Osian Roberts is a tenor saxophonist from Wales. At the age of seventeen, immediately after graduating from the Royal Academy of Music in London, he won the Daily Telegraph’s Jazz Soloist Award.
Osian moved to the Czech Republic in 2010 after studying at the Royal Academy of Music in London and many years of performing on the British jazz scene. He is a bebop expert who has played and recorded with many of the world's leading players including Cedar Walton, Kirk Lightsey, George Mraz, Valery Ponomarev, George Freeman, Peter King, Peter Washington, Brian Charette, Jim Mullen and Kurt Elling. His big band affiliations include The Glenn Miller Memorial Orchestra, Ronnie Scott's All-Stars Big Band, Michael Bublé Orchestra, Gustav Brom Radio Orchestra and The Jazz Dock Orchestra. He has even played with former bandmates of both Kenny Clark (with organist Mike Carr) and Oscar Pettiford (with pianist Hode O'Brien). His Prague bebop trio, The Bopportunists, is dedicated to the legacy of Charlie Parker.
