MICHAEL NYMAN

CBE Award

20 June 2008 - CBE Award

Congratulations to Michael for his well deserved CBE! An amazing achievement, after many years of superb artistic creativity.

Michael’s photo art-book out now!

19 June 2008 - A unique and exclusive editorial project

Nyman has elaborated with the creative staff of Volumina on a unique and exclusive editorial project. Sublime focuses on various series of photos taken by Michael around the world presenting different themes from reflex and faces to walls, landscapes and fragments.

Locations include Paris, Barcelona, Venice, New York, Mexico and Hong Kong - these photos have been shot before or after a concert and have been modified and connected to different visual creations, between the colour and the rhythm of the music.

Also included with the book is a CD, and an exhibition will complete the project.

For more details contact: office(at)michaelnyman.com

Monthly newsletter

19 May 2008 - Signed up yet?

We publish a monthly newsletter via email with all the latest news and concert dates. Why not sign up? Click here to take you to the sign up page.

'Nyman Live at Cadogan Hall’, get tickets now!

17 March 2008 - Cadogan Hall

In June 2008, Michael Nyman will host a 3-day long event, with concerts, film-screenings, exhibitions and album launches. Nyman will perform in no less than six concerts featuring Michael Nyman Band, Hilary Summers, Marie Angel, Francesco Dorazio and the award winning Wingates Brass Band. Not to be missed! More info.

Senses at Harrods

09 March 2008 - Senses at Harrods

Don't miss Michael's music installation in one of the lifts at Harrods, London, which will be on until the end of March as part of their Senses Season.
More info.

New release

09 March 2008 - Mozart 252 is now available at MN Records!

In 2006 the BBC commissioned Nyman to assemble a collection of his Mozart-based scores for the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth. Two years on (hence the title Mozart 252!) and Nyman has recorded a fully orchestrated album of the material including gems In Re Don Giovanni and Revisiting the Don.

Mozart 252 brings together for the first time Nyman’s Mozart-based scores from the soundtrack of Peter Greenaway's Drowning by Numbers, and from Letters, Riddles and Writs, a BBC2-commissioned homage to Mozart written in 1991. The album features contralto Hilary Summers and bass-baritone Andrew Slater, as well as the Michael Nyman Band.
More info.

Man on Wire

08 February 2008 - Man on Wire wins awards at Sundance Festival

The documentary film, Man on Wire, for which Michael composed the music has just picked up two awards in two categories at the world’s hippest film festival, Sundance 2008.

The film tells the story of French daredevil Philippe Petit’s daring plan to walk the high-wire between New York’s Twin Towers in 1974. Film-maker James Marsh “brilliantly matches his images to the hypnotic and propulsive music of English minimalist composer Michael Nyman, including pieces from Nyman's masterpiece, La traversée de Paris, and his collaborations with Peter Greenaway. It's a sublime choice that lifts Man on Wire to rare movie-watching giddiness.” The film scooped both the World Cinema Audience Award & Documentary & World Cinema Jury Prize at this year’s festival.

Read the full review from Variety here.

Live Event News

06 February 2008 - 3 Day Event at Cadogan Hall, London

A three day event celebrating Michael's most recent work and releases will be held on the 6/7/8 June 2008 at Cadogan Hall, London. The event will feature concerts and film screenings alongside a CD and book launch. More information will be released closer to the date so watch this space!

December 6 Barbican concert review

10 December 2007 - Lustful Lyrics for Consenting Adults

Thus runs the headline from The Evening Standard's online review for The Michael Nyman Band’s performance of Michael’s song cycle I sonetti lussuriosi (The lustful sonnets) which was premiered last week on 6 December, alongside his 50,000 Pairs of Feet Can't be Wrong and In Re Don Giovanni. Click here to read the full review, and see how the music ruffled a few feathers on the radio too in an article in The Guardian.

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

09 December 2007 - Michael Nyman & his band kick off the festival in style!

In a welcome twist it was a musical event that started proceedings for the 11th Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia’s capital this year – when the Michael Nyman Band took to the stage to perform an hour long set from his back catalogue including Drowning by Numbers and solo music from the The Piano. Read more about the festival here and read an excellent article on his Estonia gigs here.

FT interview with Michael

02 December 2007 - 'I like the idea of open expanses'. An interview with Emma Jacobs

An in-depth interview with Michael was published in the Financial Times on 1 December. Centred around the theme of the home, family and childhood, this offers a fascinating insight into Michael's world. To read the full interview on ft.com click here.

New book on Michael Nyman published

04 September 2007 - The Music of Michael Nyman: Text, Contexts and Intertexts by Pwyll ap Siôn is published by Ashgate

Pwyll ap Siôn, senior lecturer in music in the School of Music, University of North Wales, Bangor, has written The Music of Michael Nyman: Text, Contexts and Intertexts published September 2007 by Ashgate. "Nyman's rise to international prominence during the last three decades has made him one of the world's most successful living composers. His music has nevertheless been criticized for its parasitic borrowing of other composers' ideas and for its relentless self-borrowing. In this first book-length study in English, Pwyll ap Siôn places Nyman's writings within the general context of Anglo-American experimentalism, minimalism and post-minimalism, and provides a series of useful contexts from which controversial aspects of Nyman's musical language can be more clearly understood and appreciated. Drawing upon terms informed by intertextual theory in general, appropriation and borrowing are first introduced within the context of twentieth-century art music and theory. Intertextual concepts are explained and their terms defined before Nyman's musical language is considered in relation to a series of intertextual classifications and types. These types then form the basis of a more in-depth study of his works during the second half of the book, ranging from opera and chamber music to film. Rather than restricting style and technique, Nyman's intertextual approach, on the contrary, is shown to provide his music with an almost infinite amount of variety, flexibility and diversity, and this has been used to illustrate a wide range of technical, aesthetic and expressive forms. He composes with his ear towards the past as if it were a rich quarry to mine, working like a musical archaeologist, uncovering artefacts and chiselling fresh and vibrant sonic edifices out of them." Copies can be bought from Ashgate.

Michael Nyman Band’s Madrid gig on YouTube

18 July 2007 - Performance at Patio de Conde Duque captured on video

You can see more at YouTube

World exclusive performance – Sunday 22nd April in London

16 April 2007 - Michael Nyman performs new score to Dziga Vertov’s ‘Kinopravda 21’

On Sunday 22nd April at 13.00, the Curzon Mayfair cinema in London will host a very special event. To celebrate the publication of a new book on Dziga Vertov by the Austrian Film Museum, there will be a screening of his masterpiece Man With A Movie Camera with the acclaimed score by Michael Nyman. Following this, Michael will perform live the world premiere of a new score to Vertov’s Kinopravda 21. For more details and to book tickets online, please see the Curzon website or call: 0870 756 4621.

Nyman on your MP3 player

23 March 2007 - MN Recordings available as downloads for the first time

Recordings from MN Records are now available for download for the first time on the major download stores including iTunes, eMusic and FNAC. Here's a few links to get you started [remember you need to have iTunes installed on your computer to be able to access their links]:

iTunes
The Draughtsman’s Contract
Six Celan Songs/The Ballad Of Kastriot Rexhepi
Nyman/Greenaway Revisited

Emusic
The Draughtsman’s Contract
The Libertine
Nyman/Greenaway Revisited

FNAC
All titles

Love Counts will be available for download from 2nd April and from the 4th May the rest of the MN Records catalogue: Nyman Brass, The Piano Sings, Man And Boy: Dada, The Piano and Acts of Beauty/Exit No Exit.

A funny thing happened on the way to the opera

23 February 2007 - Interview with Michael Nyman in The Times

John Bungey interviewed Michael Nyman for The Times (London) in the run-up to his latest premiere, A Handshake in the Dark, at the Barbican, London. Talking about his career, his anti-war sentiments and football, the full feature can be read here.

Dr Nyman

06 February 2007 - The University of Warwick presents Honorary Doctorate to Michael Nyman

On Tuesday 30th January 2007, the University of Warwick presented Michael Nyman with an Honorary Doctorate alongside fellow honorary graduands Sir Antony Sher and Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys. At the ceremony musicians from the University performed his new, specially-written Fanfare. On receiving the award Michael said: “This is a complete surprise and a great honour. I’m very pleased to receive this Honorary Doctorate and to debut this fanfare today.”

Experimental Music

01 December 2006 - Spanish and Catalan translations of Experimental Music available

Thanks to the wonderful work of Edicions A Petició Co. Ltd, the University of Girona in Spain and the translators Isabel Olid Báez and Oriol Ponsatí-Murlà, there are now Spanish and Catalan versions of Michael Nyman’s ground-breaking work from 1974, Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond. Copies of these books can be bought online from EAP.


