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Ojai Music Festival 06.06-06.09.24, Mitsuko Uchida Music Director

Join us for a curated journey, where music is the adventure, with the characteristic Ojai mix of new and old, familiar and unfamiliar, in the company of remarkable artists who bring vitality, freshness, and a sense of discovery to all that they do. Scroll down to view the 2024 Schedule.

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THU 06|06

3:00PM OJAI TALKS
Ojai Presbyterian Church

Two-part session with Music Director Mitsuko Uchida and featured artists, hosted by Ara Guzelimian and John Schaefer of WQXR New Sounds.

Automatically included in 4-Day Libbey Bowl Passes.

8:00PM OPENING CONCERT
Libbey Bowl

Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano
Mitsuko Uchida, piano
Brentano String Quartet

HAYDN   String Quartet in C, “Bird” Op. 33, No. 3
SCHOENBERG   Six Little Piano Pieces, Op. 19
MOZART   Fantasy in D minor, K. 397
SCHOENBERG   String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10

FRI 06|07

8:00AM OJAI DAWNS
Zalk Theater, Besant Hill School

Jay Campbell, cello
Sae Hashimoto, percussion
Ljubinka Kulisic, accordion

KAIJA SAARIAHO   Dreaming Chaconne
HELMUT LACHENMANN Interieur I
HELMUT LACHENMANN Toccatina
SOFIA GUBAIDULINA In Croce

Ojai Dawns is a Festival Donor Circle Event. Learn more here >

10:00AM MORNING CONCERT
Libbey Bowl

Julie Smith Phillips, harp
Jay Campbell, cello
Sae Hashimoto, percussion
Rick Stotijn, double bass
Brentano String Quartet

KAIJA SAARIAHO   Fall
HELMUT LACHENMANN   Pression
SOFIA GUBAIDULINA   Five Etudes
BARTÓK   String Quartet No. 5

3:30PM SHIFTING GROUND
Greenberg Center, Ojai Valley School

Alexi Kenney, violin
Xuan, visual artist

A unique program for solo violin and video projections juxtaposing Baroque works by Bach and Matteis with recent music by Kaija Saariaho, Angélica Negrón, Paul Wiancko, and Salina Fisher. Produced in collaboration with the Baryshnikov Arts, New York.

This performance is an add-on, separate from a Libbey Bowl pass. Click here to purchase >

8:00PM EVENING CONCERT
Libbey Bowl

Mitsuko Uchida, piano and director
José Maria Blumenschein, concertmaster and leader
Mahler Chamber Orchestra

STRAVINSKY   Fanfare for a New Theater
WEBERN   Five Movements for Strings, Op. 5
SCHOENBERG Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9
MOZART   Piano Concerto in E flat, K. 482

SAT 06|08

8:00AM MORNING MEDITATION
Chaparral Auditorium, 414 E Ojai Ave

Jay Campbell, cello

Program to be announced.

Free and open to the public.

10:00AM MORNING CONCERT
Libbey Bowl

Ljubinka Kulisic, accordion
Rick Stotijn, double bass
Musicians of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra

JOHN ZORN Road Runner
MISSY MAZZOLI   Dark with Excessive Bright
JOHN ADAMS   Shaker Loops

3:30PM SHIFTING GROUND
(repeat performance)
Greenberg Center, Ojai Valley School

Alexi Kenney, violin
Xuan, visual artist

A unique program for solo violin and video projections juxtaposing Baroque works by Bach and Matteis with recent music by Kaija Saariaho, Angélica Negrón, Paul Wiancko and Salina Fisher. Produced in collaboration with the Baryshnikov Arts, New York.

This performance is an add-on, separate from a Libbey Bowl pass. Click here >

8:00PM EVENING CONCERT
Libbey Bowl

Mitsuko Uchida, piano and director
Vicente Alberola, clarinet
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Johannes Lörstad, leader in Debussy
José Maria Blumenschein, concertmaster and leader in Saariaho

DEBUSSY (arr. SACHS) Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
KAIJA SAARIAHO Lichtbogen
ESA-PEKKA SALONEN Elegy (from kínēma)
MOZART Piano Concerto in B flat, K. 595