Juventas 2021-22 Annual Impact Report

COALESCENCE

JUVENTAS NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE

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.

WHO WE ARE

Since its founding in 2005, Juventas has performed the music of more than 300 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.

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 week-long showcase of Boston’s contemporary music scene.

Juventas presents the best music you haven’t heard– yet.

THE JUVENTAS 21-22 IMPACT AT A GLANCE

“Working with Juventas was, in every way, a beautiful experience. From the moment I walked into the performance space, I was greeted with so many kind faces who were ready to introduce me to the team. I was blown away with the sense of genuine passion for the art they were creating which ultimately culminated in a stellar performance. I truly felt lucky to be a part of it all.”

— Cole Reyes, composer

MAIN STAGE SEASON

Memory and Hope

September 11, 2021

Multicultural Arts Center (Cambridge, MA) and Live on YouTube

Commemorating the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and honoring our communities losses to COVID-19

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December 11, 2021

Multicultural Arts Center (Cambridge, MA) and Live on YouTube

Five composers engage with their musical DNA

Ryan Shannon: Center Stage

January 29, 2022 Live on YouTube

Celebrating the violin virtuoso and his five seasons with Juventas

Lungs of the City March 26, 2022

Multicultural Art Center (Cambridge, MA) and Live on YouTube

Honoring the bicentennial of Frederick Law Olmsted, who inspired a nation, with green spaces that became part of the American fabric

Music in Bloom

June 5 and 12 New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill (Boylston, MA)

Juventas family favorite returned to New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill, with an evening of open-air music and an all-new program featuring 20+ contemporary composers

ADDITIONAL PERFORMANCES

Music of the Genome

May 5, 2021 Museum of Science (Boston, MA)

A groundbreaking live concert of music and science, in collaboration with Multiverse Concert Series and the Curie Institute of Paris Museum of Science, Cahners Theater, Boston, MA

A Vision of Hills

June 25 and 26, 2021 West Medford Open Studios (Medford, MA) and Longfellow House Washington’s Headquarters (Cambridge, MA)

Free concerts offered in the Greater Boston area, further expanding the in-person reach of Juventas.

Beside the Sea

August 16, 2021 Parker’s River Beach (South Yarmouth, MA)

A program of American classics, old and new

FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Dear Juventas Community,

I will always remember that moment at our September 2021 concert “Memory & Hope,” when our musicians walked on stage to welcome an in-person concert hall audience for the first time in 18 months. The joy was palpable, as booming applause filled the air. In that special moment, we honored our deep bond with our audience.

There was another cause for celebration that evening too. Not only had Juventas survived a pandemic that could easily have leveled our small organization, we were thriving. After 18 months of leadership in virtual programming, Juventas’s 2021-22 season was our first-ever hybrid season, welcoming both in-person audiences in Massachusetts, while simultaneously live-streaming to viewers around the world. We have committed to continual adaptation and investment in technology, so that everyone can join us, regardless of geography or circumstance. Juventas’s annual reach is now 3,000 people in-person and over 20,000 online, a stunning impact for an organization of our size.

As we turn toward our current 2022-23 season, we are excited to take a moment to look back and reflect on the achievements of our recently completed 2021-22 season. Everything described in these pages—all of the hearts touched with our ensemble’s great performances—is possible because of your support, and for that, we are eternally grateful.

Sincerely,

Oliver Caplan ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, JUVENTAS NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE

HIGHLIGHTS

Our 2021-22 season was full of proud moments. As an audience we shared in the collective experience of togetherness and reflection, and as a team we found a means of overcoming challenges leftover from lockdown. Here are just a few of our many high points.

BACK IN THE CONCERT HALL

September 11, 2021 marked Juventas’ return to the concert hall for the first time since the pandemic. After 18 months of virtual programming, it felt euphoric to physically reunite with our community in the concert hall. The tireless dedication of our musicians, staff, and production crew culminated in this beautiful moment of joy and relief.

