The Jury:

• Professor Stephen Goss – Chair of the Jury
  Composer, Chair of Composition at the University of Surrey, Director of the International Guitar Research Centre, and Professor of Guitar at the Royal Academy of Music
• Professor Philip Cashian, composer and Head of Composition, Royal Academy of Music
• Mark Eden – concert guitarist, professor at the Birmingham Conservatoire and member of Eden Stell Guitar Duo and VIDA Guitar Quartet
  
• Michael Lewin – Head of Guitar, Royal Academy of Music
• Thérèse Wassily Saba – guitarist, teacher and journalist