Jazz Final

Five emerging stars of jazz perform in the 2022 Grand Final of BBC Young Jazz Musician.

Presented this year by DJ Jamz Supernova, the contest is once again part of the EFG London Jazz Festival and takes place at the Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall.

This joyful celebration of the most exciting new voices in UK jazz features pianists Luke Bacchus (21) and Nick Manz (20), guitarist Ralph Porrett (23), saxophonist Emma Rawicz (20) and double bassist Ewan Hastie (20). Each will perform a solo set alongside one of the UK’s leading jazz trios, Nikki Yeoh’s Infinitum, with Mark Mondesir on drums, Michael Mondesir on electric bass and Nikki Yeoh herself on piano.

Filmed in front of a live audience, the contest will be judged by a panel of leading jazz performers: award-winning singer Claire Martin, composer and pianist Bill Laurance, multi-instrumentalist, DJ and producer Emma-Jean Thackray, and singer-songwriter and cellist Ayanna Witter-Johnson.

Before the announcement of the winner, there will also be a special guest performance by the winner of BBC Young Jazz Musician 2020, pianist and rising star Deschanel Gordon.