Nicholas Southwick Center Stage Program Book

NICHOLAS SOUTHWICK CENTER STAGE Featuring Juventas’s celebrated flautist in a virtuosic solo program.

JANUARY 25, 2025 | 8 PM MULTICULTURAL ARTS CENTER CAMBRIDGE, MA + LIVE ON YOUTUBE JANUARY 26, 2025 | 4 PM FIRST PARISH SUDBURY SUDBURY, MA

“This season will be the ensemble’s most ambitious yet.”

—Jason M. Rubin, The Arts Fuse

LEGACY

CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF JUVENTAS STUDIO TO STAGE SEP 13, 14 & 15

JUVENTAS AT 20 NOV 16

NICHOLAS SOUTHWICK: CENTER STAGE JAN 25 & 26

UP NEXT SOUNDS OF NEW ENGLAND JAN 31–FEB 2 FEB 8 & MAY 4

ENCORE! MAR 22

MUSIC IN BLOOM JUNE 8 & 15

NICHOLAS SOUTHWICK CENTER STAGE JANUARY 25, 2025 | 8 PM MULTICULTURAL ARTS CENTER + LIVE ON YOUTUBE JANUARY 26, 2025 | 4 PM FIRST PARISH SUDBURY Wildflowers (2021)

Maria Mandico

Nicholas Southwick, flute; Julia Scott Carey, piano

IBUKI (2024) World Premiere & Juventas Commission

Soyoka Hayashi

Nicholas Southwick, flute; Angelina Savoia, harp

What I Heard There (2024) World Premiere

Linda Chase

Nicholas Southwick, flute; Thomas Schmidt, percussion

Jingzhe (2015) Call for Scores Winner

Kaiyi Kao Nicholas Southwick, flute

~Brief Pause~ Reminiscence ● Afterglow (2023) Call for Scores Winner

Chien-Yu Huang

Nicholas Southwick, flute; Julia Scott Carey, piano

Sonate Flore pour flûte et harp (2017) I. Moderato II. Lento Calmato III. Allegro Vivace

Yuko Uébayashi

Nicholas Southwick, flute; Angelina Savoia, harp This program is supported in part by grants from the Cambridge Arts Council and Sudbury Cultural Council, local agencies that are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

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FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR & SOLOIST “Our annual Center Stage program has evolved into a cherished cornerstone of Juventas’s artistic calendar, featuring one distinguished member of our ensemble each year. These solo performances not only stand as remarkable artistic achievements in their own right, but also deepen our audience’s appreciation of our chamber concert programming, offering unique insights into the individual voices that comprise our ensemble.

Nick is an artist who makes everyone around him better. His warmth and authenticity fosters an environment in which we all can bring our truest selves to the table. In our ensemble, Nick is a rock, so consistently phenomenal that one might accidentally take it for granted.

And yet, Nick modestly refracts attention, always advancing our ensemble as a whole. I can’t think of anyone more deserving of tonight’s spotlight. Nick has spent a year planning, curating and preparing tonight’s program. We are all in for a treat, a jaw-dropping display of virtuosity. And yet, knowing Nick, it will come across breezy as always.”

—Oliver Caplan, Artistic Director “Welcome, and thank you for attending this concert!

Our innate creativity is so powerful, and it is mirrored in the beauty of our relationship to the natural world.

Maria Mandico, the composer of Wildflowers, writes about this energy as one that ‘burns within, always beckoning us to be vulnerable, graceful, and tenacious all at once, like wildflowers.’ Soyoka Hayashi’s IBUKI is inspired by a Japanese word meaning ‘breath of life,’ this creative vitality that exists within us, inspiring and connecting us to ourselves, each other, and nature.

What I Heard There by Linda Chase evokes the poetry of our connection to the sea. In Kaiyi Kao’s Jingzhe, the sounds of millions of insects fill the humid air as they are awoken from their winter slumber by spring’s violent thunderstorms. The creative reflection of all of us who ‘savor the stories of our past silently and slowly’ come to life in Chien-Yu Huang’s Reminiscence ● Afterglow. Yuko Uebayashi’s Sonate Flore pour flûte et harp is a verdant love letter to the lush, teeming countryside, as she often takes inspiration from her home in the Luberon, Southern France. May this program bring you what you need, be it contemplation, inspiration, healing, joy, rest. Above all, may it connect you to your own creativity: a wordless sense of wonder, an inner imagination just as vast and limitless as the natural world and the stories we tell about it.”

