1. How does one apply to enter?
Registration of candidates goes online. In the registration form you will be asked to give
your personal details and upload:
• the text of your biography in English in three/four sentences written in the 3rd person
singular. Please, make it concise and the essence of it including the link to your website.
in yoyur text mantion your major achievements but don’t focus on them. write about the
music you make and how it relates to who you are! Also give us information on what country’s passport holder you are (visa invitations for participants from outside of EU may
apply).
• three high-quality digital photographs for press purposes (maximum size of a one file
is 6MB)
• three audio files of your choice (only MP3 files, that do not exceed 16MB size limit, are
uploadable), depicting a variety of repertoire selections that is: characteristic and currently representative of you as the performer, preferably your originals. let us taste the sound
of your NATIVE LANGUAGE in your music if lyrics is the part of it. Make sure the names of the
files you send contain letters only!
• at least two songs must be up tempo. We love ballads but each evening will host up to
three different singers who share the same love for ballads 🙂
The deadline for the registration is June 1, 2020!
The registration fee for all applicants is 25 Euro. The additional contest fee of 100 EUR will
ONLY be charged from the candidates chosen to take part in the competition. The registration fee payment is to be made within three working days from the registration date.
The contest fee is to be made within three working days from receiving the information
about being accepted for the competition. The payment can be made via PayPal or DotPay systems. The registration fee is not refundable.
ąImportant for participants requiring EU visa! Along with your bio, send us the following information: your full name (as in your passport), your passport number and address of your
current residence, the name of the city where you will be applying for your visa (check the
list of polish consulates in your country) as well as the dates of your arrival and departure
from Poland. We want to be able to send you your visa invitations as soon as your participation in the contest is announced.
2. Who will be chosen?
The Contest is intended for vocalists born after January 1, 1970. Up to eight semi-finalists
will be selected on the basis of the materials sent with the registration forms. The selection
will be carried out by members of a jury made up of jazz musicians. The factors to be considered by the jury will be: overall musicality, performance style, technical abilities, general
cohesion of repertoire and originality. The order of appearances at the competition will be
established on a random basis, and the competitiors chosen to perform will be announced untill June 5, 2018
3. How will the competition proceed?
SEMIFINALS (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday). Semifinal presentation will take place in concert hall of the Municipal Cultural Center in Żory (250 people capacity). Three candidates will be auditioned each day. Start at 6:00 p.m. Each of the semifinalist will be given 75 min for rehearsal with one of the festival rhythm sections (from 8:30 a.m.- 13:00 p.m.) and will present themselves on our festival stage in a 30 min program, which will include: • preferably original compositions • at least one composition in participant?s native language (for English native speakers ? a composition sang in foreign language) • one tune arranged with the rhythm section during the rehearsal After the last semifinal presentations on Saturday evening jury will announce names of five vocalists chosen for the Finals. FINALS (Sunday). Finals presentations start at 5:00 p.m. Finalists will present themselves in a 10 min performance (maximum!) and a different repertoire. Each presentation will be preceded by a 30 min rehearsal (order of the performances will be chosen by drawing of lots). After the last audition jury will deliberate and set the order of prizes which will be followed by announcement of the results and presentation of awards. which they guarantee their availability for the contest in case of being chosen to participate in it, unless their inability to comply with it subject to the rule of force majeur. Each participant will be obliged to read the Regulations and agree with the rules
of the competition. Each participant will be obliged to perform their competition presentation on the date selected by the organizers, bearing in mind that the very application
to the International Contest for Singing Musicians commits the applicant to keeping their
dates for Voicingers untill the day the list of the semi-finals participants is announced.
Each participant will be obliged, upon being accepted to the competition, to present to
the promoter the list of songs planned for the performance (at least 7 days before the
competition’s start)
Each participant will be obliged to prepare a clearly written sheet music for the rhythm
section.
The contestant providing the audio owns all copyrights associated with the audio and
its content or has authorization to use it. The contestant authorizes Voicingers to use,
promote, distribute, and/or display the content that may be otherwise protected by any
proprietary rights.
4. Organizers’ commitments
The organizers will provide accommodation with breakfast for all of the contest’s participants from the day before the presentations begins until the day after the finals.
The organizers will provide stage with full PA and technical stuff
The organizer will provide experienced, international rhythm section including: piano, bass
and drums.
The organizer will record all the presentations and reserves the right to use the recorded material FREELY for further Voicingers promotion. Only chosen materials will be published.\ by Voicingers media.
Each participant will be entitled to 75 min rehearsal with the rhythm section on the day
of their presentation.
5. Competition participants’ commitments:
Each participant understands that their very registration is a binding contract with Voicingers upon
6. Can I get the audio and video recording of my performance?
All the semi-finals and finals presentations are audio recorded on a stereo balanced
system as well as on video (two tunes are chosen for video recording during the rehearsal). if you want to get the recording of your performance along with the video tracks for
editing either a high quality clip of your own sound and picture preferences or live audio
presentation, you need to provide us with a 32GB flash memory stick on the day of your
performance. The service fee of 50 euro will be charged if you want us to ship the materials for you afterwards.
The bottom line: Come up with your original music ideas! If you are not American keep
away from American song book repertoire (name one European or Asian singer who
made it singing jazz standards then think if you want to follow their footsteps). Make sure
your ideas are simple and provide with a room for making music (the rhythm section is
not your regular band)
7. Prizes
More info soon.
All the semi-finals and finals presentations are audio recorded on a stereo balanced
system as well as on video (two tunes are chosen for video recording during the rehearsal). if you want to get the recording of your performance along with the video tracks
for editing either a high quality clip of your own sound and picture preferences or live
audio presentation, you need to provide us with a 32GB flash memory stick on the day of
your performance. The service fee of 50 euro will be charged if you want us to ship the
materials for you afterwards. All the semi-finals and finals presentations are audio recorded on a stereo balancerecording of your performance along with the video tracks for
editing either a high quality clip of your own sound and picture preferences or live audio
presentation, you need to provide us with a 32GB flash memory stick on the day of your
performance.