BIMC Vocal Competition in Boston Verified listing

The 2025 Boston International Music Competition (BIMC) is recruiting young music talents from around the world for its 3rd anniversary, with the preliminary application deadline of March 16th, 2025. The BIMC first and second round competitions are video based, and the final round will be an on-site competition in Boston on July 19th, 2025, followed by the winners' concert, awards ceremony, and various masterclasses, at the historical Cary Hall in Lexington, MA, USA. This year, we have 22 respected judges of renowned musicians and professors from Berklee College of Music, New England Conservatory of Music, the Department of Music of Harvard University and WeStar Academy of Music. The BIMC competition covers 4 categories of Voice, Piano, Strings and Other Instruments for different genres, and continues to offer a prize budget up to US$20,000, thanks to the WeStar Music Education Foundation. Detailed information can be found at: https://bimc.us/bimc-rules-%26-policies-1

In the last two years, the competition had attracted over 700 contestants from 15 countries, and the youngest contestant was a 5-year-old pianist from Turkey. This year, we have extended the age requirement to 5 to 30. Adult contestants aged 19 to 30 are divided into music major groups and non-music major groups. The competition was reported by more than 50 media, with views by nearly two million people worldwide.

The vocal competition is grouped to (1) Classical, opera and musical theatre, and (2) Pop, Jazz and Contemporary, in the forms of solo, group or chorus.