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JUVENTAS NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE Juventas New Music Ensemble is a dynamic contemporary chamber group with a special focus on emerging voices.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

We reimagine classical music as a vibrant living art form, uplifting rising voices and bringing audiences music from a diverse array of composers that live in today’s world and respond to our time.

Meghan Guidry

Juventas has earned a reputation as a curator, with a keen eye for new talent. Since our founding in 2005, we have performed the music of over 300 living composers. Our musicians champion these artists with exceptional professional performances that open doors.

From climate change to mental health, our programs speak to the most critical topics of the 21st century. Our concerts center on the human experience, featuring deeply personal music that fosters conversation and reflection.

John Carey President

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Minjin Chung Lynn Eustis Meg Fuchs Carson Cooman Leslie Jacobson Kaye Karen Ruymann Oliver Caplan ex officio

STAFF Oliver Caplan Artistic Director

Joseph Sedarski General Manager

Saskia den Boon Grants Coordinator Graphic Designer

Molly Breen-Aronson Development Coordinator

Our work has been recognized with multiple American Prize wins and support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Massachusetts Cultural Council, New Music USA and Boston Foundation. Juventas has been featured on over a dozen recording projects, including albums from Albany Records, Navona, New Dynamic and RMN Classical.

Juventas New Music Ensemble’s 202425 Mainstage Season is generously sponsored by John A. Carey.

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Arts Administration Intern

FUTURA PRODUCTIONS

LIVESTREAM PRODUCERS

John Weston

Production Director & Audio Engineer

Nathaniel Smith Video Editor

Nick Papps

Director of Photography & Camera Operator

Cisco Santiago Camera Operator

Chris Wilson Assistant Engineer

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IN THE COMPOSER’S OWN WORDS MARIA MANDICO | Wildflowers (2021) Wildflowers was commissioned by flutist Anna Conigliari in 2021 for a recital series by Midori and Friends called “Celebrating Women through Music”. The bell-like opening of the piano calls us to stay alert to the blessings that dwell within music-making, even as ups and downs ensue. For me, writing this little piece was a glimpse into the creative, feminine energy that burns within artists, always beckoning us to be vulnerable, graceful, and tenacious all at once, like wildflowers.

SOYOKA HAYASHI | IBUKI (2024) I am very happy to have had the opportunity to compose for two of my favorite instruments, the flute and the harp, through my connection with the wonderful performer, Nicholas. The sound of these two instruments together feels alive with an energy as if a spirit or soul resides within them. The title Ibuki is a Japanese word, written with the kanji characters for breath and blow. It is also used to convey the sense of life or the flow of energy present in nature, humans, or objects.

In Japan, Spring symbolizes renewal and new beginnings. In this piece, I aim to capture the transition from the harsh cold of winter to the warmer, more vibrant spring, as life begins to awaken and grow once again. The performance in January marks the beginning of this very season, a time when the preparations for spring gradually begin. I hope you will listen to this piece with this imagery in mind, reflecting on the sense of new life and energy that the spring season brings.

LINDA CHASE│| What I Heard There (2024) Carson Cooman has generously sponsored the world premiere performance of this piece.

Blue sky days buoys, boat cormorant dives, plays floats savoring but cannot hold.

Feeling seal-ish on rock submerged 6

question of the day - when will you learn?

On the sand, surf is sounding seabirds fishing, flappy landings

Plunge into those laughing waves.

Expansive sky finding time in sea glass, pebbles seeking why.

seagull bathing, splashing praying?

Rumi asked, what do you long for, what do you crave?

Hearing songs illuminated by the windswept waves

crashing pounding Shuttered cottage windows close the year colder season lingers, listening harvest moon, and waves remind me never leave in the darkness, hear them breathe slowing down

ripples saying stay.

everything you want is here.

Clarify spend your life along the sea edged sky to reveal what’s deep inside a shift to come the rising tide to see beyond - leave the walls behind.

Flowing in, receding back intervals of waves breaking, crash gurgle calumph shhhhh overlapping sounds appear along the shore hearing humming drumming roar.

