Michael Nyman & The Michael Nyman Band

Michael Nyman is the composer of many film soundtracks, including Peter Greenaway’s The Draughtsman’s Contract and Jane Campion’s The Piano. But he has also put music to classics like Man with a Movie Camera (1929), a key work in Soviet avant-garde film history, for Dziga Vertov’s film made an enormous contribution to the development of cinematographic language. In the first part of this concert, which also doubles as a movie session, Nyman performs the music he composed to accompany showings of Man with a Movie Camera. In the second half, The Michael Nyman Band will play works spanning Nyman’s long career.