Sign up to our mailing list to receive regular updates on Michael Nyman CBE Award 20 June 2008 - CBE Award Congratulations to Michael for his well deserved CBE! An amazing achievement, after many years of superb artistic creativity. Michael’s photo art-book out now! 19 June 2008 - A unique and exclusive editorial project Nyman has elaborated with the creative staff of Volumina on a unique and exclusive editorial project. Sublime focuses on various series of photos taken by Michael around the world presenting different themes from reflex and faces to walls, landscapes and fragments. Locations include Paris, Barcelona, Venice, New York, Mexico and Hong Kong - these photos have been shot before or after a concert and have been modified and connected to different visual creations, between the colour and the rhythm of the music. Also included with the book is a CD, and an exhibition will complete the project. For more details contact: office(at)michaelnyman.com Monthly newsletter 19 May 2008 - Signed up yet? We publish a monthly newsletter via email with all the latest news and concert dates. Why not sign up? Click here to take you to the sign up page. 'Nyman Live at Cadogan Hall’, get tickets now! 17 March 2008 - Cadogan Hall In June 2008, Michael Nyman will host a 3-day long event, with concerts, film-screenings, exhibitions and album launches. Nyman will perform in no less than six concerts featuring Michael Nyman Band, Hilary Summers, Marie Angel, Francesco Dorazio and the award winning Wingates Brass Band. Not to be missed! More info. Senses at Harrods 09 March 2008 - Senses at Harrods Don't miss Michael's music installation in one of the lifts at Harrods, London, which will be on until the end of March as part of their Senses Season. More info. New release 09 March 2008 - Mozart 252 is now available at MN Records! In 2006 the BBC commissioned Nyman to assemble a collection of his Mozart-based scores for the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth. Two years on (hence the title Mozart 252!) and Nyman has recorded a fully orchestrated album of the material including gems In Re Don Giovanni and Revisiting the Don. Mozart 252 brings together for the first time Nyman’s Mozart-based scores from the soundtrack of Peter Greenaway's Drowning by Numbers, and from Letters, Riddles and Writs, a BBC2-commissioned homage to Mozart written in 1991. The album features contralto Hilary Summers and bass-baritone Andrew Slater, as well as the Michael Nyman Band. More info. Man on Wire 08 February 2008 - Man on Wire wins awards at Sundance Festival The documentary film, Man on Wire, for which Michael composed the music has just picked up two awards in two categories at the world’s hippest film festival, Sundance 2008. The film tells the story of French daredevil Philippe Petit’s daring plan to walk the high-wire between New York’s Twin Towers in 1974. Film-maker James Marsh “brilliantly matches his images to the hypnotic and propulsive music of English minimalist composer Michael Nyman, including pieces from Nyman's masterpiece, La traversée de Paris, and his collaborations with Peter Greenaway. It's a sublime choice that lifts Man on Wire to rare movie-watching giddiness.” The film scooped both the World Cinema Audience Award & Documentary & World Cinema Jury Prize at this year’s festival. Read the full review from Variety here. Live Event News 06 February 2008 - 3 Day Event at Cadogan Hall, London A three day event celebrating Michael's most recent work and releases will be held on the 6/7/8 June 2008 at Cadogan Hall, London. The event will feature concerts and film screenings alongside a CD and book launch. More information will be released closer to the date so watch this space! December 6 Barbican concert review 10 December 2007 - Lustful Lyrics for Consenting Adults Thus runs the headline from The Evening Standard's online review for The Michael Nyman Band’s performance of Michael’s song cycle I sonetti lussuriosi (The lustful sonnets) which was premiered last week on 6 December, alongside his 50,000 Pairs of Feet Can't be Wrong and In Re Don Giovanni. Click here to read the full review, and see how the music ruffled a few feathers on the radio too in an article in The Guardian. Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 09 December 2007 - Michael Nyman & his band kick off the festival in style! In a welcome twist it was a musical event that started proceedings for the 11th Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia’s capital this year – when the Michael Nyman Band took to the stage to perform an hour long set from his back catalogue including Drowning by Numbers and solo music from the The Piano. Read more about the festival here and read an excellent article on his Estonia gigs here. FT interview with Michael 02 December 2007 - 'I like the idea of open expanses'. An interview with Emma Jacobs An in-depth interview with Michael was published in the Financial Times on 1 December. Centred around the theme of the home, family and childhood, this offers a fascinating