Leroy Osmon

Leroy Osmon is an internationally known composer that is presently living in Mexico. His published compositions, in 2021, number more than 135 and are published by ALRY PUBLICATIONS, RBC Publications, TRN Music, Southern Music Company (Hal Leonard), Peer Music (NY), Tuba Euphonium Press and G&M Publications of London.

Osmon’s teachers have been Charles A. Wiley (orchestration) and Paul Holms (composition) BS Lamar University, Richard Kole (pedagogy) Del Mar College, Fisher Tull (Composition) MM Sam Houston State University and Michael Horvit (composition) and Eddie Green (conducting and pedagogy) while working on a DMA at the Moores School of Music ,University of Houston.

In January 2008 Leroy Osmon’s composition “Zeraim from The Book of Ruth” was nominated for both a Pulitzer Prize for Chamber Music and the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition. In 2021, “Charuhas: Sinfonia Concertante for 10 Musicians” received a Pulitzer Prize Nomination for Chamber Music. Composer Leroy Osmon has received 11 Grammy Entry List nominations. His music is represented by Mark Custom Recording/Naxos. He has received more than 25 ASCAP Awards and has received the Medailles La Ville De Contrexeville twice (Contrexeville, France).

The music of Leroy Osmon has been performed at every major music conference in the USA as well as Europe, including 23 consecutive years of performances at Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic, Chicago. He continues to compose at his home, for past 25 years, in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico.