List of music directors of the Ojai Music Festival

This is a complete list of music directors of the Ojai Music Festival, an American festival of classical music held annually in Ojai, California. The list is shown both alphabetically and chronologically.

A–E

 * John Adams: 1993, 2021
 * Pierre-Laurent Aimard: 2007
 * Leif Ove Andsnes: 2012
 * Emanuel Ax: 1997
 * George Benjamin: 2010
 * Pierre Boulez: 1967, 1970, 1984, 1989, 1992, 1996, 2003
 * Aaron Copland: 1957–1958, 1976
 * Robert Craft: 1954–1956, 1959, 1982
 * Ingolf Dahl: 1957, 1964–1966
 * Peter Maxwell Davies: 1988, 1991
 * eighth blackbird: 2009
 * Emerson String Quartet: 2002

F–J

 * Lukas Foss: 1961–1963, 1979–1980, 1987
 * Lawrence Foster: 1968
 * Rhiannon Giddens 2023
 * John Harbison: 1991
 * Daniel Harding: 1997
 * Thor Johnson: 1947–1950, 1952–1953

K–O

 * Oliver Knussen: 2005
 * Patricia Kopatchinskaja 2018
 * Robert LaMarchina: 1968
 * Daniel Lewis: 1981, 1983
 * Nicholas McGegan: 1988
 * Stefan Minde: 1969
 * Stephen Mosko: 1986, 1990
 * Kent Nagano: 1985, 1986, 1995, 2004

P-S

 * Simon Rattle: 2000
 * Edward Rebner: 1949
 * David Robertson: 2008
 * Esa-Pekka Salonen: 1999, 2001
 * Gerhard Samuel: 1971
 * Calvin Simmons: 1978
 * Robert Spano: 2006
 * William Steinberg: 1951
 * Igor Stravinsky: 1955–1956

T–Z

 * Henri Temianka: 1960
 * Michael Tilson Thomas: 1968, 1969, 1973–1975, 1977, 1994
 * Mitsuko Uchida: 1998
 * Dawn Upshaw: 2011
 * Diane Wittry: 1988
 * Michael Zearott: 1969, 1972
 * David Zinman: 1998

1940s

 * 1947 Thor Johnson
 * 1948 Thor Johnson and Edward Rebner
 * 1949 Thor Johnson

1950s

 * 1950 Thor Johnson
 * 1951 William Steinberg
 * 1952 Thor Johnson
 * 1953 Thor Johnson
 * 1954 Robert Craft
 * 1955 Robert Craft and Igor Stravinsky
 * 1956 Robert Craft and Igor Stravinsky
 * 1957 Aaron Copland and Ingolf Dahl
 * 1958 Aaron Copland
 * 1959 Robert Craft

1960s

 * 1960 Henri Temianka
 * 1961 Lukas Foss
 * 1962 Lukas Foss
 * 1963 Lukas Foss
 * 1964 Ingolf Dahl
 * 1965 Ingolf Dahl
 * 1966 Ingolf Dahl
 * 1967 Pierre Boulez
 * 1968 Robert LaMarchina, Lawrence Foster and Michael Tilson Thomas
 * 1969 Michael Zearott, Stefan Minde and Michael Tilson Thomas

1970s

 * 1970 Pierre Boulez
 * 1971 Gerhard Samuel
 * 1972 Michael Zearott
 * 1973 Michael Tilson Thomas
 * 1974 Michael Tilson Thomas
 * 1975 Michael Tilson Thomas
 * 1976 Aaron Copland
 * 1977 Michael Tilson Thomas
 * 1978 Calvin Simmons
 * 1979 Lukas Foss

1980s

 * 1980 Lukas Foss
 * 1981 Daniel Lewis
 * 1982 Robert Craft
 * 1983 Daniel Lewis
 * 1984 Pierre Boulez
 * 1985 Kent Nagano
 * 1986 Kent Nagano and Stephen Mosko
 * 1987 Lukas Foss
 * 1988 Nicholas McGegan, Peter Maxwell Davies and Diane Wittry
 * 1989 Pierre Boulez

1990s

 * 1990 Stephen Mosko
 * 1991 John Harbison and Peter Maxwell Davies
 * 1992 Pierre Boulez
 * 1993 John Adams
 * 1994 Michael Tilson Thomas
 * 1995 Kent Nagano
 * 1996 Pierre Boulez
 * 1997 Emanuel Ax and Daniel Harding
 * 1998 Mitsuko Uchida and David Zinman
 * 1999 Esa-Pekka Salonen

2000s

 * 2000 Simon Rattle
 * 2001 Esa-Pekka Salonen
 * 2002 Emerson String Quartet
 * 2003 Pierre Boulez
 * 2004 Kent Nagano
 * 2005 Oliver Knussen
 * 2006 Robert Spano
 * 2007 Pierre-Laurent Aimard
 * 2008 David Robertson
 * 2009 eighth blackbird

2010s

 * 2010 George Benjamin
 * 2011 Dawn Upshaw
 * 2012 Leif Ove Andsnes
 * 2013 Mark Morris
 * 2014 Jeremy Denk
 * 2015 Steven Schick
 * 2016 Peter Sellars
 * 2017 Vijay Iyer
 * 2018 Patricia Kopatchinskaja
 * 2023 Rhiannon Giddens