Evolution and collaboration. The composition, rehearsal and performance of Finnissy's Second String Quartet

The DVD contains ethnographic research into Michael Finnissy's Second String Quartet (2007). The content includes the composer's sketches, annotated parts, interviews, rehearsal with the Kreutzer Quartet, composer-performer discussions, performances, reflective questionnaires and score analysis. The DVD is interactive.

Michael Finnissy was born in Tulse Hill, London in 1946. He was awarded a Foundation Scholarship to study at the Royal College of Music.

Finnissy's concert debut as a solo pianist was at the Galerie Schwartzes Kloster in Freiburg. At many events he was partnered by Brian Ferneyhough. Finnissy was a member of the ensemble Suoraan and its artistic director. In 1987 he joined Ixion. In both groups he played the piano and conducted concerts.

Finnissy is also a composer and teacher. His main publisher is Oxford University Press. His principal teaching has been at the Royal Academy of Music (London), Winchester College, the Katholieke Universiteit of Leuven (Belgium), and at the University of Sussex. Finnissy is currently (2016) Professor of composition at the University of Southampton.

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