Studio to Stage Program Book

STUDIO TO

STAGE SEPTEMBER 13, 2024 BRATTLEBORO MUSIC CENTER BRATTLEBORO, VT | 7:00 PM SEPTEMBER 14, 2024 MULTICULTURAL ARTS CENTER CAMBRIDGE, MA | 8:00 PM SEPTEMBER 15, 2024 FIRST PARISH SUDBURY SUDBURY, MA | 4:00 PM

LEGACY

CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF JUVENTAS

STUDIO TO STAGE SEP 13, 14 & 15

JUVENTAS AT 20 NOV 16

SOUNDS OF NEW ENGLAND FEB 8 & MAY 4

NICHOLAS SOUTHWICK: CENTER STAGE JAN 25 & 26

ENCORE! MAR 22

MUSIC IN BLOOM JUNE 8 & 15

STUDIO TO STAGE SEPTEMBER 13, 2024 | BRATTLEBORO MUSIC CENTER BRATTLEBORO, VT | 7:00 PM SEPTEMBER 14, 2024 | MULTICULTURAL ARTS CENTER CAMBRIDGE, MA | 8:00 PM SEPTEMBER 15, 2024 | FIRST PARISH SUDBURY SUDBURY, MA | 4:00 PM Reminiscence (2019) 2019 & 2020 Audience Favorite

Mari Kotskyy

Mina Lacheva, violin; Kamyron Williams, cello; Julia Scott Carey, piano

Parasomnia (2012)

Jonathan Sheffer

I. Call It Sleep II. Sleep Study III. Recurring Dreams Sophia Szokolay, violin; Kamyron Williams, cello; Julia Scott Carey, piano

Consider (2013) Juventas Commission

Erich Stem

I. II. Celine Ferro, clarinet; Mina Lacheva, violin; Kamyron Williams, cello; Julia Scott Carey, piano

Cylindrical Whiskers (merelaniite) (2019)

Libby Meyer

Mina Lacheva, violin; Sophia Szokolay, violin; Lu Yu, viola; Kamyron Williams, cello

Love Letters (2015) 2018, 2019, & 2022 Audience Favorite

Oliver Caplan

I. Forever Began with Hello II. The Tree With the Lights in It III. Two Penguins in Love Nicholas Southwick, flute; Celine Ferro, clarinet; Sophia Szokolay, violin; Mina Lacheva, violin; Lu Yu, viola; Kamyron Williams, cello This program is supported in part by grants from the Sudbury Cultural Council and the Cambridge Arts Council, local agencies that are supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

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FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Welcome to our 20th anniversary season “Legacy”! This year, we are celebrating the Juventas story, while also looking to the future.

Juventas is the only contemporary chamber ensemble in the United States with a specific focus on emerging voices. In two decades of music-making, we have performed the music of over 300 living composers. Their works tell the stories of our time: joy and grief, war and peace, nature, technology, mental health, climate change, love, heartbreak, immigration, persecution, abuse, perseverance, equality and above all, visions of a better tomorrow.

Our season opener “Studio to Stage” highlights works that Juventas recorded for five different record labels. Our recordings of these pieces are the only studio recordings of these works. They make this music available beyond the concert hall, so that anyone can listen worldwide.

The five composers on this program offer a diverse range of perspectives and styles.

I often like to say at Juventas concerts “and now for something completely different!”

What binds these works together—aside from having been studio recorded by Juventas—is that all offer windows into the human experience. From sleep disorders to transcontinental immigration, each of these works invites us on a journey that could only be told today.

As I mentioned above, this year, we are not just celebrating the past, but looking forward! This program kicks off two new venue partnerships, with the Brattleboro Music Center and First Parish Sudbury. We are incredibly grateful to Mary Greene (BMC) and Thomas Kruskal (Sudbury) for making this happen, and to YOU—our new audience members—for welcoming us into your community.

Sincerely,

Oliver Caplan, Artistic Director Juventas New Music Ensemble 4

JUVENTAS NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE Juventas’s 2024-25 season is generously sponsored by John A. Carey.

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.

