Neil Heyde is the cellist of the Kreutzer Quartet and a senior lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music, where his work focuses on the relationships between performance, composition and analysis. As a soloist and chamber musician he has appeared throughout Europe, broadcasting for the BBC, WDR, ORF, Radio France,Netherlands Radio and many other networks, and recording for Metier and Naxos. In the late 80s and early 90s he was a member of the improvisation and New Music quintet Shiva Nova, and more recently has improvised for several series of poetry films on Channel 4, and in connection with Visual Music events at Tate St. Ives. He has commissioned and premiered many solo and chamber pieces and is also dedicated to performing and recording neglected areas of the repertoire and is currently editing the volume of Debussy's sonatas for the Oeuvres Complètes.