About Us
Our Team
Hussein Rassim
Oud / Lead Singer
Hussein Rassim is an Iraqi musician, he plays the oud
(oriental luth). After he studied in the best music
schools of Baghdad he created his first own group,
playing traditional Iraqi music. In 2015 he decided to
move in Belgium. Today he lives in Brussel where he
plays in different bands and great venues (OPRL,
Muziepublique, Esperenzah Festival etc). With the
cellist Juliette Lacroix he created the group Nawaris
which made two albums: “Migration” (2018) and “Bach à
Bagdad” (2019). He is the principal protagonist of the
documentary film « The Way Back », a road movie
autobiography.
Joachim Ségalard
KEys
After discovering piano as a child, Joachim Ségalard
starts his studies of jazz piano at Conservatory of
Versailles (CRR) in the classe of Damien Argentierie. Life
at Conservatory and among others students of his class
brings him to a more « classical » music. At the end of
his high school he stays at the CRR and he join the class
of Paul Lay at CMA13 of Paris and he discover the world
of sound synthesis by taking courses with Benjamin
Moussay. In 2020 he get his DEM (diploma in music
studies) at CRR and enter at the Royal Conservatory of
Brussel with Eric Legnini and Vincent Bruyninckx as
teachers. He is actually in 3rd year of Bachelor and has
started to play in different bands as a pianist, keyboard
player and composer, in Brussel and in Paris.
Juliette Lacroix
Cello
Juliette Lacroix is a cellist, musician and educator and
has always been involved in a variety of projects.
Juliette studied at the Conservatory of Poitiers, Reims
and Bordeaux and got her degree in 2009. Following
her classical education, she has worked on different
projects combining theatre, poetry, dance and drawing.
She brings her experience of mediaeval, Balkan and
Latino music into her classical projects (Duo
Conversation, Symophonic Orchestra of Gironde),
contemporary projects (Ensemble Un), jazz (L’nude,
Reg), electronic music (Bunk) and folk music
(Moonshine Fish). She adds a classical touch and an
acoustic structure to Nawaris
Shaya Feldman
Bass
Shaya Feldman is a French-Israeli contrabass player,
researcher, composer and multi-disciplinary Dada artist.
Shaya teached at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and the
International School of Brussels. He is a graduate of the
Jerusalem Academy of Music and the Conservatoire
Nationale de Paris, and served as the head of the string
instruments department at the Lod Conservatory in Israel. As
a bass player Shaya performed with many orchestras such as
the National Opera of Paris, the Jerusalem Symphony
Orchestra, and the Sinfonietta Be’er Sheva. Shaya has
performed his original works in Europe, the USA and Israel
and cooperates frequently with composers of contemporary
music. In recent years, Shaya performs original music in two
ensembles: MASH and ZVOV, with whom he has also
recorded three albums. He has also focused on music
education and spectacles for young audiences. In 2018, his
original one man show “Basse-Passe-Casse” was selected for
Jeunesse Musicales and has been performed all over
Belgium.
Robin Solé
Drums
Robin Solé discovers music with percussions. At 7 years old,
he starts playing drums with Manu Dyens. During college, he
decides to learn classical percussions with Alain
Beghin.Besides this teacher, he learns with Lionel Postolec at
the conservatory of Versailles during High school. At this
moments, he mets jazz musicians and plays concerts as a
drummer.He continues classical percussion at the
conservatory of Douai with Thierry Deleruyelle until he get
his degree. There, he starts classical composition and joins
jazz class with Thomas Grimmonprez and Phil Abraham, who
are teachers in Bruxelles.With their encouragement, he
enters in the conservatory of Bruxelles for the jazz class.Now,
he is in third year of bachelor and plays with musicians in the
city.