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 Graphic Designer Grants Coordinator

Sadie Habas

Development Coordinator

Molly Breen-Aronson Arts Administration Intern

Cassian Ramos

Arts Administration Intern

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IN THE COMPOSER’S OWN WORDS MARI KOTSKYY | Reminiscence (2019) This piece is about my experience of when I immigrated to NY from my hometown, Hokkaido, an island of northernmost Japan. It was in February, 2008. Because of language barriers and culture differences, I’d been felt homesick and couldn’t stop thinking about my family, friends and the beautiful nature in Hokkaido. After a while, I was getting used to NY life and my sentimental feelings eventually have decreased.

Juventas studio-recorded Reminiscence for the 2020 album “In Focus 3” (RMN Classical).

JONATHAN SHEFFER | Parasomnia (2012) Parasomnia was adapted from music written for a similarly-titled 2008 documentary produced by French television about sleep disorders. This is, therefore, plainly programmatic music reworked into a form with quite different ambitions. Film music, is, by its nature, segmented and tied to specific imagery, and some several cues (as they are called in film) form the basis of an expanded and newly-conceived work, reducing the original sampled elements to three instruments. The atmosphere of the film is tense and serious, as it depicts not only such things are night terrors and sleepwalking, but also describes gruesome crimes committed by persons while in the grips of physical activity during sleep. The movements correspond to different aspects of the subject: the first to a sense of floating, yet urgent anticipation as night draws near; the second accompanies research scientists at work, and the third depicts recurring nightmares, and is therefore (obviously) a theme and variations, ending like the film, with a sense of hope for reducing dangerous symptoms through treatment.

Juventas studio-recorded Parasomnia for a forthcoming album on Navona Records.

ERICH STEM│| Consider (2013) Consider was commissioned by Juventas New Music Ensemble in 2013. The title refers to the consideration of different stylistic ideas (e.g. European avant-garde, neoclassic, jazz, and pop) that are interwoven through a piece that acts like an improvisation. The individual instruments’ lines either form a bridge to a new style or simply respond to the other members of the group, adding their own twist to the direction of the music as the work unfolds.

Juventas studio-recorded Consider by for our 2016 album “Spectres” (New Dynamic Records).

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LIBBY MEYER | Cylindrical Whiskers (merelaniite) (2019) Described as “Cylindrical whiskers with a metallic luster” by my colleague John Jaszczak who helped to officially describe the mineral, merelaniite is named in honor of the miners in the Merelani hills of Tanzania where the first analyzed specimens came from.

According to Jasczak, “It lacks the eye-catching qualities of the colorful gem crystals of tanzanite that the workers toil to unearth in the area’s underground tunnels, but its intricate beauty reveals itself when viewed up close. Under a microscope, merelaniite’s layers look like delicate paper rolled into a scroll, a rare structure in the mineral world. At the atomic scale, it’s incredibly complex crystal structure is also a thing of great beauty.”

In the quartet, each of the players exist in their own musical “cylinder” with tiny, subtle gestures or “whiskers” that emerge in and out of the fabric of the composition. These repetitive figures are created entirely from the pitches of the C major scale, taking advantage of the natural resonance of open strings and harmonics found in the instruments. The delicate gestures undergo subtle changes, changes that may not be obvious initially but later emerge as new figures woven in between the ostinato passages that occur throughout the piece.

Juventas studio-recorded Cylindrical Whiskers for Libby’s 2022 album “To What Listens” (Albany Records).

OLIVER CAPLAN | Love Letters (2015) I composed Love Letters as a wedding gift for my husband Chris, and the music was woven into our marriage ceremony. 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. “Two Penguins in Love,” the recessional, is a celebratory expression of joy and exuberance.

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 June 6, 2016– the day Chris and I tied the knot–our marriage was only recognized in some parts of our country. 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.

Juventas studio-recorded Love Letters for Oliver’s 2017 album “You Are Not Alone” (Oliver Caplan Music).

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In Focus III featuring Reminiscence

by Mari Kotskyy RMN Classical, 2020

Spectres featuring Consider

by Eric Stem New Dynamic Records, 2016

To What Listens featuring Cylindrical Whiskers

by Libby Meyer Albany Records, 2022

You Are Not Alone featuring Love Letters (2015)

by Oliver Caplan Oliver Caplan Music, (2017)

JUVENTAS IN THE STUDIO THE ALBUMS ON STAGE

COMPOSERS MARI KOTSKYY│| b. 1979 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.

