“In a world where there are scores of amazingly trained, virtually interchangeable violin virtuosos, Pekka Kuusisto stands out as that rarest of things: the genuinely individual talent.” Kuusisto plays the classics as if he had just made them up, with a sound and style that most violinists would never even consider attempting. No surprise that he’s also “in [his] comfort zone improvising with an electronic jazz group or taking the stage with a Norwegian noise duo.”