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Nigel Osborne studied
composition with Kenneth Leighton, his predecessor as Reid
Professor of Music at Edinburgh, with Egon Wellesz, the first
pupil of Arnold Schoenberg, and with Witold Rudzinski. He
also studied at the Polish Radio Experimental Studio, Warsaw.
His works have been featured in most major international festivals
and performed by many leading orchestras and ensembles around
the world, ranging from the Moscow to the Berlin Symphony
Orchestras, and from the Philharmonia of London to the Los
Angeles Philharmonic. He has had close relationships with
the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, London
Sinfonietta, Hebrides Ensemble and Ensemble Intercontemporain,
Paris, and has composed extensively for the theatre, with
operas and music theatre works for Glyndebourne, English National
Opera, Opera Factory , Wuppertal, the Hebbel Theatre, Berlin,
the Shakespeare Globe, the Ulysses Theatre, Istria, Radio
3 and BBC2. These include 'The 7 Last Words', 'Hell's Angels',
'The Tempest', 'King Lear', 'Terrible Mouth', 'Sarajevo',
'Europa' and 'The Electrification of the Soviet Union'. Nigel
is co-director of the Institute
for Music in Human and Social Development (IMHSD).
He is winner of the Opera Prize of Radio Suisse Romande
and Ville de Geneve, the Netherlands Gaudeamus Prize, the
Radcliffe Award and the Koussevitzky Award of the Library
of Congress, Washington. Nigel Osborne has pioneered the use
of music in therapy and rehabilitation for children who are
victims of conflict, and is consultant for programmes in the
Balkans, Caucasus, Africa and the Middle East. Current projects
include a new version of 'Forest-River-Ocean' for carnyx,
string quartet and electronics for the City of London Festival,
June 2002; a new performing version of the opera 'The Electrification
of the Soviet Union' for Music Theatre Wales, to be premiered
at the Cheltenham Festival, July 2002, followed by a tour
in the UK, Norway and the Netherlands; 'Medea' for the Ulysses
Theatre, Istria, August 2002; a new commission for the Royal
Scottish National Orchestra, October 2003, and 'A Song about
Love', an evening of music and theatre with Vanessa Redgrave
and Birlyant Ramzaeva.
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