Qanun

is a Tunisian qanun player born in Kairouan. Trained at the regional conservatory of his city, he obtained the national diploma in Arabic music in 2009 and the instrumental diploma in qanun in 2011. Winner of several national first prizes, he performs in Tunisia and internationally, and plays as a soloist with ensembles such as La Rachidia and the Tunisian Symphony Orchestra. A composer and musicology researcher, he has published a collection of bachrafs and the album Mukkadima, and has developed a qanun playing method adapted to the Western repertoire. In parallel, he earned a medical degree and specializes in psychiatry in Switzerland.

Oud/Direction

is a self-taught oud player from Egypt. He studied with masters Tarek Abdallah and Yousra Dhahbi, developing his approach to the instrument and classical Arabic music. Based in Switzerland, he regularly performs with his project Douroub in numerous venues and festivals and has also played with the Oriental Ensemble of HEM Geneva under the direction of Basil Rajoub. He is also a physicist by profession.

Nay

is a multi-instrumentalist, primarily focused on wind instruments from Eastern traditions. Trained on the saxophone, he initially specialized in contemporary music and work with electroacoustic devices. After earning a master’s degree in pedagogy (classical saxophone), he pursued jazz studies at HEMU in Lausanne, with a particular focus on composition and improvisation. At the same time, he deepened his knowledge of various Eastern musical traditions: he studied the Arabic nay in Cairo with Mohammed Antar, the Ottoman ney in Istanbul with Hüseyin İzci, the Kurdish bilûr with Yasin Türk, as well as the Armenian duduk with Norayr Kartashyan and Harutyun Chkolyan.