Gegè Telesforo, Jan Lundgreen, Reiner Baas, Francesca Tandoi, Dario Deidda, and Francesco Cafiso are the special guests of the2025 edition of European Jazz’s cool. An extraordinary team of internationally established jazz musicians will lead six ensembles composed of the best talents from Italian and European conservatories in creating original music and producing live performances.
European Jazz’s Cool is the advanced jazz arts residency sponsored by Saint Louis College of Music and Saint Louis Study Center, with support from MiBaC – FUS (Fondo Unico dello Spettacolo) and the European Erasmus+ program. A unique project in the European scene that combines training, artistic production and the promotion of contemporary jazz, offering young musicians and composers the opportunity to engage with great performers from the international scene. European Jazz’s cool, since its first edition in 2021, in fact promotes the establishment of new musical groups formed by young European and Italian talents, characterized by the presence as leader of the ensemble of a distinguished special guest.
From September 10 to 16, 2025, the classrooms of Saint Louis in Rome will become a creative campus, during which six new ensembles of very young Italian and European musicians will be formed, led by six internationally renowned special guests:
Gegé Telesforo – multi-award winning vocalist & producer at the Jazz Music Awards
Jan Lundgreen – Swedish pianist and composer, founder of the Mare Nostrum trio with Paolo Fresu and Richard Galliano
Reiner Baas – among the most appreciated guitarists of the new international jazz scene
Francesca Tandoi – critically and internationally acclaimed pianist, vocalist and composer
Dario Deidda – among the greatest Italian bassists in the world, multiple Jazzit Award winner
Francesco Cafiso – saxophonist anointed by Wynton Marsalis
European Jazz’s Cool takes the form of a high-impact educational and cultural project aimed at creating an international network for the promotion of contemporary European jazz. An experience of comparison, exchange and growth for the participants, who will have the opportunity to experience a complete professional journey: from composition to performance, from record production to digital distribution.
INTERNATIONAL PROJECT PARTNERS
European Jazz’s cool 2025 relies on the collaboration of prestigious European conservatories and institutes, which will host the ensembles’ European tour concerts, thus helping to promote the artistic products created during the residency.
For the 2025 edition, the partner institutions are:
European Jazz’s Cool aims, through the creation of a full-immersion Artistic Residency, at the establishment of new musical groups, made up of young European talents, young Italian talents and internationally renowned special guest artists who will guide the young musicians along a path of composition and production of original music of transnational European matrix.
During the week-long residency, the musicians will take part in intensive workshops, writing and arranging workshops, rehearsals and live performances. Each ensemble will be joined directly by one of the resident artists, with whom they will work on producing new original musical works. The residency will culminate with an open rehearsal and evening concert on the stage of the Casa del Jazz in Rome.
The project will then continue in November and December 2025 with an international tour, which will take the ensembles to perform 1 or 2 concerts in partner countries, thanks to collaboration with institutions of excellence such as the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp, the Royal Academy of Music of Aarhus Aalborg, and the Metropolia University of Helsinki.
A true social and artistic experiment, in which the musician of choice will select the members of his or her own ensemble, with whom he or she will then create a new musical work, produced, recorded and produced by the Jazz Collection record label, and promoted by the Saint Louis management agency, which will take care of the digital publication and subsequent writing of the musicians and concert promotion in Italian and foreign jazz festivals.
The Call is aimed at a nationwide search for young jazz musicians, who want to enrich their experience in a project of international relevance, for the following instruments:
Voice / Piano / Guitar / Bass / Contrabass / Drums / Sax / Trumpet / Trombone / Violin.
The Call is also aimed at Jazz Composers.
Learn more about European Jazz’s c cool 2025 call for applications and submit your application by August 10, 2025
The European Jazz’s Cool project is supported by MiBac under the “FUS – Fondo Unico Spettacolo” and Erasmus+.
