1.  Jurors consist of a range of experienced, international choral figures.
2.  Each piece of every performance will be evaluated by the following criteria:

A.  Technical Evaluation

- Intonation

- Sound quality

B.  Artistic Evaluation

- Fidelity to the score

- Overall artistic impression

3.  The final result is determined by totaling the final scores of all jurors.
4.  Decisions of the adjudicators are final and no further correspondence or negotiation shall be entertained.

If an actual performance exceeds the limit of allocated total singing time as set of the category, the choir’s score will be reduced by five-percent (5%) for every 15 seconds beyond the time limit.

Jurors

Andre de Quadros – Boston USA

Conductor, music educator, Director of the School of Music at Boston University and Artistic Director of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute.

Thomas Caplin – Norway

Clinician, music educator, conductor, book author, associate professor & leader of choral activities at the College of Education, Hamar, Norway.

Anne-Charlotte Lundell – Sweden

Director of Operations for the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, she was a singer and co-director with Eskil Hemberg in the Stockholm Academic Choir and main director for the Stockholm Academic Choir. Working regularly as a conductor with a special interest in children’s choirs.

Tommyanto Kandisaputra – Indonesia

Founder and President of Bandung Choral Society. Founder, Coductor and Artistic Director of Studio Cantorum Choir and Orchestra. Chairman of INTERKULTUR Indonesia. Choral Clinician, Speaker and adjudicator. Artistic Advisor of Church Choral Symposium in Indonesia,  2003, 2005, 2007.

Jamie Hillman – Boston USA

A multi-faceted musician who has won awards as a singer, pianist, composer, and conductor. He holds a Performer’s Diploma (Piano Performance) from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, the Bachelor of Music degree (Honors Music Education) from the University of Western Ontario, and the Master of Music degree (Choral Conducting) from the University of Illinois. Hillman is currently pursuing a doctorate at Boston University, where in addition to his studies, works as a research assistant to Professor André de Quadros and teaches in the Composition and Theory Department.

Before moving to Boston, Hillman served as Lecturer in Voice at Prairie Bible College in Alberta, Canada, where he taught voice, vocal pedagogy, and conducted both the women’s choir and the Masterworks Chorale & Orchestra.

Jennifer THAM, Singapore

Jennifer conducts the SYC Ensemble Singers, and is Artistic Director of the Young Musicians’ Society.  She is a Board member of the International Federation for Choral Music, and represents Singapore on the World Choir Council.  She has been on competition juries in Austria, Germany, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, China and Indonesia and will be on jury at the 6^th World Choir Games (Shaoxing, China).

Bo Nilsson – Sweden

Received his pedagogical, vocal and operatic training in his native Sweden, receiving his degree in vocal pedagogy from the Stockholm University College of Music Education, Bo’s singing experience with choirs is extensive. He was a founding member of the Stockholm Consort, a double quartet specializing in early music (principally Bach motets); member of the Stockholm Bach Choir; and other various Stockholm choirs since 1975.

As Concert Manager for Concerts Sweden, he organizes tours, competitions, festivals and conferences for many choirs and vocal ensembles: Swedish Radio Choir, Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, Carmina Slovenica, Neue Vokalsolisten Stuttgart, Voces Nordicae, etc.

In the summer of 2009, Bo Nilsson formed an experimental vocal group, “Spitz, the choir improvisers” aspiring to take choral performance to a higher level of musical expression. The result is exciting performances as well as inspirational workshops and seminars for conductors, singers and composers throughout Sweden. His choral and vocal expertize and playful personality lends itself to this innovative way of enhancing the choral experience.