New Deadline to apply: February 7, 2025

Preliminary Round: Saturday, February 22
Final Round: Sunday, March 23

PRELIMINARY ROUND

Saturday, February 22, 2025 starting at 9am
Location: BYSO Youth Center for Music
235 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115
(located next to the Symphony stop on the E line)

Repertoire:

Augustus Hailstork: Flute Set
Movements 1 and 2
Publisher: Theodore Presser Company

G.P. Telemann: Fantasia No. 12 in G minor for Solo Flute
Publisher: Bärenreiter

JPMF flute day @ Longy (final round)

Sunday, March 23 starting at 4pm
Final performances and livestream beginning at 6pm

Location: Longy School of Music, Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall
27 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
(Nearest T stop is the Harvard station on the Red line)

Repertoire:

Mel Bonis: Sonata in C# minor, Op. 64
Movements 1 and 2
Publisher: (available on IMSLP)

Shulamit Ran
East Wind
Publisher: Presser

Jean Francaix: Divertimento
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes

The James Pappoutsakis Memorial Flute Competition

Competitors in the preliminary round are heard annually in a live, screened audition. The Final Round takes place in the spring at one of the participating schools. The First Prize Winner receives a cash award in addition to a number of gifts from local and national music and flute-related organizations. Since 2006 the second prize has been named to honor our founding president William H. Grass (1926-2006).  The winner of the William H. Grass Memorial Prize also receives a cash award.

A volunteer Board of Directors administers the Fund and all donations are used for prizes and operating costs.  We are grateful to our industry and private donors who have supported us through four decades and to the participating music institutions who donate their facilities for the auditions.