{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2018}} {{Short description|Dutch musician (born 1980)}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Jack Driessen | image = | image_upright = | image_size = | landscape = <!-- yes, if wide image, otherwise leave blank --> | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1980|07|11}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mayanofficial.com/index.php/band-info/jack-driessen|title=Jack Driessen|website=mayanofficial.com|access-date=27 March 2018|archive-date=28 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180328040943/http://mayanofficial.com/index.php/band-info/jack-driessen|url-status=dead}}</ref> | birth_place = | origin = Swalmen, Netherlands | genre = Symphonic music<br>Symphonic metal<br>Progressive metal<br>Death metal | occupation = Musician<br>Songwriter | instrument = Keyboards | years_active = 1995–present | label = Nuclear Blast | associated_acts = Epica<br>MaYaN<br>After Forever | website = {{URL|mayanofficial.com/index.php/band/jack-driessen}} | Death = | Notable_albums = | Notable songs = }}

'''Jack Driessen''' (born 11 July 1980 in Roermond, Netherlands) is a Dutch keyboardist, songwriter and arranger. He is co-founder and former member of the Dutch symphonic death metal band MaYaN.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mayanofficial.com/index.php/band-info/mayan-biography|title=MaYaN Biography|website=mayanofficial.com|access-date=27 March 2018|archive-date=27 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180327213654/http://mayanofficial.com/index.php/band-info/mayan-biography|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nuclearblast.de/en/label/music/band/about/71113.mayan.html|title=MAYAN – Nuclear Blast|website=nuclearblast.de|access-date=27 March 2018}}</ref> Furthermore, he is known as the first keyboardist of the symphonic metal band After Forever (1995–2000)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/pl/artist/after-forever/216503352|title=After Forever on Apple Music|website=Apple Music|access-date=27 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bnrmetal.com/v5/band/band/AfFo|title=The BNR Metal Pages – After Forever|website=bnrmetal.com|access-date=27 March 2018}}</ref> and as songwriter on 3 albums of the symphonic metal band Epica.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/1214259-Jack-Driessen|title=Jack Driessen|publisher=discogs|access-date=27 March 2018}}</ref>

==Discography== ===After Forever=== *''Ephemeral'' (demo, 1999) *''Wings of Illusion'' (demo, 1999) *''Prison of Desire'' (2000) *''Follow in the Cry'' (single, 2000) *''Mea Culpa'' (compilation, 2006)

===Epica=== *''Design Your Universe'' (2009) *''Requiem for the Indifferent'' (2012) *''The Quantum Enigma'' (2014)

===MaYaN=== *''Quarterpast'' (2011) *''Antagonise'' (2014) *''Undercurrent'' (EP, 2018) *''Dhyana'' (2018)

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==External links== *[http://mayanofficial.com/index.php/band-info/jack-driessen Profile at the official MaYaN website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180328040943/http://mayanofficial.com/index.php/band-info/jack-driessen |date=28 March 2018 }} *{{Facebook|jackmayan|Jack Driessen}}

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Driessen, Jack}} Category:1980 births Category:Living people Category:21st-century male composers Category:People from Swalmen Category:Heavy metal keyboardists Category:Progressive rock pianists Category:Dutch rock pianists Category:Dutch electronic musicians Category:Dutch heavy metal keyboardists Category:Dutch rock keyboardists Category:Dutch pianists Category:Dutch male songwriters Category:Dutch songwriters Category:Dutch composers Category:Dutch male singer-songwriters Category:Dutch singer-songwriters Category:After Forever members Category:21st-century Dutch singers Category:21st-century Dutch pianists Category:Mayan (band) members