Michael Nyman, pe numele său real Michael Laurence Nyman, (n. , Greater London, Anglia, Regatul Unit) este un compozitor minimalist, pianist, libretist și muzicolog britanic. Devenit extrem de popular datorită colaborării cu regizorul Peter Greenaway și a coloanei sonore realizată pentru filmul lui Jane Campion, „The Piano".
Dintre cele mai cunoscute lucrări ale sale amintim: „The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat", „Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs", „Facing Goya", „Man and Boy: Dada", and „Love Counts", plus cinci concerte, patru cvartete de coarde, lucrări camerale (majoritatea interpretate de Michael Nyman Band, uneori avînd ca pianist pe însuși autorul).
Își începe activitatea de critic muzical – fiind prima persoană ce a folosit cuvîntul „minimalist" aplicat în muzică (1968-78).
Fondează Campiello Band (actuala Michael Nyman Band) și începe colaborarea la cele 11 filme semnate de Peter Greenaway (1976).
Apare primul album semnat Michael Nyman Band (1981).
Apare coloana soloră a filmului The Piano ce cîștigă Ivor Novello Award, Globul de Aur, BAFTA și Premiul American Film Institute vînzîndu-se în peste 3 milioane de exemplare (1993).
Discografie
2008 – Mozart 252
2006 – Acts of Beauty / Exit no Exit
2006 – Nyman brass
2006 – Six Celan Songs / The ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi
2005 – Love Counts
2005 – Man and Boy: Dada
2005 – Nyman/Greenaway Revisited
2005 – The Draughtsman's Contract
2005 – The Libertine
2005 – The Piano
2005 – The Piano Sings
2004 – A Zed and Two Noughts
2004 – Decay Music
2004 – Drowning by Numbers
2004 – The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
2004 – The Draughtsman's Contract
2004 – The Very Best of Michael Nyman Film Music 1980 - 2001
2003 – 24 heures de la vie d'une femme
2003 – Sangam: Michael Nyman meets Indian Masters
2003 – The Actors
2002 – Ahn-Trio: Groovebox
2002 – Facing Goya
2002 – String Quartets Nos. 2-4
2001 – Film Music 1980-2001
2001 – Overture to Orpheus / Elaine Funaro
2000 – Ahn Trio: Ahn-Plugged
2000 – Miniatures 2
2000 – The Claim
2000 – The End of the Affair
1999 – Art House Cafe 2
1999 – Michael Nyman Band Live in Concert
1999 – Nyman & Greenaway
1999 – Ravenous
1999 – The Commissar Vanishes
1999 – The Golden Section / Wallace Collection
1999 – Wonderland
1998 – An Eye for a Difference
1998 – Duo Dilemme: Nouvelle Musique pour Saxophone & Piano
1998 – Federico Garcia Lorca: De Granada a la Luna
1998 – Practical Magic
1998 – Strong on Oaks, Strong on the Causes of Oaks
1998 – The English Patient and other arthouse classics
1998 – The Piano Concerto / Where the Bee Dances
1998 – The Suit and the Photograph
1998 – Twentieth Century Blues - The Songs of Noel Coward
1997 – Cinema Emotion
1997 – Concertos
1997 – Enemy Zero
1997 – Gattaca
1997 – Pick it Up
1997 – The Cold Room
1997 – The Very Best of Michael Nyman
1996 – After Extra Time
1996 – Century XXI UK N-Z
1996 – Enemy Zero - Piano Sketches
1996 – Meeting Point
1996 – The Ogre
1995 – Carrington
1995 – Diary of Anne Frank
1995 – First & Foremost
1995 – Nissan Silvia TVCF Song - Piano Lesson
1995 – Plus que Tango
1995 – Saxophone Songbook
1995 – The Piano Concerto / On the Fiddle / Prospero's Books
1995 – The Piano Concerto and other Themes
1995 – Visions
1994 – A La Folie (Six Days, Six Nights)
1994 – Anohito No Waltz
1994 – Michael Nyman - Live
