AMERICAN GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY
MIRROR SEPTEMBER 26, 2020 AT 8:00 PM EDT juventasmusic.org
STAFF Oliver Caplan
Artistic Director
Patrick Walker General Manager
Chris Beagan
Director of Marketing & Communications
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Joe Sedarski
Marketing Coordinator
ABOUT JUVENTAS Juventas New Music Ensemble is a contemporary chamber group with a special focus on emerging voices. Juventas shares classical music as a vibrant, living art form. We bring audiences music from a diverse array of composers that live in today’s world and respond to our time. Since its founding in 2005, Juventas has performed the music of over 200 living composers. The ensemble has earned a reputation as a curator with a keen eye for new talent. It opens doors for composers with top-notch professional performances that present their work in the best possible light. Recognition for the ensemble’s work includes the American Prize Ernst Bacon Award for Performance of American Music and support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Massachusetts Cultural Council, and Boston Foundation. Juventas is featured on albums by Innova Recordings, Parma Records and New Dynamic Records, and has held residencies at Boston Conservatory, Harvard University, Longy School of Music, Middlebury College, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Juventas has a storied history of dynamic collaboration with artists in other media, including dancers, painters, scientists, poets, puppeteers and robotics engineers. A leader in the field, Juventas also facilitates the Boston New Music Festival, a weeklong showcase of Boston’s contemporary music scene.
Rozime Lindsey
Arts Administration Intern
Aaron Wong
Arts Administration Intern
BOARD OF DIRECTORS John Carey President
Cashman Kerr Prince Treasurer
Alvin B. Carter III Carson Cooman Leslie Jacobson Kaye Rachel M. Rivkind Karen Ruymann Oliver Caplan ex officio
FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Welcome to Juventas New Music Ensemble’s 16th season! The title of our 2020-21 season is “Now More Than Ever,” because we need music now more than ever. Music has an incredible ability to heal and connect us. Difficult times are when we need music most. This year, we have re-envisioned our programming in light of COVID, so that wherever you are, however you are, we can still be with you. We invite you to make these evenings your own. If you’d like to meet the composers, join us a little early at 7pm ET on Zoom for an informal chat with composers and audience members, moderated by Professor Karen Ruymann of the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Our concert kicks-off at 8pm ET, broadcast on YouTube, with our musicians performing live from Futura Productions, a state-of-the-art recording studio in Boston. If you’d like to connect with other audience members while the music plays, join our YouTube chat window. And if you’re reading this, you’ve already found our downloadable program books! Tonight’s program “American Mirror” offers you six pieces that reflect on the fabric of American life. There is no one American story. Our nation’s greatness lies in its diversity. Each of the six composers has walked a different journey; and each shares their story through a unique musical voice. Speaking of our beloved country, the upcoming November 3 election is our collective opportunity to shape America’s future. I have a plan to vote and I hope you will join me in making your own. Visit www.vote.org for information on voter registration and polling places in your community. Sincerely, Oliver Caplan, Artistic Director Juventas New Music Ensemble
AMERICAN
MIRROR September 26, 2020 at 8:00 PM EDT Broadcast Live on YouTube FEATURING Nicholas Southwick, flute Wolcott Humphrey, clarinet Olga Patramanska-Bell, violin Ryan Shannon, violin Lu Yu, viola Minjin Chung, cello Julia Scott Carey, piano Juventas’s 2020-21 Season “Now More Than Ever” is generously sponsored by John A. Carey
Reminiscence (2019)*
Mari Kotskyy
Ryan Shannon, violin; Minjin Chung, cello; Julia Scott Carey, piano Bridge and Tunnel (2015)
Jessica Meyer
Wolcott Humphrey, clarinet; Lu Yu, viola; Julia Scott Carey, piano DISAGREE! (2016)
Miguel del Aguila
Wolcott Humphrey, clarinet; Ryan Shannon, violin; Minjin Chung, cello Julia Scott Carey, piano INTERMISSION Homeland (2018)
Allison Loggins-Hull Nicholas Southwick, flute
American Mirror (2017) Part I Part II
Derrick Spiva Jr.
