Lonh for Soprano and Electronics; Six Japanese Gardens for Percussion and Electronic; etc

Lonh for Soprano and Electronics; Six Japanese Gardens for Percussion and Electronic; etc cover $35.00 Out of Stock
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KAIJA SAARIAHO
Lonh for Soprano and Electronics; Six Japanese Gardens for Percussion and Electronic; etc
Dawn Upshaw (soprano) Camilla Hoitenga (flute) Florent Jodelet (percussion) Anssi Karttunen (cello)

[ Ondine / CD ]

Release Date: Saturday 26 February 2005

This item is currently out of stock. It may take 6 or more weeks to obtain from when you place your order as this is a specialist product.

Kaija Saariaho (b. 1952) is today one of the world's most significant contemporary composers. She has received several internationally distinguished awards, most recently the Grawemeyer Composition Award for her opera L'amour de loin in 2003. In 1997, she was awarded the title Chevalier à l'ordre des Arts et Lettres in France.

Kaija Saariaho has been commissioned by the BBC, Ircam, the New York Philharmonic, the Lincoln Center in New York, the Salzburg Music Festival, the Théâtre de Châtelet in Paris and the Finnish National Opera, among others.

Saariaho frequently draws inspiration from extra-musical sources, be they the night sky, the natural environment or literature. Saariaho studied music and fine arts in parallel before taking up composition, the latter at the graphic arts department of the University of Art and Design Helsinki. She studied composition with Paavo Heininen at the Sibelius Academy from 1976 to 1981 and continued with Brian Ferneyhough at the Freiburg Music Academy, completing her diploma in 1983.

Kaija Saariaho has been mainly living in Paris since 1982.

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