Named a Young Steinway Artist in 2010, American pianist Leann Osterkamp has performed at Caramoor, the Kennedy Center, The Baryshnikov Center, Carnegie’s Weill Hall, and as a featured soloist with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra in Boettcher Concert Hall. The NY Times has described her as bringing “descriptive color” to her performances. The LA Times describes her as a “strong” collaborator with “the desired flashiness.” A recording artist, she has recorded for Steinway Spirio and her recordings of Ravel were featured by David Dubal on WQXR. Her solo album The Complete Works of Leonard Bernstein for Solo Piano and her recording of John Musto’s Improvisation & Fugue on a second album will be released under the Steinway and Sons Recording Label.

She has garnered numerous accolades, in both performance and academia, starting with her first competitive win at age 8. She was named a U.S. Presidential Scholar of the Arts through the United States Department of Education as well as earning first prize awards in the Schlern International Music Festival/Competition in Italy, the Wells/Steinway Concerto Competition, and the Music Teachers National Association at state and regional levels. She received a Silver Award at NFAA YoungArts and received The Pearla Despot Award at the 2013 Wideman International Piano Competition. A past recipient of the Gary J. Amsterdam Scholarship, Dorothy Rogers Smith Scholarship, and Joseph Fidelman Scholarship, Leann is the current recipient of the Baisley Powell Elebash Dissertation Award.