[Shaku] Young Player's Competition for Shakuhachi at WSF08

This just in from Riley Lee:

S-1 World Grand Prix;
The Young Player's Competition for Shakuhachi at WSF08

Entry Deadline: 29 February 2008

Application Requirements: aged 39 years or younger on 30 June 2008. You
are ineligible if your 40th birthday is on or before 30 June 2008.

Application Process: Record your own performance. Convert the recording
to an mp3 file and email the file to the Competition Supervisor at
wsf08s-1@kakizakai.com. The subject of the email should be "S-1 World
Grand Prix preliminary".

In the body of the email, include your name, address (including country)
and the name of the piece. Please use either English or Japanese.

The Competition Supervisor will immediately send a confirmation email
after receiving your entry. If you do not receive a reply within 48
hours, please check to see if your email and mp3 attachment went through
successfully.

Contest Entry Fee: none

Final Selection: Entrants who are chosen in the preliminary round will
compete in the final round during WSF2008, by performing in the Finalists
Concert in Sydney.

Choice of Piece: You can perform any shakuhachi solo, regardless of
genre. One's own compositions however, are not acceptable. (The piece
submitted in the initial application must be the same piece performed
during the Finalists Concert.)

Time Limit: 4 minutes or less for the preliminary round (an abridged
version of the piece is acceptable). 6 minutes or less for the final
round.

Judges: Christopher Yohmei Blasdel, Teruo Furuya, Yoshio Kurahashi, Riley
Lee, Hozan Nomura, Veronique Piron, Ralph Samuelson, Ronnie Seldin, David
Wheeler. Judges for the preliminary round and the final round may differ.

Notification of Results of Preliminary Round: 15 March 2008 on WSF08
website.

Prize Money: The following number of finalists will be chosen from
these countries:

Japan: 5
The Americas: 3
Australia: 2
Rest of the World (Europe, Asia, Africa, etc): 2
Total finalists: 12

Finalists of the preliminary round will receive free registration for
WSF08 ($500).

The ten finalists outside of Australia will receive an additional $500
in cash assistance towards their Sydney airfare.

The top three contestants will be chosen at the Finalist Concert and
awarded the following prize money: 1st $1200, 2nd $1000, 3rd $800.

All prize money is in Australian dollars.

Jury System: Anyone can apply to be 'public' judge for the preliminary
round.

By paying a participation fee of AUS$20, one will receive the original
recordings from all of the preliminary round contestants, after the
closing date, and can vote for one or more of the contestants, to a
value of 2 points. The total points voted in this manner will make up
a maximum of 20% of the final decision for the preliminary round.

Deadline for applying to be a 'public' judge is 29 February 2008.

If you are interested in becoming a 'public' judge, keep checking the
registration page on WSF08 website. Eventually (before February 2008!) you
will be able to apply and pay on-line to become a 'public' judge.

You do not have to attend WSF08 to become a 'public' judge.

The 'public' jury system will not apply in the final round of the
Competition.

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