Olga Patramanska-Bell, violin; Ryan Shannon, violin; Lu Yu, viola Minjin Chung, cello; Brad Dumont, conductor INTERMISSION Love Letters (2015)* Oliver Caplan Forever Began with Hello The Tree with the Lights in It Two Penguins in Love Nicholas Southwick, flute; Wolcott Humphrey, clarinet Olga Patramanska-Bell, violin; Ryan Shannon, violin; Lu Yu, viola Minjin Chung, cello *Audience favorite from the 2018-19 concert season
IN THE COMPOSERS’ OWN WORDS Mari Kotskyy Reminiscence This piece is about my emotions when I immigrated to New York from my hometown, Hokkaido, an island in northernmost Japan. When I came to New York I felt homesick and couldn’t stop thinking about my family, friends, and the beautiful nature back home in Hokkaido. However, little by little, I got used to New York life, and my sentimental feelings decreased. On September 18, Juventas recorded Mari Kotskyy’s Reminiscence for a forthcoming album on RMN Classical.
Jessica Meyer Bridge and Tunnel Living in NYC for over twenty-five years, you hear and see a lot. So many people whose lives intersect in so many ways, and this is especially noticeable when you take the subway. It is customary to sit in silence on the train, so it is fascinating to imagine what is going on in various people’s lives without hearing them speak. This piece is a short emotional ride through humanity, acknowledging the untold dramas that undoubtedly affect all of us from time to time.
Miguel del Aguila DISAGREE! Overloaded with apparently incompatible thematic material, DISAGREE! is a work about integrating disparity. By doing this, it celebrates and
makes a statement for pluralism in music and in our society. This “disagreement” of thematic material carries over to the performers who as the work progresses seem to increasingly disagree about the piece and its direction as they keep interrupting and at times, mocking each other. After much discrepancy, friendly dialogue and playfulness, a confrontation and a wild chase rushes the piece to its uplifting conclusion as all realize that they have made music together in spite of their differences. The varied thematic material is evocative of South American dances like Malambo, Vals Criollo, Tango and Milonga with occasional neo-romantic outbursts from the pianist, minimalist passages from clarinetist and violinist, pastoral moods and dissonant, polytonal percussive clashes. The clarinet and piano are often the soloists of the ensemble and dominate the piece with often virtuosic passages.
Allison Loggins-Hull Homeland Commissioned by The Texas Flute Society for the 2018 Myrna Brown competition, Homeland is a work for solo flute that questions the meaning of home when it is in political turmoil, devastated by a natural disaster or a human disaster.
Derrick Spiva Jr. American Mirror American Mirror reflects on the coming together of cultures in our society, which consists of many generations and descendants of refugees, immigrants, and slaves, and how intercultural collaborations are essential to the well-being of American society. Melodically, the piece draws from West African, North African, and Eastern European vocal techniques and ornamentations, in addition to modal scales. Underneath these melodies, American Mirror uses open harmonies commonly found in Appalachian folk
music, and also includes drones, an accompaniment practice found in many musical cultures.
Oliver Caplan Love Letters On June 6, 2015 I married the love of my life, Chris. Chris and I grew up in a time when two men could not marry. In 2004, our home state of Massachusetts was the first to guarantee marriage equality. Yet, on the day Chris and I tied the knot, our marriage was only recognized in some parts of our country. I composed this music for our ceremony as an expression of my deepest affection. The processional music, “Forever Began with Hello,” recalls the intoxicating magic of early love, with the main theme hued from our joined initials, C-B-O-C. “The Tree With the Lights in It,” performed as the ceremony’s interlude, draws its title from a passage in Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, a mutual favorite book we discussed at length on our first date. Three weeks after our wedding, the Supreme Court issued the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges ruling, which recognized the fundamental right for same-sex couples to marry. These momentous events are forever entwined in my memory, and I feel immense gratitude to everyone who persevered to make love and equality available to all. I am dedicating this performance of Love Letters to Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Her role in the Supreme Court’s 5-4 affirmation of marriage equality changed our lives—and the lives of countless couples nationwide—forever.
