*17 March 1946 London

Michael Finnissy started to write music almost as soon as he could play the piano, aged about four and a half, and was tutored in both by his great aunt Rose Louise Hopwood.

He received the William Yeats Hurlstone composition-prize at the Croydon Music Festival, a factor which assisted his parents decision to let him apply to music college. He was awarded a Foundation Scholarship to study at the Royal College of Music, where he studied composition with Bernard Stevens and Humphrey Searle, and piano with Edwin Benbow and Ian Lake. Afterwards, he studied in Italy with Roman Vlad.

Finnissy created the music department of the London School of Contemporary Dance, and has been associated as composer with many British dance companies including London Contemporary Dance Theatre, Ballet Rambert, Strider, and Second Stride.

He has taught at Dartington Summer School, Winchester College, the junior department of the Royal College of Music, Chelsea College of Art, and is guest lecturer at many colleges and universities. He has also been musician in residence to the Victorian College of the Arts, the City of Caulfield in Australia, and the East London Late Starters Orchestra. In 1999 he was made Professor of Composition at the University of Southampton.

Finnissy has been featured composer at the Bath, Huddersfield, and Almeida festivals, and his works are widely performed and broadcast worldwide. In February 1999 a festival at Harvard University, Boston, was devoted to his music, and several world premières took place at the 1999 Music Factory Festival in Bergen, Norway. As a pianist he is particularly associated with the commissioning and performing of new British work.

In 1990 Finnissy was appointed President of the International Society of Contemporary Music. He was reelected in 1993, and in 1998 was made an honorary member of the ISCM.

www.michaelfinnissy.info

Finnissy, Michael

Après-midi Dada (2006)
für Ensemble in variabler Besetzung
2 Key. 2-5 Bl (od. St). 2-8 Zupfinstr. 2-8 Schlzg. 1 Kaffeemühle. 1 Sch.
Dauer: 15’
TME 1172
*Partitur

Bassoon Sonata (2007)
für Fagott und Klavier
Fg. Klav.
Dauer: 15’
TME 1140
*Spiel-P.

Cantet nunc aula caelestium (1962)
für Flöte und Klavier
Fl. Klav.
Dauer: 4’
TME 0735
*Spiel-P.

Clarinet Sonata (2007)
für Klarinette in B und Klavier
Kl (in B). Klav.
Dauer: 14’
TME 1139
*Spiel-P.

Enough (2001)
Piano Solo for John Tilbury
Text: inspired by the prose text „Assez” by Samuel Beckett
Klav.
Dauer: 15’
TME 0731
*Spiel-P.

ERIK SATIE like anyone else (2000-2001)
Piano Solo for Eve Egoyan
Klav.
Dauer: 20’
TME 0732
*Spiel-P.

First Political Agenda (1989-2006)
for solo piano
Klav.
Dauer: 16’
TME 1136
*Spiel-P.

FIRST SIGN A SHARP WHITE MOON, as if the cause of snow (1968-75)
für Altflöte solo
Afl.
Dauer: 4’
TME 0736
*Spiel-P.

Halbnackt (2006-07)
for solo woodwind, two strings, two keyboards
Blfl (od. Fl. od. Ob. od. Kl).
Git. Kb. Klav. Vib.
Dauer: 14’
TME 0870
*Partitur

Horrorzone (1968-71)
für Sopran, Flöte. Englischhorn, Vibraphon und Klavier
Text: Torquato Tasso
S.
Fl. Eh. Vib. Klav.
Dauer: 9’
TME 1142
*Spiel-P.

Keroiylu (1981)
für Oboe, Fagott und Klavier
Ob. Fg. Klav.
Dauer: 10’
TME 0864
*Spiel-P.

Mit Arnold Schoenberg (2002)
for solo piano
Klav.
Dauer: 23’
TME 0730
*Spiel-P.

Moon’s Goin’ Down (1980)
for any solo wind instrument or any solo voice
var.
Dauer: 4’
TME 3060
*Spiel-P.

Runnin’ Wild (1978)
für Oboe solo (oder Klarinette/Saxophon)
Ob. od. Kl. od. Sax.
Dauer: 8’
TME 0785
*Spiel-P.

Sepevi (1983)
for solo double bass
Kb.
Dauer: 9’
TME 0738
*Spiel-P.

SKRYABIN in itself (2007-2008)
for solo piano
Klav.
Dauer: 21’
TME 1135
*Spiel-P.

Sonata for (Toy) Piano (2006-2007)
Sonate für (Spielzeug-)Klavier solo
Klav. od. Spielzeugklav.
Dauer: 7’
TME 1138
*Spiel-P.

Song 18 (1976)
for solo double bass
Kb.
Dauer: 3’
TME 0739
*Spiel-P.

Stomp (1981)
für Piano-Akkordeon solo
Akk.
Dauer: 9’
TME 1143
*Spiel-P.

The Eureka Flag (1983)
for solo piccolo
Picc.
Dauer: 4’
TME 0733
*Spiel-P.

Ulpirra (1982-1983)
für Bassflöte solo
Bfl.
Dauer: 4’
TME 0737
*Spiel-P.

Untitled Piece (1967)
for solo flute in honour of Igor Stravinsky’s 85th birthday
Fl.
Dauer: 6’
TME 0734
*Spiel-P.

Untitled Piece in Memory of Igor Stravinsky (1971)
für Flöte, Viola und Harfe
Fl. Vla. Hf.
Das Trio kann auch zusammen mit „Untitled Piece in honour of Igor Stravinsky’s 85th Birthday” für Flöte solo (TME 734) unter dem Titel „Untitled Piece to honour Igor Stravinsky” aufgeführt werden.
Dauer: 6’
TME 1190
*Spiel-P.

Yob Cultcha (2007-2008)
(or „Keep taking the Tabloids”)
für Mandoline, Violine und Akkordeon
Mand. Vl. Akk.
Dauer: 5’
TME 1141
*Sti.

Zwei Deutsche mit Coda (2006)
für Klavier solo
Klav.
Dauer: 8’
TME 0871
*Spiel-P.

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