Call for Proposals
2026 Mid-Atlantic Flute Convention
Perform or present at the upcoming Flute Society of Washington annual flute convention
February 14 & 15, 2025
Herndon, VA
"Celebrating Our Stories"
From the Program Chair:
The 2026 Mid-Atlantic Flute Convention is our most exciting yet. The Flute Society of Washington is celebrating its 60th Anniversary, this year marks our 40th annual flute convention, our Nation is witnessing its 250th year, and all of us have stories to share within and beyond these broad narratives. Our theme, "Celebrating Our Stories," strives to hold a wide spectrum of space for what you are passionate about, your unique stories that no one else can tell but you, what's most important to you amidst times more tumultuous than ever, how you are navigating it all with music, and our rich and diverse community of flutists of all kinds. This year's convention adamantly welcomes a fuller representation from different aspects of the flute family of instruments including the fife and drum community, indigenous and world instruments, and particularly Native American flute with the world renowned Native American flutist R. Carlos Nakai as one of our featured guest artists.
What we are looking for:
We are looking for proposals presenting powerful personal narratives, approaches to pedagogy and teaching from your life experiences and knowledge base, diverse genres and specialized featuring of composers' works, rare and unique instrumentation, pathways of health, well-being, and inspirational strength to lift each other up through the challenges we face in and out of music, new music, methods, modern trends, and mindsets for meeting our musical future, and embracing the beauty that each of us has something unique, special, and important to share with our family of musicians and attendees.
Our proposal process always has far more applicants that we could ever program.
- Proposals for full 50 min slots will be given higher priority consideration if also flexible to possibly be 25 min half presentations in order to give more opportunities to all.
- Priority will also be given to those who submit proposals that clearly take the convention theme, Celebrating Our Stories, and the sentiments listed above into account.
- All recordings are to be submitted by providing a working link from YouTube, Vimeo, Google Drive, OneDrive, Box or Dropbox. Please set the access so that anyone with the link can view the files.
- There are limited audio and video resources available. Please be specific on your needs. Any request MUST be listed on the application. You are responsible for any adapters to contact a personal device such as a laptop or iPad. Be sure your complete presentation and materials are on your device. The hotel wi-fi should not be depended on for internet access. You are responbile for running your presentation from your device.
- The online application does use the save and return feature which will allow you be start the applciation and return to complete it.
Note for Flute Choirs (6+ flutes): Flute choir proposals are accepted through the Flute Choir Showcase.
Proposals will be accepted until 11:59pm (EDT) on Saturday, November 1, 2025 using the online proposal application.
Contact the program chair, Troy Paolantonio with any questions
We look forward to hearing the best of what you have to share and seeing you at what is going to be a convention people will tell stories about for quite some time.