Last year, Guy Van Nueten wrote history as the first Belgian ever to be signed by the prestigious Sony Classical label, with his sublime album Contact. “In one fell swoop I found more listeners”, said the pianist in Belgian magazine Humo. Though it must be said that, over the past thirty years, Van Nueten has never actually had much trouble finding an audience. And a very diverse at that! In the 1990s, Van Nueten played with the Belgian cult band The Sands, he recorded a terrific live album in the noughties with dEUS frontman Tom Barman, and in between he wrote music for dozens of films and plays. And now he is officially a classical composer.