Meet Our Music Director, Dr. Owen Burdick

Owen Burdick’s works for choir and orchestra and chamber ensembles have been performed in New York, London, Paris, and Los Angeles. He has composed scores for numerous films, was nominated for an Emmy, and has been a pioneer in the use of electronic music in the church. As the Organist and Director of Music of the Trinity Choir and Orchestra for over seventeen years at Trinity Church, Wall Street, he oversaw an annual music budget of $1.9 million dollars, conducted over 1,500 sacred and secular choral works in concert and liturgical settings, toured internationally with the Trinity Choir, and produced and directed best-selling choral recordings. Owen has also lived as a monastic and maintains an ongoing forty-year practice of Zen within the White Plum lineage in nearby Mount Tremper, NY.