SOUNDS OF NEW ENGLAND
JANUARY 31–FEBRUARY 2 , 2025 | 7 PM
NEW ENGLAND BOTANIC GARDEN AT TOWER HILL
BOYLSTON, MA
FEBRUARY 8, 2025 | 7 PM
BRATTLEBORO MUSIC CENTER, BRATTLEBORO, VT
MAY 4, 2025 | 4 PM
FIRST PARISH SUDBURY, SUDBURY, MA
Music inspired by the places we call home
SOUNDS OF NEW ENGLAND
JANUARY 31–FEBRUARY 2 , 2025 | 7 PM
NEW ENGLAND BOTANIC GARDEN AT TOWER HILL
FEBRUARY 8, 2025 | 7 PM
BRATTLEBORO MUSIC CENTER
MAY 4, 2025 | 4 PM
FIRST PARISH SUDBURY
Beacon of the Bay (2021)
I. Walden Pond
II. Adams Woods
III. Fairhaven Bay
Stacy Garrop
Ryan Shannon, violin; Matthew Smith, cello; Julia Scott Carey, piano
In the Direction of Dreams (2018)
Oliver Caplan
Celine Ferro, clarinet; Matthew Smith, cello; Julia Scott Carey, piano ~Intermission~
Sand & Snow (2018/2024)
I. Keeping Track
II. Sand and Snow
III. Dorr’s Winter
IV. The Puddings
V. Beneath the Ice
Ryan Shannon, violin; Matthew Smith, cello
Granite Peaks at Sunset (2024) 2024 Call for Scores Winner
Celine Ferro, clarinet; Ryan Shannon, violin; Matthew Smith, cello; Julia Scott Carey, piano
Craftsbury Trio (1990)
I. Up-Country Toccata
II. The Lark in the Morning
III. You Can Buy it at the General Store
IV. Craftsbury Common
Rachel Panitch
Jason Cain
Gwyneth Walker
Ryan Shannon, violin; Matthew Smith, cello; Julia Scott Carey, piano
This program is supported in part by an Operating Support Grant from the Mass Cultural Council’s Portfolio Program, and by a grant from the Sudbury Cultural Council, a local agency that is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.
FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
If Boston is our home, New England is our neighborhood.
Over the past two decades, Juventas has brought contemporary chamber music to every New England state, from Providence to Montpelier, Laconia to Harrison, making new friends every where we go. We have performed in concert halls, museums, churches, arts festivals, private homes, grassy fields, farmers’ markets and even beaches.
This program, part of our 20th anniversary celebration, offers a love letter to the people and places of our wonderful region. Thank you for walking this journey with us and welcoming us into myriad vibrant communities.
With deepest gratitude,
Oliver Caplan, Artistic Director Juventas New Music Ensemble
Credit: James Jones Photography
JUVENTAS NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE
Juventas New Music Ensemble is a dynamic contemporary chamber group with a special focus on emerging voices.
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.
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.
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.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
John Carey
President
Andrew Wilkins
Treasurer
Meghan Guidry
Clerk
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
Bella Rose Kelley
Arts Administration Intern
IN THE COMPOSER’S OWN WORDS
STACY GARROP | Beacon of the Bay (2021)
When the Newport Music Festival commissioned me for a piano trio in honor of their 2021 season, I looked for a topic that would celebrate an aspect of the Newport community. While researching the area, I was struck by the nine lighthouses situated around the island. The dual nature of lighthouses was particularly appealing to me: not only do they serve a vital role in the navigation of ships around rocks and lands, but they are also a beautiful sight, particularly at night when their blinking beacons are clearly visible to the eye. It occurred to me that lighthouses link the past with the present, and will endure long into the future, with their beacons serving the same purpose for every generation.
I became fascinated with the lighthouse on the property of Castle Hill Inn, located at the opening of the East Passage of the Narragansett Bay. This squat thirty-foot granite structure was erected in 1890 on a very picturesque spot, right at the water’s edge. Its “characteristics,” the nautical term for each lighthouse’s unique light sequence that allows ships to identify the lighthouse, is to alternate on for three seconds, then off for three seconds. The lighthouse has also served as the starting and finish line for numerous high profile yacht races, as well as survived a massive hurricane in 1938, though the lighthouse keeper’s nearby residence wasn’t so lucky. American novelist Thornton Wilder wrote much of his 1973 novel Theophilus North while staying at the Castle Hill Inn; a passage from the book perfectly capture the dual nature of lighthouses: “At a later visit I was able to engage the pentagonal room in a turret above the house; from that magical room I could see at night the beacons of six lighthouses and hear the booming and chiming of as man sea buoys.”
