Totals
- Total revenue
- $30,149
- Total expenses
- $25,900
- Contributions and grants received
- $29,699
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Membership dues (line 3)
- $0
- Investment income (line 4)
- $0
- Gain or loss on sale of assets (line 5c)
- $0
- Gaming and fundraising events, net (line 6d)
- $0
- Gross profit on inventory sales (line 7c)
- $0
- Other revenue (line 8)
- $450
- Total assets, end of year
- $7,142
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $0
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $7,142
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $20,577
Program services were 79.4% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.
Mission and programs · 2024
Primary exempt purpose
The mission of the Horizon Ensemble is to enrich the artistic and cultural lives of our communities of musicians and audiences through our orchestral concerts. We serve the community of the Boston area by providing accessible musical performances at no cost in a historical space. We also support the community of musicians in Boston by acting as a high-level ensemble playing unique repertoire with a relatively short rehearsal cycle. Finally, we further the artistic development of the community of young composers by providing them with performances of large-ensemble pieces, a much-desired opportunity.
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Horizon Ensemble Concert 8.5 : Cycles was delivered on February 24, 2024. In this concert, chamber music by Kate Soper, Olivia Jones, Chole Smith, and J.S. Bach were presented. Octet (1900) by George Enescu, arranged for string orchestra was performed at the 2nd half of the concert. In addition to Horizon Ensemble members, guest performers, Der Gestanke and The Ringers, were invited to share their performances with the audiences.
Expenses $2,997 · Grants $3,000
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Horizon Concert 9: Forays, was held on April 27, 2024. As the weather warms, we celebrated music from composers' own springtimes: their first forays into the orchestral world. A Piano Concerto by our friend Ryan Johnston was premiered, featuring pianist Andrew Cannestra. With soulful tunes and soaring melodies, this new concerto foretells a bright future for orchestral writing. The second half of the program is the Gaelic Symphony by Boston's own Amy Beach, the first major symphony by an American woman! The name comes from Amy Beach's inspiration: she infused her symphony with the flowing, sprightly songs of northern Europe.
Expenses $3,623 · Grants $3,800
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Horizon Ensemble Concert 10: Summer Memories was delivered on August 11, 2024. As sunny days flourish, the Horizon Ensemble performed music by friends and music of history. This concert included two premieres: Liang Si by Yangfan Xu, a dancelike evocation of the harvest, and A Moment of Everything by Jackson Carter, celebrating the joys of college days. Horizon Ensemble also played Maurice Ravel's stately, songful Pavane for a Dead Princess; Gabriela Lena Frank's rhythmic, Peruvian-influenced Elegía Andina, and Florence Price's mysterious The Oak. The Ensemble finished with Samuel Barber's nostalgic portrait Knoxville: Summer of 1915, featuring soprano Julia Pottinger. Along the way, local Boston-area poets were invited to share some of their work to match the music!
Expenses $5,193 · Grants $6,000
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Horizon Ensemble Concert 11: Freedom, was delivered on October 6, 2024. "The caged bird sings of freedom." The Horizon Ensemble celebrated the music of freedom as October's winds start to rush upon us. The concert began with the first surviving symphony by a woman: the Symphony in C Major by Marianna Martines, a Viennese composer and pianist who was friends with Mozart and Haydn. Next were two pieces by friends: Shaheed by Andrés Ballesteros, a string orchestra piece inspired by the Arab Spring; and Laleh-zar (Tulip Field) by Sepehr Pirasteh, drawing from the Iranian symbolism of tulips as representing love and sacrifice. In the end, the concert finished with Johannes Brahms, who wrote his Symphony No. 3 in F Major around his personal motto: "free but happy".
Expenses $4,356 · Grants $4,500
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Horizon Ensemble Concert 11.5: Shades of Autumn was delivered on November 16, 2024. "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness..." The Horizon Ensemble presented a concert of chamber and orchestral music inspired by autumn and invited Boston music fans to join them on Saturday, November 16 at 3:00 PM in the Church of the Covenant for some vibrant music amongst the falling leaves and enchanting winds. The concert began with Jennifer Higdon's Autumn Music for wind quintet, a soulfully flowing portrait of this season. Next is Three Moods in New England by our friend Hayley Qin, in which seven wind and brass instruments evoke nature-born memories of Vermont, Connecticut, and Forest Hills. Followed by Igor Stravinsky's lively Dumbarton Oaks Concerto combines classical aesthetics with lively modern rhythmic action. Finally, the full Horizon Ensemble came together for Joachim Raff's rarely-performed Symphony No. 10, "To Autumntime", featuring melancholy sighs and ghostly waltzes besides festive hunting calls.
Expenses $4,408 · Grants $5,000
As filed on the 2024 return.
Listed in Part IV
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Julian Gau
President, Music Director & Conductor
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 15
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Jack Gau
Chief Financial Officer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Anchi Lin
Operating Officer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
Compensation is as filed in Part IV of the Form 990-EZ: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990_ez
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 12 November 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.0
- Source object
- 202503179349201100
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