Supporters
Season Sponsors
Leadership Donors
2025-26 Season
John A. Carey
Artistic Director Oliver Caplan
Andrew Wilkins
Mainstage Concerts
Bloom, Blaze, Fall, Frost: Karen Ruymann
Concert Livestreams
Chasing Dreams for Later Light: Alex Ripley and Ted Steinemann
Musicians
Kelley Hollis, soprano: Karen Ruymann
Nicholas Southwick, flute: Emily Lyons and Ryan Snyder
Celine Ferro, clarinet: Meghan Guidry
Ryan Shannon, violin: Oliver Caplan and Chris Beagan
Lu Yu, viola: Julia Scott Carey and Richard Mitrano
Matthew Smith, cello: Leslie Jacobson Kaye and Richard Kaye
Julia Scott-Carey, piano: Max Hobart
Thomas Schmidt, percussion: Christie Lee Gibson and Michael Emmanuel
World Premiere Performances
9/27/25, Bloom/Decay by Bella Rose Kelley: Carson Cooman
6/14/25, New Work by Oliver Caplan: Carson Cooman
Staff
Kyla Blocker, General Manager: Meg Fuchs
Meet-the-Artist Receptions
9/15/25, Chasing Dreams for Later Light: Jane Parkin Kullmann
3/14/26, Lu Yu: Center Stage: Lynn Eustis
5/2/26, Juventas x Navona Records: Meg Fuchs
Juventas New Music Ensemble is deeply grateful to the incredibly generous community that supports our artistic programs. Juventas received the following individual gifts from October 1, 2024 to October 31, 2025.
PARMA Recordings
Carriage House Violins
The Surrealtors
We are extremely grateful for the support we've received from the individuals and organizations below. Without their support, Juventas New Music Ensemble would not exist.
$5,000 and Above
Anonymous
The Boston Foundation Free for All Fund
Oliver Caplan and Chris Beagan
John A. Carey
Massachusetts Cultural Council
Karen MacDonald Ruymann & Frederick W. Ruymann, M.D.
Andrew Wilkins
$2,000–$4,999
Anonymous
Cambridge Arts Council
Cambridge Community Foundation
Colleen Cavanaugh & Philip Gschwend
Medford Arts Council
The Ripley-Steinemann Family Fund
Bonnie Hirsh
The Puffin Foundation
$1,000–$1,999
Brookline Commission for the Arts
Paula Luria Caplan and William Caplan
Julia Scott Carey and Richard Mitrano
Carson Cooman
Meg Fuchs
Christie Gibson and Michael Emanuel
Good Treble Fund
Max Hobart
Leslie Jacobson Kaye and Richard Kaye
Stella J. Lee
Emily Lyons and Ryan Snyder
Wegmans Medford
$500–$999
Boylston Cultural Council
Chris and Margie Brown
Laurel A Copeland
Brian Cron
Diane Droste
April and Jon Durant
Beth D Jacob
Gloria Lee
Nagesh Mahanthappa & Valentine Talland
Ben Sweetser
Sudbury Cultural Council
$250–$499
Anonymous
Anne Bilder & Johan den Boon
Larry Cohen and Susan Worst
Deanne Coolidge
Joanne Dreher
William Dwyer
Yukiko Egozy
John Emler
Lynn Eustis
Ann Ferentz
Moriah Freeman
Elizabeth Igleheart and Millan Galland
Louise & Michael Grossman
Jacob Hilley
Ian Lai
Joshua Levit
Alexandra Bowers and James Liu
Jane Parkin Kullmann
Carol Richart
Katie and Bryce Remesch
Alexis and Nate Ruegger
Lori K. Sanders & Jennifer A. Lewis
Lucy and Len Schmolka
Sidney Slobodkin
$100–$249
Anonymous (3)
Hugh Russell and Kenneth Allen
Charlie & Lea Anderson
Scott and Tina Apelgren
James Aronson
Jonathan Barnhart
Lee & Deb Binnig
Carol Bloom
Evelyn Bonander
Mary Bragg
Mary Frances Breen
Camille Breen
Gail Bucher
Michele Caniato
Judith Mitrano
Susan Carlson
David Chia
Rachel Ciprotti
Sarah Cummer
Kathryn Denney
Susan Dolan
Daniel Dona
Allison Donelan
Barry Duncan
Casey Elia
Andrew Elliott and John Varone
Andy Foery
Rebecca Fuchs
Lorna Gibson
Myra and Roy Gordon
John H. Graves
Meghan Guidry
Jennifer Guthrie
Jan Hardenbergh
Heidi Hellring & Nathan Arnell
Patricia Henry
M L Hetz
Maureen Hollis
Mary and David Howarth
Alyson Hudson
Barbara Hughey
Catharine Hyson
Sachiko Isihara
Howard Jacobson
Ona Jonaityte
David and Andrea Jones
Jim Kane and Sharon Williams
Tim Kane
Susan Kendall
Kenneth Krause and Maura McEnaney
Kimberly and Chris Lehner
Ludmilla Leibman
Steven Levine and Laurie Jacobs
Harold Lichtin