Mari’s piano solo piece Snowfall was recognized at The Contemporary Piano 2019 international composition competition in Greece. Further works have accumulated critical acclaim, including Migrating Birds, selected by RMN Classical in the United Kingdom. It also features the piano album Modern Music for Piano 2. Exploring works using flute, clarinet and piano, her work Colors features on the album AERO, performed by acclaimed flutist, Dieter Flury. Her piano trio piece Reminiscence is included on the album In Focus 3, released by RMN Classical in 2020, performed by Juventas New Music Ensemble. In 2021, she was commissioned by Central Square Congregational Church in MA and wrote one-act opera The Lady of the Inn, libretto by Catherine Garrison Chapin. Also, her choral piece I Sing of a Maiden was selected by Ablaze Records and it’s included the album New Choral Voices, vol. 5. The recording is by CORO VOLANTE choir in Cincinnati led by maestro Brett Scott.

Mari 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.

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. marikotskyy.com

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JONATHAN SHEFFER | b. 1953 Jonathan Sheffer is a Grammy-nominated composer and conductor known for his work across classical, opera, dance, and film and television music. A New York City native, Sheffer graduated from Harvard University, studying under Leonard Bernstein, and attended both The Juilliard Extension School and the Aspen School of Music.

Sheffer’s diverse portfolio includes television and film scores, orchestral works, solo piano compositions, concertos, musicals, and short operas. Notable film scores include Encino Man, Pure Luck, A Shallow Grave, Mann v. Ford (HBO), and The Decent One, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival. He has conducted for major films such as Alien 3, Batman Forever, Batman & Robin, Batman Returns, and Interview With The Vampire.

In 2014, Sheffer’s orchestral work for children, The Conference of the Birds, premiered at the Cabrillo Festival. His opera, Blood on the Dining Room Floor, won the Richard Rodgers Production Award and was featured in a Guggenheim Works & Process series event. Sheffer has been honored with fellowships at Yaddo and The MacDowell Colony and served as a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome in 2003.

Sheffer debuted as a conductor with the San Diego Symphony in 1991. He founded the Eos Orchestra in New York in 1995, which received an ASCAP Adventurous Programming Award, toured nationally, performed at the White House, and earned a Grammy nomination. In 2001, he helped establish Red (an orchestra) in Cleveland, leading it for six seasons.

His conducting credits include performances with the New York City Opera, The Spoleto Festival in Italy, and the Ravinia Festival. He has led the American Ballet Theatre, the Mark Morris Dance Company, and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra with the Martha Graham Dance Company at the Edinburgh Festival.

Beyond music, Sheffer is a dedicated advocate for the arts, having served on boards such as VH1 Save The Music, the New York City Opera, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. He is currently a Councilmember of the New York State Council on the Arts.

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ERICH STEM | b. 1973 Erich Stem’s music has been described as “sophisticated and intriguing” (The Washington Post), “unique and beautiful” (Boston Theatre Review), and as having a “fluent and chaotic exchange that breaks minimalism apart” (A Closer Listen). His music has been performed live around the globe in places such as New York City, Boston, San Antonio, Los Angeles, Miami, England, the Netherlands, and Romania and can be heard on albums by critically acclaimed groups such as counter)induction, Aurelia Saxophone Quartet, SOLI Chamber Ensemble, and A/Tonal. His commissions also include music for recognized artists such as saxophonist Johan van der Linden and flutist Lindsey Goodman.

Groups such as the Minnesota Orchestra, Richmond Symphony, West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, and many others have performed/broadcasted his orchestral works in venues such as Minnesota’s Orchestra Hall, The Carpenter Theatre at CenterStage, WUOL 90.5FM’s Brave New World, and WCVE 88.9FM’s Whitlow Concert Series with Bobbie Barajas. In 2013, his affinity for the history and towns of the United States led to a larger orchestral project called America By: A Symphonic Tour.

