Nigel Osborne (born 23 June 1948) is a British composer, teacher and aid worker. He served as Reid Professor of Music at the

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and has also taught at the

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. Known for his extensive charity work supporting war traumatised children using

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techniques, especially in the Balkans during the

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, and in the Syrian conflict. He speaks eight languages. Osborne was born in

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, England, to a Scottish family. He studied composition with Kenneth Leighton, Egon Wellesz, and Witold Rudziński. His compositions include the opera '' The Electrification of the Soviet Union'', Concerto for Flute and Chamber Orchestra commissioned by the City of London Sinfonia, ''I am Goya'', ''Remembering Esenin'', and ''Birth of the Beatles Symphony''. Osborne retired from his Edinburgh University position in 2012, and is now working internationally as freelance composer, arranger and aid worker. Currently working with war-traumatised children from the

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Career

Osborne studied composition with Egon Wellesz, first pupil of

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(1968–69), also with Kenneth Leighton (his predecessor as Reid Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh) at

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(1969–70), and later in Warsaw with Witold Rudziński (1970–71) where he also he worked in the Polish Radio Experimental Studio. From 1983 until 1985, while at the

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in Paris, Osborne co-founded ''Contemporary Music Review'' with

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. He held a special professorship at the

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from 1978 to 1987, the Reid Chair and Dean of the Faculty of Music at

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from 1989 to 2012, a senior professorship (C4) at the University of Hannover from 1996 to 1998 and head of faculty for the Vienna–Prague–Budapest Summer Academy (ISA) from 2007 to 2014. Currently professor emeritus at Edinburgh University, visiting professor in the drama faculty of Rijeka University and consultant to the Chinese Music Institute,

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. He has worked as visiting lecturer and examiner also at

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, CalArts, Gedai and

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, the Sorbonne and

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. Osborne's works have been performed internationally by Vienna Symphony, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Leningrad Philharmonic, the Philharmonia of London,

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, Berlin Symphony, Glyndebourne, Opera Circus, Opera Factory,

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and the

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. He has received, among numerous

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, a Netherlands Gaudeamus prize, the Opera Prize of the Radio Sussie Romande and Ville de Geneve, and the Koussevitzky Award of the

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Washington. In the 1980s, Osborne composed a series of classic works for choreographer Richard Alston and

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. Master of Music at the Shakespeare's Globe (1999–2000), and since 2000 has been house composer for Ulysses Theatre, Istria. Osborne has collaborated with directors Lenka Udovicki, Peter Sellars, David Pountney, Michael McCarthy and David Freeman, and with writers

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, Craig Raine,

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, Jo Shapcott, Howard Barker, Ariel Dorfman, Tena Štivičić and Goran Simić, with notable actors Vanessa Redgrave,

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, Lynn Redgrave, Amanda Plummer,

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, Simon Callow, Ian McDiarmid and Janet Henfrey, also with artists and designers John Hoyland, Dick Smith, George Tsypin, David Roger, Bjanka Adzic Ursulov and Peter Mumford. Singers and soloists with whom Osborne has collaborated include pioneers of contemporary music, such as Jane Manning, Linda Hirst, Liz Lawrence and Omar Ebrahim, alongside long-standing collaborations with artists Florian Kitt, Ernst Kovacic and the Hebrides Ensemble. Osborne's film documentary credits include

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-winning and -nominated collaborations with director Samir Mehanović, an

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-winning collaboration with the BBC, and the film ''Dans un océan d'images'' with Helen Doyle and InformAction, Montreal. He has a special interest in Arabic, Indian and Chinese music. Osborne has pioneered methods of using music and the creative arts to support children who are victims of conflict. This approach was developed during the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992–95), and since then this work has been implemented widely in the Balkan region, the Caucasus, the Middle East, East Africa, South East Asia and India. He was also awarded the Freedom Prize of the Peace Institute, Sarajevo, for his work for Bosnian children during the siege of the city. Osborne has worked actively in human rights initiatives, Workers' Defence Committee in Poland (1970–89), Citizens' Forum and the Jazz Section with

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in former Czechoslovakia (1987–1989), for Syrian refugee support organisations. During the genocide Osborne worked directly for the Government of Bosnia-Herzegovina. From 2012 until 2014, Osborne served as co-chair of the Global Agenda Committee for Arts in Society for the

