Biography
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. 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.
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Awards & recognition
- Lucie Award · 2010
- AACTA Award — Best Original Music Score · 1993
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- doctor honoris causa of the University of Warwick
- honorary degree of the University of Leeds
Filmography27 titles
Gattaca
McQueen
Man on Wire
Dance Dance Danseur
Monsieur Hire
The Falls
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
The Draughtsman's Contract
The Man Who Saw Too Much
Drowning by Numbers
A Zed & Two Noughts
Ravenous
The Hairdresser's Husband
The Trip
Never Forever
The End of the Affair
White Elephant
The Ogre
Carrington
The Claim
The Libertine
Nathalie...
Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali
9 Songs
The Actors
Everyday
The Cold Room