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KAIYI KAO | Jingzhe (2015) A year is divided into 24 solar terms in the traditional East Asian calendar and Jingzhe is the 3rd solar term. In the Gregorian calendar, it usually begins around 5th–7th March and ends around 20th March. It is the first cultivation period of the year in the most areas in China. Rumble of thunder and lightning make the earth agitate and surge; a long and cold winter comes to the end; myriad seed starts breeding gradually. Jingzhe means the awakening of hibernating insects. According to the traditional Chinese folklore, during this period thunderstorms will wake the hibernating insects up, which implies the weather is getting warmer. Jingzhe is vivid described by flute: the dormant animals hide inside the soil also in the stone crevices through the cold winter. After being awakened by the first thunderstorms in the beginning of the spring, they gradually drill out from the soil and stone crevices and start activities for the arrival of spring; with the expression of the flute, we can also feel the warmth of spring and flowers are now blooming everywhere.

CHIEN-YU HUANG | Reminiscence ● Afterglow (2023) Reminiscence ● Afterglow is an opusculum written for flute (doubling alto flute) and piano. It was commissioned by flutist Cheng-Yu Lu and completed in October 2023.

The past is a string of lyrical poems that weave all kinds of joys and sorrows, happiness and depression, into the years. After the precipitation and reconciliation of time, one after another, soft-focus paintings are formed in our memories.

If life is about experiencing one scene after another without stopping but living in the present, then everything in the past can only become reminiscences. The past that once made us happy, lost, unforgettable, bruised, and even unbearable to look back on will someday turn into a shining afterglow in our hearts.

Reminiscence ● Afterglow is dedicated to those who sometimes like to savor the stories of the past silently and slowly. They are susceptible to the past and easily warmed by everything in their daily lives.

YUKO UÉBAYASHI | Sonate Flore pour flûte et harp (2017) The Sonate Flore pour flûte et harpe was written for and premiered by Marina Piccinini, flute and Anneneleen Lenaerts, harp at the Aspen Music Festival on July 6, 2017.

In the summer of 2016, my close friend Marina Piccinini approached me to compose a piece for flute and harp for the harpist Anneleen Lenaerts and herself. I felt that then, after 18 years of living in Paris, I could finally give voice to the sounds I heard approaching me and echoing just behind the pale clouds. I believe that the elegant sound of flute and harp resonates with my own musical voice, evoking colors and a sense of longing for a far-away and less modern world. I wanted to harmonize these colors with the beautiful monochrome views of Paris I saw outside the windows of my own apartment.

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One day I came across the beautiful sculpture “Flore” by René Frémin (1672-1744) at the Louvre. The spring goddess Flore holds a wreath in her left hand and smiles gracefully. The impression of her goddess overlapped with the appearance of Marina and Anneleen in me, and so I wanted to name my piece after her. A few days later, I visited the Château de Marly, on the grounds of which this sculpture at one time resided. Nowadays, there are no more palaces left, only some garden plots that were once decorated with numerous sculptures and some springs that reflected the shadows of the occasional flowers. As I stood on the grasses surrounded by forest, in a space that was not as vast or imposing as the Palace of Versailles, I could still feel the lingering scent of elegance from a by-gone era.

It is said that during his reign, King Louis XIV would retreat from the hustle and bustle of the Palace of Versailles to this peaceful garden and palace with his intimate friends. As I listened to such stories, I thought of the elegant scenes and people of the time. And I could imagine the melody of flute and harp. I spun this piece while weaving together beautiful scenes from the past history with the present.

In particular, the second movement was composed as my first representation of night and night-time. In this, I imagined the aftermath of a feast given by Louis XIV, the guests having retired to the castle, and a clear moon illuminating the darkness and stillness of the garden. As the dawn begins draw, the colours in the sky shift and represent hope for a new day.

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COMPOSERS MARIA MANDICO│| b. 1990 Flutist and Pianist Maria Mandico is praised for her distinct sound that has made its way to international audiences, in venues such as the Sydney Opera House and the Shanghai Arts Center. A recipient of the Ted Twohig Memorial Endowed Scholarship, Maria holds a Masters of Music in Flute Performance from the Longy School of Music of Bard College, where she studied with Marco Granados. Previous studies include a Bachelor of Flute Performance with a French minor from the University of Colorado at Boulder with Christina Jennings, and a year in Gaspar Hoyos’ private flute studio in Nancy, France. In 2017 she won a position as a Navy flutist, and spent four years in Naples, Italy with the Naval Forces Europe and Africa Band. While in Italy she began to explore composition and is currently pursuing her Dalcroze Certificate through the Dalcroze Institute of New England. She continues to serve at Navy Band Northeast and loves leading the Crosswind Woodwind Quintet in Newport, Rhode Island. mariamandico.com SOYOKA HAYASHI | b. 1989 Soyoka Hayashi graduated from the Composition Department of the Faculty of Music at Tokyo University of the Arts and completed her Master’s Program in Music and Acoustics Creation at the same university. She received the Dōseikai Award upon graduation and the Graduate School Acanthus Music Award upon completing the graduate program.

