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 THOMAS OSBORNE’s music has been performed across the United States in cities including Atlanta, Ann Arbor, Chicago, Cincinnati, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, and Santa Cruz. His music has been featured at the Cabrillo Festival of New Music, the American Composer Alliance’s Festival of American Music, the Music03 festival, and the Chamber Music Conference of the East. His works have been programmed on concerts by the University of Southern California’s Thornton Symphony Orchestra, the U.S.C. Contemporary Music Ensemble, and by Houston’s Chamber X. Osborne received a B.M. degree in composition from Indiana University in May 2000 and an M.M. degree in composition from Rice University in May 2002. He is currently pursuing a D.M.A. degree in composition at the University of Southern California. His primary composition teachers have been Don Freund, Claude Baker, Arthur Gottschalk, Edward Applebaum, Stephen Hartke, and Donald Crockett. In 1999 Osborne was a prize winner in the Indiana Music Teachers Association Composition Contest. In 2000 he received a Carlos Surinach BMI Student Composer Award for his Sonata for violin and piano. Active as a pianist, he has studied with Elizabeth Brock, Christopher Harding, Jean-Louis Haguenauer, and Brian Connelly. He has given the premiere of numerous works, and is currently performing in the U.S.C. Contemporary Music Ensemble. |
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