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Festival Rules

Last Updated on 2026-01-11
XXIV International Children's and Youth Jazz Music Festival-Competition "JAZZ Fontanas"
 
REGULATIONS
 
Preamble
 
These regulations of the children's and youth jazz music festival-competition "JAZZ Fontanas" (hereinafter referred to as the Regulations) have been changing and being improved, taking into account experience.
 
The Lithuanian children's and youth jazz music festival-competition "JAZZ Fontanas" was first held in 2002. The festival-competition, which is being held for the 24th time this year, is known as the oldest children's and youth jazz project in Lithuania. The author of its idea is the jazz music creator, jazz music project manager, performer Rimantas Juozas Bagdonas (1952–2019). He is also the author of the festival-competition slogan.
 
Over the entire life of the project, more than one and a half thousand performers have participated in the festival-competition, for which it has become a solid stepping stone to larger stages and life activities (GrandPrix laureates: http://www.panjazz.lt/index.php/laureatai).
 
The authors of the logo of the Lithuanian Children's and Youth Jazz Music Festival-Competition "JAZZ Fontanas" are artists Gintaras Grigas and Rita Kosmauskienė.
 
The author of the Grand Prix of the festival-competition is artist-glazier Remigijus Kriukas.
 
The Regulations are the main document that guides the organization of the festival-competition and the resolution of issues related to it. If a problematic situation arises that is not provided for in the Regulations, it is resolved by the organizers, later improving the main document.
 
 
Format of the 2026 competition-festival
 
 
1. The participants' performances will be held in a mixed manner:
 
1.1. The competition program is performed live. Participants who are unable to attend shall send their program in video format, and other participants of the competition will be able to view their recordings on the YouTube platform.
1.2. Performers shall appear only at the time scheduled for their age group.
Important! The organizers of the festival-competition reserve the right to suspend registration for a specific age group of participants depending on the number of applications received. In such a case, remote participation may be offered.
1.3. The organizers may change the format of the festival-competition if objective circumstances arise that prevent the project from being carried out live. In such a case, an appendix to these Regulations will be sent to the participants, which provides for the remote holding of the competition-festival.
2. The final concert (GALA CONCERT) may be held in a mixed format.
 
 
Stages of the 2026 project
 
 
I. Applications are submitted from April 1, 2026 to May 1, 2026.
II. The festival-competition will be held on May 8–9, 2026.
III. Registration of participants begins 2 hours before the concert and ends half an hour before the concert.
IV. Results are announced on the same day, after discussions that will take place after the performances of each age group. At the same time, the selected participants are invited to participate in the final concert (GALA CONCERT).
V. The final concert will be held on May 9 at 5 p.m.
 
 
Age groups of participants
 
 
A – up to 10 years (inclusive).
 
B – from 11 to 14 years (inclusive).
 
C – from 15 to 18 years (inclusive).
 
D – from 19 to 23 years (inclusive).
 
In case of a larger number of participants, division into subgroups is possible.
 
Important! Each participant of the festival-competition must provide a copy of their personal document (if the judging committee has any doubts about the age of the performers).
 
 
Preliminary competition-festival program:
 
 
May 8 (Friday)
9:00–19:00. Group B ensembles, C and D groups sound rehearsals and concerts
 
May 9 (Saturday)
10:00–13:00. Group A and B group soloists sound rehearsals and concerts
17:00. Final laureate concert (GALA CONCERT), awards, in the hall of the Panevėžys Cultural Center.
 
Important: the organizers of the festival-competition, taking into account the number of registered participants, reserve the right to change the time and/or day of category sound rehearsals and concerts.
 
 
Requirements for the festival-competition program
 
 
1. Instrumentalists, vocalists, vocal and instrumental ensembles, choirs, orchestras, mixed projects can participate in the festival-competition “JAZZ fontanas”.
2. Only jazz instrumental, vocal music or jazz arrangements, interpretations, transcriptions are performed at the festival-competition. The repertoire is freely chosen. Jazz standards are not mandatory.
3. Instrumentalists, vocalists, groups (ensemble, choirs, orchestras) are evaluated separately.
4. It is mandatory to perform at least two jazz pieces of different character. A single piece performed is not evaluated as a program.
5. The pieces specified in the application may be changed no later than 2 days before the start of the festival, except in cases of insurmountable obstacles (force majeure).
6. Performers appear only at the time scheduled for their age group.
7. Program duration:
for soloists (instrumentalists, vocalists) – up to 10 min. (2 pieces);
for groups (large and small ensembles, choirs, orchestras) – up to 15 min. (2 pieces).
Important! Teachers participate in the project only as accompanists.
 
 
Conditions of participation
 
 
1. Application is filled out online:
 

Category A: Link

Category B: Link

Category C: Link

Category D: Link

2. Participant registration constitutes consent that the participant's personal photos and recordings will be used free of charge and publicly published for educational purposes without violating the participant's rights, honor and dignity.

