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Ojai Music Festival

Ojai Music Festival -- Photo by Timothy Norris

The 2025 Ojai Music Festival Manifests a Better World through Sonic Discovery

In a tranquil southern Californian park, shaded by oak trees, the Libbey Bowl transforms each June i...
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Gemma Peacocke
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Colorful Rites by Stravinsky and Iyer at Ojai Music Festival

Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring: has any piece of music written since 1913 been so genuine yet so alien,...
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Aaron Wolff
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Chase & Sorey Forge Extra-Terrestrial Paths at Ojai Music Festival

The flute unfolded itself into kaleidoscope of characters and sounds in the hands of Claire Chase on...
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Aaron Wolff
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Emerging from Trouble at Ojai Music Festival

The 71st Ojai Music Festival took place in Ojai, CA from June 8-11, 2017 with pianist and composer V...
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Aaron Wolff
Vijay Iyer

5 Questions to Vijay Iyer (2017 Ojai Festival Music Director)

Composer, pianist, and educator Vijay Iyer is Music Director of the 71st Ojai Music Festival, June 8...
Author
Arlene & Larry Dunn
Nicole Mitchell--Photo by Lauren Deutsch

5 Questions to Nicole Mitchell (composer, flutist)

Composer, flutist, bandleader, and educator Nicole Mitchell is a Professor of Music in the Integrate...
Author
Arlene & Larry Dunn
Claude Vivier

2016 Ojai Music Festival: Claude Vivier’s Kopernikus

A heavy sky hung over Libbey Bowl on the final afternoon of the 2016 Ojai Music Festival, as perform...
Author
Zoë Madonna
Caroline Shaw

2016 Ojai Music Festival: Works by Shaw, Adu, and Du Yun

On the first day of the 2016 Ojai Music Festival, artistic director Peter Sellars hoped that the aud...
Author
Zoë Madonna
Kaija Saariaho-- Photo by Priska Ketterer

2016 Ojai Music Festival: Saariaho’s La Passion de Simone

The third “station” of Kaija Saariaho‘s La Passion de Simone begins with two tumul...
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Zoë Madonna
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5 Questions to Peter Sellars (Ojai Festival Music Director)

Opera and theater director Peter Sellars is the Music Director for the 70th annual Ojai Music Festiv...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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5 Questions to Steven Schick (2015 Ojai Music Director)

Keeping up with 2015 Ojai Festival Music Director Steven Schick is no easy task. Schick leads a mult...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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5 Questions to Maya Beiser (cellist)

Cellist Maya Beiser has captivated audiences all over the world by reimagining the sonic possibiliti...
Author
Arlene & Larry Dunn
Wu Man

5 Questions to Wu Man (pipa virtuoso, cultural ambassador)

Pipa virtuoso and cultural ambassador of music from China Wu Man has an active career as a soloist,...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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5 Questions to Claire Chase (ICE founder and flutist)

Claire Chase is like a nuclear-powered perpetual motion machine. We managed to slow her down long en...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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Denk closes Ojai Music Festival with Ligeti, Ives, Beethoven

In California's quiet and secluded Ojai valley persists a rugged individualist sensibility which is...
Author
Gavin Gamboa

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