Collin Leijenaar
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Collin Leijenaar is a drummer living in the Netherlands. During his 23-year career, Leijenaar has played in many bands and projects.
(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
Website: www.JessicaKoomen.com
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.
, 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.
, 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.
Green November homepage.
Neal Morse
Since 2005 Collin works as band leader and drummer in the live band of progressive rock artist Neal MorseNeal Morse
Neal Morse is an American multi-instrumentalist and progressive rock composer based in Nashville, Tennessee.-Background:...
(USA), known from his bands Spock's Beard
Spock's Beard
Spock's Beard is a progressive rock band formed in 1992 in Los Angeles by brothers Neal and Alan Morse. Neal played keyboards and was the lead vocalist, as well as being the primary songwriter before leaving the band in 2002 to pursue a solo career. Alan plays electric guitar...
and Transatlantic
Transatlantic (band)
Transatlantic is a progressive rock supergroup consisting of Roine Stolt of The Flower Kings, Pete Trewavas of Marillion, Mike Portnoy formerly of Dream Theater and Neal Morse formerly of Spock's Beard. They formed in 1999 as a side project to their full time bands until 2002...
. In the Neal Morse band, Collin ‘subs’ for Mike Portnoy
Mike Portnoy
Michael Stephen "Mike" Portnoy is an American drummer primarily known as the former drummer, backing vocalist, and a co-founder of the progressive metal band Dream Theater, as well as the temporary drummer for the hard rock band Avenged Sevenfold. Known for his drumming prowess and technical...
(Dream Theater
Dream Theater
Dream Theater is an American progressive metal band formed in 1985 under the name Majesty by John Petrucci, John Myung, and Mike Portnoy while they attended Berklee College of Music in Massachusetts. They subsequently dropped out of their studies to further concentrate on the band that would...
) 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
? Live
? Live is a live double album by Neal Morse. It was recorded in the Summer of 2006 at the Columbia Club in Berlin, Germany. It contains songs from two of Neal Morse's previous albums, ? and One.-CD 1: The entire ? album 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
Sola scriptura
Sola scriptura is the doctrine that the Bible contains all knowledge necessary for salvation and holiness. Consequently, sola scriptura demands that only those doctrines are to be admitted or confessed that are found directly within or indirectly by using valid logical deduction or valid...
. On guitar they had the amazing Paul Bielatowicz from the Carl Palmer
Carl Palmer
Carl Frederick Kendall Palmer is an English drummer and percussionist. He is credited as one of the most respected rock drummers to emerge from the 1960s...
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
Lifeline (Neal Morse album)
-Bonus disc :A special edition was released with a CD of bonus material, including covers of four "pretty cool songs by pretty uncool bands" as well as two original songs...
, is released on October 20, 2008. Collin Leijenaar will is featured on this CD together with musicians like Paul Bielatowicz, Paul Gilbert
Paul Gilbert
Paul Brandon Gilbert is an American guitarist. He is well known for his technical guitar work with Racer X and Mr...
, Mike Portnoy
Mike Portnoy
Michael Stephen "Mike" Portnoy is an American drummer primarily known as the former drummer, backing vocalist, and a co-founder of the progressive metal band Dream Theater, as well as the temporary drummer for the hard rock band Avenged Sevenfold. Known for his drumming prowess and technical...
, Randy George and others.
More info about Neal Morse: www.nealmorse.com
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.com
Rhythm Of the Soul
With his percussion group Rhythm Of The Soul, Collin played on a big festival at the GelredomeGelredome
The GelreDome is a football stadium in the city of Arnhem, in the Netherlands. It serves as the home of the football club Vitesse. It was opened on 25 March 1998, featuring a retractable roof, as well as a convertible pitch, that can be retracted, when unused during concerts or other events held at...
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.
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 6Take 6
Take 6 is an American a cappella gospel music sextet formed in 1980 on the campus of Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama. The group sings in a contemporary style, integrating R&B and jazz influences into their devotional songs and has 10 Grammy wins, 10 Dove Awards, one Soul Train Award and two...