“Memory and Hope” was Juventas’s first-ever hybrid concert. During the height of the pandemic, our virtual programs saw audiences as high as 7,000 people per concert. Seeing this global interest in our music, we committed to welcoming both an in-person audience at the Multicultural Arts Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and viewers around the world watching a simultaneous high-definition live stream on YouTube.

“Being back together with other music lovers for the first time in over a year, and to be doing something that we all love to do, which is to really take in the performances, connect with the performers and musicians… I can’t put it into words what it means to be back in a situation like this.”

Audience Member at Music In Bloom

FIRST-EVER HYBRID SEASON

“Juventas is continually on the cutting edge, rising to the occasion every season, as with their live-streamed concerts during Covid, where they set a tremendous standard for concert production, presenting gorgeously choreographed, beautifully filmed, LIVE concerts that wowed myself and others in the audience. When I am asked for ideas by presenters for how to produce concerts, especially during this difficult time, Juventas is who I recommend as inspiration, every time.”

— Stephanie Ann Boyd, composer

OUR ONLINE VIRTUAL CONCERTS

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over 30K people in and 49 countries in 45 U.S. states

This new hybrid structure came with many challenges and changes for Juventas. To prioritize the health and safety of our community, we required all audience members to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to attend our concerts in-person. We asked audiences to mask-up, limited our attendance to 50% of the venue’s capacity, and made sure the MERV-14 air filters were up and running at the Multicultural Arts Center.

Looking towards the future, “Memory and Hope” captured our growing sense of optimism and strength of persevering to find light from darkness. But the concert also sought to validate and explore the effects of pandemic isolation, reflecting on the lessons we learned living through this time of uncertainty and upheaval. “Memory and Hope” was dedicated to the people– many of them our own family and friends– that we lost during the pandemic.

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THE WORLD PREMIERE OF “MILLENNIAL ELEGY”

The centerpiece of Juventas’ “Memory and Hope” performance was the world premiere of “Millennial Elegy,”a piece Juventas commissioned from composer Stephanie Ann Boyd. This special commission marked a new high point of Juventas’s collaborative relationship with Boyd, which extends back to 2014. As Juventas musicians played Boyd’s melody for the first time, the concert hall was filled with the light of forty battery-powered candles in the hands of our audience members, lit in remembrance.

Boyd’s piece marks the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States and honors everyone we lost to COVID. “These two tragedies have been the moments for those of my generation and culture where time stopped,” shares Ms. Boyd. “Writing this piece has been a very tender, at times difficult process, and how could it not be? The far off memories of twenty years ago, being ten years old and asking my grandfather what was happening and having him, a man who I felt knew everything, solemnly tell me ‘Stephanie...I don’t know,’ mingled with the much more vivid memories of being in New York City in the spring of 2020, watching Covid cases grow exponentially every day.” Boyd partnered with award-winning poet Jessica Lynn Suchon, a long-time collaborator, who wrote original lyrics to speak to the moment.

“Juventas has set a standard in performing, presenting, and promoting contemporary work that I look up to and am incredibly proud to be a part of. From my first Juventas performance in 2014 that featured one of my earliest works, Fantasia Olora (2008) to the 2019/2020 season where they played Fantasia Olora and Lullaby for Sophie (2017), to the 2020/2021 season, where they programmed Auctumnus (2013) and Astrum Agri (2015), Juventas has been a dazzling light in my career. In sharing these works with a wide and diverse audience, Juventas treats listeners not only to the music itself, but takes them on a deep dive into the backgrounds and stories surrounding these works, creating a delightful and holistic concert experience often aspired to by other organizations but seldom achieved.”

— Stephanie Ann Boyd, composer

MUSIC FOR ALL LAUNCH

In September 2021, we launched our “Music for All” program, offering $1 tickets to anyone who can’t afford our regular prices, for any reason– no questions asked.

Juventas aims for everyone to be able to join us, regardless of circumstance, because music is and should be for all. Already we are starting to see the impact that “Music for All” can have on lowering the barriers of entry for potential concert-goers. By our March 26th “Lungs for the City” concert, 15% of ticket-buyers came through our “Music for All” program, bringing in Juventas first-timers and widening the reach of our living, breathing, new music.