A consortium of American orchestras has commissioned and performed works from Stem during the tour, including the Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra, West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, University of Portland Orchestra, Arlington Philharmonic, and the James Madison University Symphony Orchestra. His most recent project, Solo Series, takes the touring concept of America By, but focuses on concertos written for various soloists.

In 2022, Stem will tour the first piece of the project, “Firefly”, for Eb Clarinet and Wind Symphony by Backun artist, Carrie RavenStem. The project will wrap up the 2022 season with the second piece of the series, “Kayak”, for percussion and orchestra, featuring National Symphony Orchestra’s percussionist, Scott Christian.

Stem has also made the promotion of today’s art music an important part of his career. He was the founder, director, and resident composer of New Dynamic Records, a contemporary music label that recorded and released music by 60 living composers worldwide, including 42 world premiere recordings. He is currently the co-founder and resident composer of A/Tonal, an ensemble dedicated to the music of living composers and their connections to the past. erichstem.net

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LIBBY MEYER | B. 1967 Libby Meyer is a composer whose work reflects the natural rhythms and patterns of the world around her. Her music is inspired by natural soundscapes and a curiosity about the relationship between the arts and the natural world. Her music has been performed throughout the United States by soloists and ensembles including City Water, Juventas Ensemble, The Keweenaw Symphony Orchestra, ConScience Chamber Singers, Capella Clausura, Tuulli String Quartet and Corvus New Music Ensemble. She is a co-founder of the Keweenaw Soundscape Project established to aurally document the Keweenaw region and surrounding lands for ecological, social and artistic value. She is a member of the Landscape Music Network, a group of composers and musicians from across the United States who have created substantial bodies of work connected to landscape, nature, and place.

She has served as Composer-in-Residence at Isle Royale National Park, The Douglass Park Conservatory and the Visby International Center for Composers in Sweden. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Jackson Center for Teaching and Learning, The Michigan Tech Research Excellence Fund, and more.

Recent projects include a new film score for 1925 film The Red Kimona, directed by Dorothy Davenport as part of the Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers; a score for the 1912 comedy short C’est la faute à Rosalie for Cinema’s First Nasty Women, a 4-disc DVD/Blu-ray set featuring rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest; and a recording project of her vocal works with Capella Clausura recorded in May of 2019 and to be released on Albany records in December 2021.

Libby is also an active composer of theatrical incidental music and has written music for several productions of by Tech Theater Company including Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Silent Sky by Laura Gunderson and most recently Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Libby lives with her husband, a secretive cat and their large Pyrenees mountain dog on a small farm in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Libby holds a DMA in Music Composition from Northwestern University in Chicago and is currently a Teaching Professor in Music Theory and Composition at Michigan Technological University. libbymeyermusic.com

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OLIVER CAPLAN | b. 1982 Andrew Wilkins has generously sponsored Oliver Caplan’s position as Artistic Director for the 2024-25 Season.

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.

Mr. Caplan’s works have been performed in over 250 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 and the Oratorio Society of New York 150th Anniversary Competition, additional recognitions include two Veridian Symphony Competition Wins, the Fifth House Ensemble Competition Grand Prize 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; 2021 album Watershed; 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 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.

Mr. Caplan holds degrees from Dartmouth College and the Boston Conservatory. He resides in Medford, Massachusetts.

Credit: James Jones Photography

www.olivercaplan.com

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MUSICIANS NICHOLAS SOUTHWICK│| flute 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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CELINE FERRO│| clarinet Celine Ferro is a versatile clarinetist and bass clarinetist originally from Rhode Island. She is a graduate of The New England Conservatory of Music, where she received a Bachelor’s degree under the tutelage of Richard Stoltzman, and later a Master’s degree from the Boston University College of Fine Arts, where she studied with Ethan Sloane.

Celine’s on-stage resume is as robust as it is diverse. Her orchestral experience includes performing with the Boston Civic Symphony, Brookline Symphony Orchestra, and the New Hampshire Symphony Orchestra. She has performed in several other New England orchestras and ensembles, as well as orchestra pits in Boston’s theater district and on stage at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall.

