Classical pianist Steven Osborne OBE was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on March 12, 1971. He is best known for a repertoire that encompasses the Romantic period and French composers of the 19th and 20th centuries as well as more modern works. The son of a church organist, Steven Osborne studied piano at St. Mary’s Music School in Edinburgh before continuing his studies at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England. In 1991, he won first prize at the Clara Haskil Competition in Vevey, Switzerland, and six years later, won the Naumburg Foundation Competition in New York. Signing with the Hyperion label in 1998, he released Mackenzie & Tovey: Scottish Concerto, Op 55 - Piano Concerto In A Major, Op 15 that same year. Two years later, Steven Osborne released Kapoustine: Piano Music, which won the German Critics' Prize, and was followed by the acclaimed Messiaen: Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus (2002). After acclaimed recordings dedicated to the works of Alkan, Liszt, Debussy, Tippett, Beethoven, Schubert, Stravinsky, Medtner, Feldman, and Crumb, he released the award-winning albums Britten: Piano Concerto; Diversions; Young Apollo (2008), Rachmaninov: 24 Preludes (2009), and Mussorgsky: Pictures from an Exhibition - Prokofiev: Visions Fugitives (2013). Over the course of his career, Steven Osborne has worked extensively with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under the direction of various conductors including Martyn Brabbins, Ilan Volkov, Andrew Manze, and Ludovic Morlot. Further recordings by Steven Osborne includes Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Music (2011), Prokofiev: Violin Sonatas – Five Melodies with Russian violinist Alina Ibragimova (2014), French Duets with British pianist Paul Lewis (2021), Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No 1 & Moments Musicaux (2022), and Debussy: Early and Late Piano Pieces (2022). In 2014, Steven Osborne was made a Companion of the Royal Musical Society of Edinburgh. Eight years later, he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).