3. Participation fee:
Soloist (differentiated by age category):
A – 15 EUR/person.
B, C, D – 20 EUR/person.
Combo ensembles (up to 6 members inclusive) – 10 EUR/person.
Large and small ensembles and orchestras (from 7 members) – 5 EUR/person.
Orchestra composition – at least 15 performers together with playing teachers.
If the participant plays in several groups, he pays only one (higher) fee.
Teachers do not pay a participation fee.

4. The participation fee is paid during registration by transferring it to the association "JAZZ fontanas",
account No. LT107300010173870339 at SWEDBANK.

It is mandatory to indicate the purpose of payment: “Festival-competition “JAZZ fontanas”, name and surname of the participant (representative or leader of the ensemble)”.
 
 
Evaluation commission (jury)
 
 
1. The composition of the jury is announced before each concert.
2. The composition of the jury is the prerogative of the festival-competition organizers.
3. Among the members of the evaluation commission is a representative of a Lithuanian higher education institution and a laureate of previous festivals-competitions.
4. The commission members perform their functions objectively, impartially, professionally, without prejudice. If among the participants of the festival-competition a student is a member of the commission, the commission member recuses himself from the evaluation of that participant.
The decisions of the jury are not subject to dispute, they can only be changed by the entire commission collegiately.
5. Special nuances of the evaluation:
5.1. Priority – own compositions.
5.2. Live accompaniment – ​​an advantage.
5.3. If a phonogram is used, it cannot include a soloist party ("minusone").
 
 
Awards
 
1. Participants of groups A, B, C and D compete in their groups for I, II and III places, special nominations and the Grand Prix (GRAND PRIX).
2. The Grand Prix is ​​an artistic glass work.
3. Since 2021, the festival-competition "JAZZ fontanas" has established a special Rimantas Bagdonas prize for creativity, improvisation, charisma, which all festival participants can apply for.
4. Since 2022, the festival-competition "JAZZ fontanas" has established a special prize for the performance of a work by Rimantas Bagdonas/improvisation of a theme, which all festival participants can apply for.
The festival organizers offer to improvise on the themes of the festival's creator Rimantas Bagdonas (e.g. from the publication "Nuo blyuzo iki sutartinės", 2013). The best improvisation will be awarded a special diploma.
IMPORTANT!
In the event of unforeseen circumstances, the festival-competition organizers reserve the right to adjust the festival regulations.
 
 
Requirements for video recording
 
 
1. If the participant/participants cannot attend, he/she must submit a good quality audio and video recording in horizontal format. In case of technical questions, please contact the e-mail address jazzfontanas@gmail.com.
2. The soloist/group and the special festival-competition logo must be clearly visible.
3. The festival-competition logo must be visible in the recording room.
4. The program can be recorded one piece at a time, but the video must be edited as one recording. Video and audio correction is not allowed in the recordings of individual pieces. The commission reserves the right not to evaluate the performance due to inadequate video or audio quality.
5. Recordings are uploaded to Google Drive, www.wetransfer.com or www.transfer.pcloud.com, by sending a link to the e-mail address jazzfontanas@gmail.com.
 
For more information, please contact
mobile phone +370 681 45713 (Igor Švedko)
 
For program time or schedule, please contact
mobile phone +370 683 10145 (Vitalija Čepulienė)
elektroniniupaštujazzfontanas@gmail.com
 
For technical questions, please contact
mobile phone +370 612 83920 (Darius Dimbelis)
elektroniniupaštujazzfontanas@gmail.com
 
We wish you success and look forward to hearing from you.
 
Sincerely
Festival organizers –
Association “JAZZ Fontanas”,
Panevėžys Cultural Center
 
* Sheet music can be downloaded here:
 
 
 
 
XXIV International Children's and Youth Jazz Music Festival-Competition
 
“JAZZ Fontanas”
 
APPENDIX TO THE REGULATIONS
 
 
The appendix is ​​a part of the Regulations of the festival-competition “JAZZ Fontanas”, which comes into force due to special circumstances in public life conditions. The content of the supplement becomes a priority part of the festival-competition Regulations, after the organizers announce that due to a force majeure situation the project format is changed to mixed or remote.
 
 
Mixed – when the competition program is formed from sent video recordings and a live program performed and filmed in a hall, where only the judging panel, sound and filming teams, the performer and his manager are present. Sequence – according to the pre-announced program, taking into account the age category.
Audience participation or not live broadcast is determined by state legislation. If the audience cannot participate, the jury selects the nominees, laureates, draws up the final concert program, and edits a film that is broadcast on the YouTube platform at a pre-specified time.
The link to the broadcast of the final concert will be published on the website panjazz.lt.
 
 
Remote – when the competition program is formed only from the submitted video recordings. The jury works remotely, selects the nominees, laureates, draws up the final concert program, and edits a film that is broadcast on the YouTube platform at a pre-specified time.
The link to the broadcast of the final concert will be published on the website panjazz.lt.