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. In 2004 Osborne began an artistic relationship with 'Opera Circus', a chamber opera and music theatre company based in West Dorset UK during which the Bosnian sevdah opera ''Differences in Demolitions'' was produced, with Bosnian poet Goran Simić and Scottish conductor William Conway. Opera Circus toured through BiH in 2017. Osborne has been active in supporting the development of new music technologies, for example the Skoog, and is co-inventor with Paul Robertson of X-System, an 'informatic modelling of the musical brain'. In December 2017 he received the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors' ( BASCA) Award for Inspiration. Osborne was awarded both the Queen's Prize and Music Industry Prize for innovation in education, and was recently made honorary

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of the Educational Institute of Scotland. He is a director of the Scottish educational development company, Tapestry Partnership. In 2017, Osborne was commissioned by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra to arrange '' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'' for the ‘It Was Fifty Years Ago Today’ concerts with the Bootleg Beatles performed to capacity crowds at the

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and

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Publications

Scientific and scholarly publications

* Osborne, Nigel. (23 February 2017)
''Handbook of Musical Identities''

"The Identities of Sevda: from Graeco-Arabic medicine to music therapy"
Editors: MacDonald, Hargreaves and Miell. . Oxford University Press. (Oxford, UK and New York). * Osborne, Nigel. (21 February 2017
''Love, Rhythm and Chronobiology in Rhythms of Relating in Children's Therapies'' – 'Connecting Creatively with Vulnerable Children'
Editors: Daniel and Trevarthen. . '' Jessica Kingsley Publishers''. (London, UK and Philadelphia, USA). * Osborne, Nigel. (2014)
"The Plenum Brain in Unbribable Bosnia and Herzegovina"
p. 174. Editor: D. Arsenijevi�
''South East European integration perspectives''
ISBN print: , ISBN online: . Nomos Verlag. (Baden-Baden, Germany). * * Osborne, Nigel. (July 2013)
"Resilience and recovery – violence, disasters and the arts, presentation, Global Alliance for Arts and Health"
APPG on Agriculture and Food for Development.

. (Washington DC, USA). * Osborne, Nigel. (23 April 2012)
"Neuroscience and real world practice: music as a therapeutic resource for children in zones of conflict"

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. ''Neurosciences and Music''. (New York, USA). * Osborne, Nigel. 2009
"Music for children in zones of conflict and postconflict: a psychobiological approach".
In ''Communicative Musicality''. Editors: S. Malloch and C. Trevarthen. .

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and

. (Oxford, UK and New York, USA). *

Selected publications

University of York Music Press

Source: * 2013 : ''The Painters in my Garden'' for three flutes : ''A Prayer and Two Blessings'' for SATB choir * 2011 :''Botanical Studies'' for oboe and percussion * 2010 : Concertino for Violin and Orchestra for solo violin and orchestra : ''Differences in Demolition'' (A sevdah opera) : ''I am not here'' for voice and piano (only available in Songs for the Twenty-First Century) : ''Journey to the End of the Night'' for oboe, percussion and electronics : ''SMTBarBar'' for soli, clarinet, percussion, violin, viola, cello, accordion and machine sounds Stargazing string quartet * 2009 : ''The Birth of Naciketas'' guitar concertante for guitar, Indian violin, tabla, string quartet,double bass and percussion * 2009 : ''Afro-Scottish'' for children's choir, SATB choir and jazz orchestra : ''Angel-Nebulae'' for TTTB soli : ''East'' for symphony orchestra : ''La Belle Hélène'' for three flutes (doubling alto flute and piccolo) and cello : ''Naturtöne / Abschie''d SATTBarB choir : ''Queens of Govan'' for chamber opera for mezzo soprano, recorded voices and 15 instruments : ''Rock Music'' for 12 instruments and electronic materials : ''7 Words, 7 Icons, 7 Cities'' for SATB choir (with divisi) and string orchestra : ''Stone Garden'' for 2 cellos and accordion : ''Tiree'' string quartet : ''Transformations'' for 2 solo oboe d'amore 2009 Dialogue oboe and harp * 2008 : Concerto for Viola and Orchestra : ''Roma Diary'' for cello and piano * 2007 : ''Balkan Dances and Laments'' for oboe, piano, violin, viola and cello : ''Sarajevo'' for clarinet, piano and cello : ''Transformations'' for 1 two violas 2007 Taw-Raw solo violin * 2006 : ''The Piano Tuner'' for piano trio : ''Pulsus'' for CtTTBar soli and monochord * 2004 : String Quartet No. 1 ''Medicinal Songs and Dances'' * 1999 : Concerto for Oboe and Chamber Orchestra

