Finnian
Treherne

A composer working at the intersection of music, nature and visual art.

Finnian Treherne (b. 2002, Tuscany) is a Vienna-based composer of British, Czech, and German heritage, working at the intersection of orchestral writing and electroacoustic music.

His music draws on a deep attentiveness to the natural world — to the textures, silences, and unpredictable logics of living sound — and brings these qualities into scored, structured form.

His musical life began in Tuscany with cello and piano, before a field recorder discovered at the age of nine redirected his ear toward sound as a subject in itself. The discovery of DAWs in 2015 opened the door to computer music, and from that point the two currents — acoustic and electronic, ancient and new — have run alongside each other in his work.

He studied Media Composition at the VMI Vienna before completing the Experimental and Electroacoustic Music programme (ELAK) at the mdw Vienna, graduating in June 2025. His compositional practice encompasses orchestral works, electroacoustic composition, and music that blends the two — always in pursuit of an economy of means and a seriousness of intent he traces through the music of Arvo Pärt, Toru Takemitsu, and Ennio Morricone.