Artist Bios
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Ojai Music Festival announces 2025 Music Director
Ojai Music Festival announces Claire Chase as 2025 Music Director.… [continue reading]
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SCORE Composition Program Launches at Nordhoff High School
SCORE provides the tools and guidance for Nordhoff High School… [continue reading]
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2024 Festival Programs Announced
Mitsuko Uchida performs each Festival evening in works By Schoenberg and Mozart The 2024 Festival welcomes Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Brentano String Quartet, violinist Alexi Kenney, cellist Jay Campbell, harpist Julie Smith Phillips and introduces soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon, percussionist Sae Hashimoto, accordionist Ljubinka Kulisic and bassist Rick Stotijn to Ojai audiences Works By Kaija Saariaho …
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2023 Music Director Rhiannon Giddens and Artistic Director Ara Guzelimian Share Updates to the 77th Ojai Music Festival
“I am so excited to get to work with the Ojai Music Festival as Music Director for 2023. With Ojai, I am able to sit at the crossroads of all that I am artistically and feel fully supported by the Festival team and by Ojai’s audiences. With the artists that we’re bringing out next June, …
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2022 Festival Moments Photo Gallery
Photos by Timothy Teague Photos by Josh S. Rose
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2022 Ojai Festival Updates
2022 Music Director AMOC and Artistic Director Ara Guzelimian Share Updates for the 76th Ojai Music Festival: June 9 to 12, 2022 Festival programming will include nine world premieres: Family Dinner, a cycle of new mini-concertos by Matthew Aucoin, featuring the entire AMOC ensemble, including Davóne Tines, Emi Ferguson, Doug Balliett, and Jonny Allen the echoing …
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2022 Ojai Festival Announcement
2022 Music Director AMOC (American Modern Opera Company) and Artistic Director Ara Guzelimian Announce the 76th Ojai Music Festival: June 9–12, 2022 Festival programming will include six world premieres: Family Dinner, a cycle of new mini-concertos by Matthew Aucoin, featuring the entire AMOC ensemble, including Davóne Tines, Emi Ferguson, Doug Balliett, and Jonny Allen …
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The 2021 Festival Schedule Announcement
Ojai Music Festival and Music Director John Adams Announce Schedule for the 75th Festival — September 16 to 19, 2021 Music Director John Adams devises a wide-ranging composer-focused festival with Samuel Adams, Timo Andres, Laurie Anderson, Anthony Cheung, Donnacha Dennehy, inti figgis-vizueta, Arturo Fuentes, Dai Fujikura, Rhiannon Giddens, Philip Glass, Alejandra Hernández, Mario Lavista, …
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Ojai Music Festival to Reschedule 2021 Festival to September 16 to 19, 2021
2021 Music Director John Adams announces initial programming for its 75th Festival 2021 Festival composers include Samuel Carl Adams, Timo Andres, Dylan Mattingly, Gabriela Ortiz, Rhiannon Giddens, Carlos Simon, and Gabriella Smith Artists making their Ojai debuts include Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi, pianist Víkingur Ólafsson, Attacca Quartet, violinist Miranda Cuckson, and recorder player Anna Margules; Ojai welcomes the …
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Ojai Music Festival Announces Future Music Directors for 75th Anniversary Celebrations
Beginning with the Appointment of John Adams as 2021 Music Director (June 10–13, 2021) and Culminating with American Modern Opera Company (AMOC) as Music Director for the 2022 Festival (June 9–12, 2022) Download PDF (OJAI, California, March 2, 2020) – Ojai Music Festival and Artistic Director designate Ara Guzelimian announced today the appointment of composer/conductor John …
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Ara Guzelimian Named Artistic Director of the Ojai Music Festival Beginning with the 75th Festival in 2021
Chad Smith will Provide Artistic Direction through the 2020 Festival with Music Director Matthias Pintscher Download PDF version (October 17, 2019 – Ojai, CA) – Ojai Music Festival Board Chairman Jerrold Eberhardt announced today the appointment of Ara Guzelimian as Ojai’s next Artistic Director with the 75th Festival, June 10 to 13, 2021. Mr. Guzelimian …
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Ara Guzelimian, Ojai Talks Director & Artistic Director Designate
Ara Guzelimian is Provost and Dean of the Juilliard School in New York City having been appointed to the post in August 2006. At Juilliard, he works closely with the President in overseeing the faculty, curriculum and artistic planning of the distinguished performing arts conservatory in all three of its divisions – dance, drama and …
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2019 Festival Photo Gallery
The 2019 Ojai Music Festival was a memorable four-day collective experience. Check out our gallery below to relive all the fun! Photos by David Bazemore and Sierra Dudas
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2020 Music Director Matthias Pintscher Shares Initial Programming
Incoming Artistic Director Chad Smith and Matthias Pintscher Announce the 74th Festival, June 11 to 14, 2020 Download Press Release PDF Version “It is a tremendous pleasure and incredible honor to be music director for the 2020 Ojai Festival, something I have dreamed about since moving to New York twelve years ago. I feel a combination …
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2019 Applications for the Arts Management Intern Program Now Available
(OJAI, CA) – The Ojai Music Festival’s arts management internship program is now accepting applications for the 73rd Ojai Music Festival slated for June 6 to 9, 2019 with soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan as music director. Entering its 12th year, the Festival’s sought-after program provides hands-on experiences to college students as they are immersed …
