Jordan Ashman is a British multi-percussionist born in 2004 in Bury St Edmunds, and is the winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year award in 2022.
[2] He is currently attending Royal Birmingham Conservatoire where he is in his second year studying for a performance degree in percussion.
Ashman won the 2022 BBC Young Musician of the Year Grand Final with his performance of American composer Jennifer Higdon's Percussion Concerto, written in 2005 for Colin Currie.
[5] In 2022, he became principal percussionist with the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain,[6] winning the Sir Harry Mortimer solo prize during the summer course 2022.
[13][14] On winning the Davison Young Musician’s Patron’s Award Commodore Duncan Lustig-Prean said "I selected Jordan because of the sheer artistry of his performance.