ADJUDICATION

Academic Partners – Blues Alley is revolutionizing our approach to the jazz vocal pedagogy by rotating judges affiliated with major academic institutions, music schools, and conservatories. Each year the competition will include noted vocal academicians to critique and judge those vocal submissions that may not otherwise have exposure to veteran industry professionals. Past judges have represented Howard, Syracuse, George Washington, SUNY-Purchase, George Mason and Towson State Universities. The 2025 faculty will be announced shortly.
 

Action Dates – The commencement for all registrants will occur on November 1, 2024 and conclude on January 31, 2025 at 12 noon East Coast Time. Judges will review and arbitrate all vocal submissions with their subsequent deadline to decide and to reduce our audio submissions to five finalists in the beginning of March. 
 

Deadline – All registrant submissions shall be aggregated by our third party Program Director; processed and distributed to our four independent judges who shall then adjudicate each submission according to a codified list of vocal protocols. The results will be announced mid March, 2025 and the finalists will be contacted about submitted videos.