Looking forward, we are working to expand the awareness of this program, so that even more people can join us in the concert hall.

LOOKING AHEAD

Cloud Anthem

October 29-30, 2022

Granoff Music Center, Tufts University (Medford, MA) Colonial Theater (Laconia, NH) and Live on YouTube

With the New Hampshire Master Chorale, Dan Perkins, Artistic Director

A special program of choral music by Artistic Director Oliver Caplan, celebrating his fifth season leading Juventas

Kelley Hollis: Center Stage

January 21, 2023

Multicultural Arts Center (Cambridge, MA) and Live on YouTube

Juventas Soprano Kelley Hollis headlines this rare solo concert, with a program centered on mental health and healing Concert for Peace March 18, 2023

Multicultural Arts Center (Cambridge, MA) and Live on YouTube

Seven composers call for a better tomorrow

Music in Bloom

June 11 & 25, 2023

New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill (Boylston, MA)

Juventas family favorite returns to New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill, with an enchanting evening of open-air music and an all-new program featuring 20+ contemporary composers

“Juventas plays an important role in bringing new music to life, joining the dots between living composers and an audience that might otherwise not have discovered them. As a composer being introduced to Juventas, I suddenly felt part of a new family, a very welcoming one with a positive ethos. This, combined with dedicated musicians who give fine performances, will give many composers a great sense of purpose when their works are premiered by Juventas.”

— Oliver Davis, composer

Juventas is founded on building direct and personal relationships. Music is first and foremost about the people, who each participate in making this art form a transcendent, conscious experience of the present. We often refer to the Juventas community as one big ‘family,’ dedicated to celebrating each other and each of our individual contributions to the new music community.

We are pleased to introduce you to our Juventas family: our board, staff, musicians, composers, and supporters.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

John Carey President

Carson Cooman

Meghan Guidry Clerk

Alvin Carter II

STAFF

Leslie Jacobson Kaye

Rachel M. Rivkind

Karen Ruymann

Andrew Wilkins

Oliver Caplan Artistic and Executive Director

Joseph Sedarski Marketing Coordinator

Chris Petre-Baumer Director of Design

Saskia den Boon Communications Coordinator

Rozime Lindsey Arts Administration Intern

Cashman Kerr Prince

Julia Scott Carey Piano Minjin Chung Cello

Kelley Hollis Soprano

Anne Howarth Horn Olga Patramanska-Bell Violin

Thomas Schmidt Percussion

Ryan Shannon Violin

Nicholas Southwick Flute

Lu Yu Viola

PRINCIPAL GUEST ARTISTS

Barth Cello Mary Chris DeBelina Dance Pete Walsh Bass

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FEATURED COMPOSERS

Lauren Bernofsky

Susan Botti

Stephanie Ann Boyd Oliver Caplan

Andrea Clearfield

Nell Shaw Cohen

Carson Cooman John Corigliano

Rosśa Crean

Miguel Del Aguila

Michael W. Donovan Paquito D’Rivera

Evan Fein

Stacy Garrop

Gina Gillie

Josh Gottry

FEATURED COMPOSERS (cont.)

Anthony Green

Robert Honstein Joe Jaxson

Susan Kandler

Michael Keegan Mari Kotskyy Ernesto Lecuona Quinn Mason

Edgar Meyer

Libby Meyer

Jessie Montgomery Mary Montgomery Koppel

Jorge Montilla James Naigus Ayumi Okada

Drew Phillips

Justin Ralls

Kian Ravaei

Cole Reyes Wendell Rosa

FEATURED COMPOSERS (cont.)

