Natsumi Osborn

Natsumi Osborn (b.1999) is a Japanese-American composer from Tokyo, Japan. Finding her interest in composition at a young age, she has since written for film and ballet as well as concert music. Her works have been performed at various venues in the USA and Canada including the Houston Ballet Academy, the Society of Composers, Inc. Region conference, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Houston Public Media Classical Radio. She was named Winner of the 2017 American Composer’s Forum NextNotes Awards and of the WCSMS 2017 Promising Young Composer’s Competition. She also received an Honorable Mention from the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer’s Awards and the 1st Prize from the 2017 Carson Thomas Miller Texas Emerging Composers Competition. Previously a student of Daniel Knaggs and Benjamin Krause at Rice University, Natsumi now studies composition at Oberlin Conservatory under Stephen Hartke, Elizabeth Ogonek, and Jesse Jones.

Natsumi Osborn’s tracks

• Three Apparitions at Twilight (harp concerto) by Natsumi Osborn
• for three clarinets by Natsumi Osborn
• on the fragility of time by Natsumi Osborn
• LEGACY. (Cleveland Chamber Choir) by Natsumi Osborn
• The Sleeping Earth (for soprano and orchestra) by Natsumi Osborn
• Impressions For Violin And Piano by Natsumi Osborn
• Lineage Traces (excerpts; read by Oberlin Orchestra) by Natsumi Osborn