19 Facts About Nigel Osborne

Nigel Osborne was born on 23 June 1948 and is a British composer, teacher and aid worker.

Nigel Osborne served as Reid Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh and has taught at the Hochschule fur Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover.

Nigel Osborne studied composition with Kenneth Leighton, Egon Wellesz, and Witold Rudzinski.

Nigel Osborne's 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.

Nigel Osborne retired from his Edinburgh University position in 2012, and is working internationally as freelance composer, arranger and aid worker.

Nigel Osborne studied composition with Egon Wellesz, first pupil of Arnold Schoenberg, with Kenneth Leighton at Oxford University, and later in Warsaw with Witold Rudzinski where he he worked in the Polish Radio Experimental Studio.

From 1983 until 1985, while at the IRCAM in Paris, Nigel Osborne co-founded Contemporary Music Review with Tod Machover.

Nigel Osborne has worked as visiting lecturer and examiner at Harvard, UCLA, CalArts, Gedai and Toho Gakuen School of Music, Oxford, the Sorbonne and Bologna.

Nigel Osborne's works have been performed internationally by Vienna Symphony, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Leningrad Philharmonic, the Philharmonia of London, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Berlin Symphony, Glyndebourne, Opera Circus, Opera Factory, Scottish Opera and the Royal Opera House.

Nigel Osborne has received, among numerous awards, a Netherlands Gaudeamus prize, the Opera Prize of the Radio Sussie Romande and Ville de Geneve, and the Koussevitzky Award of the Library of Congress Washington.

Nigel Osborne has a special interest in Arabic, Indian and Chinese music.

Nigel Osborne has pioneered methods of using music and the creative arts to support children who are victims of conflict.

Nigel Osborne was awarded the Freedom Prize of the Peace Institute, Sarajevo, for his work for Bosnian children during the siege of the city.

Nigel Osborne has worked actively in human rights initiatives, Workers' Defence Committee in Poland, Citizens' Forum and the Jazz Section with Vaclav Havel in former Czechoslovakia, for Syrian refugee support organisations.

From 2012 until 2014, Nigel Osborne served as co-chair of the Global Agenda Committee for Arts in Society for the World Economic Forum.

Nigel 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'.

Nigel Osborne was awarded both the Queen's Prize and Music Industry Prize for innovation in education, and was recently made honorary fellow of the Educational Institute of Scotland.

Nigel Osborne is a director of the Scottish educational development company, Tapestry Partnership.

In 2017, Nigel Osborne was commissioned by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra to arrange Sgt.