In Beacon of the Bay, We first hear the lighthouse’s characteristics as its ruby light blinks on and off. This is followed by a simple theme that represents the lighthouse performing its solitary duty. As the piece progresses, we hear waves playfully lapping around its base, then yachts gracefully floating by; this is followed by a violent storm that churns the waves with so much force that they crash against the lighthouse’s granite body. But the steadfast lighthouse holds firm to the rocks, grandly blinking its ruby light. The music quiets down to its simple theme, with yachts sailing by once more as the piece concludes.
OLIVER CAPLAN | In the Direction of Dreams (2018)
In the Direction of Dreams commemorates the 50th Anniversary of the United States Wild & Scenic Rivers Act. Nature has always been the place where I feel most myself, a font for peace and creativity. In the Directions of Dreams unfolds in three movements inspired by one of my favorite walks alongside Walden Pond, through Adams Woods, and down to Fairhaven Bay. This sojourn traverses the historic setting of Thoreau’s Life in the Woods,
a landscape of idyllic swimming holes, pine forests, stone walls, and a shimmering river. This serenely beautiful landscape has continued to be a source of inspiration and reflection for generations of community members thanks to its protected status.
RACHEL PANITCH│| Sand & Snow (2018/2024)
In 2018–19, I was given the opportunity to divide a two-week artist residency in Acadia National Park across seasons and different geographic areas of the park. In September, it was the rustic Eli Creek cabin on Isle au Haut and at the contrasting Schoodic Institute on Schoodic Peninsula. Both felt like their own worlds apart from the packed Mount Desert Island section of Acadia. I took the mailboat to get to Isle au Haut, and once there, the park rangers helped me get to different parts of the island (year round population: approx 40). That’s how I got to hike on the rock scrambles known as the “puddings.”
I experienced Acadia’s more central areas in snowy February. It was me, my fiddle, guitar, and a keyboard in the huge and echoey Brown Mountain Gate House–one of two gate houses donated to the park by John D. Rockefeller Jr. It’s right on the old carriage roads, so even though I was pregnant at the time, I was able to put some ice cleats over my boots and hike over to see some amazing nearly frozen over waterfalls. I also hiked around the area where “father of Acadia National Park” George Dorr once lived–and where he reportedly took daily swims all year round.
JASON CAIN | Granite Peaks at Sunset (2024)
This piece is inspired by my many childhood memories in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, a frequent vacation spot for my family. I lived in New Hampshire until college, so the state will always feel like home. Between stepping outside to a serene swirl of red, brown, and orange leaves being carried by the wind during the autumn, or jumping in cool lakes during the hot summers, New Hampshire is an ideal presentation of nature’s gifts. The piece conveys the story of an uphill hike, with a captivating surprise at the summit. My hometown, Londonderry, was settled by Irish immigrants, and named after Londonderry, Ireland. The traditional song “Londonderry Air” or “Danny Boy” holds historical significance in our town, because of this, with our marching band playing the song at the New York St. Patrick’s Day Parade almost every year. The song is quoted in both the Cello and Piano near the end of the piece. However, each instrument quotes different parts of the song, and the quotes are played simultaneously, so it’s difficult to catch. This piece is a snapshot of summer memories in a beautiful landscape that reminds me of cherished memories with my family.
GWYNETH WALKER | Craftsbury Trio (1990)
Craftsbury, Vermont is a place of open and stark landscape with a gentle pace of life. In writing Craftsbury Trio, I have attempted to express the impressions through a direct and uncluttered musical language. In the tradition of composer’s over the centuries, I have taken the initial of the subject and translated it to its name key: C–the most basic of all
tonalities. To me, it relates to the requirement of simplicity and clarity in writing a musical portrait of this place.
The first movement, “Up-Country Toccata”, carries a tempo marking of “lively,” and serves to introduce the players to the audience. In its function of initiating the C tonality of the work (C Minor here, C Dorian and C Major in later movements), the music establishes the tonality without modulation. I sought to combine the energy of a keyboard toccata with the primarily percussive gestures in the strings. The cadenza passage near the end allows the pianist to roam freely over the keyboard before sliding into a final refrain.
A rubato passage leads into “The Lark in the Morning,” loosely based on the folksong with lyrics “the lark in the morning, she sing as she flies.” Although the melody originally lies in the major mode, it soon moves to the natural minor mode to emphasize what I hear as a mournful quality in the song. Thus, the character of the music is intended to become plaintive and to grow in intensity as the lines overlap in increasingly tight stretto. At the end, the lines ascend (the lark flies away), with final taping sounds suggestive of fluttering wings.
“You Can Buy It at the General Store” is a playful homage to those country stores where one can buy anything–from fly paper and fish tackle to imported gourmet foods. One can find a little of everything at the general store. . . or in this movement!
