2011
Search results
People also ask
Who is Michael Nyman?
Does Michael Nyman have a musical career?
What did Michael Nyman do during iicampiello?
What albums did Michael Nyman make?
Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE (born 23 March 1944) is an English composer, pianist, librettist, musicologist, and filmmaker. He is known for numerous film scores (many written during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway), and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion 's The Piano.
As one of Britain's most innovative and celebrated composers, Michael Nyman's work encompasses operas and string quartets, film soundtracks and orchestral concertos.
As one of Britain's most innovative and celebrated composers, Michael Nyman's work encompasses operas and string quartets, film soundtracks and orchestral concertos. He is a performer, conductor, bandleader, pianist, author, musicologist and now a photographer and film-maker.
Michael Nyman is one of the UK’s most innovative and celebrated composers. In addition to his prolific output as a composer, Nyman is also a conductor, pianist, writer, musicologist, photographer and film-maker.
- Personal
- Credits
- Recordings
- Writings
- Adaptations
- Other Sources
Full name, Michael Lawrence Nyman; born March 23, 1944, in London, England; son of Mark and Jeannette Nyman; married Aet Toome, May 16, 1970; children: Molly, additional daughter. Education:Studied musicology with Thurston Dart, Kings College, London, 1964-67; Royal Academy of Music (studied under Alan Bush), B. Mus. (with honors), 1965; attended C...
Film Work:
Director, Love Love Love,1968. Pianist and harmonium player, A Walk Through H,1973. Music arranger, Keep It Up Downstairs,1976. Conductor, Vertical Features Remake,1978. Conductor, 1-100,1978. Conductor, musician, and still photographer, The Falls,1980. Music supervisor, harpsichord, and pianist, The Draughtsman's Contract,United Artists, 1982. Conductor, Frozen Music,1983. Technical advisor (music), Modern American Composers I,1984. Musician, harpsichord, A Zed & Two Noughts (also known as A...
Film Appearances:
Himself, I'll Stake My Cremona to a Jew's Trump, 1986. The Michael Nyman Songbook(documentary), London Records, 1992. Himself, Colonna sonora(documentary), 1992. Contact, Hell's Paradox,1995. Himself, 9 Songs,Tartan USA, 2004.
Television Work; Miniseries:
Orchestrator, Nuremberg,TNT, 2000.
Albums:
(With Michael Nyman Band) Decay Music,1976. English Experimental Music,1977. Masterwork Samples,1979. From Brussels with Love,1980. Miniatures,1980. Michael Nyman,Sheet, 1981. The Kiss and Other Movements,Caroline, 1985. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,CBS Masterworks, 1987. And Do They Do/Zoo Caprices,That's Entertainment Records,1989. La traveresee de Paris,1989. Out of the Ruins,Silva Screen, 1989. The Nyman/Greenaway Soundtracks,1989. String Quartet Nos 1-3,London, 1991. The Essent...
Film Scores:
5 Postcards from Capital Cities,1967. Keep It Up Downstairs,1976. Goole by Numbers,1976. A Walk through H (also known as The Re-Incarnation of an Ornithologist), 1976. Tom Phillips,1977. 1-100,1978. Vertical Features Remake,1978. Zandra Rhodes (also known as Insight: Zandra Rhodes), 1979. The Falls,1980. Terence Conran (also known as Insight: Terence Conran), 1981. The Draughtsman's Contract,United Artists, 1982. Frozen Music,1983. Nelly's Version,1983. The Coastline (also known as The Sea in...
Film Music; Other:
Songs, Keep It Up Downstairs,1976. Title music, Tom Phillips,1977. Additional music, Brimstone and Treacle,1982. Song ("Water Dances"), La Stanza del figlio (also known as The Son's Room), Bac Films, 2001. Songs, 9 Songs,Tartan USA, 2004. Music ("If," "Rochester's Farewell"), The Libertine,Weinstein Company, 2004.
Television Music; Series:
Fairly Secret Army,syndicated, 1984. Fairly Secret Army Series 2,1987. Theme song, Titch,CiTV, 1998.
Compositions by Nyman recorded by others include 1-100, Piano Circus, London; Polish Love Song, Mary Wiegold/The Composers Ensemble, NMC; and Where the Bee Dances, John Harle/Bournemouth Sinfonietta, London; music from A Zed and Two Noughts used in the television series Ryori no tetsujin (also known as Iron Chef).
Periodicals:
New Statesman,November 14, 1986, p. 26. New York Times,March 15, 1992, p. H36. Time,October 26, 1987, p. 126.
Electronic:
Michael Nyman Website,http://www.michaelnyman.com, October 25, 2007.
Michael Nyman is undoubtedly one of the UK’s most innovative and celebrated composers. His reputation is built upon a substantial body of work written for a wide variety of ensembles, not only for his own band, but also for symphony orchestra, choir and string quartet.
Michael Nyman combines Western classical music with the high-octane energy and propulsion of rock and pulse-based minimalism. As we look ahead to the composer's 80th birthday in 2024, discover the variety of Michael Nyman's music with a new profile by musicologist and composer Pwyll ap Siôn.
