The 79th Ojai Music Festival, June 5 to 8, 2025, welcomes as Music Director acclaimed flutist Claire Chase. Seven of the more than 20 music events scheduled throughout the beautiful setting of the Ojai Valley will be available at no-cost via live streaming. Since 2012, the Ojai Music Festival has expanded its global footprint building a worldwide audience with free Live Streaming Broadcasts.
You can watch free live streams of the Libbey Bowl concerts from the Festival’s homepage which will begin Thu, June 5 at 8pm. Full concert replays and highlights will be available on our website and our YouTube channel, following the Festival. Below is the schedule of concerts to be live streamed.
For more context, tune into the Ojai Music Festival Podcast:
THU June 5, 2025
8:00PM
Claire Chase flute | Joshua Rubin clarinet | Dan Rosenboom trumpet | Mattie Barbier trombone Wu Wei sheng | Susie Ibarra, Ross Karre, Steven Schick, and Wesley Sumpter percussion Alex Peh piano | M.A. Tiesenga electronic hurdy-gurdy
Marcos BALTER Alone
Annea LOCKWOOD bayou-borne
Marcos BALTER Pan
FRI June 6, 2025
10:30AM
Alex Peh harpsichord and keyboard | Cory Smythe and Craig Taborn piano
Terry RILEY (arr. Alex PEH) Pulsing Lifters (World premiere of trio arrangement)
Anna THORVALDSDOTTIR Impressions
John COLTRANE/Cory SMYTHE Countdowns
Craig TABORN and Cory SMYTHE Duo Improvisation for Ojai
8:00PM
Claire Chase flute | JACK Quartet: Christopher Otto and Austin Wulliman violin, John Pickford Richards viola, Jay Campbell cello | Leilehua Lanzilotti viola Jay Campbell, Katinka Kleijn, Seth Parker Woods cello | USC Cello Ensemble | Steven Schick conductor
Leilehua LANZILOTTI ko‘u inoa
Sofia GUBAIDULINA Mirage: The Dancing Sun
Julius EASTMAN The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc
Terry RILEY from The Holy Liftoff
A selection of movements adapted for this performance
Realization by Samuel Clay Birmaher for Density 2036 part xi (2024)
SAT June 7, 2025
10:30AM
Claire Chase flute | JACK Quartet: Christopher Otto and Austin Wulliman violin, John Pickford Richards viola, Jay Campbell cello | Katinka Kleijn, Seth Parker Woods cello Cory Smythe piano | Levy Lorenzo electronics
Marcos BALTER Chambers
Leilehua LANZILOTTI ahupua‘a
Anna THORVALDSDOTTIR Ubique (West Coast premiere)
Part of Density 2036 part x (2023)
8:00PM
Wu Wei sheng | JACK Quartet: Christopher Otto and Austin Wulliman violin, John Pickford Richards viola, Jay Campbell cello | Festival Artists | Steven Schick conductor
J.S. BACH Vor deinen Thron, BWV 668 (arr. Samuel Clay BIRMAHER)
Sofia GUBAIDULINA Meditation on the Bach chorale Vor deinen Thron, BWV 668
Tania LEÓN Hechizos
Liza LIM How Forests Think
SUN June 8, 2025
10:30AM
Claire Chase flute | Susie Ibarra and Levy Lorenzo percussion | Wu Wei sheng | Alex Peh piano JACK Quartet: Christopher Otto and Austin Wulliman violin, John Pickford Richards viola, Jay Campbell cello
Christopher OTTO Angelorum Psalat, after Rodericus
Austin WULLIMAN Dave’s Hocket: For Guillaume and Arvo
Susie IBARRA Nest Box (World premiere)
Commissioned by Ojai Music Festival and Music Director Claire Chase in honor of Steven Schick’s 70th birthday
Tania LEÓN Rituál
Susie IBARRA Sky Islands (West Coast premiere)
5:30PM
Claire Chase flute | Festival Artists | Steven Schick conductor
Leilehua LANZILOTTI ko‘u inoa
Pauline OLIVEROS The Witness
Tania LEÓN Singsong (World premiere of new version for solo flute) (arr. for solo flute by Claire CHASE)
Terry RILEY Pulsefield