2025 Bouix Concerto Competition

The Brookline Symphony is proud to announce the 2025 Bouix Concerto Competition. 

PLEASE NOTE: We cannot accept applications for Piano auditions this year due to constraints with our performance venue. We apologize for the inconvenience.

  • When: The competition will be held on Saturday, February 15, 2025

  • Where: This year’s competition will be held at the Brookline Music School

  • To Apply: Please submit your application here

  • Deadline: All applications are due by Friday, January 17, 2025

    • Applications will be reviewed after the application deadline and all applicants will be contacted by Saturday, January 25.  If your application is selected for an audition, you will receive an email regarding your schedule as well as information on how to pay the competition fee.  Auditions are 10 minutes 

  • Fee: If your application is selected for an audition, you will receive an email with instructions to pay the $50 competition fee.

  • For non-local applicants, please note that we are unable to pay room and board for the audition, or performance.

  • Repertoire: We will only be accepting applications for full pieces. Your repertoire choice must be 30 minutes or less in length. At this time, we are unable to accept double piano applications. 

Please note, the pieces listed below will not be accepted as they have been performed in recent years.

  • Arutunian - Trumpet Concerto

  • Bartok - Violin Concerto No. 2

  • Beethoven - Violin Concerto

  • Bloch - Schelomo

  • Haydn - Cello Concerto in C major

  • Jongsen - Suite for Viola and Orchestra, Op. 48

  • Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto Op. 64

  • Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 17

  • Mozart - Violin Concerto No. 2

  • Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 3

  • Prokofiev - Violin Concerto No. 2

  • Ravel - Tzigane

  • Reinecke - Flute Concerto in D Major, Op. 283

  • Sibelius - Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47

If you have any questions regarding the competition, please email Concerto@Brooklinesymphony.org



Previous Brookline Symphony Concerto Competition winners:

2024:

Community Winner: Johnny Mok - Block, Schelomo

Orchestra Winner: Bryan Tyler - Jongen, Suite for VIla and Orchestra, Op. 48

Honorable Mention: Yebin Yoo - Hindemith, Violin Concerto

2023:

Community Winner: David Bernat - Bartók, Violin Concerto No. 2

Honorable Mention: Haerim Oh - Dvorak, Violin Concerto in A minor

Orchestra Winner: Sam Wiseman - Prokofiev, Piano Concerto No. 3

2022:

Orchestra winner:

Amos Lawrence - William Walton Concerto for Violin and Orchestra

Community winners:

Co-winners

Katherine Liu - Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11

Liyuan Xie - Violin - Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35

Honorable Mention

Noah Perkins - Lars Erik Larson - Concertino for Trombone, Op. 45 No. 7

 

2021:

Community

Winner: ChengCheng Ma - Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major

Honorable Mentions:

Chaemun Im - Bottesini, Concerto for Double Bass, No. 2 

Freya Liu - Bartok, Violin Concerto No. 2

 Orchestra

Winner: Andrew Harms - Arutunian, Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra

  

2020:

Community 

Winner: Jisun Oh - Reinecke, Flute Concerto in D major, Op. 283

Honorable Mentions:

Lishan Tan - Ginastera, Harp Concerto Op. 25

Emerald Barbour - Ravel, Sheherazade

Lazar Kaminsky - Haydn, Cello Concerto in C major

 Orchestra

Winner: Marc Pasciucco - Haydn, Cello Concerto in C major

 

2019:

  • Community Member: Eva Aronian - Mozart, Violin Concerto No. 2

  • Honorable Mentions: 

    • Chow Yip Wai -  Tchaikovsky, Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35

    • Juliette Greer -  Tchaikovsky, Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35

    • Zahevi Rodriguez - Saint-Saens, Cello Concerto in A minor

  • Orchestra Member: Kristyn Moore -  Carl Reinecke, Flute Concerto in D Major, Op. 283

  • Honorable Mention: Marc Pasciucco - Edouard Lalo, Cello Concerto in d minor

2018

  • Orchestra Member: Andrew Heath - trumpet - Tomasi, Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra

  • Community Member: Ryan Pereira - clarinet - Navarro, II Concerto

  • Honorable Mentions:

    • Nicolas Bass- cello - Kabalevsky, Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 49

    • William Laney- cello - Bloch, Schelomo

2017

  • Orchestra Member: Subaiou Zhang - violin - Sibelius, Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47

  • Community Member: Yun Jae Choi - violin - Sibelius, Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47

  • Honorable Mention: Dylan Shih Wu - cello - Tchaikovsky, Pezzo Capriciosso

2016

  • Orchestra Member: Weronika Balewski - flute - Mozart Concerto in D. Major K. 314

  • Community Member: Javier Iglesias Martin - cello - Elgar Concerto for Cello

  • Honorable Mention: Emmanuel Vukovich - violin - Brahms Violin Concerto

2015

  • Orchestra Member: Peter Kronheimer - french horn - Strauss Concerto No. 2

  • Community Member: Sangyoon Kim - clarinet - Sarasate Carmen Fantasy

  • Honorable Mentions: Tae Kim - piano - Brahms Concerto No. 2, 1st movement. Katusaya Yuasa & Diana Searle - clarinets - Ponchielli Il Convegno Divertimento.

2014

  • Orchestra Member: John Guarino- Violin- Vieuxtemp - Violin Concerto No. 5

  • Community Member: Fred Sienkiewicz- Trumpet- Artunian - Trumpet Concerto in Ab Major