外文名：Michael Nyman 原名：Michael Laurence Nyman 中文名：迈克尔·纽曼 生日：1944年 3月 23日 星座：金牛座 生肖：猴 国籍：英国 出生地：伦敦 语言：英语 职业：音乐家，作曲家 音乐类型：古典，歌剧 经纪公司：DECCA 代表作：The Piano 乐器：钢琴 简介：迈克尔·纽曼，现代作曲家，1944年生于英国伦敦。1961-1963年师从英国皇家音乐学院的Alan Bush学习作曲，后于伦敦King's College巩读音乐学，在其期间开始撰写乐评，曾撰写乐评的杂志有The Listener，New Statesment以及The Spectator。几十年中创作过弦乐四重奏、清唱剧、歌剧（两部）、交响乐，应该说他是以古典音乐起家，乐曲创作充满了实验性与思考性，但真正让他大红大紫的却是在电影配乐的表现。 从艺历程：很多人都是从那部《The Piano》的配乐开始了解即而喜爱上了Michael Nyman，《The Piano》中虽然也有弦乐，主角是钢琴，毕竟故事是以钢琴及其女主人公展开，弦乐方面相对弱了许多，但这也不是最主要的。虽然这张OST在当年卖出了几百万张的天文数字，但却在争夺奥斯卡最佳配乐奖时输给了John Williams的《辛德勒的名单》。这张OST中的音乐《The Promise》4年后被王菲的一首经典歌曲《暗涌》所用，只是曲作者竟然成了陈辉阳。 1978年10月，他在乐评里首次将简约主义(Minimalism)应用于音乐上。 后来迈克尔·纽曼遇到了他以后的好朋友兼老搭档Peter Greenaway，两人首次合作是1978年的《1-100》。Peter Greenaway后来的作品，诸如《The Draughtsman’s Contract》（绘画师的合同），《动物园》，《Drowning By Numbers》(挨个淹死)，《厨师、大盗、他的妻子和她的情人》及《普罗斯佩罗的魔典》也都与其合作。 除了Peter Greenaway之外，和他合作过的导演还有Robert Young、Patrice Lecotne、Jane Campion、Diane Kurys、Neil Jordan、Michael Winterbotton等。 1999年，Michael Nyman与Blur的主音歌手Damon Albarn联手打造了一张电影原声专辑《Ravenous》（贪婪）。电影本身好看与否暂且不论，但专辑确实是红了一把，而在配乐当中使用Banjo（一种非洲的乐器）或许就是Michael Nyman的主意，毕竟他在早年曾去罗马尼亚采过风，极擅长汲取各民族的民间音乐。专辑中有许多八十年代早期的老歌，经Michael Nyman重新编排后，一首首平淡无奇的乐曲再次听来会觉得有趣味许多。 2000年5月6-7日，Michael Nyman曾访台参加台北国际城市艺术节，带着的是他的Michael Nyman Band。同期赴台演出的有英国的Fantastical voyage科幻喜剧、Le jardin delices的梨园幽梦、韩国的歌舞料理王（Cookin’）及加拿大女高音Natalie Choquette。 另外，他还出演过:情欲九歌9 Songs (2004)和Colonna sonora (1992)。 RotoVision书局于2000年出版《film music screencraft》，书里有关于Michael Nyman的详细介绍，还有其他的一些著名配乐大师也列在其中。 主要作品：1963 – Introduction and Allegro Concertato for Wind Quartet (lost) 1963 – Divertimento for Flute, Oboe and Clarinet 1965 – Canzona for Flute 1974 – Bell Set No. 1 (multiple metal percussion) 1976 – 1–100 (4–6 pianos) 1976 – (First) Waltz in D (variable) 1976 – (Second) Waltz in F (variable) 1977 – In Re Don Giovanni (ensemble) 1978 – The Otherwise Very Beautiful Blue Danube Waltz (multiple pianos) 1979 – "The Masterwork" Award Winning Fish-Knife (ensemble) 1980 – A Neat Slice of Time (choir) 1981 – Think Slow, Act Fast (ensemble) 1981 – Five Orchestral Pieces for Opus Tree (band*) (based on Anton Webern's Five Orchestral Pieces, Op. 10) 1981 – M-Work (band) 1981 – 2 Violins 1982 – Four Saxes (Real Slow Drag) (saxophone quartet) 1983 – A Handsome, Smooth, Sweet, Smart, Clear Stroke: Or Else Play Not At All (orchestra) 1983 – Time's Up (chamber ensemble) 1983 – I'll Stake My Cremona to a Jew's Trump (electric violin and viola, both players also simultaneously singing) 1983 – Love is Certainly, at Least Alphabetically Speaking (soprano and band) 1984 – The Abbess of Andouillets (choir) 1985 – Nose-List Song (soprano and orchestra) [this and the above three works are from an unfinished opera setting of Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, which Nyman has repeatedly cited as his all-time favourite book] 1985 – Childs Play (2 violins; harpsichord) 1985 – String Quartet No. 1 1986 – Taking a Line for a Second Walk (for orchestra (Basic Black) or piano duet) 1986 – The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (opera; libretto by Christopher Rawlence; adapted from the Oliver Sacks case study by Nyman, Rawlence, and Michael Morris[disambiguation needed]) 1986 – And Do They Do (modern dance, 1986) 1987 – Vital Statistics (opera; libretto by Victoria Hardie) 1988 – String Quartet No. 2 1989 – Out of the Ruins (choir) 1989 – La Traversée de Paris (soprano and band) 