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Oliver Knussen (born June 12, 1952 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a UK composer and conductor. He began composing at about the age of six – but it was an ITV programme about his father's work with the London Symphony Orchestra that prompted the commissioning for his first symphony (1966-1967). Aged 15, Knussen stepped in to conduct his symphony's première at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on 7 April 1968 after István Kertész fell ill. After that debut, Daniel Barenboim asked him to conduct the work's first two movements in New York a week later.[6] In this work and his Concerto...

Benyamin Nuss is a pianist from Bergisch Gladbach, Germany. He is best known for his performances on orchestral video game concerts Symphonic Fantasies (2009) and Symphonic Legends (2010) along with WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln and percussionist Rony Barrak. On 17 Sep 2010 Nuss released his debut album Benyamin Nuss Plays Uematsu where he reinterprets work from video game composer 植松伸夫 (Uematsu Nobuo) for piano. Official website: www.benyamin-nuss.de .

The Blacknuss Collective was born amid the heyday of Acid Jazz in 1990. The musicians and DJs behind the club later went on to form the band that now released two albums of the very best dance music ever made in Sweden. Which, coincidentally, was the name of their first album in 1995, an improvisational debut built around the Sly & Robbie-style playing of drummer Martin Jonsson and bass man Christian Falk. It included the hit "it should have been you". It has now been 10 years since Blacknuss' debut album "Made in Sweden" was released. In the fall of...

Zanussi Five Three of Norway’s leading sax players –Rolf-Erik Nystrøm, Eirik Hegdal and Jørgen Mathisen plus bass player Per Zanussi and drummer Gard Nilssen play an energetic and surrealistic mix of beautiful melodies, improvisation, grooves and acoustic noise. Jørgen Mathisen, one of the top young players in Norway, adds a rough, rock-like feel to the group. This contrasts Rolf Erik Nystrøm’s elegant, contemporary- music-like playing and Eirik Hegdals melodic-lyrical baritone. This unusual horn section alternates between creating virtuosic cacofony, funky riffs, percussive soundscapes and beautiful layers of sound . “This music is vibrant, fast, and very modern. It is expressionistic,...