![]() Still premiering compositions and scoring for the screen throughout the next decade, his long-running ensemble the Michael Nyman Band launched a 40th anniversary tour in 2018.īorn Michael Laurence Nyman in Stratford, East London, on March 23, 1944, Nyman attended the Royal Academy of Music from 1961 to 1964, studying with, among others, Alan Bush and Geraint Jones. ![]() In 2008, he was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) by Queen Elizabeth II. Across his output, Nyman's musical signatures include not only his use of propulsive repetition but also a palette of idiosyncratic instrumental touches - thumping keyboards, "rude" bass clarinets and baritone saxophones, and extreme high and low octave doublings. His many works inspired by literature range from art songs set to the words of Shakespeare and Rimbaud to 2007's 8 Lust Songs, featuring the erotic poetry of Pietro Aretino. ![]() In the meantime, he ventured into forms including opera, ballet, and varied chamber music. It was his BAFTA-nominated score for Jane Campion's 1993 film The Piano that became his best-known work, however his 1994 expansion, The Piano Concerto, reached the Top Ten of the Billboard Traditional Classical Albums chart. More recognized by the broader public for his film scores, he began a lasting partnership with director Peter Greenaway in the late '70s that included such arthouse releases as 1989's The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover and 1991's Prospero's Books. ![]() Composer and pianist Michael Nyman is not only lauded for his own modular, repetition-based approach to music, he introduced the term "minimal music" - a precursor to "minimalism" - through his work as a critic in the 1960s. ![]()
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