British composer born in 1989. Laurence has worked with many of the UK’s leading orchestras and ensembles, including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony, London Symphony, Britten Sinfonia, The Riot Ensemble, Manchester Collective,12 Ensemble, GBSR Duo, and Ensemble 360. Abroad, his music has been programmed by Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Klang, and Agata Zubel. Laurence has a number of ongoing close collaborations with performers, including the Riot Ensemble, harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani, “cyborg pianist” Zubin Kanga, and soprano Sarah Dacey.

In November 2023, the Wigmore Hall put on “Laurence Osborn Day,” an all-day retrospective of Laurence’s music featuring performances of six pieces given by the Solem Quartet, Marian Consort, Britten Sinfonia, Mahan Esfahani, and violinist Fenella Humphreys. Laurence’s music has been programmed throughout the UK, at venues such as the Southbank Centre, Kings Place, Milton Court and LSO St Lukes (London), Symphony Hall (Birmingham), Stoller Hall and RNCM (Manchester), RWCM (Cardiff), The Holywell Music Room (Oxford), The Crucible Theatre (Sheffield), and Kettle’s Yard (Cambridge).

Laurence’s piece TOMB! won both the 2024 RPS Award for Chamber-Scale Composition and the 2024 Ivor Novello Award for Chamber Ensemble Composition. Two other pieces have been nominated for Ivor Novello Awards: Lakes, Mists, Bats, Daggers and Fountains in 2024,and Essential Relaxing Classical Hits in 2022. As a young composer, he won the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize (2017), was runner-up in the New Cobbett Prize for Composition (2014) and the International Antonín Dvořák Composition Competition (2013), and was shortlisted for the ICSM World Music Days (2018). He has held positions in association with LSO Soundhub (2013–15), Nonclassical (2015–17), and the London Philharmonic Orchestra (2017–18).

Selected works: Pteranodon for cello (2012), Living Floors for cello and double bass (2013), Domna for string quartet (2013), Chorus of Satellites for three female voices (2013), April in the Amazon, opera (2014), Change Ringing for nine strings and percussion (2014), Narkissus & The Reflektions, opera (2015), Lias for ten performers (2015), Micrographia for two sopranos and six musicians (2016), Breaths for accordion (2016), Ghosts for two violins (2016), The Mother, opera (2013–16), Black Snow Falls for 23 strings (2017), Ctrl for amplified soprano and 13 musicians (2017), Interdimensional Cable for drum machine and orchestra (2017), Kindertotenspiel for large ensemble (2018),Me and 4 Ponys for piano quintet (2018), Rendering Error for violin (2019), Absorber for piano and MIDI keyboard (2019), Juvenilia, songbook for mixed voices (2019), Automaton for harpsichord and chamber ensemble (2019), Coin-op Automata for harpsichord and string quartet (2021), Essential Relaxing Classical Hits for amplified soprano and six musicians (2021), The Biggest Thing I’ve Ever Squashed for orchestra (2022), TOMB! for piano, percussion and strings(2022), Halali, or, The Kill for horn (2023), Spare Parts for six voices (2023), Lakes, Mists, Bats, Daggers, and Fountains for string quartet(2023), Schiller’s Piano for piano, sampler and string orchestra (2024), Mute for chamber ensemble (2025).