Steven Osborne (pianist)

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Steven George McNeil Osborne, OBE, born 12 March 1971 in Scotland, is a renowned classical pianist who performs worldwide. He studied with Richard Beauchamp at St Mary’s Music School in Edinburgh and then at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester with Renna Kellaway. He won the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition in 1991 in Switzerland and the Naumburg International Piano Competition in New York in 1997. In 1999 he was chosen as a BBC New Generation Artist.

Osborne began recording with Hyperion Records in 1998. His early albums highlighted his Scottish roots, including a disc pairing Sir Alexander Mackenzie’s Scottish Concerto with Sir Donald Tovey’s Piano Concerto, which won BBC Music Magazine’s Best of the Year and a Gramophone Critics’ Choice award. He also recorded works by Nikolai Kapustin, and in 2002 he gained international attention with Olivier Messiaen’s Vingt regards sur l’enfant-Jésus. His Hyperion releases have earned Grammophone Awards and a Deutscher Schallplattenpreis.

He has performed concertos with major orchestras around the world and has appeared regularly at the BBC Proms. He has also performed at the Edinburgh Festival with longtime collaborators. In 2014 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and in 2022 he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to music. He is married to clarinettist Jean Johnson.