The Rotterdam jazz trumpeter Eric Vloeimans in 2000 was awarded the VPRO / Boy Edgar Award. At the North Sea Jazz Festival in 2002 he received the Bird Award, incidentally, after being nominated in 2000. He received this award, which should be seen as an encouragement for new talent, for bringing young musicians attention. Vloeimans (1963) studied jazz and classical trumpet at the Rotterdam
… Conservatory, where he graduated in 1988. Since then his career has gone fast. He played with many (Dutch) artists in various formations, toured all over the world and founded the Eric Vloeimans Quartet in 1992. In 1998 he received for his album Bitches and Fairy Tales Edison Award. His involvement in the Rotterdam jazz scene shows he regularly appear in interviews. In 2001 he was involved in the new International Jazz Festival Rotterdam.more