Hans Knut Sveen is associate professor of harpsichord and early music at the Grieg Academy, University of Bergen. Together with Frode Thorsen he is in charge of Bergen Barokk and features in most of the productions by Barokksolistene. As a performer, Hans Knut Sveen is particularly fascinated by historical keyboard instruments and their copies, and he often experiments with the combination of acoustic, synthetic and sampled sounds.