Ojai Music Festival, 2012

This might trump the ticket I have to see Charles Dutoit and the Philadelphia Orchestra on June 9:

66^th OJAI MUSIC FESTIVAL, June 7-10, 2012

Thomas W. Morris, Artistic Director

Leif Ove Andsnes, Music Director

Concerts at the new Libbey Bowl unless otherwise noted

Thursday June, 2012

location TBA

Festival Symposium

3:00pm-4:30pm

Ara Guzelimian, symposium director

Topics and guests to be announced

Thursday, June 7, 2012

SPECIAL FREE BEYOND THE BOWL EVENT

5:00pm

Libbey Park

            John Luther Adams: Inuksuit (for 48 percussionists)                                                         

                        Steven Schick, director

Thursday, June 7, 2012

8:00pm

            Program to include:

Shostakovich: Six Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva, Op. 143a 

                        Christianne Stotijn, mezzo soprano

Leif Ove Andsnes, piano

Ives: Concord Sonata                                                                

            Marc-André Hamelin, piano

Friday 9, 2012

Ojai Community Church

Festival Symposium

1:00pm-4:30pm

Ara Guzelimian, symposium director

Topics and guests to be announced        

Friday, June 8, 2012

8:00pm

Janáček: String Quartet No. 2 “Intimate Letters”    (arr. for string orchestra)

            Norwegian Chamber Orchestra

            Reinbert de Leeuw: Im wunderschönen Monat Mai (“In the Merry Month of May”):    A Cycle of 21 Songs on Schumann and Schubert”                           

                        Reinbert de Leeuw, piano                                                           

                        Barbara Sukowa, actress

                        Norwegian Chamber Orchestra

                       

Saturday, June 9, 2012

11:00am

Eivind Buene: Langsam und Schmachtend                                             

            Norwegian Chamber Orchestra

            Wagner (arr. Mottl): Wesendonck Lieder                         

            Christianne Stotijn, mezzo soprano

                        Norwegian Chamber Orchestra

                                    interspersed with

            Berg: Four Pieces Op. 5                                                  

                        Martin Fröst, clarinet

                        Leif Ove Andsnes, piano

Berg: Four Songs, Op. 2                                                

Christianne Stotijn, mezzo soprano

Marc-André Hamelin, piano

            Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 21 n C Major, Op. 53 “Waldstein”                                                    

Leif Ove Andsnes, piano                                                

        

Saturday June 9, 2012

8:00pm

Haflidi Hallgrímsson: Poemi, Op. 7                                                                     

Norwegian Chamber Orchestra

Terje Tønneson, violin

Bent Sørensen: Piano Concerto No. 2 “La Mattina”   American premiere

Leif Ove Andsnes, piano

Norwegian Chamber Orchestra

Anders Hillborg: Peacock Tales (version for clarinet and tape)

Martin Fröst, clarinet

Mozart: Trio in E flat “Kegelstatt”  K. 498                         

                        Martin Fröst, clarinet

Leif Ove Andsnes, piano

Antoine Tamestit, viola

György Kurtág: Hommage à Robert Schumann                            

                        Martin Fröst, clarinet and bass drum                                           

                        Leif Ove Andsnes, piano

                        Antoine Tamestit, viola

Sunday, June 10, 2012

11:00am

            Bartók: Contrasts                                                                      

            Marc-André Hamelin, piano

Martin Fröst, clarinet

Øyvind Bjorå, violin

            Grieg: Holberg Suite (arr. for string orchestra)

Norwegian Chamber Orchestra   

William Bolcom: Cabaret Songs  (selection)                                            

            Marc-André Hamelin, piano

            Christianne Stotijn, mezzo soprano

Copland: Clarinet Concerto                                                        

                        Martin Fröst, clarinet                                                                 

                        Norwegian Chamber Orchestra

Sunday June 10, 2012

5:30pm

            Debussy: Danses sacrée et profane                                           

                        Norwegian Chamber Orchestra

            John Adams: Shaker Loops                                                       

Reinbert de Leeuw, conductor

                        Norwegian Chamber Orchestra

            John Luther Adams: Dark Waves (version for two pianos and tape)

Leif Ove Andsnes, piano                                                

Marc-André Hamelin, piano
Stravinsky: Sacre du printemps                                      

                        Leif Ove Andsnes, piano                                                

            Marc-André Hamelin, piano