We are delighted to welcome Professor Osborne as the inaugural Carmack Composer in Residence at the Faculty of Music, where he will be working with student composers and performers. There will be premiere performances of a number of works, commissioned by Elizabeth Carmack, and there will be a seminar at the Faculty on the 10th of March before a performance of some of his work at West Road Concert Hall on the 12th of March.
Professor Osborne is a composer and aid worker. He studied with Kenneth Leighton and Egon Wellesz the first pupil of Schoenberg at Oxford (St Edmund Hall) and at the Warsaw Academy and Polish Radio Experimental Studio. His works have been performed by orchestras ranging from the Los Angeles Philharmonic to the Philharmonia of London and by opera houses from Vienna and Berlin to Glyndebourne. He was formerly Reid Professor at the University of Edinburgh, and holds visiting professorships and lectureships at Peking University, Rijeka, UCLA, CalArts, Harvard, Vienna, Kharkiv, Lviv, Odesa, Paris Est and elsewhere. He has received, among other awards, the Opera Prize of Radio Suisse Romande, the Netherlands Gaudeamus Prize, the Koussevitzky Award of the Library of Congress Washington and the Inspiration Award of the British Academy of Songwriters and Composers.
He has pioneered the use of music to support children and soldiers with trauma and to treat disorders of the Central Nervous System; for this work he has been awarded the Freedom Prize of the Peace Institute Sarajevo, a Queen’s Prize and the Doubleday Medal of the University of Manchester School of Medical Sciences.
Further details may be found at St Catharine's College website here.