ENCORE!
You ask: we deliver! Your favorite nature-inspired pieces return to the Juventas stage.
October 27, 2023
Juventas New Music Ensemble continues its 2023-24 season “Visions of Green” with Encore!, a program of nature-themed audience favorites from the past five years. The concert features the works of six living composers Oliver Caplan, Gwyneth Walker, Stacy Garrop, Bongani Ndodana-Breen, Nell Shaw Cohen, and Christina Rusnak. It will be presented on November 11, 8pm at the Multicultural Arts Center in Cambridge, MA, and live-streamed on YouTube.
Encore! celebrates new music as repertoire. The program was curated from five years of “Play It Again!” cards, a survey that audience members are invited to complete after a Juventas Mainstage program. Following the 19th season’s environmental theme, each piece is inspired by the natural world and iconic natural landmarks such as the Mystic River, Umzimvubu River, Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail, Vermont countryside, and the coast of Newport.
Christina Rusnak
Oliver Caplan
Stacy Garrop
Nell Shaw Cohen
Gwyneth Walker
Bongani Ndodana-Breen
“Juventas believes contemporary music deserves repeat performances, just like the classical greats,”
says Artistic Director Oliver Caplan. “A great piece of music reveals itself in layers; each time we listen, we notice something new”
Encore! will feature performances by Nicholas Southwick, Celine Ferro, Anne Howarth, Julia Scott Carey, Ryan Shannon, and Thomas Barth.
Tickets are on sale now at juventasmusic.org and range from $1-$35. Juventas’s new $125 Club Magenta subscription offers the entire Mainstage Season a 30% discount. In addition, Juventas also continues to provide $1 Music for All tickets for anyone who cannot afford regular ticket pricing, no questions asked.
Other Juventas Programs in November
Neighborhood Series: To the Seasons
A free performance by soprano Kelley Hollis, hornist Anne Howarth, and pianist Julia Scott Carey, featuring music by Michael Donovan, Mary Montgomery Koppel, Emma Wine, Mari Kotskyy, Nyokabi Kariũki, Oliver Caplan, Eric Whitacre, Andrew Porter, and Gina Gille
November 18, 2023, 8 pm ET
First Baptist Church
Medford, MA
Free Admission
Upcoming Juventas Mainstage Season Programs
A special solo program celebrating our hornist’s five years with Juventas.
Program Forthcoming
January 27, 2024, at 8:00 pm ET
Multicultural Arts Center
41 Second St, East Cambridge, MA 02141
and via live YouTube broadcast
The Age of the Rise
A call for action on climate change.
With music by Eliza Brown, Catarina Domenici, Mary Montgomery Koppel, J. A. J. Sedarski, and Kyle Rivera
March 23, 2024, at 8:00 pm ET
Multicultural Arts Center
41 Second St, East Cambridge, MA 02141
and via live YouTube broadcast
171 acres; 20 composers; 5 simultaneous concerts; one unforgettable evening of music al fresco
With music by Stacy Garrop, Quinn Mason, Valeria Coleman, Oliver Caplan, Lauren Berofsky, Carson Cooman, Ken Sullivan, Adolphus Hailstork, Brandee Younger, Brittney Benton, Kian Ravaei, Brian Raphael Nabors, Stephanie Ann Boyd, Shelley Washington, Jessie Montgomery, Nina Shekhar, Caroline Shaw, Osvaldo Golijov, Osnat Netzer.
June 9 & 16, 2024, at 6:00 pm
New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill
11 French Dr, Boylston, MA 01505
About Juventas:
Juventas New Music Ensemble is a contemporary chamber group with a special focus on emerging voices. Juventas shares classical music as a vibrant, living art form. We bring audiences music from a diverse array of composers that live in today’s world and respond to our time.
Press Contacts:
Oliver Caplan
Artistic Director
oliver.caplan@juventasmusic.org
Joseph Sedarski
General Manager
joseph.sedarski@juventasmusic.org