XIV International Song Festival Rzeszow Carpathia Festival 2018

XIV International Song Festival “Rzeszow Carpathia Festival” 2018 Held on: 26-27 May 2018 www.carpathia.rzeszow.pl

Organizers: The City Office of Rzeszow The Centre of Vocal Arts in Rzeszow Estrada Rzeszowska

The Aims of the Festival: To confront and engage international artistic and educational environments. To promote vocal personalities, to help improve artistic and technical skills of vocalists. Terms and Conditions: The present Terms and Conditions applies to the annual contest for the vocal personality, organized as a part of the "Rzeszow Carpathia Festival". The purpose of the contest is to select the most interesting vocal personality. The assessment criteria will be determined by the Jury during its meeting, held before the presentation of the first performer. Alongside with the contest for the vocal personality, contests for the most interesting composition, the best instrumentalist and the greatest stage personality will be carried out. I. GENERAL PROVISIONS 1. The Festival is open to people over 16 years of age who live anywhere in the world: musical bands and individual performers – soloists, duets, trios and quartets. 2. The participants of the Festival without their musical bands will be accompanied by the festival band, members of which will be announced after completion of the Festival qualification process. 3. The Grand Prix winners of the previous editions of the Festival are not allowed to enter this year's edition. 4. The participants shall prepare two original songs for a festival presentation. 5. The original song is acknowledged by the Festival Organizers as a piece of music composed by the artist themselves, or composed especially for them. 6. The song may be performed in any language, native language is preferable. II. FORMAL REQUIREMENTS FOR FESTIVAL APPLICATION 1. The persons and institutions interested in participating in the 14th edition of the International Song Festival “Rzeszow Carpathia Festival” 2018 are obliged to send the Festival Application Form which shall include the following elements: a) application form filled out in capital letters (on a computer), certified with a legible, handwritten signature of the participant; the original copy shall be sent by post and its readable scan by email (Annex to this Terms and Conditions), b) contact data form filled out in capital letters (on a computer), which shall be sent only by email (Annex to this Terms and Conditions), c) musical scores of submitted songs (applies to persons who do not have their musical bands), d) CD including proposed songs, recorded in .WAV or .MP3 format (audio quality must be good enough so that the song and the artist could be presented on the festival's website), e) lyrics of submitted songs: lyrics in native language shall be translated into English, f) two photographs (in print and in electronic form on a CD) and a resume with artistic achievements (in the case of foreigners – in English or Russian) for the needs of printed festival publications. 2. The application shall be sent not later than 31 January 2018, mandatorily by post (date as postmark) and by email. Correspondence address: Estrada Rzeszowska, 35 – 001 Rzeszów, ul. Jagiellońska 24, with a note: Name and surname of a performer or a band name – Application for “Rzeszow Carpathia Festival "2018 Email address: [email protected] In the subject line: Name and surname of a performer or a band name – Application for XIV “Rzeszow Carpathia Festival” 2018 3. The application sent by post as well as by email shall include all elements mentioned in paragraph II point 1 a) b) c) d) e) f) (in the case of email applications also a clear scan of the application form). The lack of any element mentioned in paragraph II point 1 a) b) c) d) e) f) or other formal errors (lack of data, its illegibility) results in excluding the application from the contest. 4. The email application shall be comprised in a single message. In case of technical problems related to large volumes of data, which cannot be sent in a single message, the application shall be sent in several successive emails. 5 Each email received will be confirmed by the Organizers by a return email to the sender. 6. The Organizers reserve the right not to return the materials (CDs, photographs) submitted with the application sent by post. III. QUALIFICATION PROCESS AND PROCEDURE OF SELECTING THE FESTIVAL WINNERS 1. Submitted compositions will be subject to a two-step assessment procedure. Stage I – the selection of participants for the final concert of the Festival based on the compositions received (fulfilling all conditions mentioned in paragraph II point 2 and 3 of this Terms and Conditions) made by the Qualification Committee*. The person qualified for the Festival will receive the confirmation of participation in writing by 8 April 2018. *The members of the Qualification Committee will be announced by 31 January 2018. Stage II - rating the compositions and live performances during the final concert of the Festival by the Festival Jury*. The Jury will select the winners and award the following prizes:

The Grand Prix of the Festival – co-financing the promotion of the winner (co-financing the costs of releasing a CD or co-financing the costs of a concert tour) and invitation for performing a concert during the next edition of the Festival – 15,000 PLN. The 1st Place Award The 2nd and 3rd Place Awards The Award for the Best Composition The Award for the Best Instrumentalist The Award for the Best Stage Personality Individual Jury Awards *The final members of the Festival Jury will be announced by 13 May 2018. 2. The Jury reserves the right to qualify for the contest performers presenting music on the border of sung poetry, in cases where the performer reveals a personality which should be presented and supported. 3. The Organizers reserve the right to limit applications and to invite some artists – the Grand Prix winners of other international festivals. 4. In case of any doubts as to the composition, the Jury shall have the right to accept or reject it.

IV. CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION IN THE FESTIVAL 1. The participants hereby grant the permission to the Organizers to use the copyright of the submitted recordings, artistic performances and their image for free, for advertising, information and promotional purposes, unlimited in time and territory, in the following fields of exploitation: a) recording and multiplying with any techniques, including printing, reprography, magnetic recording and digital technique, on such data carriers as floppy disks, CD-ROMs, VCDs, DVDs, b) placing on the market, lending or renting the original or the copy with the recording; releasing, public performing, projecting, broadcasting and rebroadcasting in the mass media and on the Internet. 2. The participants hereby grant the permission to the Organizers to use the submitted recordings and their image, as well as copyrights and related rights, for advertising, information and promotional purposes, unlimited in time and territory, in the following fields of exploitation: a) recording and multiplying with any techniques, including printing, reprography, magnetic recording and digital technique, b) placing on the market, public performing, projecting, broadcasting and rebroadcasting. 3. The transportation and insurance costs shall be borne by the Festival participants. 4. The Organizers provide accommodation, breakfast included (the costs of lunches and dinners shall be borne by the Festival participants). 5. All Festival participants are obliged to take part in the final concert. V. RADIO AND TELEVISION STATEMENT

The participants qualified for the second stage are obliged to give a written consent granting permission to record their performances in audio and video, during Festival auditions and the final concert. These consents will be sent to the selected participants by email, along with the information of qualifying to the Festival. VI. TERMS AND CONDITIONS MODIFICATIONS 1. The Organizers may at any time, prior to the deadline for submitting applications, modify the content of this Terms and Conditions. The modified Terms and Conditions will be immediately made public on the Festival website: www.carpathia.rzeszow.pl.

When the modification is made after the completion of the qualification process, the modified Terms and Conditions will be sent to all qualified participants. 2. The Organizers reserve the right to modify the terms set out in this Terms and Conditions. 3. Modifications to the Terms and Conditions and modifications to the terms made by the Organizers shall be binding for all Festival participants. 4. All disputes arising in connection with this Terms and Conditions shall be settled solely by the Festival Organizers. 5. For organizational matters not covered by this Terms and Conditions, please contact the Organizer: Anna Czenczek – Originator and Director of “Rzeszow Carpathia Festival” Tel. no.: +48 604 117 433 E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected] www.carpathia.rzeszow.pl www.facebook.com/carpathiafestival www.csw.info.pl www.facebook.pl/csw.rzeszow