COMPOSERS MIGUEL
DEL AGUILA
Three-time Grammy-nominated American composer Miguel del Aguila is among the most distinctive and highly regarded composers of his generation, with over 120 works that couple drama and driving rhythm with nostalgic nods to his South American roots. His music, recorded in 45 CDs, has been hailed as “brilliant and witty” (The New York Times), “sonically dazzling” (Los Angeles Times), and “exquisitely imaginative” (Fanfare). Aguila has been commissioned or performed by over 100 orchestras including the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the symphonies of Toronto, Nashville, Seattle, Albany, San Antonio, Long Beach, and Virginia, and the Welsh BBC; the Philharmonic Orchestras of Heidelberg, Kiev and Odessa; the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Brandenburgisches
Staatsorchester, and the Sinfónica Nacional and Filarmónica de México; by ensembles such as Cuarteto Latinoamericano, Windscape, New Juilliard Ensemble, Camerata de las Americas, Imani Winds, Fifth House Ensemble, and the Pacifica and Verona Quartets. He has collaborated with conductors such as JoAnn Falletta, Giancarlo Guerrero, Marin Alsop, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Gerard Schwarz, David Alan Miller, Lukas Foss, Eckart Preu, and Ken Masur; and with soloists Manuel Barrueco and Richard Stoltzman among many others. He has received a Kennedy Center Friedheim Award and both a Music Alive Award and a Magnum Opus/Kathryn Gould Award from New Music USA. He was Lancaster Symphony’s 2009 Composer of the Year, and has won grants from the Copland and Argosy Foundations. Born in Uruguay in 1957, Aguila received musical training there, and at the conservatories of San Francisco and Vienna. After winning acclaim as pianist and composer in Vienna, he re-established himself in the U.S. in 1989 with a program of piano music at Carnegie Recital Hall and the premiere of Hexen by the Brooklyn Philharmonic conducted by Lukas Foss. He returned to California in 1992; soon thereafter the LA Times called him “one of the West Coast’s most promising young composers”.
A sought-after lecturer, curator and educator, Aguila is a frequent competition jurist and guest composer. He is 2020 Composer in Residence with Orchestra de las Americas and with Festival Alfredo de Saint Malo. His music is published by Peermusic Classical and Theodore Presser, and is self-published.
OLIVER CAPLAN
Award-winning American composer Oliver Caplan writes melodies that nourish our souls, offering a voice of hope in an uncertain world. Inspired by the resiliency of the human spirit and beauty of the natural world, his music celebrates stories of social justice, conservation and community. Mr. Caplan’s works have been performed in over 175 performances nationwide. He has been commissioned by the Atlanta Chamber Players, Bella Piano Trio, Bronx Arts Ensemble, Brookline Symphony Orchestra, Columbia University Wind Ensemble and New Hampshire Master Chorale, among others. Winner of a Special Citation for the American Prize in Orchestral Composition, additional recognitions include two Veridian Symphony Competition Wins, the Fifth House
Ensemble Competition Grand Prize, eight ASCAP Awards, and fellowships at Ragdale, VCCA and the Brush Creek Foundation. Recordings of Mr. Caplan’s music include his 2017 release You Are Not Alone, which has been featured on Apple Music’s Classical A-list and streamed over 200,000 times; 2012 debut album Illuminations; and tracks on Trio Siciliano’s Exploring Music (2018, U07 Records) and the Sinfonietta of Riverdale’s New World Serenade (2016, Albany Records). A leader in the field of contemporary classical music, Mr. Caplan is the Artistic Director of Juventas New Music Ensemble. Mr. Caplan holds degrees from Dartmouth College and the Boston Conservatory, is a voting member of the Recording Academy, and resides in Medford, Massachusetts.
MARI KOTSKYY
Mari Kotskyy is a New York-based award-winning composer, arranger and pianist, originally from Hokkaido, Japan. Her works have been performed throughout Asia, North America, and Europe.
Recently, Mari’s piano trio piece Reminiscence was selected by Juventas New Music Ensemble and performed at First Church in Boston, MA and at Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site in Cambridge, MA.
In 2008 Mari moved to New York and studied composition at The Juilliard School Evening Division under the guidance of Conrad Cummings. She continues to study at Berklee Online with a major in Music Composition for Film, TV, and Games.
