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The music of ASCAP prize-winning composer Owen Middleton has been performed widely throughout the world by numerous artists in many important venues, including Wigmore Hall, London and Carnegie Recital Hall, New York. His music has been published by Belwin-Mills, New York; E. C. Kerby, Toronto; Edition Daminus, Germany; The Guitar Foundation of America, Los Angeles; Gemini Records, London; Nomad Productions, Mobile and Lathkill Music Publishers, U.K. His works include music for guitar, piano, chorus, orchestra, and various chamber groups. His guitar music is studied in colleges and universities around the world. Middleton received an ASCAP Standard Awards Panel prize in 2001- 2002 for his accomplishments in the classical music field, and he has been awarded the same grant/award every year up to 2006. His guitar music will be featured as part of the required repertoire for the Fourth International Guitar Festival, to be held in Grotniki, Poland this summer. Further information can be found on that organization’s web site.

Owen Middleton earned a Master’s Degree in Music Composition at Florida State University where he studied with Harold Shiffman, John Boda, and Carlisle Floyd. In New York City, he studied Classical Guitar with composer/author/teacher Alexander Bellow.

As a teacher, Middleton has taught Music Theory, Piano and Guitar at the YMHA Music School in New York City, the Riverside School in New York, the Hoff-Barthelson Music School in Scarsdale, New York and has maintained private studios in New York, Pennsylvania, Florida and Alabama. He taught Music Theory as a graduate assistant at Florida State University and recently taught courses in Counterpoint and Forms and Analysis as a lecturer at the University of South Alabama. While living in Pennsylvania from 1971 through 1979, Mr. Middleton taught at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania.

As a guitarist, Mr. Middleton has performed in solo recitals at colleges and universities and on radio and television. He was named Artist-in-Residence at Franklin & Marshall College in 1976 and in 1981 Artist-in-Residence for the State of Alabama under the Arts-in-Education program.