Michael Nyman
English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist · United Kingdom · On the map · Musicians · Born 1944 · age 82
Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE is an English composer, pianist, librettist, musicologist, and filmmaker. He is known for numerous film scores, and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano.
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Peter Greenaway Directed The Draughtsman's Contract (1984)
Robert Thurston Dart Taught Michael
Shirley Henderson Michael wrote The Claim (2001)
Ian Hart Michael wrote The End of the Affair (2000)
Michael Winterbottom Directed The Claim (2001)
Andrew Eaton Produced The Claim (2001)
Gérard Depardieu Michael wrote Nathalie... and Maigret
Danny DeVito Produced Gattaca (1998)
John Malkovich Michael wrote The Libertine and The Ogre
Michael Gambon Michael wrote The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1990)
Jane Campion Directed The Piano (1993)
Joan Plowright Also in Drowning by Numbers (1989)
Andrew Niccol Directed Gattaca (1998)
Steve Coogan Michael wrote A Cock and Bull Story and The Trip
Dylan Moran Michael wrote A Cock and Bull Story (2006)
John Simm Michael wrote Wonderland and Everyday
Diane Kurys Directed À la folie (1994)
Alexandre Arcady Produced À la folie (1994)
Margo Stilley Michael wrote 9 Songs and The Trip
Frances Barber Michael wrote A Zed & Two Noughts (1987)
Bob Weiss Produced The Cold Room (1984)
Conor McPherson Directed The Actors (2003)
Tony Harrison Produced Taking a Line for a Second Walk (1995)
Laurent Bouhnik Directed 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman (2002)
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He has written a number of operas, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat; Letters, Riddles and Writs; Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs; Facing Goya; Man and Boy: Dada; Love Counts; and Sparkie: Cage and Beyond. He has written six concerti, five string quartets, and many other chamber works, many for his Michael Nyman Band. He is also a performing pianist. Nyman prefers to write opera over other forms of music.