, 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 EssenFrank Van Essen
Frank van Essen is a drummer and violinist who plays in celtic folk themed band Iona.-Biography:Born in The Netherlands in 1967 and from a musical family. He took up drumming at the age of 15. Married with Marlou.-Musical career:...
, who went to play with Iona (band)
Iona (band)
Iona is the name of a progressive Celtic rock band from the United Kingdom, which was formed in the late 1980s by lead vocalist Joanne Hogg and multi-instrumentalists David Fitzgerald and Dave Bainbridge....
, 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.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.
with Neal Morse
- 2005 - Live in Berlin (live)
- 2006 - The Europe Winter 2006 Church Tour DVDThe Europe Winter 2006 Church Tour DVDThe Europe Winter 2006 Church Tour DVD features on stage performances and behind the scenes footage of Neal Morse's February and March church tour...
- 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 SongsEncores and New SongsEncores and New Songs is an album by Neal Morse. It contains the encores from the concert that was on the ? Live album. The live tracks were recorded in the Summer of 2006 at the Columbia Hall in Berlin, Germany. It also contains band new studio recorded songs and an interview with Neal Morse...
- 2008 - Sola Scriptura & Beyond (DVD)Sola Scriptura & Beyond (DVD)Sola Scriptura and Beyond is the second live DVD from Neal Morse. It was recorded on May 26, 2007 in De Boerderij, Zoetermeer, The Netherlands.-Band:* Neal Morse - Vocals, Keyboards, Guitars* Collin Leijenaar - Drums* Paul Bielatowicz - Guitar, Vocals...
- 2008 - Sola Scriptura Live (live CD)
- 2008 - Lifeline (Neal Morse album)Lifeline (Neal Morse album)-Bonus disc :A special edition was released with a CD of bonus material, including covers of four "pretty cool songs by pretty uncool bands" as well as two original songs...
- 2009 - So Many Roads: Live in EuropeSo Many Roads: Live in EuropeThe live album So Many Roads: Live in Europe was released in November 2009 by Neal Morse. It was recorded October 23-31 in Netherlands, Germany and Belgium, 2008.-CD 1:# "At the End of the Day" - October 23, 2008...
(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 - KajaKAJAKAJA may refer to:* KAJA , a radio station licensed to San Antonio, Texas, United States* K68DJ, a television station licensed to Corpus Christi, Texas, United States, unofficially known as KAJA...
- TMF Cafe Unplugged (live) - 2002 - KajaKAJAKAJA may refer to:* KAJA , a radio station licensed to San Antonio, Texas, United States* K68DJ, a television station licensed to Corpus Christi, Texas, United States, unofficially known as KAJA...
- UseUseUse may refer to:* Use , an obligation on a person to whom property has been conveyed* Use–mention distinction, the distinction between using a word and mentioning it... - 2002 - RivelinoRivelinoRoberto Rivellino is a former Brazilian footballer.The son of Italian immigrants from Macchiagodena , he was famous for his large moustache, thunderous long-range free kicks, excellent long passes, quick thinking and distinct way of controlling the ball...
- Pull Yourself TogetherPull Yourself Together"Pull Yourself Together" is a single by the British indie rock band Hefner. Their first for Too Pure, it was released in 1998 on CD single and 7" vinyl record formats.The single was fairly popular... - 2003 - Reni & Elisa Krijgsman - SamenSamenSamen is a city in and capital of Samen District, in Malayer County, Hamadan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 4,025, in 1,207 families....
- 2003 - Come2Worship - I Bow Down
- 2004 - Collide - LoveLoveLove is an emotion of strong affection and personal attachment. In philosophical context, love is a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection. Love is central to many religions, as in the Christian phrase, "God is love" or Agape in the Canonical gospels...
- 2005 - Wilco van Esschoten - AirbikeAirbikeAirbike may refer to* EADS Airbike, nylon bicycle* ISON Airbike, ultralight aircraft...
- 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