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Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE (born 23 March 1944) is an English composer, pianist, librettist, musicologist, and filmmaker. He is known for numerous film scores (many written during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway ), and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion 's The Piano.
42 Photos. Mike Nyman (aka Michael Robert Nyman or Michael Nyman) has been an actor since the age of twenty-two. The athletic Long Beach, Ca. native is familiar with all aspects of acting...film, television, theatre, improv, background work, producing, directing, and casting.
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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover is a 1989 crime drama art film written and directed by Peter Greenaway, starring Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren and Alan Howard in the title roles.
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Michael Nyman. Composer. Music Department. Director. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Michael Nyman studied piano, harpsichord and music history with Alan Bush at the Royal Academy of Music, and musicology with Thurston Dart at King's College, London. Between 1968 and 1978 he worked as a music critic and in 1977 he founded the Campiello Band, later ...
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Apr 30, 2014 · The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat. Based on one of Oliver Sacks's case-studies, Nyman's 1986 opera is one of his most ambitious works, telling the story of Mr P, a professional singer...
Jul 30, 2012 · Ada, the heroine, is a mute Scot who is sold into marriage to a New Zealand frontiersman. As she can't speak, she formulates an emotional world by composing music. I had to work out how she, a...
Jan 15, 2016 · His unforgettable music for Jane Campion’s The Piano in 1993 sold over three million copies, and in these excerpts from his interview for RBMA Radio, Nyman’s restless musical mind sent him on a journey from the heydays of minimalism and working with Brian Eno to video games and Kenji Eno.
