Benyamin Nuss

Classical pianist Benyamin Nuss is a versatile figure whose activities extend to jazz and the performance of video game music. Winning honors in Germany's national Jugend Musiziert youth competition, Nuss performed with the Youth Orchestra of North Rhine-Westphalia and was honored with a "Best of NRW" award in 2008. That brought more concert exposure. An unusual feature of Nuss' career has been his longstanding interest in video game music; his debut album came in that genre with a release devoted to the music of video game composer Nobuo Uematsu. Nuss released the recital album Exotica in 2012, featuring music by Debussy, Darius Milhaud, Alberto Ginastera, and other composers, including several of his own compositions. By the early 2020s, more than ten of Nuss' compositions had been recorded by himself and others. In 2022, he issued the album Unite!: Frederic Rzewski - Piano Works.