Bill Bruford & Michiel Borstlap

British drummer Bill Bruford and Dutch keyboard player Michiel Borstlap are two of the leading lights in progressive improvised music. Since their first meeting at the Nijmegen Festival in Holland in 2002, the duo have recorded on both CD and DVD, and gone on to play major festivals and concerts in Japan and Europe. By the age of twenty-seven, Bruford's musical character had already been formed by his work with four of the biggest progressive rock groups of the 1970s: Yes, King Crimson, Genesis, and UK.

By the age of twenty-seven, Bruford's musical character had already been formed by his work with four of the biggest progressive rock groups of the 1970s: Yes, King Crimson, Genesis, and UK. This early success propelled him, by nature a restless innovator uncomfortable with the well-worn path, into a thirty-year search for the innovative, the unusual, and the unpredictable, with groups such as Bruford, Earthworks, and the Bruford-Borstlap duo.

Borstlap graduated Cum Laude from Hilversum Conservatory in 1992. He has had his music recorded by Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter, and has released eight albums, including Every Step a Dance, Every Word a Song, and the DVD In Concert in Holland with Bruford. Aside from his work with Bruford, he leads a trio with Jeff 'Tain' Watts on drums, and plays with the group Soulvation.