Choral conductor Matthew Owens is the director of music at Belfast Cathedral and founded the Ulster Consort. He has a substantial discography as both a conductor and organist. Owens made his debut on recordings with an album of music by Langlais and Vierne in 2001. Owens was the organist and master of the choristers at Wells Cathedral from 2005 until 2019. At Wells, Owens made numerous recordings with the Wells Cathedral Choir and as an organist, favoring contemporary music and issuing albums of compositions by Judith Bingham, Bob Chilcott, and John Tavener, among others. Owens then moved to the Belfast Cathedral Choir and founded the Ulster Consort. He made his Belfast recording debut in 2021 with Christmas Bells: Organ Music from Belfast Cathedral, and then as a conductor with A Belfast Christmas.