composer
SOLEM QUARTET
featured on the album, PAINTED LIGHT
released 24th October 2023
DELPHIAN
“Finnis’s music is minutely attentive to the careful weighting of harmony and dissonance, so that every bar draws the listener in and feels urgently consequential.” Europadisc Classical
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello
featured on the album, SONG
released 9th September 2022
DECCA
Manchester Collective
Bedroom Community
“…the haunting, iridescent work by Edmund Finnis at the centre of this compelling release celebrating five years of Manchester Collective. Commissioned by the ensemble and scored for 12 string players, the piece has an ageless, ancient-yet-modern quality: like a shimmering ghost of Lawes’ viol consorts, a fine latticework of line and colour is viewed through a kaleidoscope of grainy harmonies and whistling white noise. The twin push-pull of emotion and texture encapsulates a performance ethos that extends to the contrasting works either side, uniting them across supposed aesthetic distance.”
★★★★★ BBC Music Magazine
“a bewitching piece for 12 string players ”
Fiona Maddocks, The Guardian
Liam Byrne, bass viol
featured on the album, CONCRETE
Bedroom Community
Daniel Pioro, violin
featured on the album, DUST
Bedroom Community
“absolutely remarkable”
Mary Anne Hobbs, BBC 6 Music
Edmund Finnis : Panufnik Variation No.10
London Symphony Orchestra
LSO Live
“My absolute favourite of all of them was the ravishing Variation No.10 by Edmund Finnis…wonderful”
BBC Radio 3