Dutch Jazz Competition

The Dutch Jazz Competition has been the national platform for emerging or breakthrough jazz talent for 15 years. In total, 124 bands have registered for the Dutch Jazz Competition 2024. Of these, 4 bands will reach the finals and compete for the main and audience prize and again a prize for the best composition. Winners go home with cash prizes, playing places at relevant festivals and a network for international tours.

Dutch Jazz Competition

Location

Bimhuis

Piet Heinkade 3

1019 BR Amsterdam

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Previous winners

The Dutch Jazz Competition aims to offer talented Dutch musicians or musicians living in the Netherlands the opportunity to present themselves to a larger audience, the press and the music industry. Previous editions were won by Jamesz with Izaline Calister (2000), On the line (Oene van Geel, Albert Veenendaal and Tmucin Sahin) (2001), Agog (2002), As Guests Quartet (2004), Robinson, Freitag & Caruso (2005), Fransz Von Chossy Quartet (2006), The Blazin' Quartet (2008), Het Castel/ van Damme Quartet (2010), Kapok (2012), the Loran Witteveen Quintet (2014), the Xavi Torres Trio (2016), Sun Mi Hong Quartet (2018), the Aviv Noam Quartet (2020) and Ragazzi (2022).

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