Owen Underhill

Owen Underhill (born January 26, 1954) is a Canadian composer, flutist and conductor based in Vancouver.

He studied analysis at the Darmstadt Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in 1978, and computer sound synthesis at MIT in 1979.

Underhill was a visiting composer 1976-7 at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo where he taught from 1977–81, creating a composition program and founding an electronic music studio.

In 1994 Underhill won first prize in the Winnipeg Symphony's Canadian Composer Competition.

[8] The Turning Point Ensemble, with Underhill as conductor, released the album Curio Box in 2018.