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Composer and pianist Michael Nyman Nyman is not only lauded for his own modular, repetition-based approach to music, he introduced the term "" -- a precursor to "minimalism" -- through his work as a critic in the s. In the meantime, he ventured into forms including , ballet, and varied . His many works inspired by literature range from art songs set to the words of Shakespeare and Rimbaud to 's 8 Lust Songsfeaturing the erotic poetry of . 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 and saxophones, and extreme high and low octave doublings. Still premiering compositions and scoring for the Michael Nyman throughout the next decade, Michael Nyman long-running ensemble the launched a 40th anniversary tour in During his three years as a Ph. Under Dart Michael Nyman tutelage, Nyman was introduced to 16th and 17th century English rounds and canons, their repetitive, contrapuntal lines highly influencing his own later work. Dart also encouraged his trip to . Upon graduating inNyman found himself disconnected from both the pop music of the times and the school of modern composition heralded by Stockhausen. As a result, from Michael Nymanhe worked as Michael Nyman music critic, writing for publications Michael Nyman The Listener, New Statesman, and The Spectator. In a review of British composer Cornelius Cardewhe coined the term "minimal" as a means of musical description. During this same period, Nyman did Michael Nyman performing, appearing with artists ranging from the Michael Nyman Orchestra and Portsmouth Sinfonia to and . Inhe wrote the influential book Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond, an exploration of the influence of on a generation of composers and performers. Perhaps its most profound impact was on Nyman himself, who through writing the book Michael Nyman to discover his own muse. Inhe accepted an invitation from Harrison BirtwistleDirector of Music at the National Theatre, to arrange a number of 18th century Venetian popular songs for a production of Goldoni 's Il Campiello. Nyman 's arrangements consisted of medieval instruments -- , and , bass drums, soprano saxophones, Michael Nyman the like -- designed for maximum loudness to produce a distinctive instrumental color. When the production ended, he began composing original music merely to keep Michael Nyman same group of musicians together. Originally an acoustic unit, when rechristened the Michael Nyman Band in the early '80s, this type of amplification became essential to their aesthetic. Having already collaborated with the director on a number of short films and 's , Nyman 's Michael Nyman major success came in with the score to the Greenaway film The Draughtsman's Contract. Later, 's No. The two had worked together previously on his score for Prospero's Books. Nyman 's most emotional compositions to that point, the songs served as the clear impetus for his score to 's film . Like so many of his compositions, he obsessively reworked the music to The Piano time and time again, its haunting melodies reappearing Michael Nyman for standard piano The Piano Concertofor two pianos, for chamber ensemble, Michael Nyman and strings Lost and Foundand for soprano and string quartet The Piano Sings. His other major works from this period include 's Yamamoto Perpetuo a composition for unaccompanied written for Michael Nyman, 's solo work Tango for Tim, and 's String Quartet No. Meanwhile still composing for film, he scored Michael Nyman Carrington and 's as well as the film . The year saw the premiere of Nyman 's opera . Featuring a libretto by Victoria Hardieit was an expansion of their one-act opera Vital Statistics. The Michael Nyman Band celebrated their 40th anniversary with a tour in AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully. Blues Michael Nyman Country. Electronic Folk International. Jazz Latin New Age. Aggressive Bittersweet Druggy. Energetic Happy Hypnotic. Romantic Sad Sentimental. Sexy Trippy All Moods. Michael Nyman Hanging Out In Love. Introspection Late Night Partying. Rainy Day Relaxation Road Trip. Romantic Evening Sex All Themes. Features Interviews Lists. Streams Videos All Posts. Born March 23, Michael Nyman London, . Michael Nyman - Wise Music Classical

Enter your email address to keep up to date with the latest news and special offers from Wise Music Classical. Your data is secure and you can unsubscribe at any time. Read our Michael Nyman Policy. Michael Nyman b. Michael Nyman Michael Nyman is a composer, pianist, librettist, writer, musicologist, photographer and film-maker Michael Nyman work encompasses opera, concert music and film soundtracks of which The Draughtsman's Contract and The Piano are the best-known. Since founding the Michael Nyman Band inwhich tours the world, he has worked with leading film directors and has collaborated with artists such as Mary Kelly, , and the Oscar-winning star Phillippe Petit. Recent work includes several contributions to what is an intended series of 19 symphonies. Further War Work: 8 Songs with Film is a powerful example of Nyman's work as a composer and also film-maker. Michael Nyman music is available via an extensive range of recordings on his own label, MN Records. As one of Britain's most innovative and celebrated composers, Michael Nyman's work encompasses and string Michael Nyman, film soundtracks and orchestral . Far more than merely a composer, he's also a performer, conductor, Michael Nyman, pianist, author, musicologist, and a photographer and film- maker. Although he's far too modest to allow the description 'Renaissance Man', his restless creativity and multi-faceted art has made Michael Nyman one of the most fascinating and influential cultural icons Michael Nyman our times. At this stage of a long and notable career, he might forgivably have been content to rest on his considerable laurels. Yet instead of looking back on a lifetime of achievement that ranges from his award-winning score for the film The Piano to the acclaimed opera The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, via a string of high-profile collaborations with everyone from Sir to Damon Albarn, he's still looking forward - pushing the boundaries of his art with a diverse and prolific burst of creativity as energetic and challenging as any new and iconoclastic young kid on the block. The year saw the production Michael Nyman a new opera, a piece commissioned in honour of 's 80th birthday and Michael Nyman first-ever exhibition of his photographs and video-works. Never one to sit around in an ivory tower, his diary bulges with a full international touring schedule with the Michael Nyman Band as well as a series of unique one-off performances with such diverse collaborators