Steven Osborne

Scottish pianist Steven Osborne was created in 1971. His dad was a chapel organist. Osborne started his span of research in his indigenous Edinburgh with Richard Beauchamp; he finished it in the Royal North University of Music in Manchester with Renna Kellaway. Osborne 1st became a known amount when he required first prize in the Clara Haskil Competition in Vevey, Switzerland, in 1991. With this honor came several engagements and concert looks, but these experienced long been satisfied by 1997 when Osborne received the Naumberg Basis Award in NY. This founded Osborne more strongly as a pressure to become reckoned with among youthful piano virtuosi, and the next year he authorized a documenting agreement with Hyperion Information in Britain, the first fruits which was his documenting of piano concertos by Alexander MacKenzie and Donald Tovey in the nineteenth level of the Passionate Piano Concerto series. Since that time, Osborne offers made an appearance in concert across the world and offers recorded quite little more for Hyperion, including functions of Messiaen (his 2002 documenting of Vingt régards sur l’enfant-Jésus was a standout), Debussy, Alkan, Schnittke, Liszt, and Russian composer Nikolai Kapustin. In concert, Osborne also takes on the piano music of Michael Tippett, Bartók, and Mozart. A preferred at Britain’s Proms concerts, he offers appeared there nearly annually, and he’s a fixture in the Edinburgh Event in his indigenous Scotland aswell. Osborne’s recordings possess begun to build up major prizes, not merely in Britain (the Gramophone Prize for his 2009 reading of Britten’s Piano Concerto, and once again in 2013 to get a Mussorgsky-Prokofiev disk) but beyond: he provides gained two German Schallplattenpreis honours. A keen chamber participant, Osborne provides collaborated with Alban Gerhardt, Paul Lewis, and Alina Ibragimova. Dividing his documented outings between regular and modern repertory, Osborne considered Beethoven in 2016 and released an record of three past due sonatas like the hardly playable Piano Sonata No. 29 in B toned main, Op. 106 (“Hammerklavier”) and exhibiting an impressive feeling of control.