Kaija Saariaho

Kaija Saariaho studied composition in Helsinki, Freiburg and Paris, where she has lived since 1982. Her studies and research at IRCAM have had a major influence on her music and her characteristically luxuriant and mysterious textures are often created by combining live music and electronics. (Wikipedia)

About Kaija Saariaho

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Let’s Finally Drop the Rhetoric of »forgotten« Women Composers

Women opera composers of the past have returned for good. But how do we break the closed circuit of opera history?

By Jakob Gustav Winckler
mindeord
02.06.2023

She has returned into the noise of this world

Statement from Kaija Saariaho's family.

By Jean-Baptiste Barrière, Aleksi Barrière & Aliisa Neige Barrière
portrait
29.06.2016

Hello, world – 70 years of Young Nordic Music

Young Nordic Music (UNM) celebrates its 70th anniversary. Sune Anderberg writes.

By Sune Anderberg
interview
25.01.2016

Klangfarverne i musikken

Interview med NJORD Biennalens kunstneriske leder Jane Schwarz

By Jan Stricker

Kaija Saariaho

About Kaija Saariaho

Let’s Finally Drop the Rhetoric of »forgotten« Women Composers

She has returned into the noise of this world

Hello, world – 70 years of Young Nordic Music

Klangfarverne i musikken