insight into Michael's world. To read the full interview on ft.com click here. New book on Michael Nyman published 04 September 2007 - The Music of Michael Nyman: Text, Contexts and Intertexts by Pwyll ap Siôn is published by Ashgate Pwyll ap Siôn, senior lecturer in music in the School of Music, University of North Wales, Bangor, has written *The Music of Michael Nyman: Text, Contexts and Intertexts* published September 2007 by Ashgate. "Nyman's rise to international prominence during the last three decades has made him one of the world's most successful living composers. His music has nevertheless been criticized for its parasitic borrowing of other composers' ideas and for its relentless self-borrowing. In this first book-length study in English, Pwyll ap Siôn places Nyman's writings within the general context of Anglo-American experimentalism, minimalism and post-minimalism, and provides a series of useful contexts from which controversial aspects of Nyman's musical language can be more clearly understood and appreciated. Drawing upon terms informed by intertextual theory in general, appropriation and borrowing are first introduced within the context of twentieth-century art music and theory. Intertextual concepts are explained and their terms defined before Nyman's musical language is considered in relation to a series of intertextual classifications and types. These types then form the basis of a more in-depth study of his works during the second half of the book, ranging from opera and chamber music to film. Rather than restricting style and technique, Nyman's intertextual approach, on the contrary, is shown to provide his music with an almost infinite amount of variety, flexibility and diversity, and this has been used to illustrate a wide range of technical, aesthetic and expressive forms. He composes with his ear towards the past as if it were a rich quarry to mine, working like a musical archaeologist, uncovering artefacts and chiselling fresh and vibrant sonic edifices out of them." Copies can be bought from Ashgate. Michael Nyman Band’s Madrid gig on YouTube 18 July 2007 - Performance at Patio de Conde Duque captured on video You can see more at YouTube World exclusive performance – Sunday 22nd April in London 16 April 2007 - Michael Nyman performs new score to Dziga Vertov’s ‘Kinopravda 21’ On Sunday 22nd April at 13.00, the Curzon Mayfair cinema in London will host a very special event. To celebrate the publication of a new book on Dziga Vertov by the Austrian Film Museum, there will be a screening of his masterpiece Man With A Movie Camera with the acclaimed score by Michael Nyman. Following this, Michael will perform live the world premiere of a new score to Vertov’s Kinopravda 21. For more details and to book tickets online, please see the Curzon website or call: 0870 756 4621. Nyman on your MP3 player 23 March 2007 - MN Recordings available as downloads for the first time Recordings from MN Records are now available for download for the first time on the major download stores including iTunes, eMusic and FNAC. Here's a few links to get you started [remember you need to have iTunes installed on your computer to be able to access their links]: iTunes The Draughtsman’s Contract Six Celan Songs/The Ballad Of Kastriot Rexhepi Nyman/Greenaway Revisited Emusic The Draughtsman’s Contract The Libertine Nyman/Greenaway Revisited FNAC All titles Love Counts will be available for download from 2nd April and from the 4th May the rest of the MN Records catalogue: Nyman Brass, The Piano Sings, Man And Boy: Dada, The Piano and Acts of Beauty/Exit No Exit. A funny thing happened on the way to the opera 23 February 2007 - Interview with Michael Nyman in The Times John Bungey interviewed Michael Nyman for The Times (London) in the run-up to his latest premiere, A Handshake in the Dark, at the Barbican, London. Talking about his career, his anti-war sentiments and football, the full feature can be read here. Dr Nyman 06 February 2007 - The University of Warwick presents Honorary Doctorate to Michael Nyman On Tuesday 30th January 2007, the University of Warwick presented Michael Nyman with an Honorary Doctorate alongside fellow honorary graduands Sir Antony Sher and Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys. At the ceremony musicians from the University performed his new, specially-written Fanfare. On receiving the award Michael said: “This is a complete surprise and a great honour. I’m very pleased to receive this Honorary Doctorate and to debut this fanfare today.” Experimental Music 01 December 2006 - Spanish and Catalan translations of Experimental Music available Thanks to the wonderful work of Edicions A Petició Co. Ltd, the University of Girona in Spain and the translators Isabel Olid Báez and Oriol Ponsatí-Murlà, there are now Spanish and Catalan versions of Michael Nyman’s ground-breaking work from 1974, *Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond*. Copies of these books can be bought online from EAP.
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