Apotheosis

STEVEN OSBORNE

Born in Scotland, pianist Steven Osborne studied at St Mary’s Music School in Edinburgh and at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. His numerous accolades include the Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist of the Year in 2013, and two Gramophone awards. He has had residencies at London’s Wigmore Hall, Antwerp’s deSingel, the Bath International Music Festival, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and he is Visiting Professor at London’s Royal Academy of Music, Patron of the Lammermuir Festival and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He has performed internationally at venues including Vienna’s Konzerthaus, Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw, Berlin’s Philharmonie, Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, and he is a regular guest at both New York’s Lincoln Center and London’s Wigmore Hall.

Concerto performances take him to major orchestras across the world, including recent visits to the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Oslo Philharmonic, Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra, St Louis Symphony Orchestra, Aspen Music Festival and Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center, in repertoire ranging from Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Ravel, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich and Messiaen through to Tippett, Britten and Julian Anderson, who dedicated his 2017 piano concerto The Imaginary Museum to Osborne. His recordings span a wide range of repertoire, including Beethoven, Schubert, Debussy, Ravel, Liszt, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Medtner, Messiaen, Britten, Tippett, Crumb and Feldman. He recently released a much-praised recording of Prokofiev’s ‘War Sonatas’, which was shortlisted for a Gramophone award.

CHRISTOPHER HART

Royal Scottish National Orchestra Principal Trumpet Christopher Hart studied at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music, before joining the RSNO in 2016. Hart has since performed as guest principal trumpet with the London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra under such esteemed conductors as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Vladimir Jurowski, Sakari Oramo and Semyon Bychkov. His recent projects include a critically acclaimed recording of Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du soldat with Oliver Knussen and Soliloquies by Peter Fribbins with the RSNO and Robertas Šervenikas.

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