Thinking back on that month, I recall the excitement with which Julia Scott Carey, Mark Buckles, and I discussed plans for our tentative futures. One of us stated that we were tired of having little control over whom performs our pieces when. We felt young and underrepresented in a musical world that highly values the wisdom and experience that comes with age. Sitting in my position, I will never deny that those qualities are anything but invaluable. The connections between colleagues in the field, musical knowledge, and compositional control can only be successfully achieved through time and hard work. Regardless, the lack of professional opportunities for young composers and musicians is a real problem to which Juventas hopes to provide some solution.  We are the foundations of the future, and we plan to represent that to the public now.”