Collection: Middleton, Owen

Owen Middleton is a prize- and award-winning composer whose work is the subject of three doctoral dissertations: An American Original; Guitar Music of Owen Middleton, by Dr Gregory Newton at UCLA and another by Dr Barton Moreau at Arizonan State University, Selected Works for Piano by Owen Middleton with recordings, and most recently Maciej Zemsky DMA on music for guitar and piano published in Poland.

Owen Middleton specializes in innovative guitar compositions and virtuoso piano, choral, orchestral, and chamber music. His guitar works, including a recent performance at Wigmore Hall in London and Carnegie Hall in New York, can be heard worldwide. As a music, music theory, composition, piano, and guitar performance professor, he has lectured across the United States, including Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, California, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Alabama.

As a performance artist, he has performed guitar concerts at colleges, universities, on radio and television. His music has been published by notable music companies including Belwin-Mills (NY), Edition Daminus (Germany), The Guitar Foundation of America, Boosey & Hawkes (Canada), Counterpoint Musical Services (Canada), Lathkill Music (UK), Gemini Records (UK), Ars Musica (Poland), Mel Bay Inc. (US), and Guitar Chamber Music Press (US). Some of his compositions may be heard at owenmiddleton.wordpress.com, iTunes, Amazon, and other online venues.

Now retired after fifty years of teaching, Mr. Middleton lives near Nashville, Tennessee. His hobbies are playing jazz piano and reading. An athlete in his younger days, he follows college and pro football on television and college baseball. He proudly wears his FSU 20213 BCS Football National Championship hat!

Mr. Middleton studied piano, string bass and music composition at Florida State University (M. Mus.) and later, classical guitar in New York City with the noted author, composer and teacher Alexander Bellow.