Pulsus

I am Niels van der Leest, born and raised in Enschede (the Netherlands) on October 22 1976. As a child I couldn't be stopped hitting everything that made a sound. I come from a musical family; my father († august 2000) was an opera singer and my mother was a dancer at the opera. Therefore the choice of becoming a professional percussionist wasn't a big surprise. During and after high school I studied at the conservatorium in Enschede. After 4 years I moved to Amsterdam to get my Bachelor and Master degree at the Sweelinck conservatorium. Besides playing onstage my biggest passion is composing. Within the passion of writing music my ambition is to write for the gaming-industry and the moving pictures world. The pieces I write at the moment are especially meant for my demo-reel, so that I can show which skills I posses and what styles and genres I can write in.