An inspiring and prize-winning composer (Gaudeamus Award, Koussevitzky Award) Nigel specialises in music therapy and reconciliation. He is an advisor for War Child bringing humanitarian aid and peace-building to Bosnia Herzegovina Israel-Palestine (Scotland). Speaker Web Site Nigel Osborne Nigel Osborne studies composition in Edinburgh, and also at the Polish Radio Experimental Studio in Warsaw. His works have been featured in most major international festivals and performed by many leading orchestra's and ensembles around the world, ranging from the Moscow to Berlin Symphony Orchestras and the Philharmonia of London to the Los Angelos Philharmonic. He is winner of the Opera Prize of Radio Swisse Romande, the Netherlands Gaudeamus Prize, the Radcliffe Award and the Koussevitzky Award ,Washington. Nigel 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 are the opera”The electrification of the Soviet Union”, a tour to UK, Norway and the Netherlands,a new commission for the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and “A Song about Love”, an evening of music and theatre with Vanessa Redgrave and Birlyant Ramzaeva. “I can honestly say that all of my hopes for this collaboration with War Child have been more than fulfilled. In Mostar we have been working systematically through the education system, offering retraining courses for teachers and creative intensive art workshops for children. We have now covered every primary and special school in Mostar, with seminars organised by War Child, including the purchase and supply of all instruments and other materials for all the young people. I find War Child to be rigorously honest, passionately committed and deeply self-critical. I am proud to be associated with the organisation as one of its music consultants. Prof Nigel Osbord is Reid Professor of the University of Edinburgh and teaching on music in therapy and the relation between music, emotions and the brain. Session Information: Music, Emotions, and Reconciliation