All Past Concerts

  • Juventas at 20
    The official anniversary celebration, showcasing Juventas commissions.

    November 16, 2024, at 8:00pm
    Multicultural Arts Center, East Cambridge, MA
    with live YouTube broadcast

    Featuring works by J. A. J. Sedarski, Stephanie Ann Boyd, Omar Najmi, Libby Meyer, Oliver Caplan, Ayumi Okada, and Cole Reyes.

    Limestone and Felt
    Mesmerizing music by living composers, featuring the unique pairing of cello and percussion.

    October 26, 2024, at 7:00pm
    First Baptist Church, Medford, MA

    Featuring works by Osnat Netzer, Osvaldo Golijov, Derrick Skye, and Caroline Shaw.

    Studio to Stage
    Highlights from the Juventas recording catalog.

    September 13, 2024, at 7:00 pm
    Brattleboro Music Center

    September 14, 2024, at 8:00 pm
    Multicultural Arts Center

    September 15, 2024, at 8:00 pm
    First Parish of Sudbury

    Featuring works by Mari Kotskyy, Jonathan Sheffer, Libby Meyer, Oliver Caplan, and Erich Stem.

  • Slipstream
    A performance at one of Cambridge's most storied properties and former residence of both George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

    September 8, 2024, at 3:00 pm
    Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site

    Featuring works by Stephanie Ann Boyd, Quinn Mason, Valeria Coleman, Oliver Caplan, and Stacy Garrop.

    Olmsted National Historic Site
    A luminous selection of works for string quartet staged at the legendary home of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

    July 21 2024, at 2:00 pm
    Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site

    Featuring works by Kian Ravaei, Jessie Montgomery, Nina Shekhar, Oliver Caplan, and Shelley Washington.

    Music in Bloom
    171 acres; 20 composers; 5 simultaneous concerts; one unforgettable evening of music al fresco

    June 9 & 16, 2024, at 6:00 pm
    New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill

    Featuring works by Oliver Caplan, Quinn Mason, Valeria Coleman, Stacy Garrop, Adolphus Hailstork, Brittney Benton, Ken Sullivan, Carson Cooman, Brandee Younger, Lauren Bernofsky, Kian Ravaei, Brian Raphael Nabors, Shelley Washington, Jessie Montgomery, Nina Shekhar, Osvaldo Golijov, Osnat Netzer, and Caroline Shaw

    The Flower Catalog
    An evening of music for solo piano

    May 18 & 19, 2024, at 7:00 pm ET
    New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill

    Featuring works by Stephanie Ann Boyd

    The Age of the Rise
    A call for action on climate change

    March 23, 2024, at 8:00 pm ET
    Multicultural Arts Center
    and via live YouTube broadcast

    Featuring works by Eliza Brown, Catarina Domenici, Mary Montgomery Koppel, J. A. J. Sedarski, and Alexander Liebermann

    Anne Howarth: Center Stage
    Featuring Juventas’s celebrated hornist with contemporary music inspired by water.

    January 27, 2024, at 8:00 pm ET
    Multicultural Arts Center
    and via live YouTube broadcast

    Febuary 3, 2024, at 8:00 pm
    First Parish of Sudbury

    Featuring works by Althea Talbot-Howard, Judith Shatin, Catherine Likhuta, Wayne Lu, Oliver Caplan, and Justin Casinghino.

    Encore!
    You ask: We deliver! Your favorite nature-inspired pieces return to the Juventas stage.

    November 11, 2023, at 8:00 pm ET
    Multicultural Arts Center
    and via live YouTube broadcast

    Featuring works by Gwyneth Walker, Stacy Garrop, Bonging Ndodana-Breen, Nell Shaw Cohen, Christina Rusnak, and Oliver Caplan.

    Song in Flight
    An homage to the wonders of avian life.