as the singer Michael Nyman MacAlmont, a Polish accordion trio and the innovative sound artist Carsten Nicolai. Nyman first made his mark on the musical world in the late s, when he invented the term 'minimalism' and, still in his mid-twenties, earned one of his earliest commissions, to write the libretto for Birtwistle's Michael Nyman Down By The Greenwood Side. In he formed his own ensemble, the Campiello Band now the Michael Nyman Band and over three decades and more, the group has been the laboratory for much of his inventive and experimental compositional work. For more than 40 years, he has also Michael Nyman a highly successful career as a film composer, the role in which - sometimes to his slightly rueful regret - he is probably best known by the general public. Most recently, the sound track to the highly praised documentary McQueen was sourced entirely from the MN Records catalogue. His Michael Nyman within is built upon an enviable body of work written for a wide variety of ensembles, including not only his own band, but also symphony orchestra, choir and string quartet. He has also written widely Michael Nyman the stage. Nyman is making a major contribution to symphonic repertoire via an in-progress series of 19 symphonies. Inhe published the sumptuous photo-book Sublime. View All. Sign up to our Newsletter. Read our Privacy Policy First Name. Last Name. Schirmer Inc. Follow us on twitter G. New York. Michael Nyman - Wikipedia

Michael Laurence NymanCBE born 23 March is an English composer of minimalist musicpianist, librettist and musicologistknown for numerous film scores many written during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenawayand his multi-platinum soundtrack to Jane Campion 's Michael Nyman Piano. He has Michael Nyman six concertifive string quartetsand many other chamber works, many for his Michael Nyman Band. He is also a performing pianist. Nyman prefers to write opera rather than other forms of music. Nyman was born in Stratford, London Michael Nyman a family of secular Jewish furriers which immigrated from Poland. InNyman provided the libretto of Harrison Birtwistle 's opera Down by the Greenwood Side and directed the short film Love Love Love based on, and identical in length to, ' " " [6] before settling into music criticism, where he is generally acknowledged to have been the first to apply the term " minimalism " to music in a article in The Spectator magazine about the English composer . One of his earliest Michael Nyman scores was the British sex comedy Keep It Up Downstairsand he has since scored numerous films, many of them European art films, including several of those directed by . He also produced a soundtrack for the silent film . Nyman's popularity increased after he wrote the score to Jane Campion 's award-winning film The Piano. The album became a classical music best-seller. Inhe Michael Nyman a new opera on the subject of Michael Nyman on a libretto by Victoria Hardie titled Facing Goyaan expansion of their one-act opera Vital Statistics. The lead, a widowed art banker, is written for and the role was first created by . Michael Nyman has also composed the music for the children's television series Titch Michael Nyman which is based on the books written Michael Nyman illustrated by Pat Hutchins. Many of Nyman's works are written for his own ensemble, the Michael Nyman Banda group formed for a production of 's Il Campiello. Originally made Michael Nyman of old instruments such as rebecs and shawms alongside more modern instruments like the saxophone to produce as loud a sound as possible without amplification, it later switched to a fully amplified line-up of string quartet, three saxophones, , hornbass trombonebass guitar and piano. This line up has Michael Nyman variously altered and augmented for some works. Nyman also published an influential book in on experimental Michael Nyman called Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond Michael Nyman, which explored the influence of John Cage on classical composers. In the s, Nyman was a member of the Portsmouth Sinfonia — the self-described World's Worst Orchestra — playing on their recordings and in their concerts. He Michael Nyman the featured pianist on the orchestra's recording of Bridge Over Troubled Water on the -produced Michael Nyman Classic Rock Classics album on which the Sinfonia gave their unique interpretations of the pop and rock repertoire of the s—s. Nyman created a similar group called Foster's Social Orchestrawhich specialised in the work of . One Michael Nyman their pieces appeared in the film Michael Nyman and an additional work, not used in the film, appeared on the soundtrack album. Nyman also began a long-term artistic collaboration with the filmmaker Max Pugh which has resulted in many short art films, three Michael Nyman feature documentaries and a number of video installations. In Nyman realised, in collaboration with the cultural association Volumina, Sublime, an artist's book that unified his Michael Nyman with his passion Michael Nyman photography. In OctoberNyman released The Glarea collaborative collection of songs with David McAlmontwhich cast his work Michael Nyman a new light. The album — recorded with the Michael Nyman Band — finds McAlmont putting lyrics based on contemporary news stories to 11 pieces of Nyman music drawn from different phases of his career. InMichael Nyman made a soundtrack for film Everyday. Keith H. Yoo in commissioned Nyman to write a 26 minutes long in four movements titled Through the Only Window. The work has been recorded by Nyman Quintet in the Abbey Road Studiosand has been released on Nyman's record label. He was married to Aet Nyman and has two daughters, Molly and Martha. His first string quartet quotes " Unchained Melody " in homage to Aet, who appears in Greenaway's The Fallsfor which he also composed music. Molly is also a composer and in collaboration Michael Nyman Harry Escott has written several film scores including for The Road to Guantanamo by her father's frequent collaborator, Michael Winterbottom. Martha is a development researcher for the BBC. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Michael Nyman his eponymous album, see Michael Nyman album. English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist. This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately Michael Nyman, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. The Other Side. From the Gattaca soundtrack by Michael Nyman. Retrieved 10 August The Telegraph. Burlington, Vermont : Ashgate Publishing, Michael Nyman. Archived from the original on 17 May Retrieved 31 Michael Nyman The Sunday Times. Retrieved 1 June Music Sales Classical. 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