Laurence Owen (composer)
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Laurence Owen backstage in 2015
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| Birth name | Laurence Owen |
| Born | March 14, 1989 |
| Genres | Musical comedy |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, composer, comedian, actor |
| Years active | 1997–present |
| Labels | Bandcamp |
| Associated acts | Lily Rae and the Saturday Girls, Carmelite, The Indelicates |
| Website | laurenceowen.com (entertainer website), laurenceowen.co.uk (composer website) |
Laurence Owen is a British soundtrack composer and entertainer. He won the Früh Kölsch Award for Best Music in a Short Film in 2013 and was a finalist in the 2014 Musical Comedy Awards.
Laurence Owen’s career began in the 1990s as a child actor. He had notable credits in the feature film Wilde (playing Vyvyan Wilde opposite Stephen Fry) and the BBC period drama Berkeley Square, in which he had a recurring role.
At school he met Ryan Michael Perkins and they began writing and performing music together. Under the name Carmelite they made a number of recordings, including the privately pressed album Miracle Play (2006). Carmelite entered a period of hiatus when both members began tertiary education.
Owen attended Brighton University from which he graduated with First Class Honours in Digital Music and Sound Arts. He wrote a score for his “radio film”, 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' (based on the book by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) during his final year at university, which aired as part of the Sherlock Holmes Society's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. On graduating, he joined the permanent teaching staff at Emanuel School's music department, working there until the end of November 2013 when he left to concentrate on writing and performing full-time.
Since 2011 he has been commissioned to write music for a number of stages and film projects, including several short pieces for film festivals. In 2013, he won the Früh Kölsch Audience Award for Best Music in a Short Film for his score for the animated short White Morning. In the Autumn of the same year he joined the multimedia theatre company '1927 Productions' as sound designer and his work features in the production Golem, which was first performed at the Salzburg Festival before transferring to the Young Vic, London, and the Théâtre de la Ville, Paris. For his work on Golem, he was nominated for Best Theatre Sound at the Pro Sound Awards 2015.
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