Artists

Charles Owen enjoys an extensive international career performing a wide-ranging repertoire to outstanding critical acclaim. He appears at many major UK venues such
as Bridgewater Hall, The Sage, Wigmore Hall and Kings Place. Internationally, he has performed at the Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York, the Brahms-Saal in Vienna’s Musikverein, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and Melbourne Recital Centre.

His chamber music partners include Imogen Cooper, Alina Ibragimova, Steven Isserlis and Augustin Hadelich as well as the Carducci and Takács Quartets.

A regular guest at UK festivals such as Aldeburgh, Bath, Cheltenham, Three Choirs and Ryedale, he has also performed in Australia at the Australian Festival of Chamber Music (Townsville) and the Verbier Festival (Switzerland). Charles’s concerto appearances have included the Philharmonia, Hallé, Aurora and London Philharmonic orchestras.
He has enjoyed collaborations with many leading conductors including Sir Mark Elder, Ryan Wigglesworth, Nicholas Collon and Martyn Brabbins.

Charles’s solo recordings comprise discs of piano music by J.S. Bach, Brahms, Fauré, Liszt, Janáček and Poulenc. Chamber music albums include the Rachmaninoff Suites and Poulenc two-piano music with Katya Apekisheva, a disc of Janáček, Suk and Dvorá̌ k with violinist Augustin Hadelich and the world-premiere recording of Jonathan Dove’s Piano Quintet with the Sacconi Quartet.

Charles Owen is a Professor of Piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Together with pianist Katya Apekisheva he is Co-Artistic Director of London Piano Festival, a celebration of the instrument held annually at Kings Place. He was appointed Steinway & Sons UK Ambassador in 2016 and is also an ambassador for the charity Help Musicians.