Adjudicating the 2026 Mason Jazz Festival

Sponsored by Mason Jazz Studies and the Dewberry Family School of Music, participating groups will perform a 20 to 25-minute set in the Harris Theater and receive written feedback from adjudicators. Afterwards, each group will receive a clinic with Mason Jazz faculty in the de Laski Performing Arts Building. In addition to providing comments to bands, the adjudicators will offer select students Mason Jazz Camp scholarships and Outstanding Soloist/Performer awards. The awards will be announced at 6:45 p.m. before the headlining performance at 7 p.m. which concludes the festival. 

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