Maestro Richard Owen, native New Yorker, is a conductor, organist, pianist, singer and educator. Owen has been music director of various organizations in the U.S. and has enjoyed an international career which has brought him to the foremost venues of Europe, South America and New York City (Carnegie Hall, St. Patrick's Cathedral, St. John the Divine & Lincoln Center).  

Owen started piano at age five and soon began singing at the famed Metropolitan Opera, NYC Opera, and Sante Fe Opera. Under the baton of James Levine, Owen was a boy soloist and sang alongside luminaries such as Luciano Pavarotti, Renata Scotto and Placido Domingo.

As Music Director of Camerata New York Orchestra, Owen has collaborated with film star, Alec Baldwin, dancers from Alvin Ailey, as well as soloists from the Metropolitan Opera, Saturday Night Live and the New York Philharmonic. Owen has directed vocal ensembles for Netflix (Queen’s Gambit) as well as the film 'Worth' (starring Michael Keaton), and has appeared in the TV series 'Succession'. 

Owen has extensive experience working with notable modern composers such as Paul Moravec, Michael Torke (World Premiere) and Judge Richard Owen (his father and Federal Judge in the Southern District of NY). Judge Owen's opera "Rain" received its world premiere at Lincoln Center, under Mo. Owen's baton, was recorded on Albany Records, and featured his wife, Kate, as principal cellist and his mother, Lynn, former Metropolitan Opera soprano. 
 
Maestro Owen was invited by Kurt Masur to conduct the New York Philharmonic in a "Reading" and later became a cover conductor there for Sir Colin Davis and Charles Dutoit. He was also a conductor for several seasons at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein (Düsseldorf, Germany). Owen was on the staff of Columbia University (Glee Club Music Director), Western Connecticut State University and was adjunct professor at St. John’s University (NYC). 

Mr. Owen has been featured in the New York Times, Forbes, Opera News, Newsday and on New York classical radio stations WQXR and WMNR as well as on Polish, Serbian and Mexican Radio and Television and SiriusXM. Owen graduated from Dartmouth College (BA in Government and Philosophy), received his Master’s in accompanying from the Manhattan School of Music and continued post-graduate studies at the renowned University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria.
 
Owen is married to Kate Owen, professor of music, cellist, organist & soprano, and they reside in Brewster NY and have three sons.