Ojai Music Festival

Ojai Music Festival
Friday, Jun 9, 2023 at 8:00am
Various Venues in Ojai
805-646-2094

The Ojai Music Festival represents an ideal of adventurous, open-minded and open-hearted programming in the most beautiful and welcoming of settings, with audiences and artists to match its aspirations. As its 75th anniversary approaches, the Festival remains a hallmark for groundbreaking musical experiences with a narrative thread guided by a different music director. These annual directors are more than conductors, composers, soloists, or musicians. They are musical thinkers who approach their craft with creativity and responsibility to the present day.

Schedule:
8:00am: Ojai Dawns

Emi Ferguson flute
Ross Karre percussion
Niloufar Shiri kamancheh
Aida Shirazi electronics
Steven Schick percussion
red fish blue fish

Golfam KHAYAM  Lost Wind
Aida SHIRAZI  New Work   World Premiere
Edgard VARÈSE  Density 21.5
CHOU Wen-chung  Echoes From The Gorge

The Ojai Dawns is a benefit for Festival Family Donor Circles.

Location: Zalk Theater, Besant Hill School

10:00am: VIS-À-VIS
Leonard Hayes piano
Michi Wiancko violin
Mario Gotoh viola
Karen Ouzounian cello
Emi Ferguson flute
Joshua Rubin clarinet
Gloria Cheng piano
Wu Man pipa
Steven Schick percussion/conductor  

Shawn OKPEBHOLO  mi sueño: afro-flamenco
Tyson Gholston DAVIS  American Tableau (Tableau XI)
Margaret BONDS  Troubled Water (Wade in the Water)  
Michael ABELS  Iconoclasm
Jessie MONTGOMERY  Rhapsody No. 2
Nasim KHORASSANI  Growth
Nina BARZEGAR  Inexorable Passage
Lei LIANG  vis-à-vis

Location: Libbey Bowl

3:30pm: Ghost Opera
Wu Man pipa
Attacca Quartet
PeiJu Chien-Pott dancer/choreographer
Jon Reimer director
Nicholas Houfek lighting designer

Tan Dun  Ghost Opera

Tan Dun’s Ghost Opera evokes the spirits of Bach and Shakespeare, standing with the ancient folk traditions of traditional shamanistic Chinese music. A new production, created especially for the Ojai Music Festival, brings dance into the work and re-imagines it for a new generation.

Ghost Opera is an add-on event, not included in the Libbey Bowl Series Pass. Purchase here >

Location: Greenberg Center, Ojai Valley School lower campus

8:00pm: An Evening With Rhiannon Giddens And Francesco Turrisi
An intimate concert with Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi with music ranging from the Baroque to Appalachian ballads and traditional Black American songs.

Location: Libbey Bowl

Click here for Tickets

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