Owen Hughes-Holland

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Owen Hughes-Holland is a composer, musician and producer from Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. He is a co-founder of progressive post-hardcore band First Signs of Frost, the founder of alt pop project Polar Caps, a co-founder of alternative metal duo Cult(ure) and the bassist of the metal band Defences. He is also the founder of Alaskan Records and Alaskan Productions. Hughes-Holland composed music for the DVD trailer score for Vin Diesel’s Pitch Black In an interview published 6 August 2017 with Wonderbox Metal, Hughes-Holland spoke of “drawing influences from everything really, anything from Deftones, Tool & Sikth, through to Tears For Fears, Soundgarden & Dave Matthews Band”. Discography With Defences * Shadowlight (2024) With First Signs of Frost * In Our Final Chapter (2004) * The Lost Cause (2007) * Atlantic (2009) * The Shape Of Things To Come (2017) * Anthropocene (2022) With Polar Caps * Solutions (2011) * Altitudes (2014) References

Owen Underhill

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Owen Underhill (born January 26, 1954) is a Canadian composer, flutist and conductor based in Vancouver. He is currently a professor of music at Simon Fraser University. He has been an active contributor to the new music scene on the West Coast, as a flutist, as co-music director of Western Front New Music (1982-3), as the artistic director (1987–2000) of the Vancouver New Music Society, and as a conductor in Magnetic Band and the Turning Point Ensemble, for which he is also currently the Artistic Co-Director. Early life and education Underhill studied composition at the University of Victoria with Rudolf Komorous. He completed his master’s at Stony Brook University under Bülent Arel. He studied analysis at the Darmstadt Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in 1978, and computer sound synthesis at MIT in 1979. Career 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. Since 1981, he has taught at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby. In 1994 Underhill won first prize in the Winnipeg Symphony’s Canadian Composer Competition. In 2000 he released an album of his own

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Owen Hughes-Holland

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