2025 Festival in the News

Thank you for joining us at our 79th Festival, June 5-8, 2025, with Music Director Claire Chase. It was a glorious time to be in our communal festival experience to share music, conversation, and listening. 
Take a look at excerpts from the press. 

Like many of the pieces at Ojai this year, “Sky Islands” was an unpredictable, amorphous, kaleidoscopic soundscape, its structure intentionally loose and good-natured

The new york times

You can’t escape nature in Ojai. That meant that flutist Claire Chase, this year’s Ojai Music Festival music director who is often called a force of nature, fit right in.

LOS ANGELES TIMES

The festival’s biggest surprise must have been Wu Wei’s mastery of the seemingly daunting sheng, to which he brought enviable finesse and warmth.

wall street journal

Balter’s score is a masterpiece of musical artistry and dramatic storytelling, and Chase’s performance showed off her virtuosity and endurance…

SAN FRANCISCO CLASSICAL VOICE

A Once-in-a-Lifetime Ojai Festival Cultivates Deep Listening

san francisco classical voice

Listening With and To the Sounds and Sites of Ojai

santa barbara independent

Pied Piper (On Flutes) Leads Ojai On A Long, Winding Road To Fun

classical voice north america