Juventas is thrilled to announce our 2025–2026 Mainstage season, Journeys. This season, each program invites you to explore a different kind of journey—natural, cultural, or artistic—and reflects on how these experiences shape who we are, both as individuals and as a community.
Last year, we celebrated our 20th anniversary with a record number of performances and new venues. This season, as we step into our next decade, we’ll continue this growth with 15 mainstage performances at 4 venues: the Multicultural Arts Center in Cambridge, First Parish Sudbury, Brattleboro Music Center, and New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill in Boylston. The season features 50+ living composers, 18 of whom are new to the Juventas stage!
Club Magenta Subscriptions are on sale today! Buy tickets to 3 or more concerts and receive a 25% discount. This is the best promotion we offer, and also one of the strongest ways to support our ensemble. This year, we have expanded Club Magenta Subscriptions to include all ticket types (Regular, Senior, Student, and Music for All). Single tickets will be available starting August 12.
Visit the link in our bio to explore the season and purchase subscription tickets!
Around the World in 80 Minutes is tonight and tomorrow! Join us for an evening full of unforgettable pieces, performed by our fantastic pianist Julia Scott Carey. Still need to get your tickets? Visit /around-the-world-in-80-minutes or the linktree in our bio for more information.
Spend the evening traveling the world with us this weekend, May 16 and 17, as pianist Julia Scott Carey of Juventas New Music Ensemble performs a special concert featuring music by seven contemporary composers that reflects the distinctive character and beauty of the people and places that inspire it.
Learn more and reserve your tickets at the link in our bio or visit nebg.org
Video: Juventas Artistic Director Oliver Caplan introduces viewers to the upcoming piano concert theme and tells of two pieces included in the evening.
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Around the World in 80 Days is this weekend! We are looking forward to an evening surrounded by beautiful garden scenery, listening to piano pieces
that originate from places all over the globe.
Salina Fisher’s “Sumner Tides” was inspired by memories of her teenage years in her hometown of Ōtautahi Christchurch. An homage to Claude Debussy, this piece was created with the sea in mind— once surging and chaotic, now serene.
Alain Pierre Pradel’s “Pomme Canelle” is just as inviting as its namesake, the sugar apple; a small green fruit native to the Caribbean which is eaten out of the hand or made into juices and sorbets. The mood of the piece is sweet and inviting, offered like a piece of fruit.
Nkeiru Okoye wrote “African Sketches” with inspiration from her childhood years in Nigeria, her father’s homeland. Each movement of this four-movement suite captures a different moment in time that captures the charm of life through the eyes of a child.
Isabelle Ryder’s “Fjord” was inspired by a boating expedition through the iceberg-strewn fjords of Greenland during her days as a scientist. These five pieces similarly take the audience on an expedition through glaciers, icebergs, and cold waters.
Daniel Cueto’s “Rio” tells the story of a river that is born in the heights of the Peruvian cordillera, going through different stages and eventually flowing out into the Pacific.
Adrian Wong was inspired to write “Childhood Sweet” thanks to his favorite Hong Kong desserts that he missed during college. Each movement is a love letter to a unique slice of Hong Kong culture, focusing on the memories behind each coveted treat.
Jesse Plessis’ “Te Pari” was composed for for the film Flora Aurima Devatine, les étoiles de l’aurore - Te feti’a taiao ‘averau,’ a documentary about the life and work of the Tahitian poet, writer, and scholar Flora Aurima Devatine.
Join us this Saturday and Sunday at the New England Botanic Garden for a concert you won’t want to miss! For tickets and information, visit /around-the-world-in-80-minutes or the linktree in our bio.
Around the World in 80 Minutes will take you on a journey across every inhabited continent, guided by the voices of seven living composers. Each piece is inspired by the sights, foods, and experiences of countries across the world. Enjoy these photos representing them all— some were even taken by the composers!
