The Ojai Music Festival is a dynamic convergence of music, artists and audience in the idyllic Ojai Valley.

To ensure vitality and diversity in programming across Festivals, the Ojai Music Festival welcomes a new music director each year, a signature element of the Festival created by former Artistic Director Lawrence Morton. Carrying on this musical tradition, current Artistic Director Thomas W. Morris has selected renowned Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes as Music Director for the 66th Ojai Music Festival. For this hallmark year, Mr. Andsnes and Mr. Morris are shaping a program that fully reflects Mr. Andsnes’ artistic collaborations, the range of repertoire he loves, as well as a unique programming style that has infused his own festival in Risør. The 2012 Ojai Music Festival will include seven programs, each distinctive in their extreme eclecticism, both in repertoire and in the combinations of artists and performing forces.