Samantha Kim Owens FAHA is a New Zealand oboe player, musicologist and music historian.
Owens completed a PhD on the Württemberg court chapel and it musicians, at Victoria University of Wellington.
[1] Owens then joined the faculty of the New Zealand School of Music at Victoria University of Wellington, rising to full professor in 2019 and giving her inaugural professorial lecture in 2023.
[5] Owens has twice held a Von Humboldt Fellowships, and has been a visiting fellow at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, the Bach Archive in Leipzig, the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbuettel, and at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.
[6][3] Owens was awarded the Lilburn Research Fellowship for 2025, for a project on the history of brass bands in New Zealand.