Kaija Anneli Saariaho (Finnish:[ˈkɑi̯jɑˈsɑːriɑho]; née Laakkonen; 14 October 1952 – 2 June 2023) was a Finnish composer based in Paris, France. During the course of her career, Saariaho received commissions from the Lincoln Center for the Kronos Quartet and from IRCAM for the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the BBC, the New York Philharmonic, the Salzburg Music Festival, the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, and the Finnish National Opera, among others.[1] In a 2019 composers' poll by BBC Music Magazine, Saariaho was ranked the greatest living composer.[2]
Saariaho studied composition in Helsinki, Freiburg, and Paris, where she also lived since 1982. Her research at the Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music (IRCAM) marked a turning point in her music away from strict serialism towards spectralism. Her characteristically rich, polyphonic textures are often created by combining live music and electronics.
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Kaija Anneli Saariaho (Finnish: [ˈkɑi̯jɑ ˈsɑːriɑho]; née Laakkonen; 14 October 1952 – 2 June 2023) was a Finnish composer based in Paris, France. During...
KaijaSaariaho (Finnish: [ˈkɑi̯jɑ ˈsɑːriɑho]; née Laakkonen; 14 October 1952 – 2 June 2023) was a Finnish composer based in Paris, France. Saariaho studied...
group's previous album ¡Alarma! (1981)[citation needed] Finnish composer KaijaSaariaho set the last section of the poem as her first music theatre piece Study...
2023. "From the Grammar of Dreams | KaijaSaariaho". www.wisemusicclassical.com. Retrieved December 19, 2023. "Saariaho: From the Grammar of Dreams; Farewell"...
"Seven Butterflies") is a piece for solo cello by Finnish composer KaijaSaariaho. The piece was commissioned by the Rudolf Steiner Foundation and was...
Einojuhani Rautavaara, Aulis Sallinen and Magnus Lindberg, among others. KaijaSaariaho was ranked the world's greatest living composer in a 2019 composers'...
(flute). There is an instrumental alter ego (cello) also for Prospero. KaijaSaariaho has set six fragments of The Tempest as accompanied arias between 1993...
La Passion de Simone is an oratorio (or opera) composed by KaijaSaariaho to a libretto in French by Amin Maalouf, first premiered in a staging by Peter...
Michael Jarrell, Younghi Pagh-Paan, Toshio Hosokawa, Wolfgang Rihm, and KaijaSaariaho. He received the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize in 2009, among other...
Osvaldo Golijov, John Harbison, Esa-Pekka Salonen, John Adams, and KaijaSaariaho, have written for her. In 2007, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship...
"True Fire | KaijaSaariaho". www.wisemusicclassical.com. Retrieved 19 December 2023. "Review: L.A. Philharmonic breathes fire into Saariaho world premiere"...
Anderson and Jonathan Harvey), Finland (composers like Magnus Lindberg and KaijaSaariaho), and the United States. A further development is the emergence of...
Adriana Mater is the second opera by the Finnish composer KaijaSaariaho, with a libretto in French by her frequent collaborator, Amin Maalouf. The Opéra...
Other spectralists and post-spectralists include Jonathan Harvey, KaijaSaariaho, and Georg Friedrich Haas. John Luther Adams is known for his extensive...
secondary schools". Weil was also the subject of Finnish composer KaijaSaariaho's La Passion de Simone (2008), written with librettist Amin Maalouf....
Archived from the original on 3 January 2014. Retrieved 3 January 2014. "KaijaSaariaho". Polar Music Prize. Archived from the original on 3 January 2014. Retrieved...
Edvard Grieg. Of contemporary composers, the Finns Magnus Lindberg, KaijaSaariaho and Esa-Pekka Salonen are among the most often performed in the world...
Pedersen, singing works by Alfred Janson, Helmut Lachenmann, Per Nørgård, KaijaSaariaho, and Iannis Xenakis. She sang the role of Anitra in a recording of Peer...
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