Cancelled: Jozef van Wissem

Jozef van Wissem is a Dutch minimalist composer and lute player based in Brooklyn. In 2013 van Wissem won the Cannes Soundtrack Award for the score of Jim Jarmusch's film Only Lovers Left Alive at the Cannes Film Festival. An incessantly touring musician, van Wissem studied lute in New York with Patrick O'Brien. He was commissioned by London's National Gallery to compose a sound piece to Hans Holbein’s painting The Ambassadors. Van Wissem also wrote the music score for the video game The Sims Medieval.