OFFICIAL RULES 2021
ABOUT
The BMI Future Jazz Master Scholarship is awarded annually to a rising jazz star pursuing an advanced academic degree in Jazz Performance, Jazz Studies, or related majors. The award was established in 2015 in honor of the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship, a lifetime achievement recognition program of the National Endowment for the Arts. The $5,000 scholarship has been presented in recent years at the annual BMI/NEA celebration of Jazz Master honorees. Prior program judges include NEA Jazz Masters Ahmad Jamal, Jack DeJohnette, Jimmy Heath, and Ron Carter.
ELIGIBILITY
In order to be eligible for the competition, all applicants must be:
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Applications must be submitted online no later than January 29, 2021, 11:59pm EST. Incomplete or late applications will not be considered. Applicants are required to submit the following:
EVALUATION
Applications will be judged on evidence of talent and potential as a jazz performer and composer.
AWARD
One $5,000 award will be available for the competition. The Foundation reserves the right to make no award or to award a prize or prizes totaling less than the full amount. The BMI Foundation shall have the right (but shall have no obligation) to license up to three public performances of a winning composition and, in the case of works of a popular nature, authorize appropriate musical arrangements to be made for such performances. The BMI Foundation shall also have the right to post or share a recording and/or written lyrics of any winning compositions on the bmi.com and bmifoundation.org websites and social media profiles and to authorize the reproduction and distribution on audio tape and/or CD of no more than twelve (12) copies of each work. All other rights under the copyright law remain vested in the composer and lyricist.
The winner, if any, will be announced in late spring 2021 via email, in the press and/or on bmifoundation.org.
INQUIRIES
Please address all inquiries to:
scholarships@bmifoundation.org
BMI Foundation, Inc.
7 World Trade Center
250 Greenwich Street
New York, NY 10007-0030