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Jazz
Jazz is a multiple category discipline. You may apply in:
| Jazz Composition | Jazz Instrumental | Jazz Percussion |
Requirements
Requirements vary for each category and discipline. Please review the specific requirements for your discipline and category carefully before applying to the YoungArts program.
Submission Upload Procedures
Before you can upload any of your submission materials, you must first complete the entire application. Once your main application form is complete, you will be sent, via email, a submission upload link. You will submit your materials to this link, as well as a mandatory Jazz Submission Form. In this email, you also will receive your unique YoungArts ID number. You will use this ID number on your submission materials. Please do not share your ID number or your link with anyone.
Your work will be evaluated on its merit alone in a blind adjudication process. Therefore, do not put your name or any identifying information anywhere in or on your submission materials.
Sheet Music for the Jazz Audition – Billy’s Bounce
Evaluation Criteria
- Improvisation – the improvisation ability to create new motifs, melodies, and rhythms that are suggested by the harmonic structure (chord progression) of the composition.
- Tone Production – the ability to achieve a quality of sound appropriate to the instrument and to the style of the music.
- Technique – the degree to which the performer has acquired control of the instrument.
- Rhythm -- the ability to establish, maintain, and project rhythms with a wide range of complexity.
- Intonation--proper tuning of the instrument and in tune playing.
- Interpretation – the ability to project a convincing conception of the selection.
- Phrasing--sensitivity to the need for phrasing and the ability to execute it.
