Steven George McNeil Osborne OBE is a Scottish pianist who has performed concertos and solo recitals worldwide.
He 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 under Renna Kellaway. After graduating, Osborne went on to win first prize in the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition in Switzerland in 1991 and the Naumburg International Piano Competition in New York in May 1997. In 1999 he was selected as BBC New Generation Artist in the first year of the scheme.
In 2000, he was a soloist with the Naumburg Orchestral Concerts, in the Naumburg Bandshell, Central Park, summer series.
His recording career began when he signed with Hyperion Records in 1998 and has resulted in bi-annual recordings. The first disc with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra acknowledged Osborne's Scottish musical heritage with a pairing of Sir Alexander Mackenzie's Scottish Concerto alongside Sir Donald Tovey's Piano Concerto in A, winning a BBC Music Magazine 'Best of the Year' and a Gramophone 'Critics Choice' award.
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