Soyoka started composing music as a child at Yamaha Music School and performed original compositions at Yamaha International JOC. She won the top prize and the Grand Prix at the 9th PIARA Piano Competition National Finals.

Sokoya debuted while still a university student with “Sakura Piano,” featuring her own arrangements and piano performances. She has released numerous CDs, including solo albums and the Healing Cello series with her sister and cellist Haruka Hayashi, under Nippon Columbia. Her latest album, Healing Cello: Ghibli Best, was released in February 2022.

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She composed The Coin of Happiness for the tie-in CD of Akutagawa Prize-winning author Keiichiro Hirano’s novel At the End of the Matinee; Summer Sky Sketch and Four Tales of the Sea for guitar, commissioned by Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance’s The Phoenix Hall; and a dedicatory piece for the celebration of the reconstructed dining hall at the World Heritage Yakushiji Temple. Her works Fantasia for Strings and Percussion (August 2017) and Piano Concerto No. 1 “Cosmos High” (February 2020, piano: Riko Ogawa), both premiered by the Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Yukio Fujioka, received world premieres, with the latter’s revised version debuted in 2021.

Also involved in planning, arranging, and hosting Kobe City Chamber Orchestra’s “Concerts for You” series, she serves as a presenter for radio programs like Takky 816 Minoh FM and Ottava’s Salon GVIDO, demonstrating her versatile activities. In 2018, she worked as a piano instructor for actors in the NHK morning drama Half, Blue. hayashi-soyoka.jp LINDA CHASE | b. 1957 Composer/flutist Linda J. Chase, PhD, recently completed a 100-minute oratorio for ecojustice, For Our Common Home, based on Laudato Si’ (Pope Francis, ’15). Her first oratorio The City is Burning reflected on listening to the inner voice, the quiet truth of the soul. Chase is a member of the composer’s network Landscape Music and has numerous place-based pieces (Wisdom of Trees, Wildfires Rage, Green Beans, This Tree, Foxes, Grand Canyon Sketches). She received composition awards from the Japan Foundation, Grand Canyon National Park, Kaji Aso, Juventas New Music Ensemble, and the Morris Graves Institute. With poet Jane Hirshfield she collaboratively created and performed Hope is the Hardest Love We Carry. Professor Chase teaches Music, Spirit & Transformation, Interdisciplinary Arts, and Ecomusicology at Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory. She is currently writing a book on listening and a chapter describing her pedagogy listening will be published by Routeledge in 2024.

Linda’s music is influenced by diverse styles and explores the boundaries between improvisation and composition. She believes that listening to our environment kindles relationships with other-than-human beings and can guide us to a deeper understanding of how all species can co-exist. Her pieces are often based on reflections from nature, and result from a deep listening to languages of trees. Much of her music is conceptually based resulting in multi-movement works incorporating poetry, spoken word, performance art elements, and sacred texts. She wrestles with how artists can become more environmentally and socially responsible to create music that will have a positive influence in the world and engage with the community through art-inspired dialogue. lindajchase.com 11

KAIYI KAO | b. 1984 Kaiyi Kao graduated with distinction-Artist Diploma for piano and composition from Vienna’s Franz Schubert Conservatory (FSK), also master degree for composition (with Prof. Jarrell) from University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Her compositions include various instrumentals and were selected as a assigned piece of Vaduz international masterclass 2007 in Liechtenstein. She has been awarded numerous prizes such as International Music Prize for Excellence 2009, 14th Carl von Ossietzky Oldenburg 2014, Hearing Orpheus Today 2016, Voice of the New and Brillant 2017 NTSO, Augusto Massari 2019 and AMAT FemFestival Composition Competition 2021 and 2022. She was a finalist of ICEBERG’s New 2019-20 and IX SBALZ 2022, also a selected composer for program TMI 2016 and Gender-Projekt Holz-Blech-Schlag (2017-2019).

