Nikolai Kapustin
Nikolai Kapustin (b. 1937 November 22) is a composer and pianist. The best way to describe his music would be the fusion of classical and jazz. The term would be Third Stream, better described by Wikipedia.
I found about Kapustin through Nathan Lee who played at the UW. Nathan Lee played Kapustin’s Op 41 Variations which became one of my favorite piano solo pieces.
It is amazing to see a great composer still alive at our time. To see a great composer playing his own piece on our time is such a rarity. It is quite a pity his music is largely unknown (in the West) until the 21st century, due to the Iron Curtain. I wonder how much great music is burried during that time.