World Soundtrack Awards 2025 – Michael Nyman

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

With a distinguished career as a composer, librettist, critic, and musicologist, Nyman is best known to film audiences for his unforgettable scores for The Piano, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, and Gattaca.

Michael Nyman will be honoured on 16 October 2025 at Music Centre De Bijloke in Ghent at the film music concert Minimalism in Motion: Glass, Nyman and Beyond – a celebration of the evolution of minimalist film music, spotlighting pioneers such as Nyman and Glass, alongside contemporary composers who are redefining minimalism for a new era. During the concert, Brussels Philharmonic, conducted by maestro Dirk Brossé, will perform a selection of Nyman’s work.

Nyman is no stranger to Film Fest Gent. In 1991, he performed the world premiere of his score for Prospero’s Books. Later, in 2015, his work was featured at the festival’s Great British Film Music Concert, showcasing music from his collaborations with Peter Greenaway on Drowning by Numbers (1988) and The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982), as well as his score for Neil Jordan’s The End of the Affair (1999).