Welcome to the 80th Ojai Music Festival, June 11 to 14, 2026, with renowned composer and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen as Music Director. 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 11 at 8PM PST. Full concert replays and highlights will be available below on this page and on our YouTube channel, following the Festival. Below is the detailed schedule of concerts to be live streamed.
For more context, tune into OJAICAST, the Ojai Music Festival Podcast, or check out the Program Book:
THU June 11, 2026
8:00PM PST
Geneva Lewis violin | Jay Campbell cello | Conor Hanick piano | Anthony McGill clarinet |
Attacca Quartet: Amy Schroeder and Domenic Salerni violin | Nathan Schram viola | Andrew Yee cello
Reena ESMAIL Darshan, III. Charukeshi
Esa-Pekka SALONEN Drรธmmelogikk (U.S. Premiere)
John ADAMS Selections from Visions fugitives (World Premiere)
song without words
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Esa-Pekka SALONEN Homunculus
Olivier MESSIAEN Quartet for the End of Time
FRI June 12, 2026
10:30AM PST
Geneva Lewis violin | Conor Hanick piano | Jay Campbell cello | Andrew Yee cello | Rose Lombardo flute | Aron Kallay celesta | Jonathan Hepfer percussion | Hanzhi Wang accordion | Todd Moellenberg harpsichord
Oliver KNUSSEN Reflection
Esa-Pekka SALONEN Arabesques for Olly
Franco DONATONI Ave
Luciano BERIO Sequenza XIII (Chanson)
Iannis XENAKIS Komboรฏ
8:00PM PST
Anthony McGill clarinet | Jay Campbell cello | Colburn Orchestra
Mert Yalnฤฑz conductor
Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor
Steven STUCKY Colburn Variations
Esa-Pekka SALONEN kinema
Witold LUTOSLAWSKI Grave: Metamorphoses for Cello and Strings
Arnold SCHOENBERG Verklรคrte Nacht (Transfigured Night)
SAT June 13, 2026
10:30AM PST
Rose Lombardo flute | Jay Campbell cello | Conor Hanick piano | Leila Josefowicz violin | John Novacek piano
Claude DEBUSSY Syrinx
Kaija SAARIAHO Sept Papillons
Esa-Pekka SALONEN Six Preludes
John ADAMS Road Movies
8:00PM PST
LA Phil New Music Group
Geneva Lewis violin
Aleksandra Melaniuk conductor
Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor
Gabriella SMITH Anthozoa
Esa-Pekka SALONEN Lachen verlernt
Magnus LINDBERG Related Rocks
Anna THORVALDSDOTTIR Rรณ
John ADAMS Chamber Symphony
SUN June 14, 2026
10:30AM PST
Anthony McGill clarinet | Conor Hanick piano | Hanzhi Wang accordion
Attacca Quartet: Amy Schroeder and Domenic Salerni violin | Nathan Schram viola | Andrew Yee cello
Olivier MESSIAEN Abyss of the Birds (from Quartet for the End of Time)
Jessie MONTGOMERY Peace
Niccolรฒ CASTIGLIONI Dulce refrigerium: Six Spiritual Songs for Piano
An Attacca Quartet Playlist:
Bryce DESSNER Circles
Michael IPPOLITO Smoke Rings
RADIOHEAD (arr. Amy Schroeder) Pyramid Song
Shye Ben TZUR, Jonny GREENWOOD, RAJASTHAN EXPRESS (arr. Nathan Schram) Junun
John ADAMS Iron Jig (World Premiere)
5:30PM PST
Geneva Lewis violin | Leila Josefowicz violin | Bridget Esler soprano | Eric Finbarr Carey tenor | Abdiel Gonzรกlez baritone | Colburn Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor
Johann Sebastian BACH Prelude from the Partita No. 3 in E major for solo violin, BWV 1006
Esa-Pekka SALONEN Fog
Gyรถrgy LIGETI Violin Concerto
Igor STRAVINSKY Pulcinella (complete ballet)