Let the journey begin. đ¶ The 80th Ojai Music Festival opens on Thursday, June 11 with A Quartet for the End of Time.
Music Director @esapekkasalonen.official presents the U.S. premiere of his new work for violin and cello, alongside a program that moves between reflection and intensity:
âš Reena Esmail â Darshan, III. Charukeshi
âš John Adams â China Gates & American Berserk
âš Salonen â Homunculus
âš Olivier Messiaen â Quartet for the End of Time
From intimate beginnings to one of the most transcendent works in the chamber music canon, this opening night sets the tone for a Festival rooted in curiosity, connection, and discovery.
đ Purchase tickets: ojaifestival.org/buy-tickets/
FEATURED ARTISTS
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Music Director and Conductor
@attaccaquartet
Anthony McGill, clarinet | @mcgillclarinet
Geneva Lewis, violin |@genevalauren
Jay Campbell, cello | @autocellic
Conor Hanick, piano | @conorlhanick
#OjaiMusicFestival #Ojai80 #EsaPekkaSalonen #Ojai #OjaiFestival
April Tour coming at you!
@mtchambermusic April 9 at Willow Spring Ranch + April 10th at @montanastatemusic w/ Caroline Shaw
@sfperformances April 12th at Taube Atrium Theater with Caroline Shaw
@artpoweratucsd April 15th Conrad Prebys Concert Hall with Caroline Shaw
@wisconsinuniontheater April 16th with Caroline Shaw
@mondavicenter April 19th Venderhoef Studio Theater - Works by Chopin, Poulenc, @radiohead , @domenic_salerni , Bartok and more!
@tahoemusicalive April 20th St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church - Works by Chopin, Poulenc, Radiohead, Salerni, Bartok and more!
Pulitzer Prizeâwinning composer and performer Caroline Shaw returns to ArtPower for a special program featuring music from "Evergreen", her Grammy Awardâwinning collaboration with the Attacca Quartet, one of the most versatile and outstanding ensembles of the moment. "Evergreen" highlights the significance of language while exploring the narrative potential of contemporary classical music.â
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Attacca Quartet & Composer/Vocalist Caroline Shawâ
â° Wed, Apr. 15 at 7:30 pmâ
đDepartment of Music's Conrad Prebys Concert Hallâ
đïž Tickets start at $50 | UCSD Student: Limited Free Tickets via SSO
Happy birthday to the one and only Maurice Ravel. Your music has been with us since we started the quartet, and it just keeps getting better. Letâs all celebrate his birthday the way we can all agree on, by just leaving our recording streaming all day for weeks at a time. đ€đŒ
âWeâre living in a golden age of string quartets...Itâs hard to disagree when you hear the vibrant young players in New Yorkâs Attacca Quartet.â â NPR
Step into the golden era and hear Attacca Quartet and Theo Bleckmann perform David Langâs ânote to a friendâ on Feb 28 at #TheNimoy.
The two-time Grammy award winning quartet are widely recognized as one of the most versatile ensembles today. Attacca Quarter brings their masterful playing to ânote to a friend,â a stunning and haunting monodrama addressing our eternal human fascinations with family, love, and death.
Tickets in bio.
Release day for this amazing new work by @davidlangmusic - We were so thrilled to collaborate with our long-time friend, the brilliant @theobleckmann - We are in the middle of a tour of this piece with Theo and it has been transformational, it is a powerful and sensitive, and sometimes lighthearted view of a very hard topic. *Trigger warning* the album deals exclusively with the theme of death and suicide which some may find distressing.
A haunting operatic monodrama comes to Los Angeles.
Attacca Quartet and Theo Bleckmann take on David Langâs ânote to a friendâ on Feb 28 at #TheNimoy. The 60-minute chamber opera reimagines three texts by iconic Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa to address our eternal human fascinations with death, love and family.
Tickets in bio.
Centuries of music collide in a haunting and powerful evening with Attacca Quartet. From Renaissance polyphony to contemporary urgency, this programme traces a line through devotion, darkness, protest, and renewal â culminating in the Dutch premiere of daisy by David Lang, co-commissioned by the String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam.
Langâs new work enters into dialogue with George Crumbâs iconic Black Angels, framed by music from Clemens non Papa, Bennet, and Caroline Shaw. An intense listening experience where past and present illuminate one another in moments of beauty, fragility, and force.
Evening concert: Clemens non Papa, Bennet, Lang, Crumb, Shaw
â Thu 29 Jan 2026 · 20:15
â Muziekgebouw
Get your tickets via the link in bio.
@muziekgebouw@attaccaquartet
Attacca Quartet & Theo Bleckmann perform David Langâs ânote to a friendâ on Feb 28 at The Nimoy.
This 60-minute chamber opera finds Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang reimagining three texts by iconic Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa. The result is a stunning and haunting monodrama, note to a friend, addressing our eternal human fascinations with death, love and family.
Tickets in bio.
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