Neil Heyde

British classical cellist and a lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music. Neil Heyde has been cellist of the Kreutzer Quartet since the 1990s and has performed extensively as a soloist in the UK, mainland Europe, China and the USA, broadcasting on the major radio and television networks. He has made more than 40 commercial recordings of music ranging from the 17th to the 21st centuries, expanding the repertoire for both quartet and cello through exploratory collaborations with composers — and by championing music from outside the mainstream. He heads the postgraduate programmes at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where his work focuses on relationships between performers and composers — past and present — and he is currently visiting professor of artistic research at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.