Laila and Charles Gavatin's Foundation for Jazz Music

The aim of the Foundation is to support and encourage Swedish and international musicians who are striving to keep Jazz music a living art form.

This aim is to be carried out through the awarding of grants to such musicians in order that they may:

• Receive further education or educate others.
• Develop valuable knowledge by playing with other qualified musicians both in Sweden and abroad.
• Perform own music and have it distributed.
• Be given increased possibilities to compose and arrange Jazz music.

The Foundation can also make economic contributions towards activities and projects that are regarded as being to the furtherance of Jazz music.

The Foundation was established in 1989 and has so far awarded grants to the following:

1990	Knud Jørgensen, piano
1992	Bengt Hanson, bass
	Gustavo Bergalli, trumpet
1994	Anders Lindskog, tenor saxophone
1996	Kjell Jansson, bass
1997	Agneta Baumann, vocal
1999	Olle Steinholz, bass
2000	Ulf Adåker, trumpet
2002	Anders Persson, piano
2004	Rafael Sida, percussion
2006	Max Schultz, guitar
2008	Amanda Sedgwick, alto saxophone
2009	Anders Kjellberg, drums
2010	Ove Ingemarsson, tenor saxophone

Since 1999, the Foundation, in association with the music competition in the Swedish Jazz Federation's jazz final MUSIK DIREKT (within the framework of The Swedish Concert Institute), has awarded grants to the following:

	Best Soloist	Best Composer
1999	Erik Berndalen, trumpet	Martin Hall
2000	Robin Cochrane, piano
2001	Tobias Hadlund, vibraphone	The group Fat Henry
2002	Sven Erlander, trumpet	Jonas Nordström
2003	Ida Lindberg, vocal	Erik Lundequist
2004	Marina Mårtensson, vocal
2005	Jacob Gustafsson, saxophone
2006	Alexander Zethson, piano
2007	Ale Sjöström, bass
2008	Joel Svensson, guitar
2009	Filip Olofsson, drums

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