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Nathan Riki Thomson is a double bass player, multi-instrumentalist, composer, researcher, and educator with a core focus on intercultural dialogue and collaboration with different peoples, sonic environments, and places. Nathan is currently professor and head of Global Music studies at Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki.
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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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“WORLD MUSIC IN THE MOST POSITIVE SENSE. IF IT MUST BE CATEGORISED, FILE UNDER ‘BEAUTIFUL’ “.
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“Thomson explores the concept of ‘resonance’ both in terms of the physical sound phenomenon and as a metaphor for inter-cultural dialogue. On both fronts, the album is an astonishing achievement.”
“At times Resonance feels more like an art installation than an album, but that’s partly its strength. Somehow, amid what should be a clutter of musicians and instruments, a gallery- like spaciousness has miraculously been preserved.”