Kaija Saariaho
Born: 14th October 1952, Helsinki, Finland
Died: 2nd June 2023, Paris, France
Nationality: Finnish
Kaija Anneli Saariaho 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. In a 2019 composers' poll by BBC Music Magazine, Saariaho was ranked the greatest living composer.
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.
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Choral works by the late Kaija Saariaho
7th Jul 2023
The Helsinki Chamber Choir under Nils Schweckendiek perform choral music by Saariaho that explores a wide range of subjects – from atmospheric invocations of night and Roman mythology to the seasons of the year and spacefaring science fiction.
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Kaija Saariaho (1952-2023)
5th Jun 2023
The Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho has died at the age of 70 in her adoptive home of Paris.
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- 6 Japanese Gardens (4)
- Aure (3)
- Ballade (3)
- Caliban's Dream (2)
- Cendres (6)
- Changing Light (3)
- Cinq reflets de L'Amour de loin (3)
- Cloud Trio (5)
- Dreaming Chaconne (3)
- Du gick, flög (You went, flew) (2)
- Fall (3)
- Frises (3)
- From the Grammar of Dreams (3)
- Graal théâtre (8)
- Grammaire des Rêves (3)
- Je sens un deuxième coeur (3)
- Laconisme de l'aile for solo flute (6)
- Laterna Magica for large orchestra (3)
- Leino Songs for soprano and orchestra (3)
- Lonh (3)
- Mirage (3)
- Miranda's Lament (2)
- Mirrors (4)
- Neiges (4)
- Noa Noa for flute and electronics (7)
- Nocturne (8)
- Notes on Light (5)
- Nuits, adieux (4)
- Nymphéa (Jardin secret III) (3)
- Nymphéa for string quartet and live electronics (2)
- Oi Kuu (To the Moon) (3)
- Orion (3)
- Petals (7)
- Près (4)
- Quatre Instants (4)
- Sept Papillons (10)
- Solar (3)
- Spins and spells (7)
- Tocar (5)
- Vent Nocturne, for viola & electronics (3)
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