Hear the music inspired by these photos this Saturday and Sunday at the New England Botanic Garden! For information and tickets, visit /around-the-world-in-80-minutes
Today we're looking back at our last concert for solo piano, Echoes of the Wild! Performed last year by Julia Scott Carey for our 2024-2025 season, Legacy, this program featured pieces inspired by different American landscapes, all surrounded by the picturesque scenery of the @newenglandbg . Here, Julia performs the first movement of Oliver Caplan's Echoes on the Horizon, "Damson Meadows", inspired by the Columbia River Gorge between Oregon and Washington state.
Love this performance and want to see more? Julia is performing at NEBG again this weekend! For tickets and information, visit /around-the-world-in-80-minutes or the linktree in our bio!
WHAT DO DESSERTS SOUND LIKE?
Come hear Julia Scott Carey of @juventasmusic perform my piece “糖水系列 - Childhood Sweet” in her program: Around the World in 80 minutes!
Set in the New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill’s @newenglandbg iconic Limonaia conservatory at golden hour, this one-of-a-kind program will take you on a musical journey across the globe—along the rivers of the Peruvian mountains, across the beaches of New Zealand, through the icy waters of Greenland, and everywhere in between.
📍New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill
🗓️ May 16th and 17th, 7:00 PM
🎟️ Buy tickets here: /around-the-world/
We're bringing back our Composer Feature Friday series! This week, we feature Juventas Call for Scores winner, @adrianwongcc !
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Adrian Wong is a composer who "aims to create engaging and moving music full of imagery, drama, and unapologetic conviction." He holds degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music as the Milton L. Rock Composition Fellow and University of Michigan. Adrian is currently based in Philadelphia, serving on the Curtis Musical Studies Faculty and as Coordinator of Community Partnerships.
His music has been performed across many continents, in places such as Hong Kong, London, Greece, New Zealand, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Japan, among others.
Speaking of worldwide performances, Juventas is excited to perform Adrian Wong's piece, "Childhood Sweets" on our fast-approaching mainstage program: Around the World in 80 Minutes!
Join Juventas pianist Julia Scott Carey for a tour de force performance featuring music from around the world. Adrian will join us in-person for the Saturday performance on May 16 @newenglandbg !
Grab your tickets at nebg.org/around-the-world/
Explore the program at juventasmusic.org/around-the-world-in-80-minutes
Happy Thursday! Our next throwback in our On This Day series is the Juventas Opera Project from 2009! Performed May 7-10 at the Cambridge YMCA Theater, Juventas premiered two operas for the first time in the world— The Hourglass by Matthew Vest and The Year of the Serpent by Erin Huelskamp. Enjoy a clip from The Year of the Serpent, a one act opera based on a Chinese folktale. The whole performance can be found here! https://youtu.be/BoWBogEXvJ8?si=YNMXDOqJBvOF8GDd
Our dear pianist Julia Scott Carey was featured on this project, and will be performing solo at the New England Botanic Garden next weekend! For tickets and information, visit /around-the-world-in-80-minutes
Thank you to every one who joined us on Saturday for our Throughlines release concert! The concert was a wonderful celebration of all the hard work these musicians and composers have put into this project over the past months. A special thanks to @parmarecordings for helping make this all-Juventas album possible. Throughlines is now available on all popular streaming platforms!
Missed this concert? Around the World in 80 Minutes is just a few weeks away! Grab your tickets before they're gone at /around-the-world-in-80-minutes
Our Throughlines album release concert is tonight at 8:00pm at the @multiculturalac ! Tickets are still available on our website through the link in our bio. We hope to see you there!
Happy album release day! Our brand new album Throughlines is now available. A big thanks to @parmarecordings for making this album possible!
Listen to Throughlines on your favorite streaming platform here: /juventasnewmusicensemblemichaelkaulkincynthiafoliosidneybailindeborahkavaschjohnwmarvinmatthewhetzferdinandodesena_throughlines or explore the rest of our discography below.
Want to hear the album live? Our album release concert is tomorrow! For tickets and information, visit /juventas-x-navona-records
