Emeritus Reid Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh, Nigel Osborne is a British composer, teacher and intensely committed aid worker. He is well known for his imaginative charity work with war traumatised children using Music Therapy techniques, in the Balkans, especially Sarajevo and Mostar, Chechnya, with child soldiers in North Uganda and now in the current Syrian conflict and Ukraine. Nigel is multi-linguist, which helps in his activities in so many communities.
Nigel is natural in music making, highly appreciated for his compositions, which have been performed all over the world, admired for his wide-ranging and genuinely touching charity vocation, an amazingly knowledgeable mind and such a warm, kind personality.
For Nigel Osborne creating dreams equals setting up an action – they merge into each other and grow into new dreams. I think that for Nigel the rhythm of his soul guides his work, which in turn feeds his soul – and everybody’s around him.
Nigel cooperated with many amazing people: artists, dancers, musicians, poets both as a composer and as a charity worker. A list is too long to show.
This portrait was taken in Kent, where Nigel Osborne was the Master of Ceremony, conducting a marriage of Kayleigh Nunez and Max Lutoslawski.