Mari’s piano work Snowfall received a prize She released a piano album Rest in 2018. from the international composition competition “The contemporary piano 2019,” in Athens, Greece. Also, her other piano work Migrating LOGGINS-HULL Birds was selected by RMN classical in London, UK. The work was included in a piano album Modern Music for Piano 2, which was released in October 2019.
ALLISON
Furthermore, Mari collaborated with filmmakers, including the short film The Jane (2013), directed by Trevor Williams. Mari started taking piano lessons at the age of four and composition classes at the age of six at Yamaha School of Music in Japan. At these classes, she learned how to express her emotions through music and the precious experience made her really into music. She studied at Sapporo Otani College with a major in Music Education. In her third year of college, she joined the piano faculty at Yamaha School of Music in Sapporo, Japan. She also performed frequently both as soloist and accompanist.
Allison Loggins-Hull is a flutist, composer and producer with an active career performing and creating music of multiple genres. In 2009 she and Nathalie Joachim co-founded the critically acclaimed duo Flutronix, which was praised by The Wall Street Journal for being able “to redefine the instrument.” Similarly, MTV Iggy recognized Flutronix for “redefining the flute and modernizing its sound by hauling it squarely into the world of popular music.” Allison has performed at The Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Orchestra Hall (Chicago), World Cafe Live, and several other major venues and festivals around the world. She has performed
or recorded with a wide-range of artists including the International Contemporary Ensemble, Imani Winds, Lizzo, The National Sawdust Ensemble and others. With Flutronix, she has released two full studio albums (Flutronix and 2.0), a live album (Live From the Attucks Theatre), an EP (City of Breath) and is signed to Village Again Records in Japan. As a member of The Re-Collective Orchestra, Allison was co-principal flutist on the soundtrack to Disney’s 2019 remake of “The Lion King,” working closely with Hans Zimmer. On the small screen, she has been featured in an internationally broadcast ESPN Super Bowl commercial, the 62nd annual GRAMMYs Award Show and the Black Girls Rock! Awards Show.
Global Ventures and is a former faculty member of The Juilliard School’s Music Advancement Program. Allison lives with her family in Montclair, New Jersey.
JESSICA MEYER
With playing that is “fierce and lyrical” and works that are “other-worldly” (The Strad) Allison has composed for Flutronix, Julia and “evocative” (New York Times), Jessica Bullock and others and has been Meyer is a versatile composer and violist commissioned by The Metropolitan Museum whose passionate musicianship radiates of Art, Carolina Performing Arts, Alarm Will accessibility and emotional clarity. Her first Sound and The Library of Congress. She composer/performer portrait album recently was a co-producer of Nathalie Joachim’s debuted at #1 on the Billboard traditional celebrated album “Fanm d’Ayiti,” which was classical chart, where “knife-edge nominated for a 2020 GRAMMY for Best anticipation opens on to unexpected, often World Music Album. In support of her work, ecstatic musical realms, always with a Allison has been awarded grants from New personal touch and imaginatively written for Music USA and a fellowship at The Hermitage the instruments” (Gramophone Magazine). Artist Retreat in Englewood, Florida. Meyer’s compositions viscerally explore Allison is on the flute faculty of The John J. Cali the wide palette of emotionally expressive School of Music at Montclair State University. colors available to each instrument while She’s a teaching artist at The Juilliard School’s using traditional and extended techniques
inspired by her varied experiences as a contemporary and period instrumentalist. Since embarking on her composition career only five years ago, premieres have included performances by Grammy-winning vocal ensembles Roomful of Teeth and Vox Clamantis, the American Brass Quintet, cellist Amanda Gookin for her Forward Music Project, Sybarite 5, PUBLIQuartet, NOVUS NY of Trinity Wall Street, and a work for A Far Cry commissioned by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. As part of the residency, Ms. Meyer lived in the museum itself for a week to immerse herself in the creatively curated life and collected art of Mrs. Gardner to find inspiration for the work. Past orchestral performances of her work include engagements with the North Carolina Symphony, the Nu Deco Ensemble in Miami, Vermont Symphony, Sinfonia Gulf Coast, and the Studio Orchestra at Peabody Conservatory. Upcoming orchestral engagements include performances by the Phoenix Symphony, a concerto for herself with the League of Composers Orchestra to be premiered in Miller Theatre, and interactive performances in Carnegie Hall as part of their nationwide Link Up Program. Recent chamber works include commissions by the Juilliard School for a project with the Historical Performance Program, and by the
