STEPHEN GOSLIN & JACK QUARTET – The Music of John Zorn | Ojai Music Festival (2019)

John Zorn is a universalist, a composer, performer, filmmaker, cultural manager, and aesthetic philosopher who has forged an independent path through stylistic domains that range from the classical avant-garde to virtually all popular idioms. This two-concert survey of his chamber music includes recent works by one of the most fertile, thought-provoking, and idiosyncratic music minds of our time.

Ojai Music Festival 2019: John Zorn Friday, June 7, 2019: 11:00am – 11:45am Libbey Bowl

Part I: 11:00 – 11:45 am

JOHN ZORN (b. 1953): The Alchemist (2011) ZORN Hexentarot (2013) ZORN Ghosts (2015) ZORN The Aristos (2014)

Stephen Gosling, piano | JACK Quartet

John Zorn is an American composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist, and multi-instrumentalist with hundreds of album credits as performer, composer, and producer across a variety of genres including jazz, rock, hardcore, classical, surf, metal, soundtrack, ambient, and music improvisation.

Part II: 12:15 – 1:00pm

ZORN The Unseen (2017) ZORN Ouroboros (2014) ZORN Necronomicon (2003)

JACK Quartet | Jay Campbell. cello | Alexa Ciciretti, celli

John Zorn incorporates diverse styles in his compositions, which he identifies as avant-garde or experimental. Zorn was described by Down Beat magazine as “one of our most important composers.”

The Ojai Music Festival is an annual classical music festival in the United States. Held in Ojai, California, for four days every June, the festival presents music, symposia, and educational programs emphasizing adventurous, eclectic, and challenging music, principally by contemporary composers.