2025-11-13T01:14:45-07:00 2023-12-31 990EZ 2023-01-01 873058480 JULIAN GAU JULI 9086018649 67 Newbury Street Boston MA 02116 Anchi Lin Operating Officer 9086018649 2025-11-12 1 2023 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X https://horizonensemble.org/ X X 23318 X 23018 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 300 23318 0 0 0 900 7775 1229 6441 16345 6973 -80 -4000 2893 0 2893 0 0 0 0 0 2893 80 0 -80 2893 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. Horizon Ensemble Concert, No. 6: Flow was delivered on March 5, 2023. A concert of flowing orchestral music! Featuring music by Felix Mendelssohn, Marcea McGuire, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Gordon Jacob. About this Event As we began to break the winter freeze, Horizon Ensemble invited folks to get into the flow of the oncoming spring with some music old and new. The Horizon Ensemble is an orchestra that plays music by friends & music of history and will be presenting music centered around the theme of "flow." The concert started with More Old Wine in New Bottles by Gordon Jacob, a casting of four English folk songs reimagined for wind and brass instruments. Next, the ensemble flew through the airy notes of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Overture to The Magic Flute. What followed was a premiere of our friend Marcea McGuire's new piece Flow, inspired by flowing air and poetry. Finally, the concert finished with Felix Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 3, nicknamed the "Scottish Symphony," inspired by his travels in the winds and waters of Scotland. 2000 1627 Horizon Ensemble Concert 7: Across the Pond, was delivered on August 19, 2023. "The day has grown old; the fainting sun has but a little way to run...". As the flame of summer burned its westward light, Horizon Ensemble invited their music fans to come and enjoy serenades of revered places and nocturnal beauty. The Horizon Ensemble is an orchestra that plays music by friends & music of history. We'll highlight local Boston composers, American trailblazer Charles Ives, and the British composer Benjamin Britten. A Serenade for Winds opened the program, written by four friends of the Horizon Ensemble: Amber Dai, Brian Daniel Ross, Enrique Hernández de Tejada III, and Julian Gau. Next: Charles Ives's Three Places in New England, a wild romp through three New England landmarks, including one in the Boston Public Garden! Last was Benjamin Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings, a menagerie of odes to the subtle graces of nighttime. This piece will feature tenor Felix Aguilar Tomlinson and horn player Jack Krugman. 3000 3133 Horizon Ensemble delivered another concert, Dreams, on October 15, 2023. In this concert, there were solo and chamber music by Fanny Hensel, Florence Price, Claude Debussy, Michael Mills, J.S. Bach, and more. Additionally, new compositions "Mother and Child", for string orchestra by William Grant Still and "Silent Tear" for chamber orchestra (world premiere!) by Izzi Napoli and Dee Ypsilantis. 2500 2125 Horizon Ensemble Concert 8: Branches and Dances was delivered on December 17, 2023. "While thy branches mix with mine, and our roots together join." Shadows lengthen and reveal the beauty of the branches above us as we dance through these December days. The Horizon Ensemble is an orchestra that plays music by friends and music of history. The concert started by performing the world premiere of act Natural ~ by composer and violist Elsie Bae Han. This piece featured cellist Olivia Katz and twenty-one string players - not only playing but also walking around and talking. The audience were to find out what it really means to act natural! Next, it was Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 in A major, a well-loved gem of the orchestral world. Each movement features its own characteristic rhythmic energy, from the stately, severe Allegretto to the boisterous, rollicking finale. What a blast! 3000 2997 9882 Julian Gau President, Music Director & Conductor 15 0 0 0 Jack Gau Chief Financial Officer 2 0 0 0 Anchi Lin Operating Officer 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 MA Anchi Lin 168 Cannon Road Wilton CT 06897 9086018649 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 6659 6033 23018 35710 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6659 6033 23018 35710 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 35710 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 300 300 0 0 6659 6033 23318 36010 X Schedule A, Part II, Line 10 Horizon Ensemble received $5000 from Boston Cultural Council (General Organizational Grant); $5,750 from Mass Cultural Council (Pandemic Sector Recovery); $2,500 from Mass Cultural Council (Festivals & Projects); $2,000 from American Music Project; and $2500 from Jack Gau, $2000 from Anchi Lin. Schedule A, Part III, Line 12 Horizon Ensemble lent our Timpani set (4 drums) to two other music organizations and received $225 (Cantata Singers) and $75 (Firebird Ensemble) respectively. This is not a regular "business activity" of Horizon Ensemble. However, when there are needs requested by other musical organizations, Horizon Ensemble just feels that we need to respond to their requests and charge a minimum fee to support them. RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 8 Horizon Ensemble rented our Timpani set to Cantata Singers for $225 and to Firebird Ensemble for $75. Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Other Expenses: $6463 $4500 Purchased a set of used Timpani, 4 drums. $435.26 were spent on placing small ads on Facebook, Google ads, and Evenbrite ads. $275 Entity IRS & MA Filings Change in Asset: with grants received from Boston Cultural Council General Organizational Grant and Boston Foundation Free for All Grant, Horizon Ensemble returned the $4000 loan borrowed in 2022 from the Board Members. Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 20 Horizon Ensemble had received $15,250 grants from the Mass Cultural Council, Boston Cultural Council, and American Music Project for 2023. Horizon Ensemble also received about $3,400 donations from individuals attending the free concerts. The board of Horizon Ensemble donated another $4,500 to the ensemble in 2023. With these positive cash flow, Horizon Ensemble was able to return the $4000 loan that it took in 2022. Horizon Ensemble founded on May 31st, 2021. The application for an IRS 501(c)3 status was filed in December 2022 and received the IRS approval on Feb 15, 2023. The effective date of exemption was set on May 31st, 2021, per our request. The Horizon Ensemble will be operating based on fiscal year ending on December 31st. The first filing of Horizon Ensemble's FY22 Tax Return could be for 1/1/2022 to 12/31/2022. However, given that Horizon Ensemble's operating revenue has been under $50,000 since inception, Horizon Ensemble is not required to file a 990EZ return form. Annual ePostcard filings were performed for 2022, 2023, and 2024. Horizon Ensemble did want to file the 990EZ simply to build a sound financial track record for this organization. However, in 2023, when we attempted to do the on-line 990EZ filing for our 2021- and 2022-income tax returns, we found a mistake made in our IRS registration record. For whatever reasons, the entity's name for Horizon Ensemble showed up in the IRS's record as "Julian Gau". Julian Gau is the founder of Horizon Ensemble. Somehow there was a mixed up in the registered entity name for this EIN 87-3058480. While we have submitted two change requests via physical US mails to the IRS since several months ago. We have not received any response from the IRS, yet. While we wait, we had to delay our on-line 990EZ filing process. Not hearing back from the IRS for more than several months, while other grant application processes have been going on still, we feel that it would make sense for us to just file the on-line 990EZ still while we continue to wait for the IRS to get back to us on our request for the entity name correction. This was the reason why we are filing our 990EZ via this online portal this late in the year.