Ojai Festival 2015

Steven Schick is the curator of this year's Ojai Festival. I already had a few excellent reasons to love him - like the fact that he is a tremendous musician and percussionist - and the programming gives me a couple more. There's a special focus on Pierre Boulez (and his music will be programmed with that of Bartok, Messiaen, and Ravel), and unlike the last five years of Ojai programs, female composers feature prominently.

Here's the jaw-dropping lineup for the festival, after the jump (Ojai North looks like it won't feature the full program, sigh):

9^th OJAI MUSIC FESTIVAL

JUNE 10-14, 2015

Thomas W. Morris, artistic director
Steven Schick, music director

Wednesday, June 10

OJAI TALKS
Boulez in Ojai

7:30pm-8:30pm , Libbey Bowl

Ara Guzelimian will lead a panel that includes Thomas W. Morris and friends sharing memorable moments of Boulez in Ojai

           

A Pierre Dream: A Portrait of Pierre Boulez (West Coast Premiere)
9:00pm-10:30pm
Libbey Bowl
           

Ojai celebrates Pierre Boulez’s 90^th birthday with a phantasmagorical acoustic and theatrical journey through a lifetime of musical adventures, innovations, and discoveries. Performed within an extraordinary, specially commissioned set designed by Frank Gehry, this multimedia event will mix live performance with rare archival footage and new interviews with Boulez. A Pierre Dream is a part of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Beyond the Score series.

ICE

Peabody Southwell, mezzo-soprano

Steven Schick, conductor

Thursday, June 11                        

OJAI TALKS

10:00am-12:15pm, Ojai Valley Community Church

Ara Guzelimian, Ojai Talks director

                                                                                                                       

Part I
A conversation with Steven Schick and John Luther Adams

Part II

The world of percussion with Steven Schick

OJAI FILM

2:00pm-3:15pm , Ojai Playhouse
Film tba

FREE COMMUNITY EVENT

3:30pm- 4:45pm, Libbey Park

ICE
red fish blue fish
CalArts musicians
Steven Schick, director

JOHN LUTHER ADAMSSila: The Breath of the World  (West Coast Premiere) 

                                   

EVENING CONCERT I

6:00pm-7:00pm , Libbey Bowl

ICE
Steven Schick, conductor
Calder Quartet

Bartók Boulez I           

                                               

PIERRE BOULEZ
Dérive I                         

BÉLA BARTÓKString Quartet #1                                                          

String Quartet #2                                                          

                                               

EVENING CONCERT II

8:00pm-10:00pm, Libbey Bowl
 

ICE
red fish blue fish

Claire Chase, flute
Peabody Southwell, mezzo-soprano
Steven Schick, conductor

EDGARD VARÈSE

Intégrales

Ionization

Density 21.5                 

Déserts (with tape)                    

                                   

CARLOS CHAVEZ

Toccata for Percussion

ALBERTO GINASTERA

Cantata para América Mágica    

           

Friday, June 12

OJAI TALKS 11:30am-2:00pm, Ojai Valley Community Church

Ara Guzelimian, Ojai Talks director

Part I
A conversation with Wu Man

Part II
A conversation with Claire Chase

OJAI FILM2:30pm-3:45pm , Ojai Playhouse

Film tba

FREE COMMUNITY EVENT

4:00pm-5:00pm, Libbey Park Gazebo                            

Members of ICE

Works by emerging composers of the ICElab program

EVENING CONCERT I

6:00-7:00pm, Libbey Bowl

Calder Quartet
Joshua Rubin, clarinet  

Bartók Boulez II                     
                        
BÉLA BARTÓK

String Quartet #3         
           

PIERRE BOULEZ
Dialogue de l’ombre double        

BARTÓK

String Quartet #5                      

EVENING CONCERT II8:00pm-9:30pm , Libbey Bowl

Steven Schick, solo percussion                        

                       

IANNIS XENAKIS

Rebonds         
                       

VINKO GLOBOKAR

Toucher                      
          
KAIJA SAARIAHOSix Japanese Gardens    

DAVID LANGThe Anvil Chorus

KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSENZyklus            

           

VINKO GLOBOKAR?Corporel       
                         

IANNIS XENAKIS

Psappha                                                          

                                                           

