Concerts and talks of the 68th Ojai Music Festival, which takes place next week, June 12–15, with Jeremy Denk as 2014 Music Director, will be streamed live at ojaifestival.org and archived on the site after the Festival. Ojai Live, which streams Festival concerts from the site, this year features an enhanced HD five-camera shoot and intermission interviews with artists and special guests hosted by Fred Child of American Public Media’s Performance Today.

Ojai Live begins streaming at 1 PM PT on Thursday, June 12, with an interview with Jeremy Denk, part of the Ojai Talks series hosted by Ara Guzelimian, followed by Denk's concert with Uri Caine Ensemble featuring works by Janáček, Schubert, and Caine.

On Friday, June 13, the streaming resumes at 1 PM PT with several Ojai Talks in memory of Charles Rosen, including Denk and his Nonesuch label mate pianist/composer Timo Andres. That night, at 8 PM PT, comes the world premiere of The Classical Style: An Opera (of Sorts), the new opera with libretto by Jeremy Denk and music by Steven Stucky. For the night owls, there's a 10:30 PM concert of Uri Caine's reimagining of George Gershwin music.

The music starts again early the next morning, on Saturday, June 14, with an 11 AM PT duo concert from Jeremy Denk and violinist Jennifer Frautschi performing Ives's complete Sonatas for Violin and Piano. That evening, at 6 PM PT, Timo Andres joins the New York–based orchestra The Knights to perform his re-composition of Mozart's "Coronation" Concerto, heard on 2013 Nonesuch album Home Stretch. The Knights return at 8 PM to perform works by Boccherini, Ives, Feldman, Stockhausen, Weill, and members of the orchestra join Ojai Festival singers continue to make music late into the night with a 10:30 PM performance of works by Bach and Feldman.

For the final day of the festival, Sunday, June 15, the live stream begins at 11 AM with The Knights performing Mozart's "Jupiter" Symphony and what's being described as "a mélange of musical canons and canon-esque miscellany" devised by Jeremy Denk with music by Josquin, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Kurtág, Purcell, P.D.Q. Bach, Uri Caine, and J.S. Bach. Starting at 5:30 PM PT, Denk joins The Knights and Ojai Festival singers for program featuring Ligeti's Piano Études Books I & II, as heard on his Nonesuch debut album, Ligeti/Beethoven; Ives's Psalm 90; and Beethoven's Fantasia in C Minor for Piano, Chorus, and Orchestra, Op. 80 ("Choral Fantasy").

Jeremy Denk and his position as Music Direct of the 2014 Ojai Music Festival are the subject of a recent feature article in the Los Angeles Times, which you can read at latimes.com. 

For the complete 2014 festival schedule and to purchase single-concert passes, visit ojaifestival.org.