    September 23, 2023, 8 pm ET
    Multicultural Arts Center
    and via live YouTube broadcast

    Featuring works by Libby Meyer, Mari Kotskyy, Angus Davison, Joshua Shank, Beth Ratay, Christina Rusnak, and, Oliver Caplan.

  • Music in Bloom 2023

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

    June 11 & 25, 2023
    New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill, Boylston, MA

    Featuring works by Stephanie Ann Boyd, Oliver Caplan, Kevin Day, Michael Donovan, Stacy Garrop, Gina Gillie, Nyokabi Kariũki, Mary Montgomery Koppel, Mari Kotskyy, Allison Loggins-Hull, Tigran Mansurian, Quinn Mason, Jessie Montgomery, Jocelyn Morlock, Brian Raphael Nabors, John Patitucci, Andrew Porter, Kian Ravaei, Cole Reyes, Carlos Simon, Yuko Uébayashi, Gwyneth Walker, Eric Whitacre, and Emma Wine.

    Concert for Peace

    Seven composers call for a better tomorrow.

    March 18, 2023
    Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA

    Featuring works by David Biedenbender, Margaret Brouwer, Jessie Montgomery, Kyle Rivera, J. A. J. Sedarski, Valentin Silvestrov, and Jorge Sosa.

    Kelley Hollis Center Stage

    Juventas Soprano Kelley Hollis headlines this rare solo concert, with a program centered on mental health and healing.

    January 23, 2023
    Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA

    Featuring works by Rosśa Crean, Anthony Green, Nyokabi Kariũki, Omar Najmi, Rosephanye Powell, and Timothy Takach.

    Cloud Anthem

    Choral music by Oliver Caplan, celebrating his fifth season leading Juventas, with the New Hampshire Master Chorale.

    October 29, 2022
    Granoff Music Center, Tufts University, Medford, MA

    Featuring works by Oliver Caplan.

    Cloud Anthem

    Choral music by Oliver Caplan, celebrating his fifth season leading Juventas, with the New Hampshire Master Chorale.

    October 30, 2022
    Colonial Theater, Laconia, NH

    Featuring works by Oliver Caplan

  • A Vision of Hills

    A free concert al fresco at the legendary home of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

    June 26, 2022
    Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, Cambridge, MA

    Featuring works by Oliver Caplan, Joe Jaxson, Mari Kotskyy, Stacy Garrop, Carson Cooman, and Gwyneth Walker.

    A Vision of Hills

    A free concert on the Mystic River at a showcase of local artisans.

    June 25, 2022
    West Medford Open Studios, Medford, MA

    Featuring works by Oliver Caplan, Joe Jaxson, Mari Kotskyy, Stacy Garrop, Carson Cooman, and Gwyneth Walker.

    Music in Bloom

    A magical evening of music al fresco at Tower Hill Botanic Garden

    June 5 & 12, 2022
    New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill, Boylston, MA

    Featuring works by James Naigus & Drew Philips, Josh Gottry, Anthony Green, Michael Keegan, Jorge Montilla, Susan Botti, Jessie Montgomery, Susan Kander, Oliver Caplan, Joe Jaxson, Mari Kotskyy, Stacy Garrop, Carson Cooman, Gwyneth Walker, Derrick Skye, Quinn Mason, Evan Fein, Miguel del Aguila, Wendell Rosa, Andrea Clearfield, Piotr Szewczyk, and Edgar Meyer.

    Lungs of the City

    Honoring the bicentennial of Frederick Law Olmsted. The legendary landscape architect inspired a nation, with greenspaces that became part of the American fabric.

    June 4, 2022
    Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, Brookline, MA

    Featuring works by Christina Rusnak, Ryan Suleiman, Libby Meyer, Oliver Caplan, Nell Shaw Cohen, Ayumi Okada, and Michael-Thomas Foumai.

    Music of the Genome

    A groundbreaking live concert of music and science, in collaboration with Multiverse Concert Series and the Curie Institute of Paris.

