Education
Tuur studies Jazz, Latin, Fusion at the Rotterdam Conservatory, CODARTS (NL).
His teachers are Hans van Oosterhout, Joost Kroon, Lucas van Merwijk, Simon Rigter, Dick de Graef,
Ben van den Dungen, AnaElis de Jong, ...
He had also workshops/masterclasses/lessons with Horacio "el negro" Hernandez,
Billy Hart, Ed Soph, Renné Cremers, Ruben van Rompaey, Franc auf dem Brincke, Yves Peeters,
Enrique Firpi, Alejandro Herrera, Hidalgo, Richard Bona, Ernesto Simpson, Justin DiCoccio, ...
How it started
Tuur started "hitting" drums when he was 4.
After a while he went to the local music school to start classical percussion lessons.
His teacher was Nik Goovaerts.
At the age of 12 he started to do his first concerts with a local percussion band.
Later he went to a professional music education highschool.
Lemmens Instituut. Again in the classical department.
Yet Tuur was playing also a lot of jazz, fusion, latin at that time.
Even so intensive that he decided to go to a jazzdepartment in Antwerp.
There he studied 1 year and met some great people where he's still playing with today.
Today
Today Tuur is working as a drummer in several bands with different styles.
Nilfisq (soul,RnB,funk) [myspace.com/nilfisq], Pandeiro (brasilian traditionals), Tha Groove Gang (coverbandPrince,Jamiroquai,Tower of Power,Jill Scott,...), Purcuance Quartet (Jazz), Morfitis Trio (Latin-Jazz, Fusion), State of Monc [myspace.com/stateofmonc]
Besides this bands he is often asked as drummer in different formations.
For live concerts as well for studio sessions.
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