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Laurence Osborn

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28/10/24

TOMB! (2022) has been awarded the 2024 Ivor Novello Award for Chamber Ensemble Composition. Click here to read more about the other winners.

28/10/24

Tickets are now on sale for the world première of my new piece for the London Sinfonietta, which will be performed at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on 3rd April 2025 at 7:30pm. Click here to book.

15/10/24

TOMB! (2022), and Lakes, Mists, Bats, Daggers and Fountains (2023) have been both nominated for the 2024 Ivor Novello Awards, in the Chamber Ensemble and Small Chamber categories respectively. Find out about the other nominees here.

12/10/24

Schiller’s Piano was premièred at the Royal Northern College of Music on 10th October 2024, and at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on 12th October 2024, by soloist Zubin Kanga, conductor Aaron Holloway-Nahum, and the Manchester Collective. Read Ivan Hewett’s review in The Telegraph here, and composer James Waide’s in-depth analysis of the piece here.

02/10/24

I have been appointed Fellow Commoner in the Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge. Read more here about the two-year position.

14/07/24

Tickets are now on sale for the world première of Schiller’s Piano (2024), which will be performed by Zubin Kanga and Manchester Collective, conducted by Aaron Holloway-Nahum at RNCM on October 10th 2024, and at Queen Elizabeth Hall on October 12th, 2024.

06/03/24

TOMB! (2022) has won the RPS Award for Chamber Composition 2024! Click here to find out more about the 2024 RPS Awards.

30/01/24

TOMB! (2022) has been nominated for the RPS Award for Chamber Composition 2024. The winner will be revealed at the 2024 RPS Awards on March 5th 2024. Click here to find out more.

01/12/23

The double EP of Ctrl and Absorber, featuring The Riot Ensemble and Zubin Kanga, is now out on Coviello Contemporary. Click here to stream and buy the EP.

21/11/23

PRXLUDES’s interview with me, ahead of Laurence Osborn Day at the Wigmore Hall on 25th November, is available to read here.

17/11/23

Ensemble Klang’s CD of Essential Relaxing Classical Hits, recorded with Agata Zubel, has now been released on Bandcamp. Click here to stream and buy the album.

08/11/23

My interview with VAN Magazine can be read here, ahead of ‘Laurence Osborn Day’ at the Wigmore Hall on 25th November.

07/11/23

Ensemble Klang’s CD of Essential Relaxing Classical Hits, recorded with Agata Zubel, is now available for pre-order here. The album is released on all platforms on November 17th. More information can be found here.

03/11/23

The Biggest Thing I’ve Ever Squashed for Orchestra has been released on City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s Sounds New compilation. The Biggest Thing I’ve Ever Squashed was recorded live, and conducted by Clark Rundell. Listen here.

29/09/23

Zubin Kanga’s album Cyborg Pianist, which features my piece Counterfeits (Siminică) alongside pieces by Oliver Leith, Shiva Feshareki, Emily Howard, and Laura Bowler, is out today. You can order a copy from the NMC website here and on Spotify here.

16/08/23

Zubin Kanga’s album Cyborg Pianist, which features my piece Counterfeits (Siminică) will be released on NMC on September 29th 2023. Tickets are on sale for the launch, which features the world première of Counterfeits (Siminică) on September 30th 2023 at Kings Place. Book tickets here.

30/05/23

Andrew Clements has given TOMB! a positive review following its London première at Kings Place on May 26th 2023 — ‘intriguing, sometimes unnerving, but always engaging, and full of textures that are never quite as straightforward as they seem.’ You can read the full review here.

04/05/23

Tickets are now on general sale for Laurence Osborn Day at the Wigmore Hall on 25th November 2023. The day includes performances of Coin Op Automata, Automaton, Rendering Error, Juvenilia and two new commissions: one for string quartet and one for six voices. The music will be performed by Solem Quartet, Marian Consort, and Britten Sinfonia and Mahan Esfahani conducted by William Cole. Click here to book tickets.

25/04/23

TOMB! has been written up in The Strad ahead of its world première tour with GBSR Duo and 12 Ensemble on 19th and 26th May. The article is available to read here.

20/04/23

Fenella Humphreys’s solo album Caprices, which features my piece Rendering Error, has been awarded The Première Award at the BBC Music Magazine Awards 2023. The album, which also contains pieces by Freya Waley-Cohen and Oliver Leith, is available here.

29/03/23

The Wigmore Hall have announced their new season including a day of my music on 25th November 2023. The lineup includes Britten Sinfonia, Mahan Esfahani, Castalian Quartet, and Marian Consort across three concerts. There will be world premières of new pieces for string quartet and vocal ensemble (a collaboration with poet Joseph Minden), plus the London première of Coin Op Automata and performances of Automaton, Juvenilia, and Rendering Error. More information is available here.

