1. Pre-screening Recording
   
   All applicants are to submit the following:
   
   - a recording (video preferred) of themselves improvising 2 choruses over F blues using the following backing track:
   https://open.spotify.com/track/6uysPjvYNXYb10N1UHljWM?si=8KWDfajcSFKjA5lN-otWsg1 
   
   AND
   
   - a recording (video preferred) of a non-blues standard jazz tune. The performance should adhere to the following structure: melody in, 2 improvised choruses, melody out. For this component, candidates may perform with a backing track, a live rhythm section or solo / unaccompanied.
   
    

2. Shortlisted candidates will be invited for an in-person audition on Wednesday, 17 January 2024.
   
   Live Audition Requirements for Vocalists:
   - perform one standard or bebop tune, inclusive of 2 improvised choruses
   - perform one ballad
   - improvise over a blues tune with a backing band 
   
   Live Audition Requirements for Instrumentalists:
   -perform either "Con Alma" or "A Night in Tunisia", including 2 improvised choruses
   -Sight-reading
   -improvise over a blues tune with a backing band ​

Please submit an online application form by Monday, 8 January 2024, 11.59pm. 

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Date of Audition: Wednesday, 17 January 2024
 

Auditions will be held at 150 Sims Drive, #02-00, Singapore 387381. JASS will notify applicants shortlisted for audition through email by Thursday, 11 January 2024.

 

Festival rehearsals will commence from Monday, 26 February 2024 to Friday, 1 March 2024. Attendance is compulsory.

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Please read the information listed under "Prerequisites" to ensure you are eligible to apply for the audition, and to subsequently perform, should you be a successful candidate. 

Successful candidates are to ensure their availability on 8, 15 and 22 February 2024, 7-10pm for pre-Lion City Festival rehearsals.

Successful candidates will receive an allowance of up to S$2,300.