Nathan Thomson

Nathan Riki Thomson is professor of Global Music and Community Engagement at Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki. He is a double bass player, multi-instrumentalist, composer, researcher, and educator with a core focus on intercultural dialogue and collaboration. Nathan was born to parents from Aotearoa / New Zealand and raised in Australia on the traditional unceded lands of the Yugambeh and Bundjalung peoples. Nathan has collaborated and performed internationally with musicians from many parts of the world during the past 34 years, including an extensive period of living and working with musicians and dancers in Tanzania and Zambia. After a 10-year period teaching at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, Finland is now his new home, where he leads intercultural arts, research, and community based initiatives at the University of the Arts, Helsinki.

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