Lorelei Ensemble to create a song cycle based on the poetry of Sappho which received the Dale Warland Singers Commission Award from Chorus America. Highlights of next season include being Composer-in-Residence at Spoleto USA, a premiere at the National Gallery of Art, and works for the St. Lawrence String Quartet, flutist Allison Loggins-Hull for her “Diametrically Composed” project at National Sawdust, and for Sandbox Percussion with vocal duo Two Cities called “20 Minutes of Action”. This work will include quotes from Chanel Miller’s Victim Impact Statement that was read aloud to her attacker, Brock Turner, during the Stanford Rape Case Trial, alongside statements that both men and women hear from an early age that contribute to the rape culture in America. As a solo performer, Ms. Meyer uses a single simple loop pedal to create a virtuosic orchestral experience with her viola and voice. Drawing from wide-ranging influences which include Bach, Brahms, Delta blues, Flamenco, Indian Raga, and Appalachian fiddling, Meyer’s music takes audience members on a journey through joy, anxiety, anger, bliss, torment, loneliness and passion. Her solo shows have been featured at iconic venues such as BAMcafé, Joe’s Pub, and Symphony Space in NYC, the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, in Paris at Sunset Sunside, in addition to venues in Singapore, Switzerland, Vietnam, the Emirates
and beyond. In her new show to be premiered at the Tribeca New Music Festival next season titled “And She”, Jessica partners with dancer Caroline Fermin while taking the vivid poetry of four acclaimed living women poets in order to explore two universal experiences – the joys and heartaches of love, and the death of a parent. At home with many different styles of music and an ardent collaborator, Jessica can regularly be seen performing on Baroque viola, improvising with jazz musicians, or collaborating with other performer/composers. Ms. Meyer is equally known for her inspirational work as an educator, where she empowers musicians with networking, communication, teaching, and entrepreneurial skills so they can be the best advocates for their own careers. Her workshops have been featured at the Juilliard School, the Curtis Institute of Music, for the Teaching Artists of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Manhattan School of Music, the Longy School of Music, NYU, the Chamber Music America Conference, and at various universities around the country. Jessica has conducted over a thousand workshops for hundreds of public-school students and adults for Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Caramoor, the Little Orchestra Society, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Currently, she is most passionate about getting musicians of all ages off the page to
activate their own creativity, improvise, and awaken their own inner composer – which in turn makes them better performers. In addition to teaching virtual workshops, her most recent engagements have been for the Moab Music Festival, the National Youth Orchestra of Carnegie Hall, and for the North Carolina Chamber Music Institute.
DERRICK SPIVA JR.
Derrick Spiva Jr. is a composer and musician based in the Los Angeles area who often integrates music practices from different cultural traditions around the world into his work with classical music communities. The Los Angeles Times has described his music as “something to savor” and “enormous fun to listen to.” During his studies at the University of California, Los Angeles and the California Institute of the Arts, music across many cultures became an integral part of his musical vocabulary. Spiva studied classical music with Ian Krouse, Alex Shapiro, Paul Chihara, Randy Gloss, and David Rosenboom while also studying West African music and dance with Kobla Ladzekpo; Persian music
theory with Pirayeh Pourafar and Houman Pourmehdi; Balkan music theory with Tzvetanka Varimezova; and tala (rhythmic cycles) in Hindustani classical music with Swapan Chaudhuri and Aashish Khan.
Spiva has given pre-concert talks and workshops about the use of non-Western music in his compositions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Skirball Cultural Center. He received the New Music USA Award in 2010 and 2011 and was Spiva’s works have been premiered by the Los awarded a composer residency with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Sphinx Virtuoso, Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) through Dayton Philharmonic, Albany Symphony, New Music USA’s “Music Alive” program Los Angeles Electric 8, the Salastina Music with LACO for the 2015-2016 season. He Society, Lyris Quartet, Super Devoiche served as a panelist for the 2019 League of (Bulgarian Women’s Choir), and Lian Orchestras Conference, and previously spoke Ensemble (Persian Ensemble). Highlights of at the 2016 League of Orchestras Conference the 2019-2020 Season include new works on the topic of how classical music orchestras for Los Angeles Master Chorale, Los Angeles can forge stronger relationships with their Chamber Orchestra, and Berkeley Symphony. diverse communities. Spiva serves as Artistic Director of the new music collective and arts organization Bridge to Everywhere.