Outside of her orchestral work, Celine is the clarinetist of Boston’s Kalliope Reed Quintet, a member of the all-bass clarinet ensemble Improbable Beasts, the clarinetist and bass clarinetist of the groove ensemble Shibui, and serves in the first clarinet section of local wind ensemble MetWinds. Celine travels all over the world with her clarinet (and bass clarinet) in hand, most recently to Mexico where she premiered several new commissions with the Kalliope Reed Quintet, and then to Arizona with the Improbable Beasts at the first ever ICA Low Clarinet Festival. Celine is an accomplished clarinet teacher at the Winchester Community Music School in Massachusetts and at Southern New Hampshire University. She has an ever-growing private studio, offering lessons to students of all ages and levels. ​ er prior work with Juventas New Music Ensemble includes performing in the “Concert H for Peace”, and the recording of a new album of composer Christina Rusnak’s music. Her appearances in the ensemble can be traced as far back as 2013, with the production of Magic Mirror, and she was also involved in two premieres of Artistic and Executive Director Oliver Caplan’s works Love Letters (2015) and Bonne Année (2022). Celine is thrilled to be a part of the Juventas family, and is looking forward to bringing new music to life.

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MINA LACHEVA│| violin Mina Lavcheva, violinist, is a native of Sofia, Bulgaria, where she graduated from the National School of Music “L. Pipkov”. An active performer from an early age, Mina has appeared as a soloist, chamber and orchestra player throughout Europe and North America. She holds a Bachelor and a Master Degree in Music Performance from LSU School of Music and Boston University respectively.

Mina is a sought-after and frequently engaged artist by numerous chamber and orchestral ensembles in the New England area. Currently, she can be heard performing as a member of the Portland Symphony Orchestra (Maine) and Rhode Island Philharmonic, as well as Boston Modern Orchestra Project. Mina has also appeared in performances with Vermont Symphony Orchestra, Handel and Haydn Society, Castle of our Skins, Ensemble Parallax, Arcadia Players, Odyssey Opera, and Juventas New Music Ensemble, to name a few.

Mina has been teaching violin in the Wellesley Public Schools since 2008, and is also on the faculty of 77 Arts Academy in Acton, MA. SOPHIA SZOKOLAY│| violin Lauded for her “stirring, singing tone” by Martha’s Vineyard Gazette, Canadian violinist Sophia Szokolay has captivated audiences across Canada, the United States, and Europe. Based in Boston, Sophia balances a busy schedule as a recitalist and chamber musician while completing her Doctorate at the New England Conservatory, where she serves as Donald Weilerstein’s teaching assistant.

Equally at home with chamber and orchestral repertoire, Sophia plays with the Cape Cod Chamber Orchestra, Palaver Strings, Delirium Musicum, and Phoenix Chamber Orchestra, led by music director Joshua Weilerstein. Her passion for new music has led her to work with notable living composers and to give many premieres, including Jörg Widmann’s String Quartet No. 7 at the YellowBarn Festival, Sid Richardson’s Tide Tiding Time, at Jordan Hall, and James Lee III’s third string quartet, Untranslatable at the Ravinia Festival, commissioned in honor of Miriam Fried’s 30 years as director of the Steans Institute.

Sophia held Teaching and Community Engagement Fellowships at The Juilliard School where she worked with violin and music theory students at Opportunity Music Project and at Thurgood Marshall Academy Lower School. In 2020, she performed online for 17

ICU Covid-19 patients and their families across the United States with Project: Music Heals Us. She curated an online Music and Movement class for toddlers and led music appreciation workshops at Lenox Hill Women’s Shelter.

Sophia received her Bachelor of Music from the New England Conservatory with a Minor in Music Theory, and her Master’s degree from Juilliard. Her teachers include Catherine Cho, Miriam Fried, and Donald Weilerstein.

Sophia’s passions outside of music include photography, distance running, and cycling.

LU YU│| viola 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 degree. Ms. Yu then studied with Marcus Thompson at the New England Conservatory in Boston where she received her Master of Music degree.

Credit: James Jones Photography

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.

