“This photo is part of a series of piano–related images I have been shooting since February and in this context is related to a solo piano version of Jack, written for the London–based film Wonderland directed by Michael Winterbottom in 1999. This recording is taken from my new album The Piano Sings.”
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Musician
(b. London, England 1944)
Although trained as a classical musician, Michael Nyman began his professional career as a music critic and musicologist and only returned to music composition in 1968, when Harrison Birtwistle asked him to work on the libretto for his piece Down by the Greenwood Side. Since then Nyman has emerged as one of Britain's leading composers, taking classical music in new directions with his work for music ensembles, opera, theatre, television, and cinema, including the film scores to many Peter Greenaway films along with The Piano (1992), Gattaca (1997), and The End of the Affair (1999). Man and Boy: Dada – a Kurt Schwitters based opera set in London, is to be released on MN Records in the next 6 weeks.