The Louisville conductor Teddy Abrams is to be Ojai’s next Artistic and Executive Director from September next year.
He succeeds Ara Guzelimian, who has planned the next festival together with Esa-Pekka Salonen.
Abrams, a protege of Michael Tilson Thomas, has been in Louisville for 12 years.
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