In the center of the town of Craftsbury, on a small plateau opening into the broad views of the surrounding mountains, is the village green, Craftsbury Common. This plot of land is enclosed by a white, split-rail fence. There is a purity to this scene. The common, and its few neighboring wooden buildings, appear unchanged over the centuries. And time stands still here. “Craftsbury Common” is an elegy to this quiet, haunting beauty. Through this music I have endeavored to capture the qualities of openness (5ths), timelessness (static chords, repeating patterns, slow tempo), reverence (cello theme), starkness (economy of notes), yearning (surging lines), and purity (C Major).
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ABOUT THE COMPOSERS
STACY GARROP│| b. 1969
Dr. Stacy Garrop is an award-winning, internationally recognized freelance American composer and lecturer whose music is centered on dramatic and lyrical storytelling. Her catalog covers a wide range of genres, with works for orchestra, opera, oratorio, wind ensemble, choir, art song, and various sized chamber ensembles. Dr. Garrop has received numerous awards and grants including an Arts and Letters Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Fromm Music Foundation Grant, Barlow Prize, and three Barlow Endowment commissions. Notable commissions include Forging Steel for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, The Battle for the Ballot for the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, Goddess Triptych for the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Berko’s Journey for the Omaha Symphony, Forged by the Sea for the U.S. Navy Band, The Transformation of Jane Doe for Chicago Opera Theater, In a House Besieged for The Crossing, Give Me Hunger for Chanticleer, Glorious Mahalia for the Kronos Quartet, Rites for the Afterlife for the Akropolis and Calefax Reed Quintets, and My Dearest Ruth for voice and piano with text by the husband of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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OLIVER CAPLAN | b. 1982
Award-winning American composer Oliver Caplan offers 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.
From Kearney, Nebraska to Carnegie Hall, Oliver’s music has been performed by over 75 ensembles in the United States and around the globe. He has been commissioned by the American Wild Ensemble, 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 and the Oratorio Society of New York’s 150th Anniversary Competition, additional recognitions include two Veridian Symphony Competition Wins, the Fifth House Ensemble Competition Grand Prize and fellowships at Ragdale, Millay
Arts and VCCA. His vocal works include settings of poetry by Maya Angelou, Richard Blanco, Hannah Fries and Meghan Guidry. Oliver’s music is featured on seven albums and has been streamed over a half million times.
A leader in the field of contemporary classical music, Oliver is the Artistic Director of the American Prize-winning Juventas New Music Ensemble, the only professional ensemble of its kind devoted specifically to the music of emerging composers. He also serves on the Ragdale Foundation’s Curatorial Board and is a voting member of the Recording Academy.
Oliver holds degrees from Dartmouth College and the Boston Conservatory. He resides in Medford, Massachusetts with his husband Chris and corgi Simon.
olivercaplan.com
RACHEL PANITCH | b. 1984
Rachel Panitch is a Boston-based violinist, improviser, composer, and teaching artist. She has been an artist-in-residence in neighborhoods, in schools, and in Zion and Acadia National Parks. She is the 2019 recipient of the W.K. Rose Fellowship in the Creative Arts. With Thread Ensemble, Rachel creates participatory works for audience, vibraphone and violins. The group’s work has been awarded a Live Arts Boston grant from The Boston Foundation, and was brought to Cyprus’ Faneromeni19 Festival by the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation. Rachel performs new Classical music by women with Cardamom Quartet, is a dance fiddler with French Roast and plays with singer-songwriter-storyteller Bill Harley. Rachel’s original music is featured on a PBS Utah Bucket List episode, and the National Park Service’s “100 Years of Arts in the Parks” video series. She is a member of the Landscape Music Composers Network.
Rachel specializes in teaching improvisation and creative music-making, and is a Resident Musician with musiConnects. She is also on Faculty at New England Conservatory Prep and Continuing Education Schools. In 2009, Rachel founded Rhode Island Fiddle Project, a free music program teaching traditional fiddle and dance music to students ages 7-17. Rachel worked for many years with nationally-recognized Community MusicWorks in Providence, RI, where she completed a Fellowship that inspired and incubated RI Fiddle Project. She was chosen as a Jubilation Fellow, a national award recognizing “individuals with an exceptional talent for helping young people feel fully alive through rhythm.” She was a META (Music Educators & Teaching Artists) Fellow through the Massachusetts Cultural Council.Rachel received her Masters of Music in Contemporary Improvisation from New England Conservatory, and holds a BA in Anthropology from Vassar College.
JASON CAIN | b. 2004
Jason Cain is a composer at the Hartt School, specializing in voice. He is a tenor in Hartt Chorale, and recently performed in Le Nozze Di Figaro as Basilio. He writes music influenced aspects of his eclectic background in opera, choir, marching band, jazz band, salsa band, and musical theater. Jason loves traveling, spending time with his dogs, coffee, and trying new foods/restaurants.