Universal Edition

Source: * Various : ''Adagio für

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''Osborne, Nigel & Clein, Natalie
"Adagio for Vedran Smailovic"

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. (United Kingdom). für Violoncello : ''After Night'' , 1977: für Gitarre , 8 : ''Figure/Ground für Klavier solo'' : ''For a Moment'' für Frauenchor, Violoncello und Kandyan Drum (ad lib.) , 15 : ''Remembering esenin'' für Violoncello und Klavier * 2013 : ''Espionage'' , 2013: 3 miniature sonatas, studies in Poussin and happenstance , für Violine solo , 8 * 1993 : ''The Art of Fugue'' , 1993: für Violoncello und Instrumente , 20 2 2 2 2 – 2 2 0 0 – Schl – Str : ''Hommage à Panufnik'' , 1993: für Streichorchester , 8 * 1992 * ''Terrible Mouth'' , 1992 Musiktheater , 120 * 1991 : ''Albanian Nights'' , 1991: für Ensemble , 12 2 2 2 2 – 2 0 0 0 : ''Graffiti after Cy Twombly'' , 1991: on the musical letters of Alfred Schlee , für Streichquartett : ''Schleedoyer II'' , 1991: für Streichquartett , 1 30 : ''The Sun of Venice'' , 1991: für Orchester , 25 – 30' 3 3 3 3 – 3 3 2 1 – Schl(3) – 2 Hf, Cel, Klav – Str – 2 konzertante Gruppen * 1990 : ''Canzona – Procession of Boats with Distant, Smoke, Venice'' , 1990: für Horn, 4 Trompeten, 4 Posaunen und Tuba , 12 : ''Eulogy'' , 1990: für Kammerensemble , 8 1 1 1 1 – 1 1 1 0 – Schl, Klav, StrQuint : ''Tracks'' , 1990: für 2 gemischte Chöre, Orchester und Blasorchester , 30 4 4 5 5 – 6 4 4 1 – Pk, Schl(4), Hf, Klav, Str; 3 4 6 5 – 6 4 6 1 – Schl(6), 6 Kor, 4 Euph : Violin Concerto , 1990: für Violine und Orchester , 22 2 2 2 2 – 3 2 2 0 – Schl(3) – Hf, Klav – Str * 1988 : ''Esquisse 2'' , 1988: für 11 Solostreicher , 10 Vl(6), Va(2), Vc(2), Kb(1) : ''Stone Garden'' , 1988: für Kammerensemble , 15 Fl, Ob, Kl, Fg, Hr, Trp, Pos – Schl – Hf – StreichQuint * 1987 : ''The Electrification of the Soviet Union'' , 1987: Oper in 2 Akten , 120 : ''Esquisse 1'' , 1987: für 11 Solostreicher , 7 Vl(6), Va(2), Vc(2), Kb(1) * 1985 : ''Hell's Angels'' , 1985: Kammeroper in 2 Akten , 120 Kaufausgabe : ''Pornography'' , 1985 für Mezzosopran und Kammerensemble , 13 : ''Zansa'' , 1985: für Kammerensemble , 20 1 1 1 1 – 1 1 1 0 – Schl, Klav, "Zansa" – 2 Vl, Va, Vc, Kb * 1984 : ''Alba'' , 1984: für Mezzosopran, Kammerorchester und Tonband , 17 1 1 1 0 – 1 1 1 0 – Schl – Hf – 2 Vl, Va, Vc, Kb : ''Wildlife'' , 1984: für Kammerensemble , 20 Fl, Kl – Hr, Trp – Schl – Hf – Vl, Va, Vc, elektrischer Kb – Elektronik * 1983 : ''Fantasia'' , 1983: für Kammerensemble , 12 1 1 1 1 – 1 0 0 0 – Klav, Vl(1), Va(1), Vc(1), Kb(1) : 2. Sinfonia , 1983: für Orchester , 19 4 4 4 5 – 4 4 4 1 – Schl, Vib, Hf, Cel, Klav, T-T, Str Kaufausgabe * 1982 : ''Cantata piccola'' , 1982 für Sopran und Streichquartett , 10 : 1. Sinfonia , 1982: für Orchester , 23 4 3 4 3 – 6 4 4 1 – Schl(2) – Hf – Str(16 12 10 8 6) * 1981 : ''The Cage'' , 1981: für Tenor und Kammerensemble , 14 Afl(G), Ob, Kl, Fg, Hr, Trp – Vl, Vl, Vc : ''Choralis 1-2-3'' , 1981-1982: für Sopran, 2 Mezzosoprane, Tenor, Bariton und Bass : Piano Sonata , 1981: für Klavier , 25 * 1980 : Concerto , 1980: für Flöte und Kammerorchester , 16 Ob(2), Hr(2), Str: Vl.I(6), Vl.II(4), Va(3), Vc(2), Kb(1) : ''Mythologies'' , 1980: für Kammerensemble , 15 Kaufausgabe : ''Poem without a Hero'' , 1980: für Sopran, Mezzosopran, Tenor, Bass und Live-Elektronik , 20 * 1979 : ''In Camera'' , 1979: für Kammerensemble , 19 : ''Madeleine de la Ste. Baume'' , 1979: für Sopran und Kontrabass : ''Songs From a Bare Mountain'' , 1979: für Frauenchor , 6 : ''Under the Eyes'' , 1979: für Stimme, Schlagzeug, Klavier, Oboe (auch EH) und Flöte (auch Altfl.) , 9 * 1977 : Cello Concerto , 1977: für Violoncello und Orchester , 17 : ''I am Goya'' , 1977: für Bassbariton, Flöte, Oboe, Violine und Violoncello , 12 : ''Orlando Furioso'' , 1977: für gemischten Chor und Bläserensemble , 35 : ''Vienna – Zurich – Constance'' , 1977: für Sopran, Violine, Violoncello, 2 Klarinetten und Schlagzeug , 10 * 1976 : ''Passers By'' , 1976: für Bassblockflöte, Stimme, Violoncello, Elektronik und Bilder * 1975 : ''Chansonnier'' , 1975: für gemischten Chor und Kammerensemble , 16 : Prelude and Fugue , 1975: für Kammerensemble , 17 : ''The Sickle'' , 1975: für Sopran und Orchester , 11 2 2 2 2 – 2 2 0 0 – Schl – Hf, Git – Str(6 6 4 4 2) * 1974 : ''Kinderkreuzzug'' , 1974: für Kinderchor (Vokalisen) und Instrumentalensemble , 22 * 1971 :''7 Words'' , 1971: Kantate , für 2 Tenöre, Bass, gemischten Chor und Orchester , 24 4 3 4 2 – 3 3 3 0 – Schl, Ondes Martenot, Hf, Sax(3), Str(4 4 4 4 2)

