Nigel Osborne (born 23 June 1948) is a British composer, teacher and aid worker. He served as

Reid Professor of Music The Reid Professorship in Music was a position founded within the University of Edinburgh in 1839 using funds provided in a bequest from General John Reid. History On his death in 1807 General John Reid left a fortune of more than £50,000. Subje ...

at the

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and has also taught at the

Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media (german: Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, italics=unset, abbreviated to HMTMH) is a university of performing arts and media in Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony, Germany. Dating ...

. He is known for his extensive charity work supporting war traumatised children using

music therapy Music therapy, an allied health profession, "is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music th ...

techniques, especially in the Balkans during the disastrous

Bosnian War The Bosnian War ( sh, Rat u Bosni i Hercegovini / Рат у Босни и Херцеговини) was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. The war is commonly seen as having started ...

, 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 Kenneth Leighton (2 October 1929 – 24 August 1988) was a British composer and pianist. His compositions include church and choral music, pieces for piano, organ, cello, oboe and other instruments, chamber music, concertos, ...

Egon Wellesz Egon Joseph Wellesz CBE (21 October 1885 – 9 November 1974) was an Austrian, later British composer, teacher and musicologist, notable particularly in the field of Byzantine music. Early life and education in Vienna Egon Joseph Wellesz was ...

, and

Witold Rudziński Witold Rudziński (14 March 1913, in Sebezh, Russian Empire – 29 February 2004) was a Polish composer, conductor, and author. He studied composition at the Mieczysław Karlowicz Conservatory of Music in Vilnius, and later at the Gregorian In ...

. His

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include the opera ''

The Electrification of the Soviet Union ''The Electrification of the Soviet Union'' is an opera in two acts by Nigel Osborne. The libretto was written by Craig Raine and based on ''The Last Summer'' and ''Spectorsky'', two semi-autobiographical works by Boris Pasternak who appears as a ...

'', 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.

Career

Osborne studied composition with

, the first pupil of

Arnold Schoenberg Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (, ; ; 13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian-American composer, music theorist, teacher, writer, and painter. He is widely considered one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. He was as ...

(1968–69), also with

(his predecessor as Reid Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh) at

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(1969–70), and later in Warsaw with

(1970–71) where he also he worked in the

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Experimental Studio. From 1983 until 1985, while at the

IRCAM IRCAM (French: ''Ircam, '', English: Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music) is a French institute dedicated to the research of music and sound, especially in the fields of avant garde and electro-acoustical art music. It is ...

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

Tod Machover Tod Machover (born November 24, 1953, in Mount Vernon, New York), is a composer and an innovator in the application of technology in music. He is the son of Wilma Machover, a pianist and Carl Machover, a computer scientist. He was named Direct ...

. He held a lectureship and 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 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University Hannover (german: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität), also known as the University of Hannover, is a public research university located in Hanover, Germany. Founded on 2 May 1831 as Higher Vocational Sc ...

from 1996 to 1998 and head of faculty for the Vienna–Prague–Budapest Summer Academy (ISA) from 2007 to 2014. He is currently professor emeritus at Edinburgh University, visiting professor in the drama faculty of Rijeka University and consultant to the Chinese Music Institute,

Peking University Peking University (PKU; ) is a public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education. Peking University was established as the Imperial University of Peking in 1898 when it received its royal charter ...

. He has worked as visiting lecturer and examiner also at

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, Gedai and

Toho Gakuen School of Music is a private music school in Chōfu, Tokyo, Japan. History Toho Gakuen was founded in 1948 in Ichigaya (Tokyo) as the Music School for Children, and two years later moved to Sengawa (current address at Wakabacyo, Chofushi, Tokyo) and opened th ...

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, the

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and

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. Osborne's works have been performed around the world by major orchestras and opera houses, including the

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Moscow Symphony Orchestra The Moscow Symphony Orchestra is a non-state-supported Russian symphony orchestra, founded in 1989 by the sisters Ellen and Marina Levine. The musicians include graduates from such institutions as Moscow, Kiev, and Saint Petersburg Conservatory. T ...

Leningrad Philharmonic The Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra (russian: Симфонический оркестр Санкт-Петербургской филармонии, ''Symphonic Orchestra of the Saint Petersburg Philharmonia'') is a Russian orchestra based ...

, the Philharmonia of London,

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, Berlin Symphony,

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, 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. He also composes for theatre and film and has a "secret history" of work in popular music and rock 'n roll – he plays in a heavy metal band (The Godfather) with his son Ruaraidh. In the 1980s, Osborne composed a series of "classic works" for choreographer Richard Alston and

Ballet Rambert Rambert (known as Rambert Dance Company before 2014) is a leading British dance company. Formed at the start of the 20th century as a classical ballet company, it exerted a great deal of influence on the development of dance in the United Kingd ...

