Juan van Emmerloot

Juan van Emmerloot born November 12th 1965 is a drummer and recording producer. He started playing drums and percussion at the age of 10 at a local music school and continued studying at the Rotterdam Conservatory. Because of his early passion for guitar music he has build up his career playing drums with the world’s greatest guitar players such as Mick Moody & Bernie Marsden (White Snake), Omar Dykes (Omar & The Howlers) Poppa Chubby, Snowy White (Roger Waters, Thin Lizzy), Walter Trout, Mick Rogers (Manfred Man's Earthband), Paul Gilbert (Mr. Big), Pat Travers, Steve Lukather (Toto) and Stef Burns (Sheila E, Alice Cooper).

Having toured with these great artists it is not a big surprise that Juan decided to create the G30 project in which the guitar has a prominent role.

For this project he found two highly talented guitar players who dare to come on board and pick up the challenge to create new guitar music.

Vision

With G30 we believe that our instrumental music can touch our audience without using any lyrics; each composition has a true story on which it is based. Through hard working, reflecting and staying in touch with our intuition we managed to create music that works like a good medicine: powerful and full of positive energy combined with harmonic and melodic tranquilizers!

Brian Bordes

Brian Bordes born on June 22 1970 started out playing bass guitar from the age of 13 but switched to guitar in 1989 at the age of 19. His main musical influences at the time were Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, Stanley Clark, Chick Corea, Mike Stern, John Scofield, Billy Cobham, Frank Gambale and Marcus Miller.

In 1991 he was accepted at Academy of music Conservatory Maastricht where he got inspired by the music of Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Dizzie Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, and George Benson.

Soon after his study he immediately played in the field with various bands and musicians: Jan Somers (Vengeance), Timo Somers (Delain), Gordon Smith (Phill Collins), Valensia, Nicky Manuputty, Carlos Lake (Anouk), Jan Rooymans (Crazy Pianos) , Walter Latupeirissa (Snowy White), Juan van Emmerloot (Stef Burns League, Snowy White, Steve Lukather).

 Mark Bogert

Mark Bogert was born on November 8 1983. At the age of seven he got in touch with music, though this was not the guitar yet. Mark started playing the trumpet first. Aged twelve he discovered the guitar. From that moment on the guitar became a part of his life. 

Mark studied at the Rotterdam Conservatory (Codarts) where he completed two studies: 2003 – 2007 ‘Performing Musician’ and 2009 – 2011 ‘Bachelor of Music in Education’.

He played in Knight Area for years and recorded 3 albums with this band. During this time he wrote 2 instrumental guitar solo albums with Peter Vink on bass and Pieter van Hoorn on drums. They performed as the supporting act Greg Howe, Tony Macalpine and Mattias Eklundh (Freak Kitchen). In 2019 Magoria – JtR1888 was born; Mark worked for 3 years on this Rockopera about Jack the Ripper, worked with 15 very talented singers/musicians from the Netherlands and recorded a double album. 

Besides being a band member Mark also appeared as a session guitarist. In 2018 during a masterclass he played with Steve Vai and in 2019 with John Petrucci (Dreamtheater) at the Sena Guitar Awards.