Michael Nyman will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s World Soundtrack Awards, part of Film Fest Gent in October.
The composer will be honoured on October 16 2025 at Music Centre De Bijloke in Ghent at the festival's closing event, Minimalism in Motion: Glass, Nyman and Beyond - a concert of film music celebrating the evolution of minimalist film music and its pioneers, 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 the composer's work.
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. 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).
Discover selected works from Nyman's catalogue here:
