Finneas started writing the music and brought on composer David Campbell “to notate and write what I had written and then ...

the Attacca Quartet,” and he was very gassed on that. Once we were recording them, I was so blown away by how much they transformed the music, and I’d been writing some string parts for the ...

String quartet players continuously adjust the timing of their notes to stay in sync. But exactly how players do it has been unclear. New data tracking millisecond-scale corrections suggests that ...

The string quartet writing in the suite — the four-CD recording was a finalist for the music Pulitzer in 2013 — gave most listeners their first chance to hear his work in that vein ...

“He sent me a bunch of music that he loved as references, and it was mostly string quartets,” Finneas says. “I was immediately like, ‘Oh my God, I don’t know how to write music for a ...