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Juventas New Music Ensemble Juventas serves as an incubator for the most promising emerging composers by showcasing their music

Over the past 15 years, Juventas New Music Ensemble has made a mark on the world of contemporary classical music through its unique focus on showcasing and developing the music-making of today's most brilliant emerging composers. Our performances cross disciplinary boundaries and have included collaborations with robots, puppets, poets, scientists, dancers, and aerial artists. Our annual opera project has received numerous awards (National Opera Association, The American Prize) and we have been awarded grants from the NEA, Cambridge Arts Council, Boston Arts Council and others. Our core musicians are some of the top new music specialists in the world, working with young composers in an incubator that aims to spearhead their careers.

Happy Fall Friday!! The amazing composer we are featuring this Friday is Camille Pépin. “Camille Pépin is one of the mos...
10/16/2026

Happy Fall Friday!! The amazing composer we are featuring this Friday is Camille Pépin.

“Camille Pépin is one of the most widely recognized composers of her generation. Her orchestral language, rooted in color, movement and a strong sensory dimension, has led to international exposure and numerous commissions.

With a primary focus on orchestral music, her works have been performed by leading ensembles including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic, The Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsche Symphonie Orchester, The Frankfurt Radio Symphony and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.​ Pépin has received major awards including the Grand Prix Sacem for Symphonic Music, as well as several prizes from the Académie des Beaux-Arts. She was named Composer of the year at the Victoires de la musique Classique in 2020 and was appointed Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2022.”

Learn more about Camille Pépin at https://en.camillepepin.com/

Juventas is excited to perform Pépin’s piece, Autumn Rhythm at our first Salon Series installation at Chase Young Gallery!

10/16/2026

Happy Friday! Today, we’re bringing back a classic— Over the Rainbow, performed by Juventas Soprano Kelley Hollis for our 2019 Pride Hand in Hand concert.

You can sing with Kelley too! Our next Neighborhood Series concert, Many Voices, One Song, is next weekend. Part vocal performance, part community sing, the program features contemporary pieces alongside familiar works from the social justice canon. This musical call to action was envisioned and curated by Kelley herself!

Many Voices, One Song will take place at the Medford Public Library on Saturday, October 24 at 7pm. For more information and to secure your spot, visit https://www.juventasmusic.org/many-voices-one-song

Juventas is delighted to announce that we are launching a brand new concert series this fall! Introducing the Salon Seri...
10/14/2026

Juventas is delighted to announce that we are launching a brand new concert series this fall! Introducing the Salon Series, which will offer one-of-a-kind concert experiences in unique venues.

Our inaugural salon concert, Chromatic Visions, will be Thursday, November 19th at 7pm at the Chase Young Gallery in Boston's South End. This intimate celebration of human creativity through sound, color, and light offers intimate table seating and hors d'oeuvres, plus a special appearance from artist David Brewster, who will share insights about his paintings on display.

There are only 36 seats available for this special event, and we anticipate that it will sell out quickly. To reserve your tickets and find out more, visit https://www.juventasmusic.org/chromatic-visions

All We Are at the Multicultural Arts Center is TONIGHT! Our first Mainstage program of the season asks us what it means ...
10/10/2026

All We Are at the Multicultural Arts Center is TONIGHT! Our first Mainstage program of the season asks us what it means to endure, to hold multiple identities, and to cherish what is most fragile and fleeting. Here, we’re highlighting the featured composers and their pieces!

Kian Ravaei’s “Unstoppable” is dedicated to those people in our lives who are truly unstoppable— the people who prevail in the face of obstacles, the people who are beaten down by life again and again but continue to get back up and push forward. This piece celebrates them by saying thank you.

Reena Esmail’s “Piano Trio,” like her other compositions, straddles two of the world’s most sophisticated musical traditions; on one side is the art music of Europe and its system of tonal harmony, and the other is Hindustani classical music, organized around collections of tones called raags that go back centuries.

Oliver Caplan was inspired by the work of Hannah Fries, an author and close friend of his. Her poetry in “Wherever You Think There is Nothing” invites us to look deeply into the spaces where silence, rupture, and stillness reside, revealing that ‘nothingness’ is rarely empty.

David Biedenbender’s “All we are given we cannot hold” is all about the fleeting and ephemeral, and the poetry he chose by Robert Fanning often captures some small, seemingly ordinary moment, and finds a profundity and beauty within it.

Tickets are still available for tonight and tomorrow’s performance! Visit https://www.juventasmusic.org/many-voices-one-song to get yours and for more information.

10/08/2026

Poet Hannah Fries introduces her poem, “Wherever You Think There is Nothing,” the text used in Oliver Caplan’s new piece under the same title. “There is something incredibly special to have a poem set to music,” she says. “I think of the poem itself as a vessel to try to hold or give shape to that original wordless impulse of feeling."

Our first Mainstage concert, All We Are, is this weekend at the Multicultural Arts Center and First Parish of Sudbury! For information and tickets, visit https://www.juventasmusic.org/all-we-are

10/07/2026

Kian Ravaei’s “Unstoppable” is dedicated to the people in our lives who are truly unstoppable— the people who are beaten down by life again and again but continue to get back up and push forward. Enjoy a clip of our musicians rehearsing the piece before last month’s Brattleboro performance!

Want to hear more? Our first Mainstage concert, All We Are, is this weekend at the Multicultural Arts Center and First Parish of Sudbury! For information and tickets, visit https://www.juventasmusic.org/all-we-are

10/05/2026

Join us this weekend for our season opener, All We Are! Artistic Director Oliver Caplan speaks about his piece, Wherever You Think There is Nothing, which is having its world premiere in this program. “The poem draws attention to spaces in our lives… A chamber of a flower blossom, the spiral of a shell… Places that we think of as nothing that really hold something.”

Haven’t gotten your tickets for All We Are yet? There’s still time! Visit www.juventasmusic.org/all-we-are for tickets, venues, and more information.

It's only been autumn for a week, but we miss the summer weather already!Next weekend, settle into the season with our M...
09/30/2026

It's only been autumn for a week, but we miss the summer weather already!

Next weekend, settle into the season with our Mainstage opener, All We Are! Spanning generations and continents, the composers on this program ask what it means to endure, to hold multiple identities, and to cherish what is most fragile and fleeting. Tickets for our Cambridge and Sudbury performances are on sale now at https://www.juventasmusic.org/all-we-are

Tonight is our Mainstage season opener, All We Are at the Brattleboro Music Center! Featuring works by composers Reena E...
09/26/2026

Tonight is our Mainstage season opener, All We Are at the Brattleboro Music Center! Featuring works by composers Reena Esmail, Kian Ravaei, Oliver Caplan, and David Biedenbender, this program asks what it means to endure, to hold multiple identities, and to cherish what is most fragile and fleeting. Enjoy a clip of Kian Ravaei's "Unstoppable"-- and a little Simon cameo!

In the Brattleboro area? Find more information on tonight's concert at https://bmcvt.org/event/juventas-2/. In the Boston area? Our next performances are few weeks away! For information and tickets, visit https://www.juventasmusic.org/all-we-are

Click the first photo, choose an instrument, and follow the line to see which Juventas mainstage performance you should ...
09/22/2026

Click the first photo, choose an instrument, and follow the line to see which Juventas mainstage performance you should go see! Whichever concert you land on is the one for you-- it's fate!

For more information on our 2026-2027 mainstage series and to buy tickets, visit https://www.juventasmusic.org/2026-27-mainstage-season

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