07/03/23

Cheltenham Festival have announced some of the lineup for next year’s festival, including a performance of TOMB! which will be given by 12 Ensemble and GBSR Duo, alongside a full performance of Brian Eno’s Ambient 2 at Cheltenham Town Hall on July 14th 2023 at 9pm. Click here for tickets and more information

03/11/22

Norfolk and Norwich Festival have announced some of the lineup for next year’s festival, including the world première of TOMB! which will be given by 12 Ensemble and GBSR Duo, alongside a full performance of Brian Eno’s Ambient 2 at St Andrew’s Hall, Norwich on May 19th 2023 at 8pm. Click here for tickets and more information.

18/10/22

Essential Relaxing Classical Hits has been nominated for the Ivors Composer Awards in the Chamber Ensemble category. Winners will be announced at the Ivors Composer Awards ceremony on November 15th 2022.

06/10/22

Essential Relaxing Classical Hits will be performed again by Ensemble Klang and Agata Zubel at their Musical Utopias Festival 2023 in Den Haag. The festival runs from 12th-14th January; Essential Relaxing Classical Hits will open the festival on January 12th, 2023. More information is available here.

26/09/22

Tickets are now on sale for the London première of my new piece, TOMB! for Piano, Percussion, and Strings. It was written for GBSR Duo and 12 Ensemble, and will be performed by the groups at Kings Place, London, on May 26th 2023. Further information is available here, and you can book tickets here. Further performances will be announced soon.

22/07/22

I will be writing an orchestral piece for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra as part of their Sounds New initiative. The piece will be premièred as part of a concert twenty (!) new pieces, on 29th January 2023 at Symphony Hall, Birmingham. More information about the event can be found here, and tickets are available here.


25/06/22

My ‘Sounding Change’ programme, which is about the ways in which twenty-first-century reality has been transformed and distorted, will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show from 10pm this evening. The programme features excerpts from my piece Essential Relaxing Classical Hits, and music by Bertram Wee and Joanna Bailie. You can listen to it here.

13/05/22

My Fanfare and Chorale will be performed today by members of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra at Norwich Cathedral. The piece was commissioned by Norfolk and Norwich Festival as part of their 250th birthday celebrations.

08/05/22

This week, I will be heading to Iceland to record my solo electric guitar piece Heart Little Heart with soloist Petur Jonasson. Heart Little Heart is a Riot Ensemble/Ernst von Siemens Zeitgeist Commission, and will be available on Riot Ensemble’s YouTube channel later in the year.

25/03/22

Rendering Error for Solo Violin (2019) has been recorded and released by Fenella Humphreys on the album Caprices (Rubicon Classics, 2022). Rendering Error is available from the Rubicon Classics website, and on all platforms including Apple Music and Spotify.

09/03/22

Fanfare and Chorale for 5 Brass Instruments (2022), which was commissioned by Norfolk and Norwich Festival for their 250th anniversary, will be performed at various locations around Norwich City Centre on the festival’s opening weekend (13th-15th May 2022) by members of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra. Click here for more information.


06/02/22

The U.K. première of Essential Relaxing Classical Hits (2020-21) was broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show on 5th February 2022. The performance was given by Ensemble Klang and Agata Zubel. Click here to hear a short interview with Tom Service, followed by a complete performance of the piece.

17/01/22

Rendering Error for Solo Violin (2019) has been recorded by Fenella Humphreys, and will be released as part of her album Caprices on Rubicon Classics on March 25th 2022. More information about the release can be found here.

25/10/21

You can now listen to Manchester Collective and Mahan Esfahani performing Coin Op Automata (2021) in its entirety here. It will be performed as part of Manchester Collective’s ‘Automata’ tour on 5th and 6th November at St George’s, Bristol, and Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff. Tickets are available here.

19/10/21

My ‘Future Classical’ spot with Benjamin Tassie on Resonance FM is available to listen online. You can hear us discussing some of my pieces, Bach, Stravinsky, capitalism, and MIDI sounds here.

11/10/21

Essential Relaxing Classical Hits (2020-21) at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival has now sold out. You can still buy tickets for the world première at November Music Festival here.

09/10/21

Tonight, parts of Micrographia for 2 Sopranos and 6 Players (2016), recorded by the Riot Ensemble and released on Coviello Contemporary, will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show. Catch the show here.

30/09/21

Tickets are now on sale for the first two performances of Essential Relaxing Classical Hits for Amplified Soprano and 6 Players (2021), which will take place at November Music Festival, Den Bosch, on November 13th 2021, and at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival on November 20th 2021.

14/07/21

Manchester Collective’s Autumn 2021 Season has been announced, including two performances of Coin Op Automata for Harpsichord and String Quartet (2021). The performances will be given by Mahan Esfahani with the ensemble, at St George’s Hall, Bristol (5th November 2021), and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (6th November 2021). Click here for more details.

