Ojai 2020

The preliminary schedule for the Ojai Music Festival has been published. This is the 74th edition; it'll be held June 11 to 14, 2020, in Ojai. Chad Smith is the Artistic Director (though we know he is moving on from this post) and Matthias Pintscher is Music Director.

The schedule is fantastic, and maybe this will be the year I get there, although June, 2020, will be a bear, between SF Opera's summer season, MTT's last weeks as music director of SFS, and, as usual, Pride Weekend making Civic Center all but impassable at the end of June. That is, I will have to reschedule some performances and it won't be easy.

SATURDAY JUNE 6
9pm
Ojai Preview Concert at Noon to Midnight
Walt Disney Concert Hall

Matthias Pintscher, conductor
Ensemble intercontemporain
IRCAM

Olga NEUWIRTH  Le Encantadas o le avventure nel mare delle meraviglie

THURSDAY JUNE 11

3:00pm
OJAI TALKS
Ojai Presbyterian Church
Ara Guzelimian, Ojai Talks
Matthias Pintscher and guests

7:30pm
Libbey Bowl
Matthias Pintscher, conductor
Ensemble intercontemporain
Della Miles, vocalist

Unsuk CHIN  Gougalon (Scenes from a Street Theater)
Matthias PINTSCHER  BereshitOlga NEUWIRTH  Eleanor Suite (US Premiere)

FRIDAY JUNE 12

8:00am
OJAI DAWNS
Zalk Theatre

Calder Quartet
Olga NEUWIRTH  In the realms of the unreal
SCHUBERT  String Quartet in G major, D.887

11:00am
Libbey Bowl

Matthias Pintscher, conductor
Ensemble intercontemporain

GENESIS CYCLE  (US Premiere)
Day 1 Chaya CZERNOWIN  on the Face of the DeepDay 2 Marko NIKODIJEVIC  Dies secundus
Day 3 Franck BEDROSSIAN  Vayehi erev vayehi bokerDay 4 Anna THORVALDSDOTTIR  Illumine, pour octuor àDay 5 Joan MAGRANÉ FIGUERA  Marines i boscatges i
Day 6 Stefano GERVASONI  Eufaunique
Day 7 Mark ANDRE  riss 1
Day 8 Toshio HOSAKAWA  The Flood (EIC/Ojai co-commission)/(World Premiere)

7:30pm
Libbey Bowl

Matthias Pintscher, conductor
Ensemble intercontemporainDimitri Vassilakis, piano
LA Phil New Music Group

Calder Quartet

MENDELSSOHN  String Octet, Op. 20

Matthias PINTSCHER  Nur (West Coast Premiere)

Steve REICH  Tehillim

SATURDAY JUNE 13

8:00am
OJAI DAWNS
Zalk Theatre

Calder Quartet
Members of Ensemble intercontemporain

CAGE  String Quartet in Four Parts
Matthias PINTSCHER  UrielIVES  String Quartet No. 2

11:00am
Libbey BowlMatthias Pintscher, conductor
Ensemble intercontemporainHidéki Nagano, piano 

LIGETI  Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
BACH  Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major, BWV 1049
Olga NEUWIRTH  Aello – ballet mécanomorphe

7:30pm
Libbey Bowl

Matthias Pintscher, conductor
Ensemble intercontemporain
Members of the LA PhilMOZART  Gran Partita
BOULEZ  sur Incises

SUNDAY JUNE 14

8:30am
Libbey Bowl 

Matthias Pintscher, conductor
Ensemble intercontemporain
Calder Quartet

Matthias PINTSCHER  4° quartetto d’archi Ritratto di Gesualdo

GESUALDO  Arrangement by Sciarrino

BACH  Selection from The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080

BOULEZ  Mémoriale       

11:00am
Libbey Bowl
Matthias Pintscher, conductor
Ensemble intercontemporain
Tamara Mumford, mezzo-soprano
Andrew Staples, tenor
VARÈSE OctandreZAPPA  The Perfect StrangerMAHLER  Das Lied von der Erde (arr. Glenn Cortese)

4:30pm
Libbey Bowl

Calder Quartet and other guest artists

Free Community Concert for Ojai with the music of Angélica Negrón, Gabriela Ortiz, Copland,
and Stravinsky

Programs and artists are subject to change. For updated schedule, visit OjaiFestval.org