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  • "Tristan Driessens found his calling east of the Bosphorus, becoming one of the West’s few masters of the oud." HÜRRIYET DAILY NEWS (TR)

    Tristan Driessens

  • New album "Memories of Istanbul" coming out soon

    Tristan Driessens & Levent Yildirim

  • **** Une musique qui remue l’âme, mélancolique et apaisée, avec des orages intérieurs soudains. Le Soir

    Soolmaan Quartet

  • “If modal jazz had flourished under the Ottoman Empire, it might have sounded like this.” TED GIOA (US)

    Shepherds and Sultans

  • Hildegard von Bingen - Codex de Termonde

    Illuminans Tenebras

  • **** "Multicultural medieval meanderings from Belgium" SONGLINES (UK)

    Toasaves

  • Looking for New Horizons

    Hirundo Maris

  • Tristan Driessens & Shahab Azinmehr

    Didar

  • Levent Yildirim, Brice Soniano, Tristan Driessens

    Rituals for Peace Trio

Latest Release

HIRUNDO MARIS

Looking for New Horizons, Book I (Seyir Muzik, 2025)

Label: Seyir Muzik

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Arianna Savall: soprano, romanesque harp, gothic harp, kravik lyre Petter Udland Johansen: tenor, viele, hardingfele, kravik lyre Tristan Driessens: oud, soprano oud, lavta Derya Türkan: kemençe Efrén López: wheel fiddle, oud, lavta, medieval lute, Afghan […]

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Upcoming Concerts

De Orde van den Prince, Den Eyck, Kasterlee, BE

Tristan Driessens solo

Rosario, Bever, BE

Yasamin Shahosseini & Tristan Driessens

Hisemaele, Landen, BE

Neoclassical Ensemble of Teheran

Sint-Geertruiabdijkerk, Leuven, BE

Neoclassical Ensemble of Teheran

Latest Videos

Illuminans Tenebras

Soolmaan

Illuminans Tenebras / Soolmaan

De Bijloke, full concert video, 14th of December 2024

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New album Release

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Tristan Driessens (BE) – oud, compositions, direction, Christos Barbas (GR) – ney flutes, piano, vocals, Nathan Daems (BE) – ney flutes, tenor saxophone, Annemie Osborne (LU) – cello, Andrea Piccioni (IT) – tamburello, riqq, bendir, Levent Yildirim (TR) – doholla, bendir, […]

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