biography

2012
October 28	release of Lost In The Swamp, the 6th album from Gert Emmens & Ruud Heij
October 10	release of Mystic Dawn, the 2nd album from Gert Emmens and Cadenced Haven
July	part of the studio (click to enlarge)
March 31	release of An Artist's Stroke

 

2011
October 1	release of The Sculpture Garden, the 5th album from Gert Emmens & Ruud Heij
April 16	Gert is guest musician during the concert of Remy at the E-day festival
April 16	release of Legacy, by Free System Projekt and Gert Emmens
April 13	release of Life in Cosmic Highway, by Gert Emmens and Cadenced Haven

 

2010
November 10th	release of Metamorphosis, the 10th soloalbum to be released by Groove
May 22	Gert plays drums with Free System Projekt at the E-day festival
March 15	release of The Nearest Faraway Place, Volume 3
January 16	interview with Terry Hawke on his Chill-Out Sessions Radio Show

 

2009
October	Gert starts collaborating with Cadenced Haven
April 11	release of The Nearest Faraway Place, Volume 2
April 11	concert at E-day festival
March 7	TDFZ Radioshow, Gert Emmens interview and music special, with Chris Newman

 

2008
September 20	release of Silent Witnesses of Industrial Landscapes, 4th album with Ruud Heij
September 20	concert at the Electronic Circus festival,in Bielefeld, Germany
April 13	concert with Ron Boots and Friends at the E-day festival
April 13	release of The Nearest Faraway Place, Volume 1

 

2007
November 10	concert at the Gasometer in Oberhausen, Germany
October	contribution on VA-Analogy 3
April 2	release of A Boy's World
April 2	release of Journey, the third album together with Ruud Heij
February 3	concert in Essen, Germany

 

2006
October	at the E-live festival (click on photo to enlarge)
October 1	2 contributions (with Ruud Heij and Embrase) on VA-Analogy 2
October 1	release of The Tale of the Warlock
March	Gert at 3rd place at Best Artist topic at Schallwende elections, Germany

 

2005
November	Contribution on the Analogy cd
October 15	performance at E-live festival with René van der Wouden
September 21	release of When Darkness Falls Upon the Earth
March 12	contribution on Progday-CD

 

2004
October 16	release of Waves of Dreams
October 16	performance at E-live festival
May 15	release of Live - A Long Way From Home
March 13	release of Return to the Origin, the first album with Ruud Heij
March 13	performance with Ruud Heij in Huizen, NL
March	Gert at 5th place at Best Artist topic at Schallwende elections, Germany

 

2003
September 27	release of Obscure Moments in Twilight Shades
September 27	performance at E-live festival
February 18	release of Wanderer of Time

 

earlier
2002, November	contracted at Groove
2001, April 28	release of Asteroids at the 8th Alfa Centauri festival
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1999, October 31	performance at Alfa Centauri promotion festival
1999, January 24	release of Elektra
1998	contracted at Quantum Records
1997, June	pricewinner on the Alfa Centauri composing contest
1996, March 16	performance at the 3rd Alfa Centaurifestival
1995, January 25	release of Light the Light
1989 - 2004	collaboration with Peter Leijdsman, starting with fusion and funk, ending with trance music
1984	(click on photo to enlarge)
1982	(click on photo to enlarge)
1978 - 1989	keyboardplayer and drummer in many bands
1979	first synthesizer, Yamaha CS-10
1978	first time in band as a drummer
1976	first compositions, strongly influenced by Klaus Schulze, collaboration with schoolfriend
1969	starts drumming
1965	classical organtrainingfor 3 years
1960	playing dad's reed organ (click on photo to enlarge)
1957, December 12	born round midnight