Ojai Music Festival

Contemporary Classical Music Festival in Ojai, CA

International Contemporary Ensemble

The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), described by the New York Times as “one of the most accomplished and adventurous groups in new music,” is dedicated to reshaping the way music is created and experienced. With a modular makeup… Read More

 Posted on June 3, 2016 by

 Afterword Artists and Performers, Past Festival Artists, Radhe Radhe Artists & Performers

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Aruna Sairam, vocalist

Padma Shri Aruna Sairam, a renowned music ambassador of India, is one of the great classical music voices of India. Her style is rooted in tradition, yet continues to evolve. She belongs to the Veenai Dhanammal school of… Read More

 Posted on June 1, 2016 by

 Festival Blog, Past Festival Artists

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Tyshawn Sorey, multi-instrumentalist and composer

Newark-born multi-instrumentalist and composer Tyshawn Sorey (b. 1980) is celebrated for his incomparable virtuosity, effortless mastery and memorization of highly complex scores, and extraordinary ability to blend composition and improvisation in his work. He has performed nationally and internationally… Read More

 Posted on May 30, 2016 by

 Past Festival Artists, Past Festival Composers, Radhe Radhe Artists & Performers

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Peter Sellars, music director

Opera, theater, and festival director Peter Sellars has gained international renown for his groundbreaking and transformative interpretations of artistic masterpieces and for collaborative projects with an extraordinary range of creative artists. He has staged operas at the Dutch… Read More

 Posted on December 15, 2015 by

 Festival News, Past Festival Artists

     

Leila Adu, singer and composer

Leila Adu is a New Zealand composer of Ghanaian descent who has composed for the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the Brentano String Quartet, So Percussion, Gamelan Padhang Moncar, and Orchestra Wellington. Based in Brooklyn, she is currently a… Read More

 Posted on December 7, 2015 by

 Past Festival Artists

     

Jean-Baptiste Barrière

Jean-Baptiste Barrière was born in Paris in 1958. He has studied music, art history, philosophy, and mathematical logic. He made a career at IRCAM/Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, where he started as a researcher in 1981, before becoming… Read More

 Posted on December 7, 2015 by

 Past Festival Artists

     

Julia Bullock, soprano

Julia Bullock, equally at home with concert repertoire and opera, has been hailed for her versatile talent. This season, she appeared as soloist with the London Symphony Orchestra and Simon Rattle, the New World Symphony with Christian Reif, the… Read More

 Posted on December 6, 2015 by

 Past Festival Artists

     

Cambalache

Cambalache is the direct result of Los Angeles musicians, community workers, and artists creating a space and cultivating relationships with Jarocho musicians and community workers in Veracruz, Mexico. Their primary concept of organizing and exchange comes from the “el… Read More

 Posted on December 6, 2015 by

 Past Festival Artists

     

Joana Carneiro, conductor

Noted for her vibrant performances in a wide diversity of musical styles, Joana Carneiro has attracted considerable attention as one of the most outstanding young conductors working today. In 2009, she was named music director of Berkeley Symphony,… Read More

 Posted on December 3, 2015 by

 Past Festival Artists

     

Calder Quartet

The Calder Quartet, called “outstanding” and “superb” by the New York Times, performs a broad range of repertoire at an exceptional level, always striving to channel and fulfill the composer’s vision. Already the choice of many leading composers… Read More

 Posted on November 5, 2015 by

 Past Festival Artists

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Phyllis Chen, toy pianist and composer

Phyllis Chen is a pianist, toy pianist, and composer whose musical interests have led in numerous directions as a soloist and collaborative artist. In 2007, Chen founded the UnCaged Toy Piano Composition Competition to encourage composers to write new music… Read More

 Posted on August 5, 2015 by

 Past Festival Artists, Past Festival Composers

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Claire Chase, flute

Claire Chase is a soloist, collaborative artist, curator, and advocate for new and experimental music. Over the past decade she has given the world premieres of hundreds of new works for the flute in performances throughout the Americas,… Read More

 Posted on August 5, 2015 by

 Past Festival Artists

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Eric Dudley, conductor

Through his activities as a conductor, vocalist, pianist, and composer, Eric Dudley enjoys a busy schedule of performances in the United States and abroad. After distinguished tenures as assistant conductor for both the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and the… Read More

 Posted on August 5, 2015 by

 Past Festival Artists

     

Dina El Wedidi

With her powerful, nuanced voice and authentic style, Egyptian singer and composer Dina El Wedidi (دينا الوديدي) has spent the past six years carving out her place in the Egyptian music scene. While studying oriental languages at the… Read More

 Posted on August 4, 2015 by

 Past Festival Artists

     

Ara Guzelimian, Ojai Talks Director

Provost and dean of The Juilliard School, Ara Guzelimian is the former senior director and artistic advisor to Carnegie Hall and artistic director from 1992 to 1997 of the Ojai Music Festival, where he worked closely with Festival… Read More

 Posted on August 4, 2015 by

 Past Festival Artists

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Camilla Hoitenga, flute

Born in Grand Rapids, MI, flutist Camilla Hoitenga studied in the United States, England, and France and eventually made her home in Germany, where she worked several years with Karlheinz Stockhausen. Following her own “path less traveled” she… Read More

 Posted on August 3, 2015 by

 Past Festival Artists

     

Los Jornaleros del Norte

It’s been 15 years since Los Jornaleros del Norte began singing about and for the worker and immigrant community in the United States. It was an immigration raid at a corner of day laborers in the City of… Read More

 Posted on August 3, 2015 by

 Past Festival Artists

     

Susan McClary, musicologist

Dr. Susan McClary (Professor of Music at Case Western Reserve University; Distinguished Professor Emerita, UCLA) focuses her research on the cultural criticism of music. Her books include Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality; Georges Bizet: Carmen; Conventional Wisdom:… Read More

 Posted on August 3, 2015 by

 Past Festival Artists

     

Roomful of Teeth

Roomful of Teeth is a Grammy Award–winning vocal project dedicated to mining the expressive potential of the human voice. Through study with masters from singing traditions the world over, the eight-voice ensemble continually expands its vocabulary of singing techniques and, through an… Read More

 Posted on August 2, 2015 by

 Past Festival Artists

     

Caroline Shaw

Caroline Adelaide Shaw is a New York-based musician appearing in many different guises. Trained primarily as a violinist from an early age in North Carolina, she is a Grammy-winning singer in Roomful of Teeth and in 2013 became… Read More

 Posted on July 4, 2015 by

 Past Festival Artists

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Davóne Tines, bass-baritone

Davóne Tines, deemed a “… charismatic, full-voiced bass-baritone …” by the New York Times, is building an international career commanding a broad spectrum of opera and concert performance. This past season included appearances with the Boston Pops in… Read More

 Posted on July 1, 2015 by

 Festival Blog, Past Festival Artists

     

YOLA

About the YOLA at HOLA Symphonic Winds Through YOLA, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and its community partners provide free instruments, intensive music training, and academic support to students from underserved neighborhoods, empowering them to become vital citizens, leaders… Read More

 Posted on June 2, 2015 by

 Past Festival Artists

     

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