- Collin Leijenaar
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Collin Leijenaar 
Background information Birth name Collin Marco Leijenaar Also known as Collin Leijenaar Born January 26, 1974 Genres Progressive rock Instruments Drums
VocalsYears active 1990 - Present Associated acts Neal Morse Website http://www.collinleijenaar.com Notable instruments Vater sticks
The Kelly SHU mic mounting
AUDIX drum mics
Røde Microphones studio mics
Dreaksshoes drum shoesCollin Leijenaar is a drummer living in the Netherlands. During his 23-year career, Leijenaar has played in many bands and projects.
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Current projects/bands
Neal Morse
Since 2005 Collin works as band leader and drummer in the live band of progressive rock artist Neal Morse (USA), known from his bands Spock's Beard and Transatlantic. In the Neal Morse band, Collin ‘subs’ for Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater) who plays on the studio albums. Collin did three full band European tours, and 4 acoustic tours through Europe with Neal. From the Question Mark tour a live-2CD: ‘Neal Morse - ? Live’ was released worldwide through Radiant Records, Metal Blade and Inside Out Records. A limited edition live DVD: Neal Morse – ‘Question Mark and Beyond’ was released early 2007. In May 2007 they did a European tour to support Neal’s album Sola Scriptura. On guitar they had the amazing Paul Bielatowicz from the Carl Palmer band. From this tour a 2-DVD set Sola Scriptura & Beyond has been released on June 24, 2008 through Radiant Records, Sony Music, Metal Blade en Inside Out Records. Neal Morse’s newest CD, Lifeline, is released on October 20, 2008. Collin Leijenaar will is featured on this CD together with musicians like Paul Bielatowicz, Paul Gilbert, Mike Portnoy, Randy George and others.
More info about Neal Morse: www.nealmorse.com-
Loreley Open (2008)
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Drumkit during Sola Scriptura & Beyond (2007)
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Sola Scriptura & Beyond (2007)
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Sola Scriptura & Beyond (2007)
Jessica Koomen
With this jazz group with singer Jessica Koomen, guitarist Elisa Krijgsman, bassist Mark Dekkers, and pianist Henk Doest, they play a mixture of jazz and loungy loop based music. Collin plays drums and percussion, and fools around with loops, effects and electronic grooves etc. They play at jazz festivals and jazz clubs throughout Europe.
Website: www.JessicaKoomen.comRhythm Of the Soul
With his percussion group Rhythm Of The Soul, Collin played on a big festival at the Gelredome stadium in Arnhem, The Netherlands before an audience of over 35.000 people. This was broadcasted live on national television, with a few re-runs. This percussion group released a single (Tribal Worship), which is available worldwide through online music stores like iTunes, Rhapsody, and Napster.
Past projects/bands
In-One
In 2005 Collin started playing in the band In-One, based in Germany, but with musicians from all over the world (Germany, Netherlands, England and The States). The keyboard player and bandleader/producer is Wayne Michael Wilson (USA), he works with artist like Take 6, and Mary J Blige. With this soul/r&b band Collin plays at big stadium events, throughout the world: DE, NL, BE, ENG, SWE, PL, IRE, GB, Hong Kong, USA, Philippines, Mexico and South Korea. A lot of these performances are recorded for live worldwide TV broadcastings and re-runs.
Dilemma
Dilemma was a progressive rock band from The Netherlands. their debute CD Imbroccata was released through SI Music/Roadrunner. After the departure of drummer Frank Van Essen, who went to play with Iona (band), Collin Leijenaar was asked to play drums. They played for 5 years together and played on prog festivals and released 2 CD's together.
Kaja
With the popgroup Kaja, formed around the vocal duo KArlijn Surminski and JAnine Schell. Kaja was signed with Sony Music, and had two singles that was noted in the Top 100 in The Netherlands. Collin played for three years with the band. They did a lot of gigs on festivals in The Netherlands, and did a lot of radio and TV shows and performances.
