Irene van Osch (Rotterdam, 1958) is a passionate composer and pianist. After a career as an international forwarding agent, specialized in French spoken countries, she choosed for the music. She took lessons in classical piano (16 years mainly by Annemieke de Koning) and was coached by the composers Federico Mosquera Martínez and Marlies du Mosch. So she learned to create her musical ideas correctly.  

She composes, among others, for piano solo, quatre-mains, violin or flute with piano and for church organ, predominantly in modern classical style. Characteristic for her music are several layers of feelings and thoughts, profoundness and unexpected turns: it is never what is seems to be. An example and inspiration source for her are composers like Francis Poulenc, Erik Satie, Sergei Prokofjev, Astor Piazzolla, Louis Andriessen and Jeroen van Veen.

In 2008 she started Arrangetto Music Productions, originally to publish her piano arrangements, but quickly she dedicated herself only to composing.

Irene’s work has been performed by, among others, Antoinette Lammers (concert pianist), Duo Delibes (Esther & Sara Gutiérrez Redondo, violinist Baden-Baden Philharmonie, resp. piano teacher Codarts), Henk van Riel (organist) and Beth & Flo (piano duo).

She performs her piano pieces also herself. Due to her touch she has a specific sound which is appropriate to her expressive music. In her compositions as well as her performances she knows how to transmit emotion to the listener.

Irene gives presentations of her work, if desired also in French, with an explanation about the images she has in mind.

Because her music is very expressive and particularly suitable for drawing, she started workshops ‘Tekenen/Schilderen op Pianomuziek’ together with the artist and teacher Hella De Boo. In these workshops the participants make a drawing or a painting inspired by piano music of Irene that she plays live.