Michael Nyman - Career Highlights

Career Highlights

  • 1961–67 – Studies at the Royal Academy of Music and King's College London.
  • 1968–78 – Works as music critic (becoming first person to apply the word "minimalist" to music).
  • 1976 – Founds the Campiello Band (now the Michael Nyman Band) and embarks on eleven-film collaboration with Peter Greenaway.
  • 1981 – Releases first Michael Nyman Band album.
  • 1993 – Soundtrack for The Piano wins an Ivor Novello Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and American Film Institute award and goes on to sell over three million copies.
  • 2002–2005 – Composer-in-Residence at Badisches Staatstheater in Karlsruhe, Germany, who performed three Nyman operas and more tunes for his daughters.
  • 2007 – Performed on 7 July from Kyoto, Japan as part of the Live Earth global environmental awareness musical event.

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