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
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