Steven Osborne
at Cedars Hall, Wells
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A Cedars Hall favourite, the multi-award-winning pianist Steven Osborne is renowned for his thrilling musicality and creative programming, He’s as comfortable performing classical masters as he is playing Keith Jarrett and Bill Evans. In this special recital we hear the vast breadth of his talents with a programme of miniatures by Schumann and Debussy combined with mouthwatering American music, his own improvisations and the works of jazz piano masters. Scumann – Arabesque Debussy – Children’s Corner Nos 4, 2, 3, 5 Debussy – Two Arabesques Schumann – Kinderszenen Second Half Marion Bauer – From the New Hampshire Woods Op 12, No 1: White Birches Meridith Monk – Railroad (Travel Song) Rzewski – “Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues” from Four North American Ballads for Piano Osborne – Improvisations Keith Jarrett – My Song (trans. Osborne) Bill Evans – I Loves You Porgy (trans. Osborne) Oscar Peterson – Indiana (trans. Osborne)
Steven Osborne
Scottish classical pianist and winner of the BBC Young Musician Of The Year Competition and Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist Of The Year. Concerto performances take Steven Osborne to orchestras all over the world including visits to the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, Deutsches Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Vienna Symphony, Salzburg Mozarteum, Oslo Philharmonic, Finnish Radio Symphony, Danish National Radio, Royal Flemish Philharmonic, RTVE Madrid, Sydney Symphony, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Oregon Symphony and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. '... he not only gave compelling, sometimes melting performances but also spoke feelingly about the music... Beautifully spoken, beautifully played (New York Times) 'Steven Osborne's piano-playing was some of the finest I have heard...' (The Times) 'Steven Osborne brought to Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 1 his distinctive brand of musical vitality and spontaneity, a fresh and spritely view on a popular work' (The Scotsman) 'The audience, as one, was agog... Osborne's attack is ferocious and fearless, his tenderness beyond words... This is the best it gets' (The Observer) 'Osborne has absolutely nailed the work... he played it with glittering panache and awesome brilliance' (The Guardian).
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on Thu 12 June 2025