Michael Nyman
Michael Nyman is a composer, musician and photographer. His many film scores have won awards, and he performs as pianist with the Michael Nyman Band
Other lives
Don Mousseau obituaryOther lives: Manager of musicians, including the composer Michael Nyman and the violinist Nigel Kennedy
How we made
‘The antique tea set was worth more than our entire budget’: How Peter Greenaway and Janet Suzman made The Draughtsman’s Contract‘The costumes, the wigs and the dialogue are deliberately very stylised – people use 50 words when 20 would have done. If anyone went off-script they got their fingers slapped’
Home listening
Home listening: Iestyn Davies, Fretwork and the Hebrides EnsembleThere are no ifs about Davies and Fretwork’s pairing of Nyman and Purcell. And on the frontline with Nigel Osborne
Soap opera: Michael Nyman composes score for washing machine film
Central London cinema to screen 66-minute premiere of 40C washing cycle, called Washing Machine – The Movie
BBCNOW/Rundell review – Great Brits go for the feelgood factor
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales put the emphasis on happiness and groove – rounded off by a lullaby – in the first of its series celebrating rebellious composers, including Sawer, Nyman and Bryars
Nyman: War Work review – an elegy to a lost generation
The Faena district: where Michael Nyman meets a golden mammoth
Chroma Ensemble review – Nyman world premiere unwraps minimalism
The tight, alive playing of the Chroma instrumentalists lifted the performances well above the routine, though only a few of the other pieces in the programme caught the ear
Readers recommend
Readers recommend: minimalist songsStripped back, pared down, sparse or pure? Suggest music that in sound or lyrics expresses clarity or simplicity distilled down to its fighting weight, says Peter Kimpton
Joshua Oppenheimer, Michael Nyman and Monty Python set for Sheffield Doc/Fest
This year’s documentary festival, which runs in June, will feature screenings of 150 shorts and features, as well as in-conversation events and masterclasses
RLPO/Hillsborough Memorial review – some pastiche, but beyond parody
Michael Nyman's 11th symphony, marking the 25th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster, reused parts of earlier works to create an occasion for reflection, writes Alfred Hickling
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Rolf Harris, Pussy Drones and bad tech-tattoos – the week in artJonathan Jones: How the former TV presenter showed his dark side in art, plus psychedelic gifs, Google knuckles and Bitcoin crotches
Michael Nyman on his Hillsborough Memorial: 'It can only have an emotional purpose'
The uncompromising composer tells Michael Hann about how success means he is still an outsider, and how the 1989 Liverpool football tragedy made him feel personally guilty
Music blog
Music and football: their strangest moments togetherLupe Fiasco is to be US Soccer's music director, the England squad have released a compilation. Here are some of football and music's worst and best collaborations
Royal Ballet: Sweet Violets/Serenade/ DGV review – from ecstasy to agony
Joy is hard to sustain when fate is fickle and Jack the Ripper is waiting in the wings in the Royal Ballet's triple bill, writes Luke Jennings
RPO/Nyman/Vincent review – lacklustre music-making
A disappointing evening marking the composer's 70th birthday
Michael Nyman's Hillsborough tragedy tribute piece reworked for families
Composer creates new version of work he was recording on day of tragedy – naming it Symphony Number 11: Hillsborough
The Rest Is Noise festival
The Rest Is Noise festival: New World OrderGillian Moore: Pluralism is the defining feature of music at the end of the 20th century – from the minimalist film music of Michael Nyman to the lush sounds of Toru Takemitsu to the spectralist works that explored sound itself
How we made
How we made: Michael Nyman and Jane Campion on The Piano'Jane locked me in a hotel room with a piano and said she wouldn't let me out until I'd finished'
My week in pictures
Show and Tell: Michael NymanSeven days in the life of the composer and musicologist at his some-time home in Mexico City
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How we made‘The antique tea set was worth more than our entire budget’: How Peter Greenaway and Janet Suzman made The Draughtsman’s Contract‘The costumes, the wigs and the dialogue are deliberately very stylised – people use 50 words when 20 would have done. If anyone went off-script they got their fingers slapped’
