The Keep an Eye Jazz Award is an annual competition for exceptional talents from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and from a selection of comparable institutions in the United States and Europe. The theme of this 15th edition is ‘Celebrating Billie Holiday 110 years’; all bands arrange and perform their own version of one out of 10 selected compositions that were made famous by the American jazz vocalist and composer.
Participants can win great prizes that give a boost to a professional career as a jazz musician. The jury consists of international musicians, educators and professionals from the cultural sector. The Keep an Eye International Jazz Award 2025 is made possible by the Keep an Eye Foundation in collaboration with the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.
The finalists are:
ESMUC Quintet (Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya, Barcelona)
Cristopher Pérez tenor sax, Paco Fernández trumpet, Biel Roca piano, David Muñoz double bass, Eloy Mañogil drums
Berklee Global Jazz Ambassadors (Berklee Global Jazz Institute, Boston)
Samuel Cerra vibraphone, Liz Sinn piano, Devon Gates double bass, Seba Ramirez drums
Kollage (Manhattan School of Music, New York)
Sarahfina Osei vocal, Cameron Sewell-Snyder alto sax, Olivier van Niekerk guitar, Shogo Yamagishi bass, Stone Cornelius drums
Moon Inhabitants (NTNU Bachelor in Performing Music – Jazz, Trondheim)
Åsne Fossmark sax, Mikkel Dahl Amundsen trumpet, Sondre Moshagen piano, Johannes Wilhelm Burns Lykkås double bass, Jørgen Fiske drums/percussie
Calima (Conservatorium van Amsterdam)
Miguel Valente alto sax, Marco Ullstein vibraphone, Jules Charbonnier piano, Ton Felices double bass, Ludvig Holde Søndergaard drums
Evan’s Super Duper Group & Fun (Conservatorium van Amsterdam)
Carolina Gemmell vocal, Evan van der Feen piano, David Guerreiro double bass, Ludvig Holde Søndergaard drums