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Meet the musicians who have made it through to this year’s 蜜芽传媒 Radio’s Scotland Young Jazz Musician 2025 talent search. The event will be broadcast live on .

Roan Anderson, from Inverclyde, Scotland, has been drumming since the age of seven. Now 23 and a graduate of the Jazz course at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, he has become an exciting presence on the Scottish scene. Over the past few years, Roan has performed with the likes of Fergus McCreadie, Matt Carmichael, Anoushka Nanguy, Terra Kin, and Rebecca Vasmant, and has recorded with artists including Corto.Alto, Josef Akin, Sean Morrison, and Niamh Corkey.

He was recently awarded the Peter Whittingham Development Award from Help Musicians as well as the Alan McAuley Jazz Prize by the RCS to support the release of new music. In 2023, Roan released an EP with his band TAO, and the group have just finished recording their next project, set for release at the start of next year.

Em Craig is a Saxophonist from Edinburgh. Em first began taking an interest in jazz music as a teenager, inspired by the variety and freedom within the music of musicians such as Ornette Coleman and Carla Bley. They went on to complete a bachelor’s degree at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, while regularly gigging throughout their studies. Em has been heard at venues and festivals across the UK and Europe such as: Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, Bergen Jazz Forum and Brecon Jazz Festival; with a variety of outfits such as: Milk! (with Ursula Harrison and Liz Exell), The Mingus Project, and The Em Craig Trio (with Joseph Van Parys and Bailey Love). Also a keen composer, Em’s music is noted for its’ creativity, vibrancy and variety, drawing inspiration from a wide range of musical cultures from South Africa, to Appalachia, and back home in the east of Scotland.

Gerard, born in Glasgow, first started playing guitar when he was at primary school and not long afterwards started playing saxophone. Along with his brother, he was inspired to take up jazz after attending numerous concerts, notably Ravi Coltrane, Bill Evans (saxophonist!), Tim Garland and Jan Garbarek. Whilst at school, he played with the Strathclyde Youth Jazz Orchestra and over the last couple of years has played throughout Scotland with The Scottish National Youth Jazz Orchestra. He has become a seasoned regular on the Glasgow Jazz scene and is currently in his second year at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland studying the only thing he ever really wanted to study, jazz music.