The Ojai Music Festival celebrates collaboration and dialogue across multiple generations of composers and performers, including four World Premieres of works by Susie Ibarra, Tania León, Terry Riley, and Bahar Royaee; two U.S. Premieres by Tania León and Liza Lim; eight West Coast Premieres; residencies by Tania León, Annea Lockwood, Liza Lim, Craig Taborn, Susie Ibarra, Leilehua Lanzilotti, and Marcos Balter; and seminal works by John Coltrane, Julius Eastman, Sofia Gubaidulina, Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley, and more
Schedule
THU 06|05
3:00PM OJAI TALKS
Ojai Presbyterian Church
Part I Music Director Claire Chase with Ara Guzelimian
Part II 2025 Composers and Artists with John Schaefer
Automatically included in 4-Day Libbey Bowl Passes, available for purchase as an add-on.
8:00PM PAN
Libbey Bowl
Claire Chase, flute | Wu Wei, sheng | M.A. Tiesenga, electronic hurdy-gurdy | Susie Ibarra and Steven Schick, percussion | Festival Artists
Marcos BALTER Alone
Annea LOCKWOOD bayou-borne
Marcos BALTER Pan
A festive opening night with Annea Lockwood’s Bayou-Borne, an affectionate tribute to Pauline Oliveros, then culminating in Marcos Balter’s Pan, an already iconic work from Claire Chase’s epic Density 2036 project. Pan is a deeply affecting work that explores the life and death of the mythical Greek goat-god Pan, written for flute, electronics, and a community of musicians, telling the tale of this weaver of melodies and a guardian of the wilderness – true to the Ojai spirit!
