Editing Michael Nyman (section)

== Early life and education ==
Nyman was born in [[Stratford, London]], to a family of secular Jewish furriers who immigrated from Poland.<ref>{{cite book|last=Siôn|first=Pwyll ap|author-link=Pwyll ap Siôn|year=2007|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4VNjLMkPcUQC&pg=PA15|page=15|title=The Music of Michael Nyman: Texts, Contexts and Intertexts|publisher=Ashgate Publishing|isbn=9781859282106|doi=10.4324/9781315085821}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/fameandfortune/8498504/Michael-Nyman-on-fame-and-fortune.html |title=Michael Nyman on fame and fortune |first=Mark |last=Anstead |date=8 May 2011 |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]}}</ref>

Nyman was educated at the [[Sir George Monoux College|Sir George Monoux Grammar School, Walthamstow]]. He studied from 1961 until 1967 at [[King's College London]], and at the [[Royal Academy of Music]] until 1967 with [[Alan Bush]] and [[Thurston Dart]],<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.limelightmagazine.com.au/Article/257663,on-the-road-with-michael-nyman.aspx |title=On the road with Michael Nyman|magazine=[[Limelight (magazine)|Limelight]] |date=17 May 2011 |access-date=10 August 2014}}</ref> focusing on piano and seventeenth-century [[baroque music]]. He won the [[Howard Ellis Carr|Howard Carr]] Memorial Prize for composition in July 1964.{{sfn|Siôn|2007|p=18}} In 1965–66 Nyman secured a residency in [[Romania]] to study folk-song, supported by a [[British Council]] bursary.<ref name=sion />