Martin Owen (born 22 September 1973) is a British classical horn player.
[2] He also has a varied solo career outside the orchestra and appears as soloist and chamber musician in some of the leading music festivals around the world.
[6] In October 2006, Owen gave the world premiere of Malcolm Arnold's Burlesque for horn and orchestra, with the RPO.
[7] The work, a recently recovered fragment, is thought to be part of an uncompleted horn concerto.
[8] Recent performances include Schumann's Konzertstück for Four Horns and Orchestra with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra at the 2007 BBC Proms, Britten's Serenade at the 2008 Bad Kissingen festival with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and the London premiere of Elliott Carter's Horn Concerto at the Barbican Centre with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Oliver Knussen, for the composer's 100th birthday.