18/06/21

The world première of Essential Relaxing Classical Hits for Soprano and 6 Players (2020-21) has been announced as part of November Music Festival 2021, Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. Co-commissioned by November Music and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Essential Relaxing Classical Hits will receive its world première on 13th November 2021, with soloist Agata Zubel and Ensemble Klang. Details and tickets can be found here.

03/05/21

Further performances of Coin Op Automata have been announced. They will take place at Lakeside Arts, Nottingham (live stream, 14th May), and Leeds Town Hall (18th May), in addition to the previously announced date at St Andrew’s Hall, Norwich (21st May). All performances will be given by Manchester Collective and Mahan Esfahani.

22/04/21

Ensemble Modern’s German première of Automaton with soloist Ueli Wiget and conductor Jonathan Stockhammer will be broadcast on HR2 Kultur at 8pm this evening, as part of a programme including works by George Benjamin, Harrison Birtwistle, Oliver Knussen, and Helen Grime. Follow the link here to listen.

06/04/21

Norfolk and Norwich has announced this year’s lineup, including a world première tour performance of Coin Op Automata (2021) for Harpsichord and String Quartet, given by Manchester Collective and Mahan Esfahani. Tickets for the performance can be booked here.

15/03/21

The German première of Automaton for Harpsichord and Chamber Ensemble (2019) was performed by Ensemble Modern with soloist Ueli Wiget, conducted by Jonathan Stockhammer on 14th March 2021. The livestream will be broadcast twice more, on the 17th and 21st March 2021. Click here for more details, and to book.

26/02/21

The German première of Automaton for Harpsichord and Chamber Ensemble (2019) has been rescheduled, and the conductor changed due to Covid-19 restrictions. The performance will now take place on March 14th, with Ensemble Modern conducted by Jonathan Stockhammer. The performance will be streamed live, as well as being broadcast on HR2 Kultur on April 22nd. Click here for more details.

13/01/21

Me and 4 Ponys will be broadcast this evening at 7:30 on BBC Radio 3. The recorded performance was given by Ensemble 360 at Emmanuel Church, Barnsley, for Music in the Round Festival in December 2018. Click here to listen.

06/10/20

I have been commissioned by The Riot Ensemble, for the latest round of their Zeitgeist commissions. The Riot Ensemble have been awarded a grant from the Ernst von Siemens Foundation for the project. My piece, written for guitarist Petur Jonasson, will be premièred online this winter, along with works by Errolyn Wallen, Bryn Harrison, Nina Whiteman, Oliver Thurley, and Naomi Pinnock. More details can be found here.

08/08/20

From 10:15pm BST+1 on 8th August 2020, Deutschlandfunk Kultur will be broadcasting a programme about The Riot Ensemble and their CD of Jonathan Harvey’s Song Offerings, featuring my piece Micrographia, along with pieces by Samantha Fernando and Aaron Holloway-Nahum. The broadcast will be available for 30 days afterwards. Click here to listen.

12/07/20

Zubin Kanga’s performance of Absorber at Kings Place is now available to view on YouTube. Click here to watch the performance.

02/06/20

Tickets are available for next year’s German première of Automaton, which will be performed by Ensemble Modern conducted by Sir George Benjamin, at Alte Oper Frankfurt on 9th March, 2021. Click here to book.

24/04/20

Riot Ensemble’s Song Offerings, which features Micrographia (2016), has received further positive reviews in BBC Music Magazine and The Guardian.

26/03/20

Zubin Kanga’s live performance of Absorber at Festival Presences in Paris is now available to stream on the Radio France website. Click here to listen.

04/03/20

Riot Ensemble’s Song Offerings, which features Micrographia (2016), has been reviewed by the British Music Society. Click here to read it.

02/03/20

Absorber (2019) will be performed by Zubin Kanga live on BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show at Maida Vale Studios on Saturday, March 28th 2020. The programme will also contain performances by the Ligeti Quartet and percussionist George Barton. Click here to apply for tickets.

22/02/20

Reviews of the Riot Ensemble’s performance at Kings Place, which featured Ctrl (2017) alongside works by Aaron Holloway-Nahum and Liza Lim, are up in The Sunday Times, I Care If You Listen and Planet Hugill.

14/02/20

Riot Ensemble’s new album, Song Offerings (Coviello Classics, 2020), which features my song cycle Micrographia (2016), is now up on Spotify and other streaming platforms. Physical copies of the album are available here.

05/02/20

Tickets are now on sale for the world première of Rendering Error for Solo Violin (2019), which will be performed by Fenella Humphreys at the Fidelio Orchestra Café on March 5th, 7pm, along with new works by Freya Waley-Cohen and Oliver Leith. Click here to book tickets.

15/01/20

On February 14th, the Riot Ensemble and soloist Sarah Dacey will be giving the London première of Ctrl (2017) as part of the launch of their ReNew Series at Kings Place. The piece will then be recorded by the ensemble for release in late 2020. Book tickets here. The London première and recording of Ctrl were made possible by the PRS Foundation Composers Fund. Read about the project here.