    May 5, 2022
    Museum of Science, Cahners Theater, Boston, MA

    Featuring works by Alexandra du Bois, Amir Bitran, Emmanuel Hieaux, and David Ibbett.

    Lungs of the City

    Honoring the bicentennial of Frederick Law Olmsted. The legendary landscape architect inspired a nation, with greenspaces that became part of the American fabric.

    March 26, 2022
    Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA

    Featuring works by Christina Rusnak, Ryan Suleiman, Libby Meyer, Oliver Caplan, Nell Shaw Cohen, Ayumi Okada, and Michael-Thomas Foumai.

    Ryan Shannon: Center Stage

    Celebrating the violin virtuoso and his five seasons with Juventas.

    January 29, 2022
    YouTube Broadcast

    Featuring works by Jessie Montgomery, Robert Honstein, Paul Wiancko, Andy Stein, and John Corigliano

    Source Code

    Five composers engage with their musical DNA.

    December 11, 2021
    Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA

    Featuring works by Jessie Montgomery, Kian Ravaei, Rosśa Crean, J. A. J. Sedarski, and Susan Botti.

    Memory & Hope

    Honoring the significance of this moment with music reflecting on the past year.

    September 11, 2021
    Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA

    Featuring works by Robert Ruohola, Joe Jaxson, Oliver Caplan, Cole Reyes, and Stephanie Ann Boyd.

  • Beside the Sea

    A program of American classics, old and new.

    August 16, 2021
    Parker's River Beach, South Yarmouth, MA

    Watershed Album Release Concert

    Performance and celebration of works from Watershed, a new album featuring luminous music by Artistic Director Oliver Caplan.

    July 31, 2021
    Private home in Lincoln, MA

    Yearning to Breathe Free

    A concert exploring what it means to be patriotic in a country that has not always afforded freedom to everyone.

    July 1, 2021
    YouTube Broadcast

    Music in Bloom

    Three magical evenings of music al fresco.

    June 13, 25 and 27, 2021
    New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill

    One World

    Music from every continent.

    May 22, 2021
    YouTube Broadcast

    Small Bear, Large Telescope

    Music inspired by the cosmos.

    March 20, 2021
    YouTube Broadcast

    Wolcott Humphrey: Center Stage

    Celebrating the clarinet virtuoso’s nine seasons with Juventas.January, 23, 2021YouTube Broadcast

    The Voice of the Rain

    Music inspired by autumn and nature.

    November 14, 2020
    YouTube Broadcast

    American Mirror

    Music that reflects the social fabric of America.

    September 26, 2020
    YouTube Broadcast

  • Songs of Our City

    Art songs by Boston composers. August 16, 2020 YouTube Broadcast

    Signals

    Music for solo French horn.

    August 2, 2020 YouTube Broadcast

    Música de las Américas

    Music by Latin American composers and composers inspired by the music of Latin America. July 19, 2020 Live YouTube broadcast

    Alone Together

    Our new, virtual 15th-season finale! June 13, 2020 Live YouTube broadcast from Futura Productions

    Stay Home with Juventas

    A live-streamed, virtual concert series during the MA COVID-19 stay-at-home advisory:

    Ryan Shannon, violin, March 18, 2020

    Wolcott Humphrey, clarinet, March 25, 2020

    Lu Yu, viola, April 1, 2020

    Anne Howarth, French horn, April 8, 2020

    Julia Scott Carey, piano, April 15, 2020

    Ryan Shannon, violin, April 22, 2020

    Kelley Hollis, soprano, April 29, 2020

    Wolcott Humphrey, clarinet, May 6, 2020

    Julia Scott Carey, piano, May 13, 2020

    Minjin Chung, cello, May 20, 2020

    Nick Southwick, flute, May 27, 2020

    Olga Patramanska-Bell, violin, June 3, 2020

    Julia Carey: Center Stage

    A very special solo piano concert by Julia Carey, one of Boston's top pianists and a Juventas founder. January 25, 2020, First Church Boston

    Selections from Juventas's 2018-19 Season

    MIT Hacking Arts Conference & Festival. December 8, 2019, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Roots & Wings

    Works from Juventas’s early years paired with pieces by the same composers today.

