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Oscar Osicki is turning orchestral storytelling into a global creative platform—no record label required.
When Oscar Osicki stood at the back of the Royal Albert Hall at fifteen, the sound of the Philharmonia Orchestra left him physically shaken. “I remember thinking, this is the most powerful sound in the world,” he says. “It made everything else feel two-dimensional.”
He never really recovered.
Two decades later, the Cheltenham-born composer and music producer is still chasing that emotional intensity—but instead of concert halls, he’s bringing it to pop songs, Instagram clips, and international artist collaborations. His goal: make orchestral music emotionally relevant again. And perhaps more radically—make it accessible.
Osicki has built a solo business that does just that.
Through a blend of classical craft and tech-savvy production, he’s created a system where unsigned artists can access cinematic orchestral production—something that used to be reserved for big-budget film studios. His orchestral production waitlist regularly tops 100+ applicants, and his YouTube channel Inside the Score—a hub for teaching the language of orchestral storytelling—has drawn over 350,000 subscribers and 20 million views.
“The emotion that orchestras can create… it’s not niche,” he says. “It’s just been locked away.”
The key to Osicki’s business isn’t just musical—it’s structural.
Traditionally, recording orchestral music required massive budgets: dozens of players, studio time, engineers, copyists, and a venue large enough to capture it all. For most indie artists, that wasn’t even worth dreaming about.
Instead, Osicki developed a hybrid approach. He combines cutting-edge sample libraries with real soloists and scoring techniques borrowed from the film industry. The results feel massive—but the production is lean, digital, and scalable.
“I can take a vocal-and-guitar demo, and make it sound like a Bond score,” he says. “What used to cost £100,000, I can now produce on a laptop—at a level that still moves people.”
That accessibility has created a new market: artists who crave emotional scale, without a major label.
One of his most unexpected wins came from an idea he launched in an Instagram story.
Cinematize Me is a one-man viral production service where Osicki takes someone’s phone-recorded song—sung in their bedroom, played on a wobbly piano—and transforms it with a custom cinematic score. Think brass, strings, ambient textures, choral overlays. “It’s like scoring a moment of someone’s life,” he says.
The first batch of commissions sold out in under fifteen minutes. He is still producing them today.
“Honestly, I did it for fun,” he says. “But there’s something powerful about treating a tiny, everyday moment like it matters. That’s what film music does. It makes you feel like your life is worth watching.”
It’s also proof that emotional production has commercial value. Cinematize Me has become a recurring offer, with limited batches and consistent demand.
Osicki’s clients include artists from Argentina, the US, Sweden, India, and beyond—many of whom are early-career, independent, and fiercely ambitious. What they share is a desire to break out of formulaic production and tell stories with more depth.
“They don’t want ‘industry standard,’” he says. “They want something that feels personal but elevated—something that moves.”
His workflow is intentionally lean. Remote collaboration, detailed mood-boarding, a mix of live recordings and high-end samples, and a strong emphasis on storytelling. It’s not a factory—it’s a high-touch creative partnership, wrapped inside an efficient digital infrastructure.
Osicki is preparing to expand his education platform next—a series of composition challenges and masterclasses aimed at composers and producers who want to collaborate in cinematic scoring, even without a conservatoire background.
And while he continues composing for film and radio, his heart is in working with artists who might not otherwise have access to this sound world.
“There’s this assumption that orchestral music is elite, or expensive, or somehow irrelevant. But it doesn’t have to be,” he says. “It can be direct. Honest. Raw. Beautiful. You just need the right tools—and someone who actually cares.”
Follow @oscarosickimusic on Instagram. Check out his YouTube channel, Inside the Score.
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