Natsumi Osborn (b.1999) is a Japanese-American composer of classical music. In past years, Natsumi's work has been performed at multiple venues throughout the USA and Canada. She has also produced a ballet in collaboration with the Houston Ballet Academy, and has had pieces performed by ensembles such as the Awea Duo, 5th Wave Collective in Chicago, and the Cleveland Chamber Choir. Her works for youth ensembles have been performed by multiple high school orchestras across the country. Furthermore, Natsumi’s compositions have been recognized and honored by the American Composer’s Forum NextNotes Awards, ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer’s Awards, Cleveland Composer’s Guild, Carson Thomas Miller Texas Emerging Composers Competition, and WCSMS Promising Young Composers Competition. She is also a recipient of the Flint Initiatives Grant, which enabled her to spend three-weeks at the Arts Letters & Numbers residency in Albany, NY; there, she co-composed the suite Impressions of House and Home with the KOI composer collective.

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Recent large projects include a harp concerto, Three Apparitions at Twilight, premiered by Hannah Allen and the Oberlin Contemporary Ensemble in Spring 2021; LEGACY, a commission by the Cleveland Chamber Choir for their 2019-2020 season written in commemoration of the commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Kent State shootings; and The Sleeping Earth, a work for soprano and orchestra premiered by the Phlox Orchestra at Oberlin, led by Nan Washburn.

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