I was honored to be a featured soloist at the Ojai Music Festival this month, among fantastic company. My heartfelt thanks to this year’s artistic director, the great John Adams, and to festival director Ara Guzelimian, for inviting me. I played Carlos Simon’s violin piece “Between Worlds” on the opening concert, which I had also performed on video as a preview for the festival. Later in the week at the Libbey Bowl, I played Samuel Carl Adams’ Chamber Concerto with John Adams conducting, and the Preludio from the Bach E major Partita (playing perched on a wooded hill at the side of the venue, as prelude to the Esa-Pekka Salonen piece FOG. That work was inspired by the Bach Preludio and by Frank O. Gehry).

I gave a recital at the Zalk Theater, playing Anthony Cheung’s “Character Studies”, Dai Fujikura’s “prism spectra” (on viola), the first four movements of the Bach D minor Partita, and Kaija Saariaho’s “Frises”. The Saariaho and Fujikura both involve live electronics (thanks to Dan Gower).

Thank you so much to all the artists, the hard-working staff, and the terrific enthused audience. I’m excited to return to Ojai with AMOC next June as 2022 collective artistic director.

Reviews:
Los Angeles Times
Sequenza 21
Santa Barbara Independent here and here
San Francisco Classical Voice
New York Times