Tammam Alramadan is a Nay player and teacher. Born in Aleppo in 1994, he graduated from the Arab Institute of Music in Aleppo in 2010. From 2011 to 2012, he taught at the same institute.
He participated and played in many bands in Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Egypt and Tunisia. He moved to Belgium in 2014 and played with many bands and realized many projects like Refugees For Refugees , Wajd Ensemble , Violet orchestra Leuven with composer and arranger Shalan Alhamwi. He has also worked with Mohamad Sharara and the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. He can also be heard on Tamino’s Habibi album with his colleague and friend from Refugees for Refugees, Tareq Alsayed. He also teaches at the World Music&Dance Academy.

Khaled Alhafez was born in Aleppo in 1981. Professor at the Higher Institute of Music in Damascus residing in Belgium since 2013, he is a member of several groups such as Ramal Band, Nawa Band, Wajd Ensemble and he participated in many international festivals in the Arab world (Beydine Festival Beirut with the Turkish master Kudsi Erguner , jerash festival Tunisia, The Kuwait Opera, The Damascus Opera, Pistachio Festival Gaziantep, Bahrain Opera House. He also teaches the origins of classical Arabic singing at the Greek Institute of Labyrinth.

Youssef Nassif was born in Edlib, Syria. He started learning the kanun at the age of 10. He studied in Damascus at the Higher Institute of Music in the fields of canoeing, piano and composition. He has already given concerts in Syria, Tunisia, Lebanon, United Arab Emirates and Turkey.
Since 2013 he has been living in Germany and since then he has mainly performed in Germany and Europe. In 2015 he presented his first album with his own compositions (Man’s Journey). He performs as a solo artist as well as with various ensembles and orchestras. He participated in the Warsaw Contemporary Music Festival, played with the “Stüba-Philharmonie” in Weimar and the “Brussels Jazz Orchestra” and performed with the WAJD ensemble for the European Commission. He regularly gives workshops on Arabic music. Since 2017, he is studying for a master’s degree in world music at the University of Hildesheim.

Marwan Fakir studied at the conservatories of Marrakech, Paris and Tourcoing. He is an expert in traditional Arabic and Turkish repertoires, and works with some of the great masters including Kudsi Erguner. He was one of the first musicians to introduce the five-string violin to the world of Oriental music. His career has taken him to perform on stages across the Mediterranean, in Europe, Latin America and Asia. He is currently a member of several bands and is the main musician for major Arab artists including Lena Chamamyan, Jahida Wahbe and Rashid Gholam, among others.

Simon Leleux (percussion, Belgium) is specialized in Middle Eastern percussions. He started playing music with what has remained his favorite instrument: the darbuka. Trained with grat masters and former student at Codarts in Rotterdam, Simon had the privilege to share the stage with musical celebrities and extremely varied projects, ranging from oriental music with Ghalia Benali to baroque music with Les Menus Plaisirs du Roy, not to forget Berber songs with Khalid Izri, ottoman music with Lâmekân Ensemble, music from the Balkans with Tcha Limberger, Nedyalko Nedyalkov, world music with Emre Gultekin/Vardan Hovanissian, Auster Loo, ….

Yousef Zayed was born in Jerusalem and began playing oriental percussion instruments at the age of 11. He then studied under Youssef Hbeish at the Edward Said National Conservatory in Ramallah, where he obtained a diploma in percussion. He studied the oud and oriental music theory and also played other string instruments such as the bouzuq and the cumbas. At the same time he obtained a degree in media at Birzeit University. He plays in many music groups and with famous artists such as Khaled Jubran, Basel Zayed, Ahmad Al Khatib, Issa Boulos, Nawa, Turab, Karloma, Awj, The Oriental Music Ensemble, Palestinian youth orchestra PYO, Samer Totah, Lena Chamamyan, Elie Ma’alouf Jazz Quintet, The Joubran Trio, Samih Choukaer, Abed Azrié, Wassim Qassis, Jameel Al-Sayeh, Sabreen, Smadj, Beit Almusica musical group, Yasamine, Al Funoun Folk dance group and First Ramallah group.