    October 26, 2019, First Church Boston

    Emergence

    Three emerging voices and the luminaries who inspired them.

    October 6, 2019 Unitarian Church of Montpellier, Vermont

    I Am A Dreamer Who No Longer Dreams

    A new opera exploring immigration, dislocation, and transformation in America, in collaboration with White Snake Projects.

    September 20, 21, and 22, 2019; Emerson Paramount Theater

    Emergence

    Three emerging voices and the luminaries who inspired them.

    September 14, 2019; First Church Boston

    Sing Out Strong: Immigrant Voices, with White Snake Projects

    August 1, 2019; Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center

    August 8, 2019 Pao Performing Arts Center

    August 22, 2019WBUR CitySpace

  • The American Dream

    Selections from Juventas's 2018-19 season.

    October 18, 2018

    Margaret Fuller House

    Boston New Music Festival Keynote Concert

    October 27, 2018

    First Church Boston

    This Land Is Your Land

    Commemorating the 50th anniversaries of the Wild & Scenic Rivers Act and the National Trails System Act, with new music inspired by American landscapes, in collaboration with Landscape Music Composers Network.

    November 3, 2018

    First Church Boston

    Freedom of Speech

    Celebrating one of the hallmarks of American society, the freedom of speech, with new music that responds to current affairs.

    February 9, 2019

    First Church Boston

    Voices of America

    Honoring America's history as a beacon of freedom, with new music that shares stories of immigrants and refugees.

    April 13, 2019

    First Church Boston

    Pride: Hand in Hand

    Observing the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising and launch of the modern gay rights movement, with new music by LGBTQ+ composers.

    June 1, 2019

    First Church Boston

    The American Dream

    Selections from Juventas's 2018-19 season.

    June 9, 2019

    Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site

  • Boston New Music Festival

    Juventas New Music Ensemble featuring Claire Chase

    September 24, 2017; Killian Hall at MIT

    Five Years Later: Songs of Hope and Resilience

    Curated chamber works commemorating the fifth anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing.

    April 14, 2018; First Church Boston

    You Are Not Alone

    Celebrating the release of Juventas’s album, You Are Not Alone, featuring chamber music by Artistic Director Oliver Caplan.

    June 17, 2018; Granoff Music Center at Tufts University

  • Boston New Music Festival: Kick-off Concert

    Kick-off for Boston New Music Festival featuring circus arts, indie opera, and the latest in contemporary instrumental performance.

    November 2, 2016

    Oberon

    Project Fusion: Music in Flight

    Aerial artists team up with composers and instrumentalists to bring forth an unparalleled audio-visual experience.

    March 22-23, 2017

    Oberon

  • Project Fusion: Music and Technology

    A multi-media, multi-sensory experience that animates sound through robotics, visual stimuli, and interactive computer technology.

    November 21, 2015, Killian Hall, MIT

    Emerge: New Music and its Origins

    Discovering the future of music through the next generation's compositional prodigies. Featuring young creators from Walnut Hill School and NEC Prep, along with students from Juilliard Prep.

    January 30, 2016, BFIT Auditorium

    Opera Project 2016

    The Body Politic

    A transgender man from Afghanistan immigrates to the American South in this world premiere opera about a collision of cultures that shakes the foundations of what it means to be an American in a post-9/11 world.

    May 5-7, 2016, Boston Center for The Arts Plaza

  • Music in Motion

    100 years of modern music brought to Life through puppetry and abstract performance art.

    May 5 & 6, 2015

    A.R.T.'s Club Oberon

    Emerge: New Music and Its Origins

    Featuring three premieres, renowned flutist Carol Wincenc, and Andrew Arceci on Viola da Gamba.