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KAMYRON WILLIAMS | cello While cellist Kamyron Williams has performed on stages across the Midwest and New England, he has become known for his focus on social change. With Palaver Strings, he collaborated with guest artists from Maine’s immigrant communities during a 2019 tour “Welcome Home,” and has released two albums, Ready or Not and A Change is Gonna Come; With Exigence Vocal Ensemble, he premiered the SATB arrangement of Seven Last Words of the Unarmed, and with ArcaSōnica, he performed in the diversity-focused Ypsilanti Freight House concert series. During quarantine, he brought music to the elderly through the Ann Arbor Camerata’s “Doorstep Serenades.” Kamyron’s impactful work has been featured on PBS’s “American Black Journal,” NPR Michigan Radio, The Providence Journal, Represent Classical, and The Boston Globe.

Much of Kamyron’s personal mission formed while working with the Sphinx Organization, both as a performer and as the Audience Development Coordinator, where he tackled the challenges of equity, attendance, and enthusiasm that classical music still struggles to overcome. As a result, Kamyron began building infrastructure with future generations of underrepresented musicians in mind. As host of the radio show and podcast Voices Unheard, he spotlights underrepresented composers, overlooked repertoire, and those making a difference in local communities through music. He co-founded the artist collective EnRoot, which performs, commissions, and teaches music that celebrates its members’ Black and Latinx heritage.

Kamyron strives to create spaces where art, community, and humanity intersect. His recent performances and collaborations include the Looking Glass Arts Center, Julius Eastman’s The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc, Daniel Bernard Roumain’s Twin Stars: Diamond Variations for Dae’Anna, and more.

Kamyron holds degrees from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music (B.M.) and the University of Michigan School of Music, Theater & Dance (M.M. and Specialist Degree). When not on the road, he makes his home in the West End neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island.

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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-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.

Credit: James Jones Photography

Julia lives in Winchester with her husband and her daughter. In addition to music, she loves cooking, running, and spending time on Cape Cod.

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“nothing short of magic” — The Boston Globe

Mozart Requiem SEP 27 + 29 SYMPHONY HALL Jonathan Cohen, conductor Lucy Crowe, soprano Beth Taylor, mezzo-soprano Duke Kim, tenor Brandon, bass-baritone H+H Orchestra and Chorus Michael Haydn: Requiem MH155 Mozart: Requiem K. 626

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For more information, please contact General Manager Joseph Sedarski, joseph.sedarski@juventasmusic.org

Make a Planned Gift

Bequests and planned gifts are simple, mutually beneficial ways for you to support Juventas New Music Ensemble beyond your lifetime. You can create your own legacy and keep supporting emerging composers for years to come by leaving a bequest in your will, life insurance policy, retirement plan, or other assets in your estate plan to Juventas New Music Ensemble, while at the same time reaping tax benefits for yourself and your descendents. If you would like more information about making a bequest to Juventas New Music Ensemble or if you’ve already included us in your estate plans, please contact our Artistic Director Oliver Caplan at olivercaplan@juventasmusic.org.

Juventas New Music Ensemble is a nonprofit corporation, organized and existing under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with a principal business address of: Juventas New Music Ensemble P.O. Box 230015 Boston, MA 02123 Our tax identification number is 26-2583870.

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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 August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2024. Please visit www.juventasmusic.org/donate-now to learn about making a tax-deductible gift. $5,000 and Above Anonymous Oliver Caplan and Chris Beagan John A. Carey Massachusetts Cultural Council Karen & Fred Ruymann Andrew Wilkins $1,000–$5,000 Brookline Commission for the Arts Chris and Margie Brown Cambridge Arts Council Paula Luria Caplan Carson Cooman John Emler Barbara Hughey Leslie Jacobson Kaye and Richard Kaye Medford Arts Council Richard Mitrano and Julia Scott Carey The Ripley-Steinemann Family Fund $500–$999 Boylston Cultural Council Christie Gibson and Michael Emmanuel Bryce and Kathryn Denney Meg Fuchs Meghan S. Guidry Stella Lee Andrew and Laura Waldorf Reiss Rachel Rivkind PARMA Recordings Amundi Pioneer Ben Sweetser Sudbury Cultural Council $250–$499 Anne Bilder & Johan den Boon Joanne Dreher Evelyn Bonander Raesin Caine and Colette Carmouche Eric and Margaret Darling Yukiko Egozy Casey Elia Aileen C. Freeman & Susan F. Spencer