Her compositions have been performed in many Festivals such as re:construction 2014 Japan|Austria, 5th Auftakt, Viva Music 2016, TIMF2017, aNOther2018, MiniFestival Cameristico2019, FMMN2020, NottFAR 2020, Neue Musik und Folklore 2020, Gagaku x Contemporary Sho Recital 2021, KUNST-KULTUR-NATUR 2021, 2021TIFA, OMF 2020-22, Anaeresis 2022, Osmose 2022, Weiwuying Festival 2023, AMAT FemFestival 2023, 51st NFA Convention, Pledge L’Engagement 2023 NYCU, EXPLORE-CUBE BAND Concert 2024 and were published by Redshift (2019), Diaphonia (2019), Doblinger (2019/20) and Universal Edition (2023).

She works as a composer and musician in Taiwan, and was lecturer at FSK (2011-2022).

CHIEN-YU HUANG | b. 1983 Born in Taiwan, composer Chien-Yu Huang’s music has been performed by ensembles and soloists throughout the world. His music combines many elements into an invigorating language that blends Eastern and Western influences. He has composed for concerts, films, and theaters and has been honored with many awards from various compositional fields in the US, Taiwan, and Japan.

Dr. Huang holds a doctoral degree from UCLA and a master’s degree from NEC. He is now a full-time assistant professor at the Department of Music, National University of Tainan, Taiwan. chienyuhuang.com 12

YUKO UÉBAYASHI | b. 1958 Born in Kyoto, Japan, composer Yuko Uébayashi has lived in Paris since 1998, and in Luberon, in the South of France, since 2018. During her first year in France, her concert featuring a selection of her own work and the work of Jean-Michel Damase, held at the Salle Gaveau, was hailed by the renowned French composer Pierre Petit in the Figaro newspaper as an “enchanting evening”.

Audiences and critics around the world have praised her work, including The New York Times (“The biggest surprise of Yuko Uébayashi’s work was its vintage”) and the great flutist Jean Ferrandis (“For me, her works are gems and a precious gift.”)

Uébayashi’s works have been performed and acclaimed in Europe, including Paris (Theatre des Champs Élysées), Vienna (Konzerthaus), Venice (La Fenice), and London (Wigmore Hall), in the United States, including New York (Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall) and Pittsburgh (Heinz Hall), in Asia, including Tokyo (Kioi Hall), Osaka (Izumi Hall), Seoul, Beijing, Taipei, and in other cities in the world.

Many of Uébayashi’s works are inspired by her connection with various prominent musicians, such as flutist Jean Ferrandis (Professor at the École Normale de la musique de Paris and CSU Fullerton), Carol Wincenc (Professor at The Juilliard School), Michel Moragues (Orchestre National de France Principal Flutist), Nobutaka Shimizu (Kyoto Symphony Orchestra Principal Flutist), flutist Seiya Ueno (Rampal Competition Winner), Wakao Keisuke (Boston Symphony Assistant Principal Oboist), Maurice Bourgue (former Orchestre de Paris Principal Oboist), cellist Dominique de Williencourt (Professor at the CRR de Paris), pianists Emile Naoumoff (Professor at Indiana University) and Jean-Michel Damase, Тhe Escher Strings Quartet, and conductor Donatas Katkus (Vilnius Saint-Christophe Chamber Orchestra).

Credit: James Jones Photography

Her works have been featured on numerous recordings, most notably, Four Seasons Flowing on the Lake (Umibue Flute Orchestra), Works of Jean-Michel Damase and Yuko Uebayashi (Nobutaka Shimizu, JM Damase), Works for Flute, Yuko Uebayashi (Jean-Ferrandis, Emile Naumoff, and others), Crystal Moment (Seiya Ueno), World of Oboe (Maurice Bourgue, Keisuke Wakao), Paths (Mayu Izumi), Misericordia (Carol Wincenc, The Escher Quartet, and others).

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MUSICIANS NICHOLAS SOUTHWICK | flute Oliver Caplan and Chris Beagan have generously sponsored Nicholas Southwick for the 2024-25 concert season.

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,” Boston-based flutist Nicholas Southwick enjoys a diverse musical career.

Nicholas is a frequent guest artist of the Bay Chamber Concerts, where he recently performed J.S. Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 2 with Palaver Strings. He has also performed Bach’s concerti with the Bermuda Chamber Orchestra and was a soloist for the Bach the European series at the Royal Academy of Music. As a recitalist, he has performed at Harvard University, King’s Chapel, Salem Classical, the University of Cambridge, and the Bloomsbury Festival, London.