The B-Band
The B-Band was a rock band formed by a group of music students. This was the first band experience of Leijenaar, and with this group he released 5 CD's and toured throughout Europe. They have played many times in Poland, Check Republic and Germany.
Other
DrumSchool & PopSchool
In 1999 Leijenaar started his drum school: Novae Drum School Ede. Quite a few of his students are now in prize winning bands, or have studied at music conservatories. In January 2006 this grew into Novae Pop School Ede, a music school, mainly focused at pop music in all its forms and styles.
DrumStudio.eu
During the last 10 years, Collin has played in a lot of different bands, projects etc. And he got in contact with a lot of producers and artists that wanted him to play on their albums. In the last 8 years he has recorded with bands and artists, and did also jingles and music for musicals etc. Due to the common problem of low budgets and the downfall of the music scène in Holland, Leijenaar started in 1999 the ‘online drum track recording service’: DrumStudio.eu. A modern way to record live drums to any kind of project, with the ease of the internet. A fast and cheap way for producers and artists to get live played, acoustic drums and percussion tracks to their songs. He works with people from all over the globe, from The Netherlands to Hong Kong, from The States to all over Europe. In all kinds of styles: rock, jazz, r&b, soul, funk, pop etc.
Producer
In 2007/2008 Collin was the producer for Green November's debut album "Broken Strings and Poetry". With his progressive rock roots Collin was possibly the best to produce this nu prog album. The album had great reviews in the leading music magazines in Holland (Backline Popmagazine, Fret Popmagazine, Music Maker, IO Pages, ...) Green November homepage.
Discography
with Neal Morse
- 2005 - Live in Berlin (live)
- 2006 - The Europe Winter 2006 Church Tour DVD
- 2006 - Question Mark & Beyond - Tour of Europe 2006 DVD (live DVD)
- 2006 - Live at the Kings Center DVD
- 2007 - Sing It High
- 2007 - Question Live (live)
- 2007 - Encores and New Songs
- 2008 - Sola Scriptura & Beyond (DVD)
- 2008 - Sola Scriptura Live (live CD)
- 2008 - Lifeline (Neal Morse album)
- 2009 - So Many Roads: Live in Europe (live 3CD)
with Jessica Koomen
- 2007 - "Can't Take That Away From Me"
- 2009 - "I Wish You Love" (live DVD)
with Dilemma
- 1996 - Dilemma - Comfort Zone Arena
- 1997 - Dilemma - EP
- 1999 - Dilemma - Future History
with The B-Band
- 1995 - Everybody Feels
- 1996 - Break The Chain
- 1996 - Immortal Emotion
- 1997 - One Way Out Of Hell
- 1998 - Try Me
with Other artists
- 1996 - Cross The Edge - It's Time For War!
- 1997 - Recabite - Thanks Be To God
- 1998 - Andy Pratt - Forgiving Spirit
- 1998 - United - United
- 2000 - Elisa Krijgsman Bluesfriends - Blue Eyed Woman
- 2001 - Boom Aid - Nu Of Nooit
- 2001 - Kaja - TMF Cafe Unplugged (live)
- 2002 - Kaja - Use[disambiguation needed
] - 2002 - Rivelino - Pull Yourself Together
- 2003 - Reni & Elisa Krijgsman - Samen
- 2003 - Come2Worship - I Bow Down
- 2004 - Collide - Love
- 2005 - Wilco van Esschoten - Airbike[disambiguation needed ]
- 2006 - Matthijn Buwalda - Storm voor de stilte
- 2006 - Martin Brand - Ongekend
with Life@Opwekking
- 1998 - Let's Worship the Awesome God
- 1999 - Heart of Worship
- 2000 - Time to Worship
- 2002 - Here I Am
- 2003 - Secrets
- 2004 - Words
- 2005 - Friend of God
- 2006 - Free
- 2007 - Mystery
References
- 2007 - IO Pages IO Pages Interview.
- 2007 - Slagwerkkrant Slagwerkkrant Interview.
External links
Categories:- Dutch rock drummers
- Progressive rock musicians
- Performers of Christian music
- Living people
- 1974 births
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