BIOGRAPHY
Adrien Tyberghein is a double bassist, composer, and improviser. His distinctive artistic path weaves connections between written and improvised music, contemporary jazz, world traditions, and stage creation.
Trained at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, Art2, and the Didier Lockwood School, he developed an intimate relationship with the double bass at an early age, quickly choosing to explore it beyond its traditional role. After performing with various ensembles and institutions, notably the Opéra national de Paris, he decided to leave the orchestral framework to fully dedicate himself to the development of his own artistic language.
It was at this turning point that he began to perceive the double bass as a solo and universal voice. He made it the center of a personal, free, and open-ended language. For him, the instrument became a true vehicle for travel — a space for sonic exploration through which he seeks worlds, timbres, states, and memories. His playing reveals multiple voices, oscillating between breath, pulse, texture, silence, and resonance.
Alongside his classical career, Adrien Tyberghein collaborates with artists from the contemporary and world music scenes, notably within Ibrahim Maalouf’s Free Spirit Ensemble, and co-founded the duo Dyad with composer and accordionist Didier Laloy. These experiences have nurtured a practice deeply rooted in improvisation, lyricism, trance, and a search for meaning.
He also develops a singular solo project, Seul Contre Basse, combining double bass recital, text, and stage direction. At the crossroads of concert and performance, this format explores solitude, memory, silence, and light, in an intimate search for presence and truth.
His work is grounded in a dual approach: an exploration of electronic textures in the service of sonic storytelling, and an in-depth acoustic research into the expressive possibilities of the double bass.
A dedicated pedagogue, Adrien Tyberghein is Professor of Classical Double Bass at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and Professor of Improvisation at Arts² – Royal Conservatory of Mons, where he transmits both the rigor of tradition and the boldness of free creation.
His current project, Adrien Tyberghein Trio – ODYSSEY, marks a defining stage in his artistic journey. Within this formation, the double bass becomes the narrator of an inner voyage traversing modern jazz, classical music, rock, electronic music, and world traditions. ODYSSEY is conceived as a poetic and sensory journey — a path between shadow and light, roots and horizons, love and rebirth.
Adrien performs on a Jean Auray 5-string double bass, a Laurent Demeyere 5-string double bass, and bows by Boris Fritsch and Carbow.
PRESSE
« An imagination in freewheel. Adrien Tyberghein is a brilliant UFO. Alone, not “against” but “with” his enormous instrument, he transforms it into the beating pulse of the world through live looping, layering of pre-recorded sounds, and the use of all bowing, striking, and rubbing techniques, turning the unheard into pure poetry. (…) The musician took his audience on a journey, spoke to them, even made them sing—quite in tune, enough to join the loop. A joy. » – La Libre Belgique (BE)
« Let us also note the presence of the young double bassist Adrien Tyberghein. His brilliant bow revives a classical universe that has clearly been refreshed. An intense personality that sparks this unexpected fusion » – Radio France (FR)
« He is one of those virtuosos who, once the instrument is in hand, hypnotizes you. Stepping outside the box and exploring everything is Adrien Tyberghein’s leitmotif […], a novel and ambitious approach to music and the arts » – La Voix du Nord (FR)