Steven George McNeil Osborne was born in Scotland on 12 March 1971 and was taught by Richard Beauchamp at St Mary’s Music School in Edinburgh before going to the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester to study with Renna Kellaway. He won first prize at the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition in 1991 and the Naumburg International Piano Competition in New York in May 1997, and was chosen as a BBC New Generation Artist in the first year of the scheme in 1999.

He signed with Hyperion in 1998 and has recorded for the label roughly twice a year since. The first disc paired Mackenzie’s Scottish Concerto with Tovey’s Piano Concerto in A with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and took a BBC Music Magazine Best of the Year and a Gramophone Critics’ Choice; a disc of Nikolai Kapustin’s jazz-idiom preludes won a Deutscher Schallplattenpreis, and his 2002 recording of Messiaen’s Vingt regards sur l’enfant-Jésus brought him international attention. Two Gramophone Awards followed, for Britten’s Piano Concerto in 2009 and for Mussorgsky and Prokofiev in 2013. He plays concertos internationally with orchestras including the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Finnish Radio Symphony, the Bergen Philharmonic, the Sydney Symphony and the Hong Kong Philharmonic.

Sources:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Osborne_(pianist)
• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7615106