Beth Manca
Robert Markelewicz MD
May Marquebreuck
Kevin Mathieu
Honor McClellan
Ralph and Sylvia Memolo
Claye and Mary Pederson Metelmann
Reeva Meyer
Jennifer Moore
Christine Mortensen
Cathi and Jeff Myer
Susan Navarre and Tim Olevsky
Bob Page and Dean Vassil
Nathan Painter
Katie Parodi
Jason Pavel and Marie Walcott
Dan Perkins
Velura Perry
Maureen Peters
Brian Pingree and Alexis Dearborn
Quigley family
Ron Raines & Laura Kiessling
Kathryn Ritcheske
Andrew Royer
Peter Ruymann
Mallory A Ruymann
Celine Ferro and Colin Ryan
Ellen Sarkisian
Jon Saxton and Barbara Fox
Scott Smith
Anders Soderquist
Sharon Daniels Sullivan
Arlene Stevens
Ann B. Teixeira
Kelsey Thompson
Bradley Vernatter
Dino J. Martins
Elaine Walsh
Hanjay Wang
Emma Kent Wine
Vicki and Andrew Wittenstein
Sandy & Craig Blocker
Pat & Greg Yukna
John Zeber
$50–$99
Anonymous (2)
Ruth Abram
Brad Amidon
Victoria Aparece
Young Yun Baek
Gail Barry
Laura Basford
Bob Bassett
John Beagan and Sarah Peck
Robert Beagan
J. L. Bell
Kenneth Bigley
Johanna Biviano
Kyla Blocker
Mary Breen
Caitlin Breen
Thomas Breen
David Brewster
Margaret Cain
Russell Capasso
Tammis Coffin
Mary Coombs
Elizabeth A Dean
Claudine Donikian
Cynthia Farnsworth
Ellen Feingold
David Feltner and Robert Edward Smith
Anthony F
David and Ellen Fries
Hannah Fries
David E. Fuchs
John Garton
Frank Genco
Holly Greenhalgh, in memorial
James Gleason
Mara Goldberg
Nancy Goodwin
Raymond Greenhalgh
Jon and Carrie Hammond
Hans Heilman
Adam Howarth
Wolcott Humphrey
Tim Jarrett
Jon and Jean Jones
Stephanie Kacoyanis and Lawrence Wind
Leonard and Terry Kahn
Gerry Kane
Sho Kato
William Krein
Jessica Lamoureux
Joleen & James
Amy Lee
Steve Lewis
Nancy Lipsitt and Len Newman
Dino Martins
Andrea Mazzariello
Tom McAuliffe
Carol McCarthy and Chris Stribakos
Ann McDonald
Mona McKindley
Rachel Panitch
Karen Poggi
Ajay Rai
Mark and Jody Raider
Ian Reiss
Fern and Ginny Remedi-Brown
Bobbi Ritcheske
Janet Rothrock
Jonathan Royer
Dewey Sasser
Isadel & EB Saunter
Thomas Schmidt
Andrew & Margot Schmolka
In memory of Howard Schranz
Charles Shadle
Gordon and Shannon Shannon
Jonathan Simon, DC
Sivazlian Family
Robert Swander
Kathleen Sweadner
Barbara Turen
Katharine & Dave Velleman
Rachel Veto
Karen Walwyn
Lauri Wasson
Lynn Chang and Lisa Wong
Elton Wong
Lu Yu
Michael Zammito
Marc Zegans
Up to $49
Anonymous (8)
Cindy & John Adams
Eva Adib
Halden Aistrup
Nate Aistrup
Ian Aistrup
Jaime Alberts
Hina Allen
Aaron Alon
Steven Averett
Nancy Bakey
Skylar Lapin
Dawn Beckman
Brittney Benton
Steven Bergman
Vivian Best
Johanna Biviano
Emily & Stuart Blitz
Kelsey Blocker
Betsy Bobo
Ed Bouchard
Molly Breen-Aronson
Monica Bruno
Sarah Brustin
Erin Burke
Rufus Burns-Heath
Riikka Caffrey
Althaea Carroll
Casey Cavanaugh
Madeline Champagnr
Jennifer W Chan
Jenith Charpintier
Lucy Cheng
Grace Chua
Minjin Chung
Jeanhee Chung
Linda Ciesielski
J. Beth Ciesielski
Jenna Clark
Stewart Coffin
Joey Marie Coughlin
Lana Crosson
Julia Crosson
Eve Cruanes
BethAyn Curtis
James Curtis
Giancarlo D'Agostino
Deepa Datta
Patrick Dawson
Jade Deatherage
Michael Delman
Saskia den Boon
Karin Denison
Alex Dobin
Gerd Dr. Burger
Emily Eddy
David L. Eddy
Mary Eddy
John Eustis
Beth Eustis
Noam Faingold
Richard Farnsworth
Evan Fein
Roderick Ferguson
Maggie FInnegan
Anna Fisher-Roberts
Kimberly Fletcher
Miriam Fogel
Gay Foster
David and Ellen Fries
Gia Fuchs
Avi Gahm-Diaz
Stacy Garrop
Thomas Garvey
Tobin Gedstad
Richard George
Christina George
Michael Gilbertson
Alvaro Gonzalez Orellana
Scott Goodwin
Mary Greene
Matthew Gschwend
Judy Gurland
Andrew Haber
Sylvia Giessel
Amanda Harberg
Britt Harter
Kiyoshi Hayashi
Hans Heilman
Anna Hennessy
Cara Herbitter
Shannon Hickey
Hannah Hickman
Anne Hoef
Susanna Hoglund
Michaela Hollis
Kelley Hollis
Grant Home
Paige Hopkins
Stephanie Howard
Anne Howarth & Frederick Frank Jr.