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Max Hobart Joshua Levit Alexandra Bowers and James Liu Nagesh Mahanthappa & Valentine Talland Mary Marquebreuck Ann Omalley Jon Saxton and Barbara Fox Steven Taylor Hanjay Wang Beverly Woodward & Paul Monsky $100–$249 Edward J Amabile and Mary M Amabile Lawrence Banks Robert Beagan Lee Binnig Carol Bloom Dana Bos Elise Viebeck and Andrew Caplan Colleen Cavanaugh and Philip Gschwend David Chia Larry Cohen and Susan Worst Deanne Coolidge Brian Cron Brian Pingree and Alexis Dearborn Barry Duncan Andrew Elliott and John Varone Lynn Eustis Ellen Feingold Ann Ferentz Andy Foery Lorna Gibson Myra and Roy Gordon Louise & Michael Grossman Neal and Kim Habas Ann Brennan Harris Patricia Henry Jacob Hilley Kelley Hollis Maureen Hollis David and Mary Howarth Elizabeth Igleheart Steven Jackson Beth D Jacob Jim Kane and Sharon Williams Julia Kane

Mari and Denys Kotskyy Kenneth Krause and Maura McEnaney William Krein William Kucheman Hank and Patricia Kucheman Ian Lai Mimi Lee Julie Leven Laurie Jacobs and Steven Levine Steve Lewis Downing Luvisi Family MaryBeth Manca Amy Mantis May Marquebreuck Carol McCarthy and Chris Stribakos Jonathan and Deborah McPhee Reeva Meyer Aziza Musa Newburyport Cultural Council Angela Ng Linda Ng Robert Page Jason Pavel and Marie Walcott Patric Pepper & Mary Ann Larkin Webster Pilcher and Sheryl Koenigsberg Chris Porter Dr. Cashman Kerr Prince & Dr. Bryan Burns Katie and Bryce Remesch Kathryn Ritcheske Nate Ruegger Peter Ruymann Colin Ryan Lori K. Sanders & Jennifer A. Lewis Isadel & EB Saunter Louise Scribner Charles Shadle Daron Sharps Elsa Dorfman and Harvey Silverglate Kevin & Carol Smith Trisha Solio Chris Stribakos and Carol A McCarthy Ann B. Teixeira Kelsey Thompson Barbara Turen Theodor Weinberg & Eric Hyett Emma Kent Wine

Murray and Susan Woolf Michael Zammito $50–$99 Anonymous Gail Barry Thomas Barth Eric Barth Laura Basford Bob Bassett Minda Berbeco Lauren Bernofsky Bonnie Borch-Rote Mary Bragg Arlene Bryer Margaret Cain Zoe Cardon Kelley Cavanaugh Minjin Chung Rachel Ciprotti Colby Cooman Linda Cox Sarah Cummer Elizabeth Dean Saskia den Boon Virginia Doxsey Christine Edwards Shaun Eyring Deb Faling Celine Ferro David and Ellen Fries Nancy Goodwin Scott Goodwin Lisa Graham Michael Grossman Judith Gurland Steven & Jennifer Guthrie Juliana Hall Hans Heilman Mary and David Howarth Catharine Hyson Laurie Kahn Leonard and Terry Kahn Sho Kato Michael Kong Karen Krolak Ludmilla Leibman Hal Lichtin George Lockhart Xiomara Lorenzo Ann MacDonald Linda Markarian Honor E Mc Ralph and Sylvia Memolo Libby Meyer Ted Mielczarek Roxanna Myhrum William Neely C. Oberting Ayumi Okada Sylvia Oliveira

