Michael Nyman
| First Name | Michael |
| Last Name | Nyman |
| Age | 67 |
| Date of Birth | March 5, 1944 |
| Star Sign | Pisces |
| Occupation Category | Composer |
| Music Genre | Stage & Screen, Clinical, Piano |
| Music Style | Stage & Screen, Soundtracks, Original Score, International, Brazilian Traditions, Minimalism, Avant-Garde, Classical |
| Music Mood | Cathartic, Sophisticated, Cerebral, Clinical, Detached, Rousing, Complex, Intense, Melancholy, Hypnotic, Sentimental, Plaintive, Elaborate, Atmospheric, Austere |
| Instrument | Piano, Composer, Classical Music Entry |
Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE (born in Stratford, London March 23 1944) is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, 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, and he has written six concerti, four string quartets, and many other chamber works, many for his Michael Nyman Band, with and without whom he tours as a performing pianist. Nyman has stated his preference for writing opera to other sorts of music.
Filmography
Selected Michael Nyman film and TV show credits:
