Come hear from Ara Guzelimian, the Festivals Artistic and Executive Director, about the upcoming 79th Ojai Music Festival, running June 5 to 8, 2025.

Cellist Kathryn Schulmeister will perform Leilehua Lanzilotti’s ʻālohilohi

Saxophonist M.A. Tiesenga and flutist Michael Matsuno will perform Marcos Balter’s Strohbass

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; and seminal works by John Coltrane, Julius Eastman, Pauline Oliveros, Sofia Gubaidulina, Terry Riley, and more