Katie Parodi Marc Pasciucco Jeffrey Paster Andy Pease John & Sarah Peck Dan Perkins Karen Poggi Alexandra Porter Sara Potter Kate Raisz Jill and Ian Reiss Chris and Lindsey Reiss George & Bobbi Ritcheske Tom Schmidt Andrew & Margot Schmolka Rebeca Sedarski Gordon and Shannon Shannon Jonathan Simon Tess Sneesby Nicholas Southwick Arlene Stevens Bruce and Imogene Jodi Swartz John and Barbara T Tony Thaweethai Raymond Tonkel Charlene Valk The Valks Anna Varlese David von Behren Elaine Walsh John Weston Up to $49 Anonymous (6) Barbara A Hill Andrew Adams Jaime Alberts Aaron Alon Russ Anderson Lael Backus Young Yun Baek Marshall Bautz John Beagan J. L. Bell Michael Berkowitz Kenneth Bigley Emily Blitz Ed Bouchard Ann Bragg Julianna Braun Sharon Bridgforth Margaret Brouwer Eliza Brown Baird and Carol Brown Danica A. Buckley Anne Burt Maureen Cavanaugh Huntae Chung Jeanhee Chung Linda Ciesielski

Jennifer Clapp Lindsay Clark Charles Coe Burt and Deborah Cohen Nell Cohen James Curtis Lora Davidson Angus Davison Patrick Dawson Massimo De Lillo The Dearr Family Kathleen DeBois Sandra DeBow Ashley Dennis Claudine Blake Gerd Dr. Burger Edward Dunar BJ & Rich Dunn Christina English John and Beth Eustis Carole Eustis Evan Fein David Feltner and Robert Edward Smith A. Ferello Roderick Ferguson Giselle Ferro Jane Ferro Eve Foldan Ali Frana Rick Frank Rebecca Fuchs David E Fuchs Gia Fuchs Mary Gardill Stacy Garrop John Garton Tobin Gedstad James Gleason Kendra Goodwin John H. Graves Jeffrey Grossman and Karl Hinze Matthew Gschwend Joe Gualtieri Sadie Habas Jordan Hadrill Amanda Harberg Kiyoshi Hayashi Bonnie Haymon Matthew Heath Matthew Henegan Michaela Hollis Anne Howarth & Frederick Frank Jean Huang Wolcott Humphrey Michael Hustedde Joe Jaxson Rashi Jeeda Callie Jennings Julie Johnson-McGrath James Jones Amie Jones

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Susan Kander Jeff Kauppi Kathryn Kautzman Rakesh Khetarpal Abby Krawson Matthew Kusulas & Jack Tamburri Ursula Kwong-Brown Dina Labkovsky Katie Lade Rainice Lai Johanna LaPlante Mina Lavcheva Ken Lewis Alexander Liebermann Jesse Lipson Tammy Lynch Jen Lyon Gregory Lyons Pamela Marshall Kathryn McKellar Peri Levin McKenna Rachael McKenzie Taylor McNulty Jim McQuaid Alexandra Mendez-Diez Erin Merceruio Nelson Kris Miranda Annemarie Mitrano Robert Montgomery Mary Montgomery Koppel Dilshod Narzillaev Nicholas Norton Susanne Olson Valentina Osorio Jessica Ovici Lindsay Packer Timothy Paek Megan Paglia-Scheff William Paglia-Scheff Jane Parkin Kullmann Martha Pierce

Gretchen Pineo Susan Pivetz Amanda Potter Emma Powell Giselle Puigbo Kathleen Quigley Chris Rhodes Greg Rhodes Jason Ries Susan Rizzo Jennifer Romig Hannah Roos Jonathan Royer Christina Rusnak Mallory Ruymann D. S. Harshita Sahu Antonio Santos Kerem Sayman Donna Scalcione Graeme A.B. Schranz Kristen Schroeder Christopher Sedarski Joseph Sedarski Josh Sedarski Jonathan Sedarski Dennis Shafer Ryan Shannon Brendon Shapiro Dan Shaud Jamison Shave Mindi Shave David Shuve-Wilson Ken Silber Kyle Simpson Mark Sivazlian Anna Speiser Barbara Steiner Drew Swatosh Susannah Thornton Jessica 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 Marc Zegans Tracey Zimmerman Kim Zocchi

We’re proud that our donor roster includes 100% of Juventas board, staff and ensemble members, plus 33 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 Rachel Ciprotti Gordan Shannon Shannon Shannon Evan Perry

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CELEBRATING YEARS OF

JUVENTAS In our 20-year history we are proud to have performed a total of...

209 CONCERTS

FEATURING

334 LIVING COMPOSERS

AND

+ 100 PREMIERES

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