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Work title: Composer, aid worker (or human rights activist) and Professor Emeritus at Edinburgh University
Nigel Osborne MBE BA BMus (Oxon) PhD DLitt DHumLItt FRCM FEIS FRSE is a composer and Emeritus Professor of Music and Human Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, Distinguished International Professor at Peking University and adviser and visiting Professor at institutions such as the University of Rijeka, Harvard, UCLA, CalArts. the Irish World College, the Vienna-Prague-Budapest Summer Academy, the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function, the Bronx etc.
He has pioneered methods using music to support children who are victims of conflict in the Balkans, Caucasus, Middle East and South East Asia, and published widely on music and PTSD. He is the inventor of X-System (the first functioning computational model of the musical brain) and is currently collaborating with Johns Hopkins University Baltimore and Srebrnjak Children’s Hospital Zagreb, using music to reduce seizures among children with epilepsy and multiple special needs, as well as with ShareMusic, Stanford University CA and others on a remote co-creation platform for disabled musicians. He has been awarded the Queen’s Prize, Thorne EMI Prize and the Freedom Prize of the Peace Institute Sarajevo for his work with traumatised children, and the Doubleday Medal of the University of Manchester Medical School for contributions to medicine.
As a composer he has received the International Opera Prize of the Radio Suisse Romande and City of Geneva, a Netherlands Gaudeamus Prize, the Koussevitzky Award of the Library of Congress Washington and the British Academy of Songwriters and Composers Award (BASCA) for Inspiration.
He is former co-Chair of the Arts in Society Global Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum, and former adviser to Westminster Parliament, US Congress, and the European Union External Action Services. He is currently Field Officer in the Beqaa Valley Lebanon for SAWA for Development and Aid.
– I have been involved with ShareMusic from the very beginning. I have watched it grow, from an inspired exploration of human creativity in its UK period, into a mature national and international organisation in Sweden, taking systematic care of inclusion, and working with even more creative brilliance under the inspired guidance of Sophia Alexandersson.
– In the developing world, there is much to be achieved, and in Sweden and the developed world much to take care of and some things to improve. ShareMusic is now offering the leadership this important world movement and human paradigm shift so very much needs. It is perfectly placed to do this. It is one of the most friendly, joyful, positive, effective, constructive and communicative organisations I know.