Spiva is an American who has Ghanaian, Nigerian, British, Irish, and Native American ancestry. His ancestry and identity have led him to claim and develop an “American” aesthetic that incorporates many cultural influences into his work, reflecting the diverse communities he is part of. Spiva passionately believes in music as a doorway into understanding other cultures and different ways of living. Through learning the music of other cultures, the opportunity for dialogue rather than conflict between strangers is opened, and our society can become one with less conflict due to cultural misunderstanding. He is deeply invested in fostering creative and effective collaboration between artists of different disciplines and traditions.
MUSICIANS JULIA SCOTT CAREY piano
Julia Scott Carey began her music training at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School, where she received the Lanier Prize for Most Outstanding Graduating Senior. She was one of the first students admitted to the Harvard-NEC joint degree program, through which she received a master’s degree in composition. She received a second master’s degree in collaborative piano from Boston University. Julia is the Minister of Music at the Central Square Congregational Church in Bridgewater, where she leads the adult and children’s choirs from the keyboard. She is one of the accompanists for the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and the Boston Symphony Children’s Choir. She also serves as the accompanist for the Metropolitan Chorale of Brookline, the Dedham Choral Society, the Boston College University Chorale, and the Boston Saengerfest Men’s Chorus. She previously served as the pianist for the Handel and Haydn
Society’s Educational Vocal Quartet, the Wellesley College Chamber Singers, and the Boston Children’s Chorus. She is also a founder and core ensemble member of Juventas New Music Ensemble. As a composer, her orchestral works have been performed by numerous orchestras, including the BSO and the Boston Pops, and her works have been broadcast on national TV and radio in the United States and in Russia. She was the youngest composer ever published by the Theodore Presser Company. She was also chosen to arrange a folk song for Yo-Yo Ma and Lynn Chang to play at Deval Patrick’s inaugural ball. She has served as a music director or accompanist for over forty opera and musical theater productions. Productions for which Julia was the music director include Cy Coleman’s City of Angels with the Longwood Players and Alexander Zemlinsky’s Der Zwerg with OperaHub. Reviewing a performance Julia conducted of Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi with the Hubbard Hall Opera Company, the Berkshire Hudson Arts Review said “the
same organization. Speaking of her performance as a harpsichordist in the Boston Opera Collaborative’s production of Le nozze di Figaro, the Boston Musical Intelligencer said, “The unwavering harpsichord accompaniment of Julia Carey richly and expressively textured the recitatives.” Julia currently works as a musicianship teacher and department coordinator at the Suzuki School in Newton. She also taught an undergraduate music theory class at Boston College, served as a keyboard harmony teaching fellow at NEC, and worked as a musical theatre teacher at the Belvoir Terrace Arts Camp and the Boston Children’s Theatre. Julia lives in Winchester with her husband and her daughter. In addition to music, she loves cooking, running, and spending time on Cape Cod.
MINJIN CHUNG cello
players and singers were not just led, but were energized. Schicchi is a tough score, and Julia stood the test.” Also passionate about early music, Julia music directed a staged performance of four of Louis-Nicolas Clérambault’s Cantatas with the Harvard Early Music Society, which was taken on tour to Versailles. She also music directed a performance of John Eccles’ Semele with the
Leslie Jacobson Kaye and Richard Kaye have generously sponsored Minjin Chung for the 2020-21 concert season. Minjin Chung is a cellist based in Boston who enjoys an active career as a freelance musician
and is on the cello faculty of the Dedham School of Music. Praised by the Boston Music Intelligencer for her “beautiful sweeping melody played with grace” she has appeared in the top concert halls in the world such as Carnegie Hall, Symphony Hall, Jordan Hall, and the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. She is an avid performer of new music and has premiered countless new works throughout her years as a student and in her professional career. As an orchestral player, she has attended the Aspen Music Festival as a New Horizon Fellow and has performed with the Sinfonia da Camera, Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and the New World Symphony. As a soloist, she has received awards from the Richmond Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition, Virginia Lions Club Bland Music Competition, Virginia String Teachers Association Solo Competition, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Concerto Competition. Born in South Korea, Ms. Chung moved to the U.S. at the age of 5 and grew up in Blacksburg, Virginia where she began her musical studies. Upon falling madly in love with classical music at the age of 17, she graduated from high school a year early to focus on preparing for music school auditions. She was awarded a full tuition scholarship to attend the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign as a student of Dmitry Kouzov and received her master’s degree at the New England Conservatory as a student of Natasha Brofsky. In her free time, she loves to paint, go to the beach, and take long walks with her dog, Jackie.
