Professional Development

Young Jazz+ is a competition for young musicians who are interested to be involved in genres of jazz together with funk, R&B, neo-soul, electronic music, hip-hop or inter-genre music. The ensembles selected for Young Jazz+ possess opportunity to perform at several festival, mainly on Istanbul Jazz Festival stage. Compositions of these bands are to be released on digital platforms such as Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, YouTube Music, Fizy and Muud with Sony Music Turkey label.