    September 19 and 20, 2014

    First Church in Cambridge

  • The Magic Mirror:

    A New Opera Based on Pushkin's Snow White

    Aug 21-24, 2013

    CSV Flamboyan Theater

    Project Fusion: HackPolitik

    In collaboration with contemporary dance company The People Movers. A new ballet based on the global hacktivist group known as Anonymous.

    ​November 15 & 16, 2013

    Boston University Dance Theater

    Music: Peter Van Zandt Lane

    Choreographer: Kate Ladenheim,

    Opera Project 2014

    The Little Blue One (world premiere)

    A psychological thriller about reality and the supernatural.

    April 24-26, 2014

    Boston Center for the Arts’s Plaza Theater

    Music: Dominick DiOrio

    Libretto: Meghan Guidry

  • Emerge: New Music and Its Origins

    Celebrating Six Years of Residency at The Boston Conservatory by performing three generations of Boston Composers

    September 21, 2012

    The First Church of Boston Unitarian

    September 22, 2012

    Seully Hall, The Boston Conservatory

    unMET v2.0 : opera for the 21st century

    October 10, 2012

    Executive Room, Bentley University

    October 31, 2012

    Oberon, Harvard Square

    Project Fusion: Expérience

    Each year, Juventas' PROJECT FUSION brings you collaborative projects, from live painting to politics, to choral works.

    December 8, 2012

    Museum of Modern Renaissance

    December 9, 2012

    Center Makor

    Spotlight Series

    Spotlight #1

    November 18, 2012

    Davis Square Theater, Somerville

    Brian Calhoon, solo marimba + voice

    Spotlight #2

    January 31, 2013

    Lily Pad, Cambridge

    Yohanan Chendler, solo violin

    Spotlight #3

    March 31, 2013

    Lily Pad, Cambridge

    Mike Dahlberg, cello +

    Wolcott Humphrey, clarinet

    Opera Project 2013

    The Magic Mirror:

    A New Opera Based On Pushkin's Snow White

    May 30-June 1, 2013

    BCA Plaza Theatre

    Music and libretto Polina Nazaykinskaya

  • Spark

    September 10, 2011

    Seully Hall, The Boston Conservatory

    September 11, 2011

    Old South Church in Copley Square

    Rocket's Red Blare

    In collaboration with Intermezzo Opera

    October 1, 2011

    Agassiz Theater, Harvard University

    October 2, 2011

    Agassiz Theater, Harvard University

    Through the Looking Glass

    In collaboration with Schola Cantorum

    November 18, 2011

    ​St. John's Evangelist

    November 19, 2011

    Cathedral of St John, Providence, RI

    November 20, 2011

    Seully Hall, The Boston Conservatory

    unMET: opera for the 21st century

    February 21, 2012

    Oberon, Harvard Square

    Oliver Caplan - CD Release Party and Concert

    May 12, 2012

    Futura Productions, Roslindale, MA

    May 20, 2012

    Riverdale Yacht Club, Bronx, NY

    Opera Project 2012

    The Fiddler and the Old Woman of Rumelia

    May 4-6, 2012

    Roberts Studio Theatre at the Calderwood Pavilion

    **Performance made possible by a generous grant from the Free for All Concert Fund, Inc.

    ​Music and libretto Ketty Nez

    Direction Giselle Ty

    Juventas performs at the Rachmaninoff Festival

    May 26, 2012

    First Church in Cambridge

    May 27, 2012

    Jordan Hall

    New Music on the Lake

    June 9, 2012

    Deertrees Theatre

  • The Exquisite Corpse:

    When Music and the Body Become One

    September 18, 2010; Killian Hall, MIT

    September 19, 2010; Seully Hall, The Boston Conservatory

    Generation N.O.W.: New. Original. Wild.