In addition to his role as core flutist of the Juventas New Music Ensemble, Nicholas serves as Affiliated Faculty at Emerson College and holds an Artist Fellowship with Music for Food for his work with violist Long Okada in Duo Gwynne. He also founded the Acadie Duo with cellist Jaime Feldman, with whom he curates an annual chamber music series in rural Maine. Nicholas has a particular interest in interdisciplinary dialogues between music and theology and is currently Fellow in Liturgy and Music at Harvard University’s Episcopal Chaplaincy. As an orchestral player, Nicholas has made appearances with the Bangor Symphony Orchestra, New Hampshire Festival Orchestra, Boston Opera Collaborative, Harvard-Radcliffe and Manchester Choral Societies, and Trentino Music Festival Orchestra (Italy).

Nicholas completed his postgraduate training at the Royal Academy of Music, London under the tutelage of Karen Jones, Laura Jellicoe, and Katherine Baker. He previously studied at the Longy School of Music of Bard College and Gordon College. His past teachers include Marco Granados, Robert Willoughby, and Susan Heath. Outside of his busy performance schedule, he loves to share the joy of music with his private flute students in Boston and the North Shore.

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ANGELINA SAVOIA | harp (guest artist) As an active performer, Ms. Savoia currently serves as the harpist for the Brookline Symphony Orchestra, Eureka Ensemble in Boston, and the Mercury Orchestra. She has also played with Boston Lyric Opera, Portland Symphony (Maine), Boston Philharmonic, and Boston Landmarks Orchestra, in addition to maintaining a busy freelance schedule in Boston and New York City. Ms. Savoia’s frequent orchestral performances have taken her to many venues including Carnegie Hall, Avery Fischer Hall, Jordan Hall, and Symphony Hall where she has had the privilege to play under such conductors as Hugh Wolff, Alan Gilbert, Jeffery Milarsky, Nicholas McGegan, Itzhak Perlman, Emmanuel Villaume, and John Williams.

JULIA SCOTT CAREY | piano Paul Monsky and Beverly Woodward have generously sponsored Julia Scott Carey for the 2024-25 concert season.

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-New England Conservatory 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 Boston Symphony Orchestra 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.

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Julia lives in Winchester with her husband and her daughter. In addition to music, she loves cooking, running, and spending time on Cape Cod. THOMAS SCHMIDT | percussion One of Boston’s versatile free-lance percussionists, Thomas Schmidt has performed with The Boston Philharmonic, The Portland Symphony (Maine), Rhode Island Philharmonic, New Bedford Symphony, Placido Domingo, Boston Landmarks Orchestra, Indian Hill Symphony, Lexington Symphony, Symphony New Hampshire, and The Brevard Music Centers Faculty Orchestra. A regular down in the pit orchestra, he has played for The 75th Anniversary Tour of George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, Opera Maine, The Boston Lyric Opera, various tours with the New England Opera, and the Da Capo Opera Company. Equally at home playing in a jazz big band or drum-set for a musical, Thomas has performed with the Boston Brass All Stars Big Band and has been the drum-set player for countless musicals in the New England area.

He has performed with new music ensembles ALEA III and Dinosaur Annex as well as various choruses, such as Masterworks Chorale, Harvard-Radcliff Chorus, Back Bay Chorale, Boston Celia Society, Coro Allegro, Chorus ProMusica, The Brookline Chorus, and The Newburyport Chorale. Thomas is on the faculty at The Berklee College of Music where he teaches Orchestral Percussion, Marimba, Vibraphone, and Drum Set. Thomas is a student of Salvatore Rabbio, Pat Hollenbeck, Nancy Zeltsman, John Grimes, and Dr. Stuart Marrs. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Percussion Performance from The University of Maine, and his Masters Degree in Percussion Performance from the Boston Conservatory. Thomas is a Zildjian endorsed artist.

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SUPPORTERS Juventas New Music Ensemble is deeply grateful to the incredibly generous community that supports our artistic programs. Juventas received the following individual gifts from January 1, 2024 through December 31, 2024. Please visit www.juventasmusic.org/ donate-now to learn about making a tax-deductible gift. $5,000 and Above Anonymous Oliver Caplan & Chris Beagan John A. Carey Massachusetts Cultural Council Karen & Fred Ruymann Andrew Wilkins $2,000-$4,999 Anonymous Chris and Margie Brown Cambridge Arts Council Medford Arts Council The Ripley-Steinemann Family Fund $1,000–$1,999 Brookline Commission for the Arts Paula Luria & William Caplan Carson Cooman Meghan Guidry Leslie Jacobson Kaye & Richard Kaye Richard Mitrano & Julia Scott Carey Paul Monsky & Beverly Woodward Wegmans Medford $500–$999 Boylston Cultural Council April Durant Christie Gibson & Michael Emmanuel Meg Fuchs Gloria Lee Stella Lee PARMA Recordings Ben Sweetser Sudbury Cultural Council $250–$499 Anne Bilder & Johan den Boon Joanne Dreher Yukiko Egozy Casey Elia Moriah Freeman W. A. Krein & Lee Krein Ian Lai Alexandra Bowers & James Liu Nagesh Mahanthappa May Marquebreuck Ann Omalley

