TERMS & CONDITIONS 2023

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Categories:

Best Small Ensemble for young audiences: The Best Small Ensemble Category is open to live-music productions by professionals of groups from 1 - 8 musicians. Productions could be designed for school or theatre settings and are judged by their artist integrity, relevance and impact. We are looking for productions that inspire, push artistic boundaries and engage audiences in new ways. Multidisciplinary productions (musical theatre, etc) are welcome, but music must always remain the focal element of the production.
Best Large Ensemble for young audiences: The Best Large Ensemble Category is targeted at professional orchestras and other large ensembles (8+ musicians) performing for young audiences. We look for ensembles that go beyond playing their regular repertoire, productions that are either designed specifically for young audiences or that have made a considerable effort to appeal to a young public. On top of artistic excellence, the award aims to honour innovation within the form, whether that be artistic, production or other.
Best School Concert for young audiences: The Best School Concert or Young Audiences Category is open to live-music productions by professionals of groups from 1-8 musicians. This category is for productions meant for (or able to) touring in school settings. The productions are judged by their artist integrity, relevance and impact. We are looking for productions that are able to inspire, push artistic boundaries and engage audiences in new ways by performing in schools. Multidisciplinary productions are welcome, but music must always remain the focal element of the production.
Best Opera for young audiences: Presented by RESEO (The European Network for Opera and Dance Education), the Best Opera for young audiences award is attributed to new works for young audiences of all ages, based upon new librettos (adaptations of existing stories are accepted) or new compositions.
Best Participatory Project with young audiences: Celebrating young audiences music projects where the process outweighs the artistic outcome, this category focuses on projects involving kids as participants or as amateur musicians; whether a performance, musical workshop, a co-production or simply using music to sensitise kids to ideas and concepts. The most important factor is that young audiences be directly engaged in the creative process.
Public Choice Award: selected by online public voting from amongst the top 4 nominees in each category.

Entries:

We require:

A full-length video of the production.
A 2-minute promotional video of the production to be used if your production is selected as a finalist.
Entries will not be limited in duration, however, we will only present the 2-minute promo videos of the finalists online for the public vote.
Entries are to be submitted to the competition as an online link.
For productions not in English, subtitles or a detailed summary are requested.
Entries are to be received no later than 23:59 CET on the closing date, 15th of May 2023, accompanied by all requested materials.
YAM/JMI accepts no responsibility for late or misplaced entries as well as entries with missing or corrupt video files.

Judging Criteria:

Primary Judging Criteria:

The music and other artistic material (text, choreography, etc) should be of high quality within its genre.
The musicians/singers should be of a high calibre. The communication between the musicians and the audience should be qualified and inspiring.
The relevance/necessity of the program: “Is this opening new musical horizons for the kids?” / “Is it innovative?” etc.
The international touring potential of the production.
For the Best Opera productions: the staging should be of high quality and in relation to the music.

For the Best Participatory Project with young audiences, the jury will look at the following criteria:

Necessity/Relevance: of the project both artistically and socially
Intention: What is the project trying to achieve and how well does it do so.
Engagement: How have the audience been engaged
Artistic Expression: The overall artistic output in relation to the creative process.

YAMawards / Judging Procedure and announcement:

YAMawards consists of the following awards:

Best Small Ensemble for young audiences (€1000)
Best Large Ensemble for young audiences (€1000)
Best School Concert (1000€)
Best Opera* for young audiences (€1000)
* The Best Opera award is powered by RESEO: the European Network for Opera and Dance Education
Public Choice Award (€1000)
Best Participatory Project with young audiences (€1000)

The Best Small Ensemble, Best Large Ensemble, Best School Concert, Best Opera, Best Participatory Project and Best Digital Production awards are evaluated by professional juries who will select the top four productions from each category as YAMawards nominees.
The winner of each category will be announced on the 10th of November 2023 at the YAMawards ceremony in Sao Paulo / Tetui, Brazil; during the 2023 YAMsession.
All nominees will be officially announced on the 10th of October 2023 and displayed online via the YAMawards website. The public will then be able to vote for all nominated productions online (one vote per person) and the nominee with the most votes on the 10th of November 2023 at 20:00 CET will receive the Public Choice Award.
The Best Opera for young audiences award is presented by RESEO (The European Network for Opera and Dance Education) and is for operas for young audiences. The award is attributed to new works for young audiences of all ages, based upon new librettos (adaptations of existing stories are accepted) or new compositions.
Decisions of the jury are final and are not subject to questioning, revisions or appeal.
Prizes are non-negotiable and non-transferable.
Prizes are awarded to support the creation and mobility of new works for young audiences.

YAMawards Ceremony / YAMsession:

The YAMawards Ceremony 2023 will take place at Sao Pualo / Tetui, Brazil, on the 10th of November 2023 within the context of the YAMsession. For more info about YAMsession please visit www.yamsession.org

All YAMawards nominees will be invited to attend the YAMawards Ceremony. JMI will cover a one-night stay in Sao Paulo / Tetui on the 10th of November for one representative per nominated production, including their dinner at the YAMawards and participation at the YAMsession during the day of the 10th (includes lunch).
Finalists are expected to cover their own travels to/from Sao Paolo / Tetui as well as any other expenses not mentioned above. (Please visit the YAMsession website for travel info).
If the representatives wish to attend the YAMsession on the 11th of November, a special discounted price will be made available. The additional cost of any extra night must be covered by the nominee.

Other conditions:

All footage used must be original. It is the applicant’s responsibility to obtain all appropriate permissions & clearances for any music or video used. JM International excludes liability for any legal violations. The sole responsibility for this lies with the producers of the content. Please ensure that the Nomination Agreement is read thoroughly, understood and signed by the representative parties.
By entering the competition the participants agree to abide by these Terms & Conditions and consent to the Nomination Agreement.
By entering the competition the applicant gives YAM the right to share your general contact information with the YAMsession delegates and partners. If you do not wish us to do so, please mail us this request at mail@jmi.net.

The YAMawards are brought to you by JM International (JMI), the world’s largest youth-music nonprofit organisation. JMI’s work with young audiences is based on the principle that all children and youth must have access to music/culture as a fundamental human right. The YAMawards serve as a beacon of creativity and innovation to inspire those pushing the artistic and musical boundaries as well as those instil hope in those working in difficult circumstances, supporting the fight to maintain and grow this crucial sector of human development.

YAMawards 2023: Call for Applications

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