The members of the expert jury of the first year of the competition are music composer and guitarist Lukáš Sommer (Czech Republic), music composer Ľuboš Bernáth (Slovakia), member of the board of directors of the Music for the Everlasting Hope Foundation Martina Jankovská (Czech Republic), dramaturge of the Everlasting Hope festival Petr Nouzovský (Czech Republic), music composer Yuval Shaked (Israel), and members of the Bennewitz Quartet (Czech Republic).