Nihad Hrustanbegovic

The Dutch-Bosnian composer and concert artist Nihad Hrustanbegović is regarded worldwide as a revolutionary musician and artist in the world of the classical contemporary accordion and performed at venues including the Royal Theatre Carré, Notre-Dame Cathedral-du-Puy (France), Sacred Heart Cathedral (Sarajevo), and Paradiso (Amsterdam), as well as in almost all Dutch theaters together with Flairck and Corpus, Grace Jones, Al Di Meola and The Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw. In 2010 Nihad Hrustanbegovic became the first classical contemporary accordionist to give a solo concert recital at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and is also the first accordionist in the world to record a solo interpretation of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, strictly based on the original Urtext score. In March 2026, he set a world record by giving seven consecutive solo performances at the Royal Albert Hall in London during Teenage Cancer Trust week, at the personal invitation of Robert Smith, The Cure.