GWYNETH WALKER | b. 1947
Widely performed throughout the country, the music of American composer Gwyneth Walker is beloved by performers and audiences alike for its energy, beauty, reverence, drama, and humor. Dr. Gwyneth Walker (b. 1947) is a graduate of Brown University and the Hartt School of Music. She holds B.A., M.M. and D.M.A. degrees in Music Composition. A former faculty member of the Oberlin College Conservatory, she resigned from academic employment in 1982 in order to pursue a career as a full-time composer. For nearly 30 years, she lived on a dairy farm in Braintree, Vermont before returning to live in her childhood hometown of New Canaan, Connecticut.
A composer since age two, Gwyneth Walker has always placed great value on writing in a broad array of genres. More than 400 commissioned works for orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo instruments, chorus, and solo voice have been created—all arising from the impetus of performers and collaboration with musicians. Over the decades, she has traveled throughout North America to attend performances of her works and to meet her musician colleagues.
Gwyneth Walker is a proud resident of New England. She was the recipient of the 2000 “Lifetime Achievement Award” from the Vermont Arts Council and the 2018 “Alfred Nash Patterson Lifetime Achievement Award” from Choral Arts New England. In 2020, her alma mater, the Hartt School of Music of the University of Hartford, presented her with the Hartt Alumni Award. Walker’s catalog includes musical works of many sorts: arrangements of traditional folk songs; original music in both vocal and instrumental genres inspired by great American poetry; dramatic works that combine music with readings, acting, and movement; works for student performers of all ages; and large-scale pieces for professional players and ensembles.
ABOUT THE MUSICIANS
CELINE FERRO│| clarinet
Meghan Guidry has generously sponsored Celine Ferro for the 2024-25 concert season.
A virtuosic chamber musician, Celine Ferro is the clarinetist of the Kalliope Reed Quintet, with whom she has performed across New England and in Mexico; a force in the Boston-based bass clarinet ensemble, Improbable Beasts, with whom she has performed across the U.S. and in Ireland; and the core clarinetist of Juventas New Music Ensemble, with whom she has performed across Greater Boston and New England. Seeking diverse collaborations that take her work outside of the typical concert hall, she is also a member of the groove ensemble, Shibui, where she can be heard on both clarinet and bass clarinet on their newest album Quint, which is on the Ronin Rhythm Records label.
As an orchestral musician, she has performed with Symphony New Hampshire, Boston Civic Symphony, Apollo Ensemble, Brookline Symphony Orchestra and has freelanced with many others. In addition to performing, Celine Ferro currently serves on faculty at the Winchester Community Music School and Powers Music School. When she’s not practicing, performing, or teaching, Celine is an avid hiker, reader, and coffee drinker.
RYAN SHANNON│| violin
Julia Scott Carey and Richard Mitrano have generously sponsored Ryan Shannon for the 2024-25 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.
MATTHEW SMITH│| cello (guest artist)
Leslie Jacobson Kaye and Richard Kaye have generously sponsored our cello seat for the 2024-25 concert season.
As Co-Artistic Director of Palaver Strings, a musician-led chamber orchestra, Matthew has achieved remarkable milestones. His ensemble has been invited to perform at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., served as the ensemble-in-residence at the Boston Center for the Arts, and at the Longy School of Music of Bard College. He has also collaborated with his duo partner, Peipei Song, in performances at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, China and at the Tianjin Conservatory.
In addition to his performing career, Matthew is an accomplished educator. He currently serves as the Managing Director of Education for Palaver Strings, where he has spearheaded the development and design of the Palaver Music Center in Portland, Maine. Matthew has also led the course “Music and Civic Engagement” at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA for the past two years. His talents as a teaching artist have been recognized through his appointment as a Music Educator and Teaching Artist Fellow by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, as well as his role as a Graduate Assistant at The Boston Conservatory.
Matthew has been fortunate enough to learn from some of the most renowned cellists in the world, including Colin Carr, Gautier Capuçon, Bernard Greenhouse, and Emmanuel Feldman, and studied chamber music with members of the St. Lawrence String Quartet and Brentano String Quartet. He received his Master of Music degree from The Boston Conservatory at Berklee, where he studied with Andrew Mark, and his Bachelor of Music degree from Arizona State University, where he studied with Thomas Landschoot.
Credit: James Jones Photography
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.
Julia lives in Winchester with her husband and her daughter. In addition to music, she loves cooking, running, and spending time on Cape Cod.
Credit: James Jones Photography
Love, Handel
FRI, FEB 7 AT 7:30 pm
SUN, FEB 9 AT 3:00 pm
NEC’s JORDAN HALL
Jonathan Cohen, conductor
Joélle Harvey, soprano
H+H Orchestra
Concerto
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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
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
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