. He has been Master of Music at the

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(1999–2000), and is currently house composer for Ulysses Theatre, Istria (2000–). He has collaborated with notable directors Lenka Udovicki,

Peter Sellars Peter Sellars (born September 27, 1957) is an American theatre director, noted for his unique contemporary stagings of classical and contemporary operas and plays. Sellars is professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where ...

David Pountney Sir David Willoughby Pountney (born 10 September 1947) is a British-Polish theatre and opera director and librettist internationally known for his productions of rarely performed operas and new productions of classic works. He has directed over ...

, Michael McCarthy and David Freeman, with notable writers

Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal and tragicomic expe ...

Craig Raine Craig Anthony Raine, FRSL (born 3 December 1944) is an English contemporary poet. Along with Christopher Reid, he is a notable pioneer of Martian poetry, a movement that expresses alienation with the world, society and objects. He was a fellow of ...

Eve Ensler V, formerly Eve Ensler (; born May 25, 1953), is an American playwright, performer, feminist, and activist. V is best known for her play ''The Vagina Monologues''.

Jo Shapcott Jo Shapcott FRSL (born 24 March 1953, London) is an English poet, editor and lecturer who has won the National Poetry Competition, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Costa Book of the Year Award, a Forward Poetry Prize and the Cholmondeley Awa ...

Howard Barker Howard Barker (born 28 June 1946) is a British playwright, screenwriter and writer of radio drama, painter, poet, and essayist writing predominantly on playwriting and the theatre. The author of an extensive body of dramatic works since the 197 ...

Ariel Dorfman Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman (born May 6, 1942) is an Argentine-Chilean-American novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist. A citizen of the United States since 2004, he has been a professor of literature and Latin American ...

Tena Štivičić Tena Štivičić (; born 1977) is a Croatian playwright and screenwriter. She won the 2014-2015 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Life She was born in Zagreb where she studied at the Academy of Dramatic Art. She completed an MA in Writing for Performa ...

and Goran Simić, with notable actors

Vanessa Redgrave Dame Vanessa Redgrave (born 30 January 1937) is an English actress and activist. Throughout her career spanning over seven decades, Redgrave has garnered numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Television Award, two ...

Annette Bening Annette Carol Bening (born May 29, 1958) is an American actress. She has received various accolades throughout her career spanning over four decades, including a British Academy Film Award and two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominat ...

Lynn Redgrave Lynn Rachel Redgrave (8 March 1943 – 2 May 2010) was an English actress. She won two Golden Globe Awards throughout her career. A member of the Redgrave family of actors, Lynn trained in London before making her theatrical debut in 1962. By ...

Amanda Plummer Amanda Michael Plummer (born March 23, 1957) is an American actress. She is known for her work on stage and for her roles in such films as '' Joe Versus the Volcano'' (1990), ''The Fisher King'' (1991), ''Pulp Fiction'' (1994), and '' The Hunge ...

Rade Šerbedžija Rade Šerbedžija ( sr-Cyrl, Раде Шербеџија, ; born 27 July 1946) is a Croatian actor, director and musician. He is known for his portrayals of imposing figures on both sides of the law. He was one of the best known Yugoslav actors i ...

Simon Callow Simon Phillip Hugh Callow (born 15 June 1949) is an English film, television and voice actor, director, narrator and writer. He was twice nominated for BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his roles in ''A Room with a View (1985 ...

Ian McDiarmid Ian McDiarmid (; born 11 August 1944) is a Scottish actor and director of stage and screen, best known for portraying the Sith Lord Emperor Sheev Palpatine / Darth Sidious in the ''Star Wars'' multimedia franchise. Making his stage debut in '' ...

and

Janet Henfrey Janet Ethne Anne Henfrey (born 16 August 1935) is a British stage and television actress. She is best known for playing Mrs. Bale on '' As Time Goes By'', and for her role as the schoolteacher in the Dennis Potter television play '' Stand Up, N ...

, and with notable artists and designers

John Hoyland John Hoyland RA (12 October 1934 – 31 July 2011) was a London-based British artist. He was one of the country's leading abstract painters.

, Dick Smith,

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, David Roger, Bjanka Adzic Ursulov and Peter Mumford. Singers and soloists include pioneers of contemporary music, such as Jane Manning, Linda Hirst, Liz Lawrence and

Omar Ebrahim Omar Ebrahim (born 6 September 1956 in Greasbrough, Rotherham, South Yorkshire) is an English baritone vocalist and actor. He specializes in the performance of contemporary classical music. He studied voice at the Guildhall School of Music and Dr ...

