Alicia Kosack

Alicia Kosack, flute
Kenneth Osowski, piano

A program of American Woman Composers:
Adrienne Albert, Libby Larsen, Emma Lou Diemer, Joan Tower, Gwyneth Walker, Elizabeth Vercoe, Cynthia Folio, and Lita Grier

Tickets: $10/$8 students

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Alicia Kosack enjoys a diverse career as a performer of both modern and Baroque flute. She has won numerous honors, including a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award. Most recently, she won first place in the 2010 Flute Society of Washington Adult Artist Competition.

An active soloist and chamber musician, she regularly performs with both the Trelumina Trio and Washington’s Camerata, and has performed with groups such as the Ash Lawn Opera Festival, Inscape Chamber Orchestra, Washington Bach Consort, Opera Vivente, the Handel Choir of Baltimore, and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, among other ensembles. She is equally committed to teaching, and is currently on faculty at York College of Pennsylvania, Bryn Mawr School, Roland Park Country School, Garrison Forest School, and has recently joined the faculty of the DC Youth Orchestra Program. In addition to performing and teaching, Alicia has served as Vice-President of the Flute Society of Washington and was the program chair for the 2007 and 2008 Mid-Atlantic Flute Fair.

Alicia holds a DMA from the University of Maryland, and has received an MM from the Peabody Conservatory and a BM from the Harid Conservatory.

Pianist Kenneth Osowski maintains an active career as both performer and educator. Osowski has performed chamber music at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall; the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage; Yellow Barn, where he was a festival participant in 2000, 2001, and 2002; and the Tanglewood Music Center, where he was recipient of a 2005 TMC Fellowship. As a soloist, he has appeared with the Reno Chamber Orchestra and the University of Nevada Orchestra, and he has collaborated with the Mark Morris Dance Group.

Since the fall of 2007, Osowski has served as Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Piano and Music Theory Studies at York College of Pennsylvania. He has also served on the music theory faculties of the Peabody Conservatory and Johns Hopkins University. In the summer of 2010, he served on the faculty of the inaugural YCP Summer Music Experience, a program for young musicians in the greater York area.

Osowski earned a doctoral degree from Peabody, a master’s degree from the University of Nevada, Reno, and a bachelor’s degree from Yale University. His teachers have included Boris Slutsky, Robert McDonald, James Winn, and Sara Laimon. In addition, he has participated in coachings and masterclasses with Emanuel Ax, Malcom Bilson, Leon Fleisher, Claude Frank, Pamela Frank, Peter Frankl, Gilbert Kalish, Ursula Oppens, Joseph Silverstein, Donald Weilerstein, and Pinchas Zukerman.

Osowski’s range of interests is wide – recent projects include a solo recital at York College titled “Extended Piano”; recitals and masterclasses in Reno, Nevada; a performance at Maryland’s Strathmore Mansion with guitarist Tracy Anne Smith; and a series of recitals in Maryland and Washington, D.C. with flutist Alicia Kosack. He is a frequent contributor to Baltimore’s Evolution Concert Series, which is devoted to contemporary music by living composers. He has recently worked with and performed music by composers Christopher Theofanidis, Steven Mackey, David Smooke, and McGregor Boyle. Osowski’s March 2009 performance of Theofanidis’s All dreams begin with the horizon was described by the Baltimore Sun as “taut, vivid”, and “played with particular sensitivity.”

In his spare time, Ken enjoys traveling and strenuous outdoor activity. He has been backpacking in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains, Wyoming’s Wind River Range, Montana’s Bob Marshall Wilderness, and, most recently, California’s Lost Coast. Always an avid bicyclist, Ken has recently taken up the sport of triathlon. One of his proudest achievements is finishing the 2010 Savageman Half-Ironman Triathlon, rated by Triathlon Magazine as the most difficult race in the world. He biked across the United States in 1998 and biked from Reno, Nevada to Seattle, Washington in 1999.