Niklas Sivelöv - a professor at the Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen - is one of the leading pianists in the Nordic countries. He was born in Skellefteå in northern Sweden and began playing the organ at the age of six. When he was fourteen, he switched to the piano and studied at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm from the age of seventeen. He made his debut, playing Bartók's Second Piano Concerto, in 1991, and since then the conductors he has worked with include Thomas Dausgaard, Alan Gilbert, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Jukka-Pekka Saraste and Leif Segerstam.

Swedish maestro Joachim Gustaffson's dream has come true in his capacity as chief conductor of the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra, which recently released the album “Beethoven Piano Concertos”. This first disc of Ludwig van Beethoven, of three to be produced in total, contains the “Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major (Op. 58)” and the “Violin Concerto and Orchestra in D major (Op. 61)” –version for piano, written by the composer himself–, as part of an unprecedented project in the history of Colombia.