, and long-standing collaborations with artists Florian Kitt, Ernst Kovacic and the Hebrides Ensemble. His film documentary credits include BAFTA-winning and -nominated collaborations with director Samir Mehanović, an

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-winning collaboration with the BBC, and multi-award- winning films with Helen Doyle and InformAction, Montreal. He has a special interest in Arabic, Indian and Chinese music. Nigel_Osborne_MOSTAR_1996

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 been awarded the Freedom Prize of the Peace Institute, Sarajevo, for his work for Bosnian children during the siege of the city. He has worked actively in many human rights initiatives, including the

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in Poland (1970–89), Citizens' Forum and the Jazz Section with

Václav Havel Václav Havel (; 5 October 193618 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and former dissident. Havel served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1992 and then as ...

in former Czechoslovakia (1987–1989), for Syrian refugee support organisations and directly for the Government of Bosnia-Herzegovina during the genocide. 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 he began a long term artistic relationship with Tina Ellen Lee of Opera Circus, a chamber opera and music theatre company now based in West Dorset UK. Together they developed and produced the Bosnian

sevdah Sevdalinka (), also known as Sevdah music, is a traditional genre of folk music originating from Bosnia and Herzegovina. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sevdalinka is an integral part of the Bosniak culture, but is also spread across the ex-Yugoslavi ...

opera ''Differences in Demolitions'' with Bosnian poet Goran Simić and Scottish conductor William Conway. They toured through BiH in 2017 and in 2010 performed this first ever live opera in Srebrenica before heading for Vienna and the

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. 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 capable of predicting emotional response to music of any culture, designed for both medical and leisure applications. He is currently a field worker for SAWA for Development and Aid in Lebanon. In December 2017 he received the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors' (

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) Award for Inspiration. He continues to work in special education development in Scotland, Sweden, Croatia and India. He 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

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. He is a director of the Scottish educational development company, Tapestry Partnership. In 2017, Osborne was commissioned by the

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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

Echo Arena Liverpool Liverpool Arena, known for sponsorship reasons as the M&S Bank Arena, and previously Echo Arena, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the city centre of Liverpool, England. The venue hosts live music, comedy performances and sporting events, and ...

Publications

Recent 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. . ''

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''. (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"

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. (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

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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

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

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Source:

Sarajevo Nigel Osborne and cello in snow

* Various : ''Adagio für

Vedran Smailović Vedran Smailović (born 11 November 1956), known as the "Cellist of Sarajevo", is a musician from Bosnia and Herzegovina. During the siege of Sarajevo, he played Albinoni's ''Adagio in G Minor'' in ruined buildings, and, often under the threat ...

'' 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 : ''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 Bachelor of Music (BM or BMus) is an academic degree awarded by a college, university, or conservatory upon completion of a program of study in music. In the United States, it is a professional degree, and the majority of work consists of presc ...

( Oxon),

DLitt Doctor of Letters (D.Litt., Litt.D., Latin: ' or ') is a terminal degree in the humanities that, depending on the country, is a higher doctorate after the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree or equivalent to a higher doctorate, such as the Doctor ...

, FRCM,

FEIS A () or () is a traditional Gaelic arts and culture festival. The plural forms are () and (). The term is commonly used referring to Irish dance competitions and, in Scotland, to immersive teaching courses, specialising in traditional musi ...

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". This soci ...

Awards

British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors The Ivors Academy (formerly the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors – BASCA) is one of the largest professional associations for music writers in Europe. The academy exists to support, protect, and campaign for the interests ...

Award (BASCA) (2017) * BH Radio 1 Prize (2016) * Honorary Fellow of the

(2015) * DLitt

Queen Margaret University Queen Margaret University is a university, founded in 1875 and located in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is named after the Scottish Queen Saint Margaret. History The university was founded in 1875, as ''The Edinburgh School of Cookery and Domestic ...

(2013) * Fellow of the

Royal Society of Edinburgh The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity that operates on a wholly independent and non-partisan basis and provides public benefit throughout Scotland. It was established i ...

(2011) * Freedom Prize of the Peace Institute Sarajevo (2007) *

MBE Mbe may refer to: * Mbé, a town in the Republic of the Congo * Mbe Mountains Community Forest, in Nigeria * Mbe language, a language of Nigeria * Mbe' language, language of Cameroon * ''mbe'', ISO 639 code for the extinct Molala language Molal ...

(2003) *

Queen's Anniversary Prize The Queen's Anniversary Prizes for Higher and Further Education are a biennially awarded series of prizes awarded to universities and colleges in the further and higher education sectors within the United Kingdom. Uniquely it forms part of the Bri ...

(1996) * Fellow of the Royal College of Music (1996) *

Thorn EMI Thorn(s) or The Thorn(s) may refer to: Botany * Thorns, spines, and prickles, sharp structures on plants * ''Crataegus monogyna'', or common hawthorn, a plant species Comics and literature * Rose and Thorn, the two personalities of two DC Comic ...

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

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

(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

(archived)
Grove Music Online (requires login)Nigel Osborne
biography and works on the UE website (former publisher)
Nigel Osborne
biography and catalogue on

University of York Music Press , mottoeng = On the threshold of wisdom , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £8.0 million , budget = £403.6 million , chancellor = Heather Melville , vice_chancellor = Charlie Jeffery , students ...

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