Reviews

Reviews by Nigel Osborne: * * * * * *

Filmography

* 2018 : ''Through Our Eyes'' – composer : ''A Story of Three Islands'' – composer : ''I am Swimming'' – composer * 2015 : ''The Fog of Srebrenica'' – composer * 2014 : '' Frameworks: Images of a Changing World (Dans un océan d'images)'' – composer * 2006 : ''The Way We Played'' – composer * 2003 : ''Les messagers'' – composer * 1990 : ''View from the Bridge'' – composer * 1988 : ''The Electrification of the Soviet Union'' – composer * 1987 : ''Wildlife'' – composer * 1984 : ''The Sea of Faith'' (6-part documentary series) – composer

Education

BA, BMus( Oxon), DLitt, FRCM, FEIS,

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Awards

* British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors Award (BASCA) (2017) * BH Radio 1 Prize (2016) * Honorary Fellow of the Educational Institute of Scotland (2015) * DLitt Queen Margaret University (2013) * Fellow of the

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(2011) * Freedom Prize of the Peace Institute Sarajevo (2007) * MBE (2003) * Queen's Anniversary Prize (1996) * Fellow of the Royal College of Music (1996) * Thorn EMI Prize for Music Education (1993) * Koussevitzky Award of the

Washington (1985) * Radcliffe Award (1977) * Netherlands Gaudeamus Prize (1973) * International Opera Prize of Radio Suisse Romande and Ville de Geneve (1971) * Osgood Award

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(1970)

Sources

Scottish Arts Council profile articleThe Guardian – "The riddle of the rocks" – on his 2008 trip to Uganda

Citations and references

External links

staff profile at

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