1989 – The Fall of Icarus (band) 1989 – L'Orgie Parisienne Arthur Rimbaud setting (soprano or mezzo soprano and orchestra) 1989 – La Sept (band) 1990 – Shaping the Curve (soprano saxophone, string quartet or piano) 1990 – Six Celan Songs (contralto and orchestra) 1990 – Polish Love Song (soprano and piano or two clarinets, viola, cello and bass) 1990 – String Quartet No. 3 1990 – The Kiss and Other Movements 1991 – The Michael Nyman Songbook A collection of songs based on texts by Paul Celan, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, William Shakespeare, and Arthur Rimbaud and recorded with vocalist Ute Lemper. 1991 – Where the Bee Dances (soprano saxophone and orchestra) 1991 – Fluegelhorn and Piano 1992 – Time Will Pronounce (violin, cello, and piano) 1992 – For John Cage (brass ensemble) 1992 – Self-Laudatory Hymn of Inanna and Her Omnipotence (alto and string orchestra or countertenor and viol consort) 1992 – The Convertibility of Lute Strings (solo harpsichord) 1992 – Anne de Lucy Songs (soprano and piano) 1992 – Le Mari de la Coiffeuse (The Hairdresser's Husband) 1992 – The Upside-Down Violin (orchestra/ensemble) 1993 – MGV: Musique à grande vitesse (band and orchestra) 1993 – The Piano Concerto (piano and orchestra) 1993 – Noises, Sounds ＆ Sweet Airs (1993; opera-ballet setting William Shakespeare's The Tempest) 1993 – Yamamoto Perpetuo (violin solo) 1993 – Songs for Tony (saxophone quartet) 1994 – To Morrow (soprano or soprano saxophone, organ) 1994 – 3 Quartets (ensemble) 1994 – Concerto for Trombone (trombone, orchestra, and steel filing cabinets) 1995 – String Quartet No. 4 1995 – Tango for Tim (In memoriam Tim Suster) (harpsichord) 1995 – The Waltz Song (unison voices) 1995 – Viola and Piano 1995 – Grounded (mezzo-soprano, saxophones, violin, piano) 1995 – HRT [High Rise Terminal] (chamber ensemble) 1995 – Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings 1995 – Double Concerto for Saxophone and Cello (saxophone, cello, and orchestra) 1996 – After Extra Time (ensemble) 1996 – Enemy Zero (game music) 1996 – The Ogre 1997 – Enemy Zero – Original Soundtrack 1997 – Strong on Oaks, Strong on the Causes of Oaks (orchestra) 1997 – The Promise (piano) 1997 – Gattaca 1998 – Titch (worked on the main opening/closing piano theme). 1998 – Cycle of Disquietude (Coisas, Vozes, Lettras) (soprano, mezzo-soprano, and band) 1998 – Orfeu (band) 1998 – De Granada A La Luna (band) 1999 – The Commissar Vanishes (band) 1999 – The End of the Affair 2000 – Facing Goya (opera; libretto by Victoria Hardie) 2001 – a dance he little thinks of (orchestra) 2003 – Violin Concerto (violin and orchestra) 2003 – Man and Boy: Dada (opera; libretto by Michael Hastings) 2005 – Love Counts (opera; libretto by Michael Hastings) 2006 – gdm for Marimba and Orchestra (concerto) 2006 – Acts of Beauty' (song cycle) 2007 – A Handshake in the Dark (choral piece with orchestra; text by Jamal Jumá [world premiere 8 March 2007, Barbican, London, performed by the BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, John Storgards conducting]) 2007 – Interlude in C (expansion of a theme from The Libertine for Accent07 touring ensemble) 2007 – Eight Lust Songs song cycle 2008 – Yamamoto Perpetuo for Solo Flute (arranged by Andy Findon) 2009 – Sparkie: Cage and Beyond opera with Carsten Nicolai 2009 – The Musicologist Scores (band) 2010 – 2Graves 2010 – Vertov Sounds