Jozef Van Wissem is an avant-garde composer and lutenist who plays his unique all-black baroque lute all over the world. The titles and nature of his works often have a mystical Christian appeal and the music he creates is simply timeless. In 2013, he won the Cannes Soundtrack Award at the Cannes Film Festival for the soundtrack of the film "Only Lovers Left Alive" by Jim Jarmusch. In December 2017, he was invited by the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg to interpret the madrigal represented in Caravaggio's painting "The Lute Player" (1596).