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Schott Music is very excited to announce that British composer Edmund Finnis has signed an agreement to join the publishing house’s international roster of composers.

Finnis’ music has been praised as “ethereally beautiful”, “bewitching” and “iridescent” by performers and the press over a career that has seen him establish close and long-lasting musical relationships with many high-profile performers such as Víkingur Ólafsson, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Jess Gillam, Ruby Hughes, Mark Simpson, Clare Hammond, Oliver Coates, Daniel Pioro and Lucy Crowe. Widely performed and broadcast around the world, recent highlights include the Dutch premiere of orchestral work The Air, Turning with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Dima Slobodeniouk, multiple performances of Hymn (after Byrd) by 12 Ensemble, the Oslo Philharmonic and Scottish Ensemble, and the award winning release of Youth performed by Claire Hammond on the Pentatone label.

Recipient of a prestigious Paul Hamlyn award in 2012, Finnis’ wide-ranging compositions often evoke a sense of space and transparency where a delicately crafted idea can be spun and developed into something profound. Themes of the natural world, the numinous, early music and family are often present and a soundworld of pitches and timbres that somehow go beyond the typical is conjured.

As well as soloists, Finnis’ work with ensembles has been of major significance in recent years most notably with Manchester Collective, the London Contemporary Orchestra and London Sinfonietta. Upcoming performances include the Polish premiere of The Centre is Everywhere by Sinfonietta Cracovia, 12 Ensemble’s Dutch premiere of Hymn (after Byrd), multiple performance of Devotions (String Quartet No. 3) by the Solem Quartet and the second German performance of String Quartet No.1 'Aloysius' by the Maxwell Quartet at the Berlin Konzerthaus followed by a UK tour. Finnis studied at the Guildhall School with Julian Anderson and received a Leonard Bernstein Fellowship to study at Tanglewood. Since 2015 he has been a Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London and in 2016 his violin concerto Shades Lengthen was shortlisted for an RPS Award. Recordings of his music have been released on labels such as Platoon, Decca, Pentatone, Bedroom Community, NMC, Delphian and LSO Live.

Edmund Finnis is represented by Cathy Nelsons Artists and Project 
Edmund Finnis' Personal Website 
Edmund Finnis Schott Profile

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