Juventas New Music Ensemble, led by Medford composer and conductor Oliver Caplan, opens its 2020-21 virtual concert season with “American Mirror,” music that reflects the social fabric of America. Featuring works by Allison Loggins-Hull, Mari Kotskyy, Jessica Meyer, Miguel de Aguila, Derrick Spiva Jr. and Oliver Caplan. With performances by Nick Southwick, flute; Wolcott Humphrey, clarinet; Olga Patramanska-Bell and Ryan Shannon, violin; Lu Yu, viola; Minjin Chung, cello; and Julia Scott Carey, piano.

The concert will be live streamed on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZSrpe-TN64c

Also, at 7 p.m. via Zoom, there will be a pre-concert “Composer Conversation” moderated by Professor Karen Ruymann of the Boston Conservatory at Berklee:

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYvfu6prz0vGtWi3yqTMkHfNdMWqkv1M59b

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, and brings audiences music from a diverse array of composers that live in today’s world and respond to our time.