WOLCOTT
HUMPHREY clarinet
Clarinetist Wolcott Humphrey, originally from western New York, earned a B.M. in Clarinet Performance from Ithaca College in 2006, and went on to earn an M.M. and a Graduate Diploma in Clarinet Performance from the New England Conservatory in 2008 and 2009, respectively. Wolcott has studied clarinet with E. Michael Richards, Richard Faria, William Wrzesien, and Craig Nordstrom. Humphrey is passionate about new music, and has performed in contemporary chamber ensembles in Ithaca, Providence (Ensemble Parallax), and Boston (Juventas and Sound Icon) as well as at the Charles E. Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music. He was also in the premiere performance of White Snake Projects’ comic opera REV. 23 in Boston. Humphrey was the principal clarinetist of the Salt Lake Symphonic Winds, performing Martin Ellerby’s Clarinet Concerto with the group in 2011. While living in Providence, he was the principal clarinetist of Fall River Symphony, the co-principal clarinetist of the American Band, and a member of several woodwind chamber groups. Humphrey is the assistant principal clarinetist of
the Met Winds, performing the Artie Shaw Clarinet Concerto with the group at the Association of Concert Bands convention in New Jersey and at the Festival of Bands in Boston. Humphrey performs with Brookline Symphony, and the chamber ensembles Some Assembly Required and the Kalliope Ensemble. Wolcott has been the core clarinetist of Juventas New Music Ensemble since 2012.
OLGA
PATRAMANSKA BELL violin
Oliver Caplan and Chris Beagan have generously sponsored Olga Patramanska-Bell for the 2020-21 concert season Olga Patramanska-Bell was born and raised in Ukraine, where she received her musical education. After finishing her B.M. at the R.M. Glier Kyiv State Higher Music College and studying a few years at the National Musical Academy of Ukraine, she came to Boston to continue her education at the Longy School of Music. She received her M.M. under the guidance of Mark Lakirovich. Patramanska-Bell is an active performer and participant in numerous concerts, projects and
festivals. She is a winner of Concerto competition and Honors competition at the Longy School of Music, and has performed as a soloist with the Longy Chamber Orchestra, National Pops Symphony Orchestra and Philharmonia Orchestra in Ukraine. Patramanska-Bell is a winner of several competitions in Ukraine and has travelled through Europe performing solo recitals and playing in violin ensembles. Currently, Patramanska-Bell is on the string faculty at the Winchester Community Music School, is a member of Zefira trio, Grand Harmonie, an assistant member of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and Symphony New Hampshire, member of the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra. Patramanska-Bell performed with such groups as Boston New Music Initiative, Equilibrium Ensemble, Walden Chamber Music Players, ECCE ensemble, Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra. Served as a concertmaster for Boston Opera Collaborative, Harvard’s Lowell House Opera and Commonwealth Lyric Theater. This year’s engagements include performances with Juventas New Music Ensemble and Sound Icon. In addition to giving private lessons Patramanska-Bell is actively playing chamber music with her friends in the Greater Boston area.
RYAN
NICK
violin
flute
SHANNON
Kevin Mathieu has generously sponsored Ryan Shannon for the 2020-21 concert season. Ryan Shannon began his musical journey in the mountains of Colorado at five years old when his father, an amateur pianist, gave him his first violin. Sensing his love of music, his parents made it possible for him to attend the Walnut Hill School for the Arts. Ryan continued his studies at the New England Conservatory, where he studied with Lucy Chapman and Nicholas Kitchen, graduating in 2014. As a student, Ryan had the life-changing opportunity to attend the Center for the Development of Arts Leaders program at From The Top. Through this year-long partnership with the Hope Lodge, a residence for cancer patients, He learned that music can bring together those who are struggling through difficult circumstances. In recent years he has worked to bring this love to as many people as possible. He does this as an educator, as a member of Palaver Strings, and as an explorer of new music with Juventas New Music Ensemble, whose vivacious energy creates a powerful connection between music and the hearts of those who listen.