    October 7, 2010; Concert Room, The Boston Conservatory

    Middlebury College Residency

    December 2, 2010

    Middlebury College, VT

    Winter Solitude: local Boston composers

    + local artists

    December 17-18, 2010

    Seully Hall, The Boston Conservatory

    Juventas Jam: New Music Drawing on Influences From Folk to Funk

    February 12, 2011; Seully Hall, The Boston Conservatory

    February 13, 2011; Ryles Jazz Club, Cambridge

    Opera Project 2011:

    Light & Power, A Telsa/Edison Story

    May 19-22, 2011

    Cambridge YMCA Theater

    Music Isaac Schankler

    Libretto Jillian Burcar

  • Murmurs from Limbo: A Musical Exploration into the Human Mind

    September 18, 2009

    Seully Hall, The Boston Conservatory

    September 19, 2009

    First Church in Boston

    Next Generation: Boston Conservatory Composers

    October 8, 2009

    Seully Hall, The Boston Conservatory

    One Light: New Music for Winter Holidays with Lorelei Ensemble Women’s Choir

    December 12, 2009

    St. John’s Church, Jamaica Plain

    December 13, 2009

    Marsh Chapel, Boston University

    Juventas Jam: New Music Drawing on Influences From Folk to Funk

    February 6, 2010

    Seully Hall, The Boston Conservatory

    February 7, 2010

    The Middle East, Cambridge

    March 4, 2010

    The Boston Atheaneum

    Opera Project 2010:

    ​3 x 3 = ∞

    May 20-23, 2010

    Cambridge YMCA Theater

    Music Karola Obermüller

    Libretto Peter Gilbert

  • Jean Y. Foo Composition Recital

    February 17, 2009

    ​Distler Performance Hall, Tufts University

    Winter Concert Series

    February 28, 2009

    Seully Hall, The Boston Conservatory

    March 3, 2009-

    O’Connell Auditorium, Edith F. Cove Fine Arts Center

    Opera Project 2009:

    The Hourglass & The Year of The Serpent

    May 7 & 10, 2009

    Cambridge YMCA Theater

  • Uplifted Concert Series

    September 14, 2007

    Marsh Chapel, Boston University

    September 15, 2007

    Seully Hall, The Boston Conservatory

    September 16, 2007

    Lilypad, Cambridge

    Winter Tableau Concert Series

    November 30, 2007

    Seully Hall, The Boston Conservatory

    December 1, 2007

    Arlington Street Church

    December 2, 2007

    The Lilypad, Cambridge

    Art Fair of Boston

    December 14, 2007

    First Church in Boston

    Boston Conservatory Composer Readings

    February 2, 2008

    Seully Hall, The Boston Conservatory

    Opera Project 2008:

    Tramps, Emails & Hemlock

    March 18,19 & 22, 2008

    Seully Hall, The Boston Conservatory

    Juventas Trio: New Music For All Time

    April 19, 2008

    Arlington Street Church

  • For Voice and Ensemble

    December 2, 2006

    The Boston Conservatory

    December 3, 2006

    Holmes Living Room, Harvard University

    December 8, 2006

    Marsh Chapel, Boston University

    Canopy Dances

    March 3, 2007

    Holmes Living Room, Harvard University

    March 5, 2007

    Marsh Chapel, Boston University

    Art & Music

    May 5, 2007

    Seully Hall, The Boston Conservatory

    May 6, 2007

    ​Marshall Room, Boston University

  • Season Opener

    December 3, 2005

    Marsh Chapel, Boston University

    December 4, 2005

    Holmes Living Room, Harvard University

    Joint Concert with the Harvard-Radcliffe Contemporary Music Ensemble

    February 26, 2006

    Holmes Living Room, Harvard University

    Benefit Concert for School Children

    April 4, 2006

    Zumix, East Boston

    Classical Appetizer Series

    April 8, 2006

    The Boston Conservatory

    ​Juventas

    April 22, 2006

    Lily Pad, Cambridge