Richard Osban

Richard Osban is a guitarist, mandolin and tenor banjo player based in Baltimore, Maryland. He cut his teeth on Irish traditional music while living in Europe, and toured internationally with several Irish and Scottish music projects before returning to the US. He has performed on festival stages and been an instructor at many teaching festivals both in Europe and the US.

Richard is the director of the Baltimore Irish Tenor Banjo Summit, Assistant Director of the Baltimore Irish Trad Fest, and Executive Director of the Baltimore Irish Music School.  He is the guitar and tenor banjo/mandolin teacher at the Baltimore Irish Music School, and has been on the instructional staff at MAD week in DC (guitar), Folksounds Elmstein in Elmstein, Germany (guitar), CelticFest Mississippi (banjo 2023, guitar 2024), The Irish Weekend in Ismaning, Germany (mandolin/banjo 2018, guitar 2023), and the Celtic Folk Weekend in Waldmünchen, Germany (guitar 2018, banjo 2024 and 2025).