OJAI LATE NIGHT

10:00-11:30pm, Libbey Bowl                 

Maya Beiser, cello
Steven Schick, percussion

OSVALDO GOLIJOVMariel                          

MICHAEL HARRISONJust Ancient Loops        with film by Bill Morrison

ROLAND AUZET

La Cathédrale de Misère  (American Premiere)

Stage version of Ursonate by Kurt Schwitters

Roland Auzet, director

Wilfried Wendeling, sound technician

                       

Saturday, June 13

OJAI SUNRISE  

8:00am-9:00am  , Zalk Theater at Besant Hill School

ICE

JULIO ESTRADA

Memorias para teclado                          

PAULINE OLIVEROSThirteen Change: for Malcom Goldstein

ANNA THORVALDSDOTTIRIn Light of the Air                                  

           

MORNING CONCERT

11:00am-12:45pm, Libbey Bowl

Gloria Cheng and Vicki Ray, piano
Peabody Southwell, mezzo-soprano
ICE
red fish blue fish
Steven Schick. conductor

OLIVIER MESSIAEN

Visions de l’amen         

                                                                       

MAURICE RAVEL

Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé: Soupir       

                       

BOULEZ

Improvisation sur Mallarme I: Le vierge, le vivace et le bel aujourd’hui       

                       

RAVELTrois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarme: Placet futile                                   

BOULEZImprovisation sur Mallarme II: Une dentelle s’abolit          

RAVEL

Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé: Surgi de la croupe et du bond

OJAI FILM

3:00-4:00pm, Ojai Playhouse

Film tba

FREE COMMUNITY EVENT

4:00pm-5:00pm, Libbey Park Gazebo

Maya Beiser, cello

GLENN KOTCHE

Three Parts Wisdom

EVAN ZIPORYN
Transcriptions of music by Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, and others

EVENING CONCERT I

6:00pm-7:00pm, Libbey Bowl                                        

Calder Quartet

Claire Chase, flute

Jacob Greenberg, piano

Bartók Boulez III

BÉLA BARTÓKString Quartet #4                      

PIERRE BOULEZ

Sonatine for flute and piano

BARTÓKString Quartet #6                      

EVENING CONCERT II

8:00-10:00pm, Libbey Bowl

ICE
Renga
Peter Evans, trumpet

Wu Man, pipa
Steven Schick, conductor

RAND STEIGER

Template for Improvising Trumpter and Ensemble           

           

GEORGE LEWIS

A Will to Adorn             

IANNIS XENAKIS

Thallein            

           

JULIA WOLFE

Four Mary’s      

                       

LOU HARRISON

Concerto for Pipa with String Orchestra             

OJAI LATE NIGHT

10:30-11:30pm, Libbey Bowl

ICE

Renga

Steven Schick, conductor

JOHN LUTHER ADAMSBecome River               

AARON COPLAND

Appalachian Spring (chamber version)

Sunday, June 14

OJAI SUNRISE 5:00am-9:30am, Ojai Art Center

Clare Chase, flute

Sarah Rothenberg, piano
Steven Schick, percussion

                                               

MORTON FELDMAN

For Philip Guston                                                                      

MORNING CONCERT

11:00am-1:00pm, Libbey Bowl

Maya Beiser, cello

Wu Man, pipa

Calder Quartet

red fish blue fish

MOHAMMED FAIROUZ

Kol Nidrei

CHINARY UNG

Khse Buon

Pipa solo works

BRIGHT SHENGThree Songs for Pipa and Cello

TAN DUNElegy:Snow in June for cello and percussion quartet

GABRIELA LENA FRANK¡Chayraq!

EVAN ZIPORYN

Sulvasutra

                                                           

DONOR CONCERT 2:30-3:30pm, Ojai Arts Center Courtyard

red fish blue fish

MICHAEL GORDONTimber

EVENING CONCERT

5:30-7:30pm, Libbey Bowl

ICE
Steven Schick, conductor
Gloria Cheng and Vicki Ray, piano

Joseph Pereira and Steven Schick, percussion

Bartók Boulez IV        
                       

PIERRE BOULEZDérive 2 (2011 version) 

BÉLA BARTÓKSonata for Two Pianos and Percussion