At age 2 Jelle asked his first drumkit and he got it. Because of his enthousiasm, the poor plastic drumheads were broken after three days. He graduated at the music school of Turnhout where he had lessons from Dirk Dergent, Swa Mercelis, Lieven Cambre, . After that, he began studying at the Conservatory of Antwerp. His teachers for drums where Jan De Haas and Teun Verbruggen. At the last year of his education he had the opportunity to follow lessons with some great ‘JazzMasters’. These where: Jim Black, Ari Hoenig, Han Bennink, Dre Pallemaerts, Lieven Venken, Eric Thielemans, Herman Pardon & Pierre Tanguay. He finished at the conservatory of The Hague, the Netherlands, in 2011 doing a master after master program with Eric Ineke, Joost Patocka, Stefan Krüger & Martijn Vink. In september 2012 he started studying composition at the conservatoryof Brussels with Kris Defoort. Jelle plays with a few groups like Jelle Van Giel Group, The Jacquelines, NeoNerd, Shakara United, 8 o'clock Shadows