NFA 2026 Competition Repertoire

Recorded Round 

●  Kristen Stoner, Sonata for Flute Mvts 1 and 2 (ALRY edition)

• • Omit the spoken text

●  Amanda Harberg, Don’t Forget to Write, Mvt. 1 (Theodore Presser)

Recorded Round 

●  Carl Nielsen, The Children Are Playing (Edition Wilhelm Hansen)

●  Joachim Andersen, Scherzino (any edition)

Final Round 

●  Herman Beeftink, Nocturne (available as a digital download on composer’s website)

●  Eugenie Rocherolle, Sonata No. 1 (Hal Leonard)

• •  I. Allegro moderato

Recorded Round 

●  Friedrich Kuhlau, Sonata in F Major, Op. 79, No. 1 (ALRY edition)

• • I. Allegro gustoso (no repeats)
  • II. Andante

●  Katherine Hoover, Kokopeli (Papagena Press edition)

Final Round 

●  Georges Hue, Fantasie (any edition)

●  Gluck, Dance of the Blessed Spirits (any edition)

●  NFA 2026 Newly Commissioned Work

Recorded Round 

●  Benny Golson, “Stablemates” from Benny Golson, Volume 14 (Jamey Aebersold Jazz)

●  Sonny Rollins, “Doxy” from Maiden Voyage, Volume 54 (Jamey Aebersold Jazz)

●  Guy Wood and Robert Mellin, “My One and Only Love” from Night & Day, Volume 51 
(Jamey Aebersold Jazz)

Final Round 

●  25 minute program of the finalists’ choice. See NFA website for more details.

Recorded Round 

●  Allison Loggins-Hull, Say Can You for piccolo and electronics (Flutronix edition)

●  Antonio Vivaldi, Concerto in C RV 443 (Any edition)

• • I. Allegro
  • II. Largo
  • No repeats. Ornaments at the performers’ discretion.

Semifinal Round 

●  Antonio Vivaldi, Concerto in C RV 443 (Any edition)

• • III. Allegro Molto
  • No repeats. Ornaments at the performers’ discretion.

●  Ken Benshoof, Concerto in Three Movements (ALRY edition)

• • Movement 1

●  NFA 2026 Newly Commissioned Work

Final Round 

●  25 minute program of the finalists’ choice. See NFA website for more details.

Recorded Round 

●  J.S Bach, Sonata in G minor, BWV 1020 (Any edition)

• • I. Adagio
  • III. Allegro
  • No repeats, ornaments optional.

●  Michael Colgrass, Wild Riot of the Shaman’s Dreams (Colgrass Music)

●  Valerie Coleman, Requiem Milonga for flute and piano (Coleman Page) Quarterfinal Round 

●  Sigfrid Karg-Elert, Caprice Op. 107, No. 30 “Chaconne” (Any edition)

●  Cristobal Halffter, Debla for Solo Flute (Universal Editions)

Semifinal Round 

●  Henri Dutilleux, Sonatine for flute and piano (Alphonse Leduc)

●  Aaron Copland, Duo for Flute and Piano (Boosey and Hawkes)

• • I. Freely
  • III. Lively

●  NFA 2026 Newly Commissioned Work

Final Round 

●  25 minute program of the finalists’ choice. See NFA website for more details.

Novice Category 

●  Ulysses Kay, Prelude for unaccompanied flute (Carl Fischer)

●  J.S. Bach, Polonaise and Badinerie from Suite in B minor, BWV 1067 (any edition)

• • No repeats in the Polonaise. Take all repeats in the Badinerie. No ornamentation.

●  Jonathan Mitchell, In Search of Aquatic Life (unaccompanied) (Theodore Presser)

●  Erwin Schulhoff, Flute Sonata, movement 1 (Chester Music)

●  Michel Blavet, Sonata op. 2 no. 5 : no. 1 (1st edition available on IMSLP)

• • I. Largo “e Chauvet”
  • V. Fuga

●  Georg Frideric Handel, Sonata in e minor HWV 379 no. I (urtext Barenreiter)

• • I. Larghetto
  • IV. Allegro (with repeats)

Recorded Round  (Excerpts found in Orchestral Excerpts for Flute and Orchestral Excerpts for Flute: Volume 2)

●  Johannes Brahms, Symphony No. 4 

• • Movement 4, mm. 89-105

●  Paul Hindemith, Symphonic Metamorphosis


• • Movement 3, 6 before C-end of movement

●  Gustav Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde


• • VI. Der Abschied, Rehearsal 2- 7th bar of 3

●  John Williams, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Suite for Orchestra 

• • “Hagrid’s Friendly Bird” mm. 127-151

●  Richard Strauss, Salome, Op. 54


• • 2 bars before D-3rd bar of H

C Flute Required Work (also required for all Piccolo applicants)

●  Gabriel Faure, Fantasie, op.79 (Any edition)

Piccolo Required Work 

●  Adrienne Albert, Piccolodeon (Falls House Press)

Alto, Bass, Contrabass Flute Required Work 

●  Marin Marais, Les Folies d’Espagne (Barenreiter)

• • I (theme), VI, VII, XII and XV

C Flute Required Work (also required for all Piccolo applicants)

●  Adolphus Hailstork, Yuhwa (Theodore Presser)

Piccolo Required Work 

●  Daniel Dorff, Tweet (Theodore Presser)

Alto Flute Required Work 

●  Carlos Simon, move it for solo flute or alto flute (Bill Holab Music)

Bass and/or Contrabass Flute Required Work 

●  Daniel Dorff, Sonata, Spirit of the Hudson (Theodore Presser Company)

• • I. Sprawling, burbling for bass flute and piano

●  Michel Blavet, Sonata op. 2 no. 5 : no. 1 (1st edition available on IMSLP)

• • I. Largo “e Chauvet”
  • V. Fuga

●  Georg Frideric Handel, Sonata in e minor HWV 379 no. I (urtext Barenreiter)

• • I. Larghetto
  • IV. Allegro (with repeats)

C Flute Required Work 

●  Jay Batzner, Mercurial for flute and fixed audio  (https://jaybatzner.com/product/mercurial-score-and-performance-media/)

Piccolo Required Work 

●  Alice Jones, Tiny Efforts 2021, “Sour Magic”  (https://www.alicehjones.com/tinyefforts2021.html)

Alto Flute Required Work 

●  Ali Ryerson, Jazz Dream for solo alto flute (Theodore Presser)

Bass Flute Required Work 

●  Alice Jones, Tiny Efforts 2022 “False Joys of Time”  (https://www.alicehjones.com/tinyefforts2022.html)

Contrabass Flute Required Work 

●  Alice Jones, Tiny Efforts 2020, “The People Could Fly”  (https://www.alicehjones.com/tinyefforts2020.html)