Kawai America Corporation recently announced its partnership with the Made In New York Jazz Competition. This new partnership is designed to promote and nurture the next generation of jazz musicians around the world. With Kawai’s assistance, The Made In New York Jazz Competition (MINYJC) is helping jazz artists from around the globe achieve significant international exposure.
MINYJC is the world’s first online jazz competition and boasts a Board of Members that includes Grammy Award winning jazz musicians Lenny White, Joe Lovano, and Randy Brecker, who will personally choose the winners of the competition. Kawai will award the second and third-place winners an elegant Kawai ES7 Portable Digital Piano and a Powerful Kawai MP6 Professional Stage Piano. A cash prize, which grows as additional participants enter the competition, will be awarded by the Competition as the Grand Prize.
Harnessing advanced internet technologies and strategically employing social media initiatives, the innovative competition has generated over 12,000 registered users and participants from over 35 nations.
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