2021 Festival Schedule
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Ojai Mix – Prelude to a Festival
9pm | Libbey Bowl
Miranda Cuckson, violin | Amy Schroeder, violin | Nathan Schram, viola | Emi Ferguson, Baroque flute | Joanne Pearce Martin, piano | Vicki Ray, piano | Attacca Quartet
STRAVINSKY Elegie
Gabriela ORTIZ Huitzitl
Carlos SIMON Between Worlds
Timo ANDRES Early to Rise
Dylan MATTINGLY Magnolia
Samuel ADAMS Violin Diptych
Gabriella SMITH Maré
Ojai Views
8am, Soule Park
Take in the beautiful setting listening to Chumash stories with Chumash Elder Julie Tumamait-Stenslie
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Attacca Quartet with Rhiannon Giddens
11am | Libbey Bowl
Rhiannon Giddens, vocalist | Attacca Quartet
John ADAMS Selections from John’s Book of Alleged Dances
Paul WIANCKO Benkei’s Standing Death
Caroline SHAW Plan and Elevation
Jessie MONTGOMERY Strum
Rhiannon GIDDENS Factory Girl
Rhiannon GIDDENS Koromanti Tune # 2 / Build a House (traditional/arr. Mike Block)
Rhiannon GIDDENS At the Purchaser’s Option
Gabriella SMITH Carrot Revolution
Ojai Talks
3pm | Redemption Church
Sessions will include conversations with Music Director John Adams and Festival composers along with special performances
John Adams conducts the Ojai Festival Orchestra
8pm | Libbey Bowl
Julie Tumamait-Stenslie, Chumash Elder | Miranda Cuckson, violin | Timo Andres, piano |Emily Levin, harp | John Adams, conductor | Ojai Festival Orchestra
Chumash Blessing
DEBUSSY Danse sacrée et danse profane
Samuel ADAMS Chamber Concerto West Coast Premiere
BACH from Partita No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006
Esa-Pekka SALONEN Fog
Ingram MARSHALL Flow
Timo ANDRES Running Theme
Ojai Dawns
8am | Zalk Theatre, Besant Hill School
Emi Ferguson, flute | Lynn Vartan, maracas and marimba | Shalini Vijayan, violin
Gabriela ORTIZ Alejandrías sonoras for solo flute
Javier ÁLVAREZ Temazcal for maracas and electro-acoustic sounds
Georgina DERBEZ Tonada de la luna llena for flute and electronics First concert performance
Gabriela ORTIZ Atlas-Pumas for violin and marimba
This concert is a donor benefit. Subscribers receive pre-sale access.
Pianist Víkingur Ólafsson in recital
10:30am | Libbey Bowl
Vikingur Ólafsson, piano
Philip GLASS Opening
GLASS Étude No. 9
Claude DEBUSSY The Snow Is Dancing from Children’s Corner
Jean-Philippe RAMEAU L’entretien des muses
DEBUSSY Des pas sur la neige, Préludes Book I, No. 6
RAMEAU Le rappel des oiseaux
GLASS Étude No. 13
RAMEAU/ÓLAFSSON The Arts and the Hours
DEBUSSY Ondine, Préludes Book II, no. 8
GLASS Étude No. 3
Baldassare GALUPPI Andante Spiritoso from Sonata in F minor, Illy 9
Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART Rondo in F major, K. 494
Carl Philipp Emanuel BACH Rondo in D minor Wq. 61/4 (H290)
Domenico CIMAROSA Sonata No. 42 in D minor (arr. Ólafsson)
MOZART Fantasia in D minor, K. 397/385g (fragment)
MOZART Rondo in D major, K. 485
CIMAROSA Sonata in A minor, C. 55 (arr. Ólafsson)
Joseph HAYDN Sonata in B minor, Hob. XVI:32
MOZART Kleine Gigue in G major, K. 574
MOZART Sonata in C major, K. 545 (“Facile”)
MOZART Adagio from String Quintet in G minor, K. 516 (arr. Ólafsson)
Dusk Concert
4:30pm | Zalk Theatre, Besant Hill School
Miranda Cuckson, violin
Anthony CHEUNG Character Studies
Dai FUJIKURA Prism Spectra
J.S. BACH D Minor Partita No.2 (selections)
Kaija SAARIAHO Frises
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They’re Calling Me Home
8pm | Libbey Bowl
Rhiannon Giddens and friends
Having spent the past year away from in-person concerts, Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi found themselves drawn to the music of their native and adoptive countries of America, Italy, and Ireland. The result is their latest album, They’re Calling Me Home, which speaks of the longing for the comfort of home as well as the metaphorical “call home” of death, which has been a tragic reality for so many throughout the past year.
I Still Play
8am | Libbey Bowl
Timo Andres, piano
Philip GLASS Evening Song No. 2
Nico MUHLY Move
Timo ANDRES Wise Words
Steve REICH For Bob
Louis ANDRIESSEN Rimsky or La Monte Young
Laurie ANDERSON Song for Bob
Donnacha DENNEHY Her Wits (About Him)
Brad MEHLDAU LA Pastorale
John ADAMS I Still Play
Samuel ADAMS Impromptus
Gabriella SMITH Imaginary Pancake
LA Phil New Music Group
11am | Libbey Bowl
Emily Levin, harp |Abby Savell, steelpan | Julie Smith Phillips, harp | LA Phil New Music Group | Joanne Pearce Martin, piano | Vicki Ray, piano
Gabriela ORTIZ Rió de las Mariposas
inti figgis-vizueta To give you form and breath
John ADAMS Hallelujah Junction
Esa-Pekka SALONEN Objets Trouvés First Concert Perfomance
Dylan MATTINGLY Sunt Lacrimae Rerum (these are the tears of things) World Premiere / A co-commission of the Ojai Music Festival and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association
Festival Finale
5:30pm | Libbey Bowl
Rhiannon Giddens, vocalist | Víkingur Ólafsson, piano | John Adams, conductor | Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO)
Carlos SIMON Fate Now Conquers
MOZART Piano Concerto no. 24 K491
John ADAMS Am I in Your Light (from Doctor Atomic)
John ADAMS Consuelo’s Dream (from I was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky)
Gabriela ORTIZ La calaca World Premiere of revised version
Programs and artists are subject to change.
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