Robert Ruohola Christina Rusnak Gene Scheer Joe Sedarski

Derrick Skye John Phillip Sousa Ryan Suleiman Eric Street

Andy Stein Piotr Szewczyk Michael Thomas-Foumai Gwynneth Walker

Paul Wiancko Emma Wine

DONORS

$5,000 AND ABOVE

Boston Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture

John A. Carey

Jon Saxton and Barbara Fox

Massachusetts Cultural Council New Music USA U.S. Small Business Administration

$1,000–$4,999

Bill and Paula Luria Caplan

Oliver Caplan and Chris Beagan

Carson Cooman

Leslie Jacobson Kaye and Richard Kaye

Medford Arts Council

The Ripley-Steinemann Family Fund Nora Roberts Foundation Karen and Fred Ruymann Andrew Wilkins

$300–$999

Jonathan Aibel and Julie Rohwein

Charles Anderson

Boylston Cultural Council

Casey Elia

Michael Emanuel and Christie Gibson

Janet Giovanniello

Meghan Guidry

Mary Humphrey

MaryBeth Manca

May Marquebreuck

Katherine & Bryce Remesch

Rachel M. Rivkind

Geoffrey Smith

Theodor Weinberg and Eric Hyett

$200–$299

Minda Berbeco

Alexandra Bowers and James Liu

Eric Darling

Lauren Downing and Roseanne Luvisi

Jerry and Joanne Dreher

Yukiko Egozy

Ann Ferentz

Margaret Fuchs Moriah Freeman

Myra and Roy Gordon

Patricia Henry Kenneth Krause and Maura McEnaney

Ian Lai

Stella Lee

Joshua Levit

Kathryn Ritcheske

Chuck Sheketoff and Naseem Rakha

Ben Sweetser

Emma Wine

$100–$199

Lawrence Banks

Laura Basford

Lee Binnig

Andrew Caplan and Elise Viebeck

Heidi Carell

Laurence Cohen and Susan Worst

Jaclyn Dentino

Alfreid Doig

Susan Dolan Anne Drogula

Maggie Edinger

Lynn Eustis Andy Foery Michael Gandolfi Maureen Hollis Beth Jacob

Laurie Jacobs and Steven Levine Jim Kane and Sharon Williams Mari and Denys Kotskyy Matthew Kusulas Douglass Lee Steven Lewis Ann MacDonald Honor McClellan Reeva Meyer Christine Mortensen Susan Hall Mygatt Alice and Joe Noble

Robert Page

Richard Pasquarelli

Andrew Reiss

Jill Rapperport and Ian Reiss

Randy Reiss

John Resig

Lindsey Rogers Harshita Sahu

Lori K. Sanders

Gordon and Shannon Shannon

Benjamin Smith & Sarah Boehm Cathy and Jerry Smith Trisha Solio

Tina Strunk

Sharon Daniels Sullivan Ann Teixeira

Megan Tompkins

Andy Vores Murray Woolf Laura Yoo

$50–$99

Simon Andrews

Oscar Arce

Susan Axe-Bronk Kenneth Bigley Anne Bilder Saskia Den Boon Margaret Cain Julia Scott Carey and Richard Mitrano Lucy Chapman

Szu-Chiao Chen Rachel Ciprotti Theodora Colburn

Carrie Conaway Deanne McCredie Coolidge

Sheri Dean Mary Chris DeBelina Doyle BJ Dunn

Isadel Eddy

Andrew Elliott and John Varone Jay Emperor Roy Epstein

Shaun Eyring Anthony Ferello Steven Finley Geoffrey Frank Irene Hermann Jacob Hilley Anne Howarth Mary and David Howarth Wolcott Humphrey

Joseph Hutcheson

Catherine Hyson

Elizabeth Igleheart

Emlyn Johnson

Jerry Johnson James and Amie Jones

Leonard and Terry Kahn

Rebecca Krouner

Jane Parkin Kullmann

Ludmilla Leibman

Harold Lichtin

Xiomara Lorenzo and Cara Herbitter

Linda Markarian

Libby Meyer

Donna Migdal Herbert Motley

To our donors, we exist because of you! You have sparked Juventas’s growth for years, bringing vitality to our concerts, allowing our continued livestreams to hold global impact, and investing in our “Music for All” program. Thank you!

