Tuesday, November 19, 2019

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 Bowl
Matthias Pintscher, conductor
Ensemble intercontemporain
Hidéki 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 Phil
MOZART  Gran Partita
BOULEZ  sur Incises


SUNDAY JUNE 14


8:30am
Libbey Bowl 
Matthias Pintscher, conductor
Ensemble intercontemporain
Calder Quartet
Matthias PINTSCHER  4° quartetto darchi 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

2 comments:

Robert Gordon said...

Darn, I was really hoping they would do Boulez's Répons -- there was an interview with Pintscher earlier in the year in which he seemed to hint at that. I guess it was too hard to work out, perhaps because it really cannot be performed outdoors.

Otherwise, as you say, this is a great bunch of programs. Can I really get up in time for an 8am event?

Lisa Hirsch said...

That would have been great. I've heard sur Incises twice, so....not that I would mind a third time.