Now only 23 years old, left handed double/ electric bassist Ewan Hastie won BBC Young Jazz Musician 2022, being the first Scottish musician to win the prestigious award. In 2023, Ewan was also voted for the “Best Instrumentalist Award” in the Scottish Jazz Awards later that year and whilst studying at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland he also received the Mark McKergow Prize for Jazz Improvisation twice in 2022 and again in 2023.

He studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s jazz programme with, among others, a familiar figure on the Scottish jazz scene, bassist Mario Caribe. Starting with two years at the RCS Juniors and completing his full time studies as a Bachelor of Music degree finally being awarded an Honours First Class BA Music in Jazz. Born in Edinburgh, and raised in Kirkcaldy (Fife) Ewan started playing with the Fife Youth Jazz Orchestra and with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Scotland where he gained his first touring experience visiting places like Skye, Glasgow, Belfast, and Sligo Jazz Festival. Also during his studies at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Ewan was selected to go to Nuremberg (Germany) which he and some other RCS students participated in a week long European Jazz Workshop which culminated with a concert at the Nuremberg Jazz Festival.

Ewan has had the pleasure of working on many amazing large scale projects which include being a featured soloist with the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra in both 2024 and in 2025, part of the Nu-Age Sounds tour in collaboration with the Celtic Connections Festival. In addition to this, he also got the opportunity to work with the BBC Concert Orchestra celebrating the legacy of the great John Coltrane which was held at Queen Elizabeth Hall in the 2024 as part of the London Jazz Festival.

He has performed at some of the UK’s most acclaimed jazz venues such as Ronnie Scotts, 606 Jazz club, The Vortex as well as as venues like The Usher Hall (Edinburgh) The Old Fruit Market (Glasgow) The Glasshouse Sage One (Newcastle) and The Queen Elizabeth Hall (London). Ewan has had the pleasure of playing with Tommy Smith, Baptiste Herbin, Jean Toussaint, Denys Baptiste, Iain Ballamy, Ryan Quigley, Paul Towndrow, Fergus McCreadie, Pete Johnstone, Brian Kellock, Nikki Yeoh, Huw Warren, Harvel Nakudi, Alyn Cosker, Tom Gordon, Sabastian de Krom, Mark Mondesir only to name a few. Ewan has also had the opportunity to tour throughout the UK and across Europe.