Official Biographies (courtesy of www.tristanmusic.eu)
Evelyn Kallansee is a very all-round singer/actrice. Evelyn started her professional career in the musical Les Miserables. After this she studied musical theater, acting and dancing at the Academy for “ Kleinkunst” in Amsterdam. In the years that followed her All Round talent made her explore different genres; In musicals like Evita, Joe, Touring as backing vocalist for best selling artist Marco Borsato, Jocelyn Brown, Tony Hadley and others.
Coen Molenaar is a fulltime musician, composer and producer working worldwide and in a wide range of styles like Jazz, Fusion, Dance, Funk, R&B. Still touring with the legendary Jan Akkerman, he also worked with Chris Hinze, Deborah Carter, Do, Carole Denis/Nick van Gelder (former Jamiroquai) and Des’Ray.
Frans Vollink at age 16, he got hooked to the electric bass. He stydied at several Music Academies. After graduating Frans had the great fortune to play with some of the finest musicians around like Randy Brecker, Gerard Presencer, Nigel Hitchcock and Wayne Johnson.
Martin Gort has been working as a percussionist/teacher and producer for over 25 years. He has learned a large variety of rythms in Africa and Cuba. Martin produced a series of lesson CD and over the years been an in demand session artist with a wide variety of artists and television shows.
Dutch drummer Sebastiaan Cornelissen studied at The Conservatory of Amsterdam. Later he worked as an ‘in demand’ live and session artist as well as a teacher at The Royal Academy of Music. Sebastiaan produced numerous of albums since and worked with artists such as Randy Brecker, Gary Willis and Gary Husband.
Thomas Bekhuis started to play guitar at the age of 12. He Graduated in 2010 as a Master of Music at the Conservatory of Amsterdam and Purchase College New York, studying with John Abercrombie and Robert Fripp. As a frontman Thomas appears in his own power trio The Cockatoos and surf rock band THE JETS. recently worked with: Caro Emerald, Dorona Alberti, Lo van Gorp a.o.