Henry Huberty
Wolcott Humphrey
Michael Hustedde
Meghan Hyland
James Isherwood
Kun Yong Jeoung
Cynthia Johnson
James and Amie Jones
Nathan Kane
Leah Kane
Jessica Kaplan
Jason Kaplan
Antony Karacic
Kiril Karapetkov
Jasmine Kaur
Zachary Kaye
Melody Kaye
Bella Kelly
Louise Kelly
Noelle Kelly
Robert Kendall
Krista Killeen
Lauryn Koeppel
Abby Krawson
Lawrence Labagnara
Rainice Lai
Jessica Lamoureux
Theodore Lanman
Marc, Skylar, Laura Lapin
Lisa LaRochelle
Kathleen Larson Day
Vi Le
Ellie Lee
Noah Lee
JB Leitko
Aimee Lents
Kurt Lents
Jacqueline Lestina
Naomi Lev
Rose Lewis
Rozime Lindsey
Olga Lisovska
John R Lister
Gale Livingston
George Lockhart
Tammy Lynch
Ann MacDonald
Gami Maislin
Seth Maislin
Pamela Marshall
Megan Martin
Andrea Martine
Seth Mascolo
Pranav Mashankar
Jennifer Matasick
Patrick McAllister
Mac McBurney
Amy McCaffery
Patrick McGovern
Kathryn McKellar
Kim McNamara
Taylor McNulty
Sarah McSweeney
Alexandra Mendez-Diez
Erin Merceruio Nelson
Ilyena Metzger
Libby Meyer
Annemarie Mitrano
Will Morningstar
B. Morrison
Rebecca Murray
Linda Ng
Jessica Oakhem
Ayumi Okada
Amy Oneill
Nicola Payne
Andy Pease and Lisa Samols
Paula Petrella
Katherine Potter
Teresa Pyo
Nate Raider
Jennifer Raider
Matt Raider
Daniel Ramos
Ellen Rathjen
Lianne Ratzersdorfer
Anne Ray
Alexander and Sabrina Recendiz
Sophia Reyes
Stephanie Riley
Gwyneth Rix
Susan Rizzo
Nathan Roller
Hanna Roos
Patricia Roos
David Roth
Haley Royer
Jason M Rubin
Melissa Rubinsky
Christina Rusnak
Erica Ryan
Elizabeth Ryan
Anna Salvato
Antonio Santos
Leo Schmidt
Alida Schmidt
Caitlin Schmidt
Kristen Schroeder
Joseph Sedarski
S. Shannon
Ryan Shannon
Daron Sharps
Aaron Sheehan
Sadie Shelkey
Nancy Shepard
Alex Shiozaki
Amy Shuman
Kate Umble Smucker
Carolyn Soucy
Nicholas Southwick
Charlene Southwick
Lauren Spavelko
Emily Spear
Matthew Sperling
Sydney Spicer
Greg A Steinke
Beth Stotts
Imogene & Bruce Stulken
Barbara Tarrh
Colleen Tay
Maria Thompson Corely
Benjamin Thurtle
Caroline Todd
Amy Tuttle
Lisa Vaas
Hannah Vokal
Leo Walsh
Jennifer Walsh
Jenna Wang
Beverly Waring
Lauri Wasson
Beth Wasson
Abbie White
Sharon Williams
Todd Wilson
S. Wright
Elaine Wu
Sophia Xie
Alison Yakabe
Lidiya Yankovskaya
Steven Yao
Noah Yonge
Haesoo Yoon
Lily Zielinski
We're proud that our donor roster includes 100% of Juventas board, staff and ensemble members, plus 31 of our artistic collaborators.
Volunteers
We are also extremely grateful for the dedicated volunteers who gave their time and talents to Juventas in the past year:
Chris Beagan
Milan Galland
Elizabeth Igleheart
Ann MacDonald
Rachael McKenzie
Jonathan Sedarski
Elaine Walsh
To learn about volunteer opportunities with Juventas, please contact Christina George at christina.george@juventasmusic.org