the song in the reebox zigtech comercials". KGB Answers.
  11. ↑ "Reebok Zigtech – Lewis Hamilton". TV Ad Music.
  12. ↑ "DWCD Eclectic Folkestra 2". DeWolfe Music.
  13. ↑ "Sky Italia - Various Idents". Vimeo.
  14. ↑ "ITV3 Idents". Music Production Company: 1 Louder Music.
  15. ↑ "Nightcrawler (2014) Soundtrack Complete list of songs". What Song.

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