SOUTHWICK
Praised by the Royal Gazette for his “beautiful phrasing” and “bright and lively playing” and by the Boston Musical Intelligencer for his “admirable ensemble cohesion,” flutist Nicholas Southwick made his international solo debut at the age of 18 performing the music of J.S. Bach with the Bermuda Chamber Orchestra in Hamilton, Bermuda and has since performed in Austria, France, the United Kingdom, and northern Italy, where he held a principal flute fellowship position at the Trentino Festival. He holds awards from the Presser Foundation, Orchestra of the Americas, and Bay Chamber Concerts. Based in Boston, Nicholas is core flutist of the Juventas New Music Ensemble and enjoys an active career as a freelance musician throughout New England, appearing with the Boston Opera Collaborative, Bangor Symphony Orchestra, New Hampshire Festival Orchestra, Harvard Radcliffe Choral Society, Manchester Choral Society, Salem Classical, King’s Chapel Recital Series, and Bay Chamber Concerts, among many others. Nicholas received his Bachelor of Arts degree Summa Cum Laude in music and French from
Gordon College, where he was the first prizewinner of the 2015 Concerto Competition. He earned his graduate degree at Bard College’s Longy School of Music under the tutelage of Marco Granados and Robert Willoughby. He also studied with Andrea Mairhofer at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, Austria and has performed in masterclasses for Trevor Wye, Lorna McGhee, Rachel Brown, Samuel Coles, and Jean Ferrandis. In demand as an instructor, Nicholas serves on the flute faculties of the Tufts University Community Music Programs, Concord Conservatory of Music, and Ipswich Schools. In 2017, he traveled to Cap-Haitian, Haiti under the auspices of the Fulbright Association to teach flutists at the Institut de Musique “Cemuchca.”
LU YU
degree. Ms. Yu then studied with Marcus Thompson at the New England Conservatory in Boston where she received her Master of Music degree. Among her numerous awards, she was granted “The Young Musician of 2008” in Hong Kong. Her performance career has led to being the founding violist of the Loki String Quartet which is in residence at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Ms. Yu is also principal violist of the Boston Civic Symphony, performs with the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, was recently co-principal viola of the Missouri Symphony and frequently performs with many of the ensembles around the Boston area.
BRAD DUMONT conductor
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Born in China, Lu Yu began her musical studies at the age of six on violin. She started to play viola as her principal instrument at age twelve at the Xinghai Conservatory of Music in Guangzhou, China. Her studies then took her to the Royal Academy of Music in London with a full scholarship where she learned under the tutelage of Matthew Souter for the Bachelor of Music
Brad Dumont is a passionate arts advocate working to create and support artistic projects that contribute to cultural improvement and community-based arts education. As a conductor, he believes in the power of choral singing to build empathetic communities — providing space for those who may otherwise not be heard. Brad is committed to a process oriented approach of music-making which allows for artists to explore broad themes within the topics of equity and justice.
Brad serves as the Director of Choral Activities at Assumption University and as the Music Director of the Salisbury Singers in Worcester, MA. Additionally, Brad serves as the vice president of the New Hampshire Master Chorale and on the artistic planning team for the Boston-based choir VOICES 21C where he helps develop creative staging and narrative driven programs. Brad manages operations and media for Emmanuel Music in Boston, is vice chair of the Greater Boston Choral Consortium, a producer for The Choral Commons, and an Empowering Song leader in centers of incarceration around Suffolk County. Brad is currently a doctoral candidate in choral conducting at The Hartt School studying with Dr. Anthony Trecek-King. He received a Master of Music in Choral Conducting at Boston University with Dr. Miguel Felipe and Bramwell Tovey and undergraduate degrees from Plymouth State University in New Hampshire.
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