1994 – Noises, Sounds and Sweet Airs
1994 – Taking a Line for a Second Walk
1994 – The Piano Concerto /MGV
1993 – Contini /Interzone
1993 – Michael Nyman for Yohji Yamamoto
1993 – The Contemporary Trumpet
1993 – The Piano [cd single 1]
1993 – The Piano [cd single 2]
1993 – Time will Pronounce
1992 – Bow Out
1992 – Le Mari de la Coiffeuse (The Hairdresser's Husband)
1992 – Piano Circus
1992 – Saxophone Works
1992 – Songbook
1992 – The Essential Michael Nyman Band
1992 – The Piano
1991 – Beyond Modernism
1991 – Prospero's Books
1991 – Songbook
1991 – String Quartet Nos. 1-3
1991 – And Do They Do / Zoo Caprices
1991 – La Traversee de Paris
1991 – Out of the Ruins
1991 – The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover
1991 – The Draughtsman's Contract
1991 – The Nyman / Greenaway Soundtracks
1988 – Drowning by Numbers
1987 – The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat
1985 – A Zed and Two Noughts
1985 – The Kiss and Other Movements
1982 – Michael Nyman
1982 – The Draughtsman's Contract
1981 – Michael Nyman
1981 – Mozart
1981 – The Fourth Wall
1980 – From Brussels With Love
1980 – Miniatures
1979 – Masterwork Samples
1977 – English Experimental Music
1976 – Decay Music
Filmografie
2005 – 9 Songs
2005 – A Cock and Bull Story
2005 – Detroit: Ruin of a City
2005 – The Libertine
2003 – Charged: The Life of Nikola Tesla
2003 – Nathalie...
2003 – The Actors
2003 – On the Trail of John Hunt Morgan
2002 – The Man with a Movie Camera
2002 – Luminal
2002 – 24 heures de la vie d'une femme
2001 – Subterrain
2001 – Haute fidelit
2001 – La Stanza del figlio (The Son's Room)
2000 – That Sinking Feeling
2000 – Act without Words I
2000 – The Claim (previously know as 'Kingdom Come')
2000 – Purely Belter
1999 – The End of the Affair
1999 – Nabbie no koi (Nabbie's Love)
1999 – Wonderland
1999 – How to Make Dhyrak: A Dramatic Work for Three Players and Camera, Truncated with Only Two Players
1999 – Ravenous
1998 – Titch
1997 – Gattaca
1996 – Enemy Zero
1996 – Der Unhold (The Ogre)
1995 – Anne no nikki (The Diary of Anne Frank)
1995 – Carrington
1994 – A La Folie (Six Days, Six Nights)
1994 – Mesmer
1993 – Ryori no tetsujin
1993 – The Piano
1992 – The Fall of Icarus
1992 – The Final Score
1992 – The Michael Nyman Songbook
1991 – Not Mozart: Letters, Riddles and Writs
1991 – Prospero's Books
1990 – Les Enfants Volants (The Flying Children)
1990 – Men of Steel
1990 – Le Mari de la coiffeuse (The Hairdresser's Husband)
1989 – Hubert Bals Handshake
1989 – Out of the Ruins
1989 – The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
1989 – Monsieur Hire
1988 – Death in the Seine
1988 – Fear of Drowning
1988 – Drowning by Numbers
1987 – The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
1987 – Le Miracul
1986 – Ballet Mechanique
1986 – The Disputation
1986 – I'll Stake My Cremona to a Jew's Trump
1985 – L'Ange frenetique
1985 – Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms, London & Oxfordshire
1985 – The Kiss
1985 – A Zed and Two Noughts
1984 – Making a Splash
1984 – Fairly Secret Army
1984 – The Cold Room
1983 – The Coastline
1983 – Frozen Music
1983 – Nelly's Version
1982 – Brimstone and Treacle
1982 – The Draughtsman's Contract
1981 – Terence Conran
1980 – Act of God
1980 – The Falls
1978 – 1-100
1978 – A Walk through H: The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist
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