Divya Narayan

William Neely

Jason Newman

Angela Ng

Linda Ng

Loretta Notareschi

Ayumi Okada

Sarah Peck

Dan Perkins

Karen Poggi

Cashman Kerr Prince and Bryan Burns

Stephen Quan

Kathleen Quigley

Beverly Rivkind

Alexis Ruegger

Richard Samuels

Thomas Schmidt Daron Sharps

Ken Silber

Kyle Simpson Deborah Smith

Arlene Stevens

Josh Thomas Kelsey Thompson Barbara Turen

J.M. Vrtilek

Elaine Walsh Dalit Warshaw Beverly Woodward and Paul Monsky

Up to $49

Samuel Adams

Jaime Alberts

Katherine Alden

Aaron Alon

Tatev Amiryan

Jason Atsales

Kingdon Barrett

Thomas Barth Gail Barry Robert Bawn

Sebastian Baverstam

Robert Bawn

Erica Beade

Lisa Beade

Robert Beagan

Lauren Bilello

Deborah Bohn

Gatean Bouchard

Rosemary Bramante

Julianna Braun

Bruce Brolsma

Elizabeth Bukey

Trudy Chan

Grace Chua Minjin Chung

Jane Ciesielski

Linda Ciesielski

Jennifer Clapp Charles Coe

Nell Shaw Cohen

Burton Cohen

Jean Collins

Elizabeth Dean Ashley Dennis

Abigail Dusseldorp

Reggie Edmonds

Sandra Eldred Rebecca Entel Corinne Espinoza Evan Fein Ellen Feingold

David Feltner

Celine Ferro Mitch FitzDaniel

Ellen Fries

Anna Galavis

Joshua Glassman

Tina Goel

Kendra Goodwin

Nancy Goodwin

Tamara Grant

Alkis Hadjiosif

Julianna Hall Andy Hanson-Dvoracek

Amanda Harberg Hikari Hathaway Beth Hayes

Rose Hegele Susanna Hoglund Kelley Hollis Scott Humes Marie Hutchings Joseph Jackson Jennifer Jean Jason Jeong Todd Johnson Dan Jost Masashi Kato Caroline Keinath

Jennifer Kern-Kaminsky Caroline Kerr Rakesh Khetarpal Brian Kiernan Gareth King Phil Kohlmetz

Bruce Kozuma Abigail Krawson Sasha Kuftinec

Gulce Kureli

Ursula Kwong-Brown Rozime Lindsey

George Lockhart

Zev Lowe

Jiayin Lu

Rachel Luria Lizzy MacDonald Carol McAdam

Maggie McKee Taylor McNulty Samantha Meeker Juston Mog Jennifer Montbach Erin Nelson

Yayoi Narita Carolyn Oberting Erik Oschsner Elliot Olshansky Karen Parrott Olga Patramanskaya Jason Pavel & Marie Walcott Andrew Pease

Nadya Peresleni Charisse Pickron Gretchen Pineo Christopher Porter Raymond Raad Laura Ramsey Helen Ray Phoebe Reeves Jordan Reiss Christopher Reiss Jeffrey Reiss Elie Reiss

Ginny Remedi-Brown Cole Reyes Irene Riney

Roberta Ritcheske Joan Rothman

Jason Rubin Christina Rusnak Seulgee Ryals Aleida Sanabria-Gil Adam Sapp Maya Schiek Margot and Andrew Schmolka Kristen Schroeder Joseph Sedarski Josh Sedarski Dennis Shafer Ryan Shannon Jospehine Stein Imogene Stulken Ryan Suleiman

Lisa Vaas Brent Whelan Christopher Wicks Erin Williams William Williams

OUR VISION FOR THE FUTURE

We are building on recent momentum to lift Juventas to the next level.

By 2024, we aim: To hire a full-time general manager who can support increased performance activity.

By 2025, we aim: For musician compensation to be in parity with union rates

By 2026, we aim: To start an endowment that can provide a stable income stream to supplement other sources.

By 2035, we aim: For Juventas to own its own venue that we can deploy for Juventas performances, and rent at affordable rates to other ensembles in the Boston area. Your support makes a difference. Support Juventas today.