THU November 7.2024 | 5-7PM | Museum of Ventura County (100 East Main St, Ventura)
Join us for a special evening featuring flutist Emi Ferguson, a favorite of Ojai Music Festival and Camerata Pacifica audiences. Begin the evening by exploring the museum’s latest exhibits while enjoying a complimentary wine bar. Then, Emi will take us on a personal journey of the flute through time and place, an exploration of everything from Bach to the newest music—with some unexpected stops in between!
5:00-6:00 PM: Explore the museum’s latest exhibits while enjoying a complimentary wine bar
6:00-7:00 PM: Bach to the Future with flutist Emi Ferguson
We look forward to sharing this special evening with you!
This event is free to Ojai Music Festival donors and subscribers. Limited seating. RSVP by clicking the link below.
This event is a first-time collaboration with the Museum of Ventura County. Special thanks to the Arts and Culture Investment Fund Grant from the County of Ventura and the Ventura County Community Foundation.
About Emi Ferguson, flute
A 2023 recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant, Emi Ferguson can be heard live in concerts and festivals with groups including AMOC*, Ruckus, the Handel and Haydn Society, the New York New Music Ensemble, the Manhattan Chamber Players, and as the music director of Camerata Pacifica Baroque. Her recordings celebrate her fascination with reinvigorating music and instruments of the past for the present. Her debut album, Amour Cruel, an indie-pop song cycle inspired by the music of the 17th-century French court, was released by Arezzo Music in September 2017, spending four weeks on the classical, classical crossover, and world music Billboard charts. Her 2019 album Fly the Coop: Bach Sonatas and Preludes, a collaboration with continuo band Ruckus, debuted at #1 on the iTunes classical charts and #2 on the Billboard classical charts, and was called “blindingly impressive … a fizzing, daring display of personality and imagination” by The New York Times. Emi has been a featured performer at the Marlboro, Lucerne, Ojai, Lake Champlain, Bach Virtuosi, and June in Buffalo festivals, often premiering new works by composers of our time. Emi has spoken and performed at several TEDx events and has been featured on media outlets including the Discovery Channel, Amazon Prime, WQXR, and Vox talking about how music relates to our world today. As part of WQXR’s Artist Propulsion Lab, she created the series “This Composer is SICK!” with Max Fine that explored the impact of Syphilis on composers Franz Schubert, Bedřich Smetana, and Scott Joplin, and is currently one of the hosts of WQXR’s Young Artists Showcase. Her book, “Iconic Composers”, co-written with Nicholas and David Csicsko, was released in June 2023, introducing music lovers of all ages to 50 incredible composers. Born in Japan and raised in London and Boston, she now resides in New York.