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Andrew & Laura Waldorf Reiss Rachel Rivkind Jon Saxton & Barbara Fox Hanjay Wang $100–$249 Edward J Amabile & Mary M Amabile Charlie & Lea Anderson Lawrence Banks Robert Beagan Lee Binnig Carol Bloom Evelyn Bonander Dana Bos Elise Viebeck & Andrew Caplan Colleen Cavanaugh & Philip Gschwend David Chia Larry Cohen & Susan Worst Deanne Coolidge Brian Cron Sarah Cummer Eric and Margaret Darling Brian Pingree & Alexis Dearborn Barry Duncan Lynn Eustis Ann Ferentz Andy Foery Lorna Gibson John H. Graves Neal and Kim Habas Ann Brennan Harris Heidi Hellring Patricia Henry Jacob Hilley David and Mary Howarth Barbara Hughey Elizabeth Igleheart Beth D Jacob Jim Kane & Sharon Williams Julia Kane Denys Kotskyy Kenneth Krause & Maura McEnaney Hank & Patricia Kucheman Mimi Lee Ludmilla Leibman Julie Leven Joshua Levit Hal Lichtin Amy Mantis Carol McCarthy & Chris Stribakos

Jonathan & Deborah McPhee Ralph & Sylvia Memolo Reeva Meyer Angela Ng Ayumi Okada Robert Page & Dean Vassil Mary Pederson & Claye Metelmann Patric Pepper & Mary Ann Larkin Webster Pilcher & Sheryl Koenigsberg Dr. Cashman Kerr Prince & Dr. Bryan Burns Kathryn Ritcheske Nate Ruegger Peter Ruymann Colin Ryan Lori K. Sanders & Jennifer A. Lewis Louise Scribner Kevin & Carol Smith Trisha Solio Chris Stribakos & Carol A McCarthy Ann B. Teixeira Barbara Turen Theodor Weinberg & Eric Hyett Emma Kent Wine Michael Zammito $50–$99 Anonymous Gail Barry Eric Barth Laura Basford Bob Bassett Minda Berbeco Lauren Bernofsky Kenneth Bigley Bonnie Borch-Rote Mary Bragg Arlene Bryer Margaret Cain Zoe Cardon Colette Carmouche & Raesin Caine Kelley Cavanaugh Minjin Chung Rachel Ciprotti Colby Cooman Linda Cox Elizabeth Dean Virginia Doxsey

Andrew Elliott & John Varone Deb Faling Ellen Feingold David Feltner & Robert Edward Smith William Finkelstein David & Ellen Fries Stacy Garrop Scott Goodwin Lisa Graham Michael Grossman Louise & Michael Grossman Hans Heilman Maureen Hollis Mary & David Howarth Catharine Hyson Laurie Kahn Leonard & Terry Kahn Sho Kato Michael Kong Karen Krolak George Lockhart Xiomara Lorenzo Ann MacDonald Linda Markarian Honor E Mc Libby Meyer Kelley Hollis Cathi & Jeff Myer Roxanna Myhrum Erin Merceruio Nelson Linda Ng Sylvia Oliveira Jane Parkin Kullmann Katie Parodi Marc Pasciucco Jeffrey Paster Jason Pavel & Marie Walcott Andy Pease Dan Perkins Chris Porter Alexandra Porter Sara Potter Kathleen Quigley Kate Raisz Chris & Lindsey Reiss George & Bobbi Ritcheske Isadel & EB Saunter Andrew & Margot Schmolka Rebeca Sedarski Charles Shadle Gordon & Shannon Shannon Harvey Silverglate Jonathan Simon Tess Sneesby Nicholas Southwick Arlene Stevens Bruce & Imogene Jodi Swartz John & Barbara T Tony Thaweethai Raymond Tonkel

