Michael Laurence
Nyman was born on March 23, 1944 in London, England. He was educated at the Sir George Monoux
Grammar School, Walthamstow. He studied at King's College London under Alan
Bush and was accepted at the Royal Academy of Music in September 1961, studying
with Bush and Thurston Dart, focusing on piano and seventeenth-century baroque
music. He won the Howard Carr Memorial Prize for composition in July 1964. He
became known for the many film
scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter
Greenaway, and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's ‘The Piano’.
His operas include “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”. Nyman has written six
concerti, four string quartets, and many other chamber works, many for his
Michael Nyman Band [1977- ], with and without whom he tours as a performing
pianist. Nyman stated that he prefers to write opera rather than other sorts of
music.Michael wrote the scores for two Euro-wesrterns: “Ravenous” (1998) and the “Claim” (1999).
Today we celebrate Michael Nyman’s 70th birthday.
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