Olly Wilson has been played on NTS shows including Westward Ho! w/ Ashley Wales, with Cetus first played on 25 April 2024.

Olly Woodrow Wilson, Jr. (September 7, 1937, St. Louis, Missouri – March 13, 2018, Berkeley, California) was a prominent American composer of contemporary classical music, pianist, double bassist, and musicologist. He was one of the preeminent composers of African American descent in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He is also known for establishing the TIMARA (Technology in Music and Related Arts) program at Oberlin Conservatory, the first-ever conservatory program in electronic music.

He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Alma Grace Peoples Wilson,…