Charlene Valk The Valks Anna Varlese John Varone David von Behren Elaine Walsh John Weston Graheme Williams Up to $49 Anonymous (6) Barbara A Hill Andrew Adams Jaime Alberts Aaron Alon Russ Anderson Lael Backus Young Yun Baek Thomas Barth Marshall Bautz John Beagan J. L. Bell Michael Berkowitz Emily Blitz Ed Bouchard Ann Bragg Julianna Braun Sharon Bridgforth Eliza Brown Baird & Carol Brown Danica A. Buckley Anne Burt Maureen Cavanaugh Huntae Chung Jeanhee Chung Linda Ciesielski Jennifer Clapp Lindsay Clark Charles Coe Burt & Deborah Cohen Nell Cohen James Curtis Lora Davidson Patrick Dawson Massimo De Lillo The Dearr Family Kathleen DeBois Saskia den Boon Ashley Dennis Claudine Blake Gerd Dr. Burger BJ & Rich Dunn Christina English Carole Eustis John & Beth Eustis Evan Fein A. Ferello Roderick Ferguson Celine Ferro Giselle Ferro Jane Ferro Eve Foldan

Ali Frana Rick Frank Rebecca Fuchs David E Fuchs Gia Fuchs Mary Gardill John Garton Tobin Gedstad James Gleason Nancy Goodwin Kendra Goodwin Jeffrey Grossman & Karl Hinze Matthew Gschwend Steven & Jennifer Guthrie Sadie Habas Jordan Hadrill Amanda Harberg Jan Hardenbergh Kiyoshi Hayashi Bonnie Haymon Matthew Heath Matthew Henegan Kelley Hollis Michaela Hollis Anne Howarth & Frederick Frank Jr. Jean Huang Wolcott Humphrey Michael Hustedde Joe Jaxson Rashi Jeeda Callie Jennings Julie Johnson-McGrath James & Amie Jones Susan Kander Jeff Kauppi Kathryn Kautzman Rakesh Khetarpal Mari & Denys Kotskyy Abby Krawson Matthew Kusulas & Jack Tamburri Ursula Kwong-Brown Dina Labkovsky Katie Lade Rainice Lai Johanna LaPlante Mina Lavcheva Ken Lewis Steve Lewis Alexander Liebermann Jesse Lipson Tammy Lynch Jen Lyon Gregory Lyons Pamela Marshall Kathryn McKellar Peri Levin McKenna Rachael McKenzie Taylor McNulty Alexandra Mendez-Diez Annemarie Mitrano Robert Montgomery

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Mary Montgomery Koppel Dilshod Narzillaev William Neely Nicholas Norton C. Oberting Susanne Olson Valentina Osorio Jessica Ovici Lindsay Packer Timothy Paek Megan Paglia-Scheff William Paglia-Scheff John & Sarah Peck Martha Pierce Gretchen Pineo Susan Pivetz Amanda Potter Emma Powell Remesch Family Chris Rhodes Greg Rhodes Jason Ries Susan Rizzo Jennifer Romig Hannah Roos Jonathan Royer Christina Rusnak John Ruymann Mallory Ruymann D. S. Harshita Sahu Antonio Santos Kerem Sayman Donna Scalcione Tom Schmidt Graeme A.B. Schranz Kristen Schroeder Joseph Sedarski Christopher Sedarski Josh Sedarski Jonathan Sedarski

Dennis Shafer Ryan Shannon Brendon Shapiro Daron Sharps Dan Shaud Jamison Shave Mindi Shave David Shuve-Wilson Ken Silber Mark Sivazlian Anna Speiser Barbara Steiner Drew Swatosh Kelsey Thompson Susannah Thornton Jessica’s Tybursky Karyn Visscher Leo Walsh Sophie Wang Jennifer Wang Beverly Waring James Weber Chris Wild Dr. Natalie Williams Rebecca Witmer Christina Wright-Ivanova Laura Yoo Alice Young Lu Yu Kiara Zani Tracey Zimmerman Kim Zocchi

THANK YOU

to Wegmans for generously sponsoring this evening’s reception!

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We’re proud that our donor roster includes 100% of Juventas board, staff and ensemble members, plus 34 composer and musician collaborators.

We are also extremely thankful to the dedicated volunteers who gave their time and talents to Juventas in the past year: Chris Beagan Ann MacDonald Rachael McKenzie Gordan Shannon Shannon Shannon Evan Perry Elaine Walsh

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