Charles Osborne
Charles Osborne
Cantor Charles Osborne (b. 1949) had his first singing engagement at the age of twelve as a boy alto in his home town of Suffern, NY. He later attended the Hartt College of Music in West Hartford, Connecticut, studying there with Cantor Arthur Koret. He earned his second degree and received cantorial ordination from the Cantors Institute (now the H. L. Miller Cantorial School) of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, in New York. At the Seminary, Osborne studied composition with Miriam Gideon and Hugo Weisgall. His original compositions include four oratorios, a symphony, concerti for flute, guitar, viola and harp, and more than 200 choral pieces. The Zamir Chorale of Boston has premiered many of Cantor Osborne’s works, including “A Sephardic Havdalah, “Psalm 20” and the oratorios, Souls on Fire, Kings and Fishermen, and Like Wildflowers Suddenly. Cantor Osborne has made numerous recital, concert, and opera appearances throughout the world and has taught at Hartt College, the Jewish Theological Seminary, Northeastern University, and the Hebrew College of Boston. He is a regular participant in the North American Jewish Choral Festival and the “Hazamir” National Jewish High School Choral Festival, with which he toured Israel as music director during the summers of 1996 and 1997.