Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Awards 2025 – YOA

Deadline: December 1, 2025

Applications are open for the Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Awards 2025. The ASCAP Foundation Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award is granted yearly to encourage proficient younger jazz composers in the course of the earliest phases of their careers.

The Herb Alpert Foundation, a nonprofit, personal basis established within the late Nineteen Eighties, makes vital annual contributions to a spread of packages within the fields of arts, arts training and compassion and effectively-being. Its funding is directed towards initiatives by which Herb and Lani Alpert play an lively position.

Benefits

• Eligible entrants will probably be chosen because the Award Recipients and can obtain a financial prize. The complete worth of the Prize(s) to be shared among the many Award Recipients shall be decided within the Foundation’s sole discretion.

Eligibility

To be eligible for participation within the Award, an entrant should be, on the time of entry;

• be a minimum of 13 years of age;
• be a U.S. citizen, U.S. everlasting resident or an enrolled scholar with a legitimate and present U.S. scholar visa;
• be beneath the age of 30 as of December 1, 2025; and
• should be, as of the Notification Period, both:
  • an ASCAP author member in good standing or
  • unaffiliated with a performing rights group (“PRO”); or
  • a member of a world PRO whose works are licensed by means of ASCAP.

Minor Applicants: If an Entrant is beneath the age of 18 (or the age of majority of their state, district, or territory of residence) on the time of entry, such Entrant’s father or mother or guardian will probably be required to finish and submit the Online Application on the Entrant’s behalf and signal and submit a duplicate of a Parental Consent Form.

Application

To be thought-about for the Award, Entrants should submit:

• A accomplished Online Application
• A rating/chart of 1 printed or unpublished authentic work within the jazz style (no preparations); and
• An mp3 of an digital realization or recording of the musical work

One (1) Submission per Entrant. If a number of Submissions are obtained by the identical Entrant, solely the primary Submission from that Entrant will qualify for entry into the Award; subsequent submissions from that Entrant will probably be disqualified.

For extra data, go to Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Awards.