7 Virtual Jazz Club’s Contest – 3rd Edition
2018 Applications Are Open.
Special Prizes to The Winner of The Under 25 Student Category. Entry Deadline: October 15th
Milan, Italy, May 16th, 2018
The 7 Virtual Jazz Club continues its worldwide search for emerging and under recognized creative musicians of all ages and backgrounds.
The winner will receive € 2,000 while the best student participant who is under 25 years of age will receive € 700 and a prize offered by Taklit Publishing & Production: an opportunity to meet with Taklit, present a personal project for consideration, and benefit from professional guidance for future career development. Lastly the participant who’s entry tallies he most popular votes by the web community will receive € 500.
How to enroll
To enter the contest, soloists and groups pay a small registration fee and submit a video (maximum seven minutes) of their performance. Entries will be judged by a panel of international jazz experts comprised of some of the most respected journalists, musicians and educators in the field.
Deadline
October 15th, 2018
«I am honored to be involved with the 7 Virtual Jazz Club’s Global Competition,» says Marcela Breton (Jazz Journalist Association). «a platform for talented musicians from around the world – veterans & newcomers, women & men, young & old – performing on stage, in the studio, in coffeehouses, bookstores, and libraries, expanding the boundaries of jazz, reinvigorating its traditions, and exploring new directions and connections. The videos submitted to the contest by these diverse musicians, and made available over the web to a universal audience, are sophisticated, original, daring, and inventive; they demonstrate the global reach of jazz, and are helping to shape the future of the music in rich and unexpected ways».
Dubi Lenz (Artistic Director “The Red Sea Jazz Festival”) says: «It’s great to be a jury member on this competition - what a great opportunity to listen to musicians you won’t have otherwise a chance to listen to, play them in my radio show, considering inviting them to the Red Sea Winter Jazz Festival».
Hrayr Attarian (All about jazz) says: «…an innovative competition».
About the 7 Virtual Jazz Club
The 7 Virtual Jazz Club is a non-profit all volunteers’ association dedicated to support jazz music in all its forms. The 7 Virtual Jazz Club website hosts the first fully global online jazz competition in history. The contest welcomes musicians of all ages. Musicians may be amateurs, professionals and students under the age of 25. Our aim is to unearth hidden musical talent focusing on the new trends that have emerged in jazz and creative music.
Winners of the 2017 contest
Jury prize to Gilad Hekselman (USA)
Web community prize to Reveries (ITA)
Informations
Valerio Pappi, creator & artistic director
