Hans Knut Sveen is associate professor of harpsichord at the Grieg Academy, University of Bergen. Together with Frode Thorsen, he is a founding member and leader of Bergen Barokk, and he participates in most productions of Barokksolistene. In his performances, Hans Knut Sveen is especially dedicated to historical keyboard instruments and their copies. In addition to this, he often experiments with the combination of acoustic, synthetic and sampled sound.