(SOLD OUT) Maastricht Jazz Awards

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The Maastricht Jazz Awards is the biggest jazz competition in the south of the Netherlands.

In 2025, the Maastricht Jazz Awards will return with a live edition once again. This year Jazz Maastricht and Conservatorium Maastricht want to celebrate the originality of Conservatorium Maastricht’s output in the last five years; our fresh voices in the professional field of Jazz. Our diverse students, alumni and young professionals are therefore all invited to participate in the Maastricht Jazz Awards. The main prize will be a cash prize of €1000, a coaching programme, automatic submission to B-Jazz International Contest 2025, the opportunity for festival performances to take your musical ambitions to a higher level. The public award winner will receive a cash prize of €500.

The finalists of the Maastricht Jazz Awards 2025 are:

Inopia
Hagneya
NYMRA
The Mera Project

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More about the finalists

Inopia

Inopia, a sound-researching collective based in Cologne, with musicians from Italy and Germany, makes each performance a unique experience by taking the performance space, their surrounding circumstances and their individual and the audience's positioning in the space into account. On every occasion, the constellations of room, musicians and audience shift, making the outcome unforeseeable, spontaneous, raw and real.

Maria Isolina Cozzani - Violin
Frederik Taubenheim - Prepared Guitar & Synthesizer
Matteo Traverso - Modular Synthesizer, Digital Synthesizers & Sound Processors
Rocco Romano - Guitar Pascal Burbach - Drums

Hagneya

Hagneya (Agnieszka Bukowska) is an up-and-coming artist, singer and a composer based in the Netherlands. Her music is slipping through genres such as jazz, pop, folk and experimental indie, all connected through its common focus on storytelling and her interest in the play between light and dark.
With a debut album on the way, she’s formed a concert setlist suited for different ensembles, possible to be booked as a solo/duo/trio or more.

Her performance at the Maastricht Jazz Awards was met with:
Agnieszka Bukowska - Vvocal and Acoustic Guitar
Sasha Marinicevs - Electric Guitar
Tom Schmit - Bass and Backing Vocal
Ananya Samyt - Backing Vocal

NYMRA

NYMRA is a young jazz quartet led by bassist Lea Lingen, blending whimsy, fantasy, and bold creativity. Inspired by artists like Dave Holland and labels like ACT, they merge intricate jazz with groovy basslines, crafting enchanting, timeless soundscapes. The name "NYMRA," meaning "lioness," in Arabic — a symbol of strength and leadership, much like Lea's own name, which also means "lioness." This connection resonates throughout the band's music, which carries an inherent boldness and grace.

Lea Lingen - Double Bass
Julia Warren - Altosax
Abhig Ya Bharati - Guitar
Jakob Lingen - Drums

The Mera Project

The Mera Project blends jazz with ethnic music to create a unique and innovative sound. Inspired by musicians like Avishai Cohen, they bridge traditional and modern influences, offering a fresh musical narrative that fuses cultural influences with contemporary jazz.

Elena Stamatopoulou - Oud/Vocals
Aimilianos Stavrinos - Piano/Vocals
Cathal Cradden - Double Bass
Samuel Lara - Drums