2025 OJAI MUSIC FESTIVAL - SUNDAY

I have been attending the Ojai Festival since 2009, and it's always a highlight of every year. Come on out for the 4 days, for one day, or one concert. I suggest you look for lodging ASAP, as it will become scarce and expensive the closer you get to the date.

Date: Sunday, June 9 , 2025, 8:00 am to 8:00 pm

Venue: Libbey Bowl, Libbey Park
210 S. Signal St. Ojai, CA 93023
and other venues TBA

TIckets: https://www.ojaifestival.org/buy%20tickets/
I am getting the lawn tickets for the entire festival

Note: I am not leading any "event". I will be there for the entire festival. If you attend any of the events, send me a message via Meetup and let's get together. I sit on the lawn behind the seating section.

Sunday Highlights:
MORNING MEDITATION 8:00AM | Chaparral Auditorium
Seth Parker Woods, cello | Ross Karre, percussion | Leilehua Lanzilotti, viola
Leilehua LANZILOTTI the embryology of the heart (excerpt)
Bahar ROYAEE New work for solo percussion (World premiere)
Anna THORVALDSDOTTIR Sola
Free and open to the public

RITUAL 10:30AM | Libbey Bowl
Wu Wei, sheng | Alex Peh, piano | Claire Chase, flute | Susie Ibarra and Levy Lorenzo, percussion | JACK Quartet
Modern Medieval (arr. Christopher Otto and Austin Wulliman)
Susie IBARRA New work for sheng and percussion (World premiere)
Tania LEÓN Ritual
Susie IBARRA Sky Islands (West Coast premiere)
The JACK Quartet explores Modern/Medieval with music from the 14th to 17th centuries, renewed for contemporary performance by composers/JACK violinists Christopher Otto and Austin Wulliman. The program is followed by the West Coast premiere of Susie Ibarra’s Sky Islands, evoking a unique environment of the elevated rain forests in the Philippines with the interlocking rhythms and melodies of Philippine Northern-style bamboo, gong, and flute music, performed on new sound sculptures of gong metals.

FAMILY CONCERT 12:00PM | Libbey Park Gazebo
Program to be announced

OJAI FILMS 1:00PM | Ojai Playhouse
32 Sounds Film by Sam Green
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OJAI AFTERNOONS (repeat performance) 2:30PM | Greenberg Center, Ojai Valley School
Claire Chase, flute | Joshua Rubin, clarinet | Craig Taborn, piano | Susie Ibarra, percussion | Levy Lorenzo, electronics
Craig TABORN Busy Griefs and Endangered Charms
A concert centered on the West Coast premiere of Busy Griefs and Endangered Charms for flute, clarinet, cello, piano, and electronics by the endlessly inventive composer-pianist Craig Taborn. The work is inspired by a dream in which plants awake, blossom, grow, and change as the dreamer walks through a garden.

PULSEFIELD 5:30PM | Libbey Bowl
Claire Chase, flute | Festival Artists | Steven Schick, conductor
Leilehua LANZILOTTI ko’u inoa
Pauline OLIVEROS The Witness
Tania LEÓN Singsong (World premiere of solo version)
Terry RILEY Pulsefield 3 (World premiere)
An exuberant all-company 2025 Festival finale includes music by Leilehua Lanzilotti, Pauline Oliveros’s The Witness, and the world premiere of a new version of Tania León’s Singsong adapted for solo flute. The Festival culminates in the world premiere of Terry Riley’s Pulsefield 3, in a joyous celebration of the composer’s 90th birthday.

For the 79th Festival flutist Claire Chase is Music Director in 2025:
“When Ara called me with the invitation, I nearly dropped the phone! The Ojai Festival has been a kind of dreamland for me since I was a kid growing up in Southern California, and I have the deepest affection for the audiences at Ojai – I don’t know that a more curious, adventurous, and open-eared group of listeners exists anywhere in the world. I’m tremendously excited to work with Ara to craft experiences that I hope will animate, complicate, and celebrate the connections between musics of the past and the beating-heart present,” shares Claire Chase.

Previously, Chase performed at the Ojai Music Festival with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) in 2015 with that year’s Music Director Steven Schick, in 2016 with Music Director Peter Sellars, and in 2017 with Music Director Vijay Iyer.

Claire Chase, described by The New York Times recently as “the North Star of her instrument’s ever-expanding universe,” is a musician, interdisciplinary artist, and educator. Passionately dedicated to the creation of new ecosystems for the music of our time, Chase has given the world premieres of hundreds of new works by a new generation of artists, and in 2013 launched the 24-year commissioning project Density 2036. Now in its eleventh year, Density 2036 reimagines the solo flute literature over a quarter-century through commissions, performances, recordings, education, and an accessible archive at density2036.org. . For complete biographical information on Claire Chase, visit [OjaiFestival.org](https://www.ojaifestival.org/claire-chase-music-director/).

Festival History: https://www.ojaifestival.org
For seven decades, the Ojai Music Festival has been a laboratory for the special chemistry that results from combining insatiable curiosity with unbounded creativity. The formula is simple: Each year a music director is given the freedom and resources to imagine four days of musical brainstorming. Some have approached their task with caution, fearing that Ojai might be like other places. But, of course, it’s not. More often this unique blend of enchanted setting and an audience voracious in its appetite for challenge and discovery has inspired a distinguished series of conductors, performers, composers to push at boundaries and stretch limits.