Lunchtime Music

Matthew Osborne trumpet
Joanne Sealey piano

Programme and other artists tbc

Matthew Osborne (pictured) started playing the cornet in 2007 and started having lessons from his dad in 2009. In 2013 he joined the Cornwall Youth Brass Band, which he attended for five years, completing courses under the baton of Ian Porthouse, Phillip Harper and the late Richard Evans.

In 2014, Matthew was awarded a music scholarship to King’s Hall Taunton. Under the guidance of Stuart Paul, he focussed on trumpet and won the Taunton Junior Young Musician of the Year competition in 2017. Matthew moved to King’s College Taunton n 2020, where he achieved his grade 8 with a mark of 97%. Matthew also gained a place in the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain where he played soprano cornet for three years. In the same year Matthew won the Junior Young Musician of the Year competition, then in 2022, he won The Senior Young Musician of the Year. At the end of his time at school Matthew was awarded a place at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire where he studied under Jon Holland.

During his time at RBC Matthew has been the principal trumpet of the City of Birmingham Youth Orchestra with whom he played Mahler’s 5th Symphony under the baton of Jak van Steen. When Matthew reached his second year, he finally said goodbye to the Somerset County Youth Orchestra of which he had been principal trumpet for six years. In his third year at RBC, Matthew won the Alfred Corfield Trumpet Prize.

In his spare time Matthew has been an avid member of Joe Broughton’s Conservatoire Folk Ensemble where he plays bass guitar, playing at festivals such as Kendall Calling, Green man and the Secret Garden Party.

Running time approx. 55 minutes