Niels Bonke
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Niels Bonke is a Danish drummer, pianist and composer.
He was drummer in several Danish symphonic rock and heavy metal bands from the middle of the 1980s through the 1990s. Amongst them the symphonic rock band "Trace" (which changed its name to "Apart" in 1988), whom amongst other concerts played as a supporting act to the Canadian super-group, Saga in Copenhagen. In 1993 Niels Bonke (under the name of Neil Hayward) joined a heavy-rock group called Zoltan. In 1996 Zoltan released the album "Book of kings", which included Niels Bonke's drum-solo "When trains become drums".
In 2001 Niels Bonke began work on his first solo album, produced by the composer Frederik Magle. The album titled "Beneath The Surface" was released through MisLabel in 2004.