THE JAMES PAPPOUTSAKIS FLUTE COMPETITION

John Clement Adams studied with Leon Kirchner and Earl Kim, Jacob Druckman, Alan Stout, and Seymour Shiffrin. He was a Composition Fellow, Berkshire Music Festival. He is a recipient of the Margaret Grant Award (Tanglewood) and the BMI Award (1970). His works have been performed by Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Boston Musica Viva, and others. His works are published by E.C. Schirmer, Inc., Boston. Visiting Lecturer, Harvard University.

Martin Amlin studied with Nadia Boulanger at Ecoles d'Art Americaines in Fontainebleau and Paris. Fellowships: Tanglewood Music Center, Massachusetts Artists Foundation, and National Endowment for the Arts. ASCAP Grant to Young Composers and ASCAP Standard Awards. Residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Soloist and rehearsal pianist, Boston Pops Orchestra. Recordings for Wergo, Folkways, Titanic, Hyperion, Crystal, and Koch International.

George Boziwick has had works commissioned and performed by a variety of ensembles, organizations, and individuals including Goliard Concerts, The National Association of Composers, the Newport Music Festival, and others. He has received grants from the American Music Center, Meet the Composer, and The Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, and his work has been recorded on the Opus One label. His composition Magnificat will be published by C.F. Peters in 2004. In addition George Boziwick holds a Master of Library Service degree from Columbia University and is Curator of the American Music Collection in the Music Division of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. He is an active member of the Music Library Association and the Society for American Music. He has also contributed articles to various publications including American Music, the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, and the forthcoming Routledge Encyclopedia of the Blues.

Jack Crotty is Associate Professor of Music Theory and Analysis at West Virgina University. Copies of his Pappoutsakis commission composition, Caprice are available from him at jcrotty@wvu.edu. His undergraduate degree is from the University of Michigan. His graduate degree is from the Eastman School of Music where he studied composition with Samuel Adler.

Alan Fletcher's compositions have been performed by leading performers nationally and internationally. He has received an ASCAP Foundation Award, the Alexander Gretchaninoff Prize in Composition, the Norton Stevens Fellowship from the MacDowell Colony, and the Sacks Memorial Prize in music from Princeton University.

Earl Grant Lawrence teaches flute and saxophone at the Community Music Center of Boston, and was a member of the Full Metal Revolutionary Jazz Ensemble.

Dennis Leclaire has had his works performed at Carnegie Recital Hall, and in Canada, Egypt, Scotland, Germany and Poland. His recordings include Episode for Clarinet and Piano and Horn Quartet. His compositions are published by BJK Publications, Southern Music, and Frank E. Warren Music Services, His Haiku no. 1 & 4 was recorded by the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra.

Robert Maggio has received commissions from the Ithaca College Choir, West Chester Concert Choir, Detroit Chamber Winds, Meridian Arts Ensemble, Mid-Atlantic Chamber Music Society, and American Dance Festival, among others. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, three Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships, a Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and MacDowell Colony Fellowship. His compositions are recorded on CRI and Albany Records.

John McDonald, is Associate Professor of Music at Tufts University. B.A., Yale University, 1981. M.M., 1982, M.M.A., 1983, and D.M.A., 1989, Yale School of Music. Composer and pianist. Numerous commissions and performances in the Boston are a and worldwide. Dr. McDonald's more than 800 works include orchestral, a chamber, vocal, and keyboard pieces as well as music for early instruments. Cultural Ambassador for the United States Information Agency, 1994 and 1995. NEA Grant, 1995; Mellon Fellowship, 1996.

In addition to the Pappoutsakis Competition, Marjorie Merryman has been commissioned by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Artaria Quartet of Boston, Aequalis, Alea III, and many others. Her works have been performed throughout the United States, including at Tanglewood, the Smithsonian Institution, and Lincoln Center Library in New York. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including prizes from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, League-ISCM, fellowships from Tanglewood and the Bunting Institute, and numerous grants from NEA-Meet the Composer. Ms. Merryman is Chair of the Department of Theory and Composition at Boston University School of the Arts.

David Patterson composer and educator. B.A. Washington University, Ph.D. Harvard University, studied with his mother Blanche Nolte, Robert Wykes, Leon Kirchner, Nadia Boulanger, and Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatory. He serves on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts Boston where he was Chairman of the Music Department for 15 years.

The Competition is being funded in part by contributions from local flutemakers:

Brannen Brothers, Verne Q. Powell Flutes,
NNI, Inc./Nagahara Flutes, Burkart-Phelan Flutes, Mancke Flutes,
Emmanuel Flutes, Falls House Press, Keefe Piccolos,
Music Espresso, Spectrum Music, and Yesterday Service.