Michael Nyman
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Emerging from a secular Jewish family in Stratford, London, he pursued piano and seventeenth-century baroque studies at King’s College London and the Royal Academy of Music under Alan Bush and Thurston Dart, earning the Howard Carr Memorial Prize for composition in 1964 and later a British Council residency in Romania to investigate folk song. His career spans film, opera and concert music; a l…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources