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	Orion, Kaija Saariaho (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Kaija Saariaho’s Orion presented this Finnish composer’s familiar assembly of massed, frosted-glass sonorities – immaculately wrought, and sympathetically written for orchestra and audience alike.
		Saariaho has chosen to exploit the contrast between Orion as hyperactive hunter and as fixed heavenly body; and this dichtomy has led her into a sort of cosmic minimalism, distinctively her own.
		Saariaho's last movement springs into rapidly ascending and descending chromatic scales, and cosmic hunting horns whoop and tally-ho after three haunting slow episodes seem to recall the spectres of earthly chase.
	www.chesternovello.com.cob-web.org:8888 /work/31549/main.html (1329 words)

	Program Notes - Printer-Friendly
		Saariaho veered instead towards a musical career, studying at Helsinki University and the Sibelius Acadamy, where she was a pupil of Paavo Heininen, the composer, teacher, and musicologist who at that time was emerging as the eminence grise behind Finland’s ascent in the international musical avant-garde.
		Saariaho’s compatriot Risto Niemanen, who has written extensively about her work, has referred aptly to her tendency towards “orchestration in miniature.” In fact, one might say that Saariaho “out-Weberns” Webern by extending her hyper-management of sound to include micro-intervals and expanding her orchestra to include subtle electronic effects.
		As Saariaho’s crystal turns, refracting sound rather than light, the listener is left with a sensation that is not unlike peering into a kaleidoscope, its images reinvented with predictable regularity, its precise rearrangements of color creeping in so gradually that their significance may be clear only in retrospect.
	www.sfsymphony.org /templates/pgmNotePrint.asp?nodeid=2998 (1436 words)

	Kaija Saariaho — Virtual Finland
		Saariaho's music was described as 'opulently elegant' by a number of critics, although the Viennese press and the French newspaper Le Monde deplored the static nature of the work.
		Saariaho is known for her works involving electronics, with computer-analyzed sonorities shifting imperceptibly into new ones.
		Château de l'âme for soprano, women's choir and orchestra is Saariaho at perhaps her most approachable: the warm sonority of the orchestra underpins the soprano's controlled yet ecstatic soaring melodies.
	virtual.finland.fi /finfo/english/saariaho.html (1007 words)

	Kaija Saariaho (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Saariaho has also taken part in a number of multimedia productions such as the full-length ballet Maa (1991) and a pan-European collaborative project to produce a CD-ROM Prisma about her life and work.
		In 1999 Saariaho completed a major work for chorus and orchestra, Oltra mar, which was premiered by the New York Philharmonic and Kurt Masur on 11th November 1999, as part of their millennium series of commissions.
		Saariaho's music is available on the Finlandia, Ondine, SONY, Wergo, Neuma, BIS and naïve record labels and is published exclusively by Chester Music Ltd and Edition Wilhelm Hansen.
	www.ccm.uc.edu /musicx/Bios/kaija.html (567 words)

	Universitas Helsingiensis
		Kaija Saariaho is one of the most significant composers of our time, and inspires listeners, critics and scholars alike.
		Saariaho research is particularly intense at the University of Turku, but the University of Helsinki has also witnessed a small Saariaho boom, when Auli Karra, Tanja Uimonen and Marja Minkkinen completed their Master's theses on Saariaho for the Department of Musicology last year, and Liisamaija Hautsalo's doctoral dissertation on Saariaho's first opera is underway.
		Again, Saariaho has done something a modernist probably should not: it was, after all, Pierre Boulez, the father of modernism, who said all opera houses should be burnt down, and Saariaho herself doubted very much in the early 1980s whether she would ever write an opera.
	www.helsinki.fi /uh/2-2004/juttu2.shtml (1242 words)

	Grawemeyer Award- Music Composition Current Winner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Kaija Saariaho (Ka`-ya Sa`-re-a-ho) of Finland won the $200,000 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for 2003 for her first opera, “L`amour de loin," (love from afar).
		Kaija Saariaho is a Finnish composer internationally known and recognized for her works involving electronics.
		Saariaho also is a contributor to the musical press and a lecturer at conservatories in Finland and abroad.
	www.grawemeyer.org /music/previous/03.htm (452 words)

	The New Yorker: PRINTABLES
		Kaija Saariaho, whose new opera, “Adriana Mater,” had its première in Paris earlier this month, once said that she likes to explore the boundary between music and noise.
		Saariaho’s chief French models were Tristan Murail and Gérard Grisey, who, in the nineteen-seventies, developed a compositional process that came to be called “spectralism.” By way of computers, they analyzed the overtones that accompany any resonating tone—say, a low E on a trombone.
		Saariaho’s music captures with magical immediacy the drastic emotions that swirl around this romance, which is different from standard operatic melodrama in that the action is largely psychological.
	www.newyorker.com /printables/critics/060424crmu_music (1706 words)

	The Uses of Electronics in Three Works by Kaija Saariaho
		The purpose of this paper is to analyze and discuss the use of electronics in three works by Kaija Saariaho written in the early to middle 1990's.
		Saariaho's musical craftsmanship is apparent in the way she uses the electronics -- saving up effects and textures to help delineate sections and form.
		In general, these works show that Kaija Saariaho is intent on crafting a beautiful and appealing world to inhabit, and then using the full power of her musical language and craft to create satisfying works within these newly created worlds.
	pnelsoncomposer.com /writings/KaijaSaariahoAnalysis.html (1941 words)

	Kaija Saariaho - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kaija Saariaho (born October 14, 1952) is a Finnish composer.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kaija_Saariaho (417 words)

	classical music - andante - kaija saariaho
		Few composers, in their music or their personas, are as otherworldly as Kaija Saariaho.
		Kaija Saariaho is indeed of this world, though the earlier impression isn't necessarily a mistaken one.
		However, Saariaho's next stop after Santa Fe was Tanglewood, where she spent a week in residence supervising performances of her work.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=18474 (1875 words)

	Kaija Saariaho - Classical music composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Saariaho's tape works include Stilleben (Still Life), which is a radiophonic work written for IRCAM (as was Lichtbogen, which is extensively sampled in this piece!).
		Frequently, Saariaho incorporates tape and 'electronics'; (usually meaning microphones, but used to great effect in her string quartet, Nymphea, which is part of an ongoing project called Jardin Secret (Secret Garden), and relates to programming projects she is undertaking at IRCAM), and the electric side of such works generally represents subversion of various kinds.
		In a sense, Saariaho is a 'nature' composer(!), but a radical one (no Vaughan-Williams here!), and the electronic in her work is a metaphorical reference to humanity in nature.
	www.classical-composers.org /comp/saariaho (1317 words)

	BMOP :: Kaija Saariaho
		In 1986 Kaija Saariaho was awarded the Kranichsteiner Preis at the new music summer courses in Darmstadt, and in 1988 the Prix Italia, for her work Stilleben.
		Saariaho has also taken part in a number of multimedia productions such as the full-length ballet Maa (1991) and a pan-European collaborative project to produce a CD-ROM Prisma about her work.
		Most recently Saariaho has completed a major work for chorus and orchestra, Oltra mar, which was premiered by the New York Philharmonic and Kurt Masur on 11th November 1999, as part of their millennium series of commissions.
	www.bmop.org /musicians/composer_bio.aspx?cid=185 (425 words)

	4.30.2000
		Kaija Saariaho (1952) is one of the most celebrated Finnish composers of her generation.
		Juhani Nuorvala describes Saariaho's music as "purist modernist." He says a "fragile, brilliant play of colour, a sensuality, a dreamlike misterioso atmosphere, visual and poetic associations" are the defining characters in her music.
		The collaboration between Anssi Karttunen and Kaija Saariaho is a famous one; Saariaho herself writes that when she composes for certain instruments, she always associates the sounds of them with the people she composes for.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~cyoungk/43000.htm (454 words)

	Kaija SAARIAHO [HC]: Classical Reviews- November 2001 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		So far Kaija Saariaho has been known for a number of chamber works for ensemble, small and large, characterised by a sharp ear for arresting sonorities, and her deft use of electronics in one form or another.
		By that time Saariaho had become master of her trade and fully equipped to undertake highly varied enterprises of which the high water mark so far is her opera L’Amour de Loin completed in 1997.
		This beautiful piece, one of Saariaho’s finest works so far, is her most poetical and subtle work.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /classrev/2001/Nov01/Saariaho.htm (629 words)

	CDeMUSIC
		Saariaho's style integrates many influences, including the wide range of historic cello literature, in a unique musical style that is at times lyrical and at times dramatic and textural.
		Kaija Saariaho's 'NoaNoa' (1991), Richard Karpen's 'Terra Infirma' (1992), Jon Christopher Nelson's 'Waves of Refraction' (1992), Linda Dusman's 'Dindirindin' (1990), Wesley Fuller's 'The Camargo Trio' (1990), Jean-Claude Risset's 'Eight sketches: Duet for One Pianist' (1989).
		Music by Kaija Saariaho, including an early work with computer generated sounds, and a recent composition including melodic elements.
	www.cdemusic.org /store/cde_search.cfm?keywords=ksaariahocds (774 words)

	Article 0034
		With her particular use of computers, Kaija analyses the tonal colors and gets them to slowly change towards something fresh, thus achieving a "cold beauty befitting the northern firmament" in her compositions, as some musical critics have defined her.
		Other compositions resulting from her creative genius are Amers (1992, for cello, ensemble and electronics, commissioned by the Barbican Centre and IRCAM), Solar (1993, for ensemble and electronic keyboards, a commission from the City of Antwerp for Champ d'Action) and Trois Riviéres (1994, for percussion quartet and electronics, a commission from the Strasbourg Festival).
		aija Saariaho admits that there is a strong commercial pressure against musical experimentation and minoritary new musics, which could mean that the genre she represents is in grave danger, as it could die out in the next twenty years.
	www.amazings.com /articles/article0034.html (602 words)

	Kaija Saariaho (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Kaija Saariaho is a prominent member of a group of Finnish composers and performers who are now, in mid-career, making a worldwide impact.
		Through IRCAM, Saariaho became allied with the French ‘spectralist’ composers, whose techniques are based on computer analysis of the sound-spectrum of individual notes on different instruments.
		This analytical approach led her to the regular use of harmonies resting on long-held bass notes, microtonal intervals, and a precisely detailed continuum of sound extending from pure tone to unpitched noise – all features of one of her most frequently performed works, Graal théâtre for violin and orchestra or ensemble (1994/97).
	www.chesternovello.com /composer/1385/main.html (651 words)

	classical music - andante - kaija saariaho: l'amour de loin
		There are only three characters and they have simple but elemental emotional trajectories: the medieval troubadour and provincial Gallic prince JaufrÃ© Rudel de Blaye, after years of empty debauchery, finds a pure and perfect love in ClÃ©mence, the Countess of Tripoli, whom he knows strictly from descriptions of her beauty and integrity of character.
		Unlike the madrigal-like text splintering that Saariaho employed in her Sylvia Plath settings in The Grammar of Dreams, she sets Maalouf's French-language libretto with straightforward, syllabic expressiveness.
		The morning after that performance, I ran into Saariaho on the TGV that left Paris for Bern at 7:44 a.m.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=15099 (1733 words)

	Kaija Saariaho - CompositionToday.com
		More than any other major composer of her generation, Saariaho has made electronic and computer-generated sounds a constant ingredient in her music, while the scientific analysis of instrumental sounds and timbres also plays a major role in her compositional method.
		The results of Saariaho’s researches at the centre can be heard, most obviously, in her music’s extraordinary soundworld, with its myriad new ways of bowing, blowing and plucking — coaxing perplexingly odd sounds from familiar instruments, which are then further enriched through electronic transformation.
		Saariaho’s interest in exploring the minutiae of instrumental effects has meant, not surprisingly, that the majority of her pieces are for small-scale instrumental or vocal forces without or — most characteristically — with electronics.
	www.compositiontoday.com /articles/saariaho.asp (452 words)

	Ondine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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.
	www.ondine.fi /index.php?composer=15 (284 words)

	Madeleine Shapiro -- Voices...20th Century Cello
		Kaija Saariaho receives an artist’s salary for her compositional work from the Finnish Government.
		Saariaho has also taken part in a number of multimedia productions such as the full-length ballet Maa (1991) and a pan-European collaborative project to produce a CD-ROM about her work.
		Sofia Gubaidulina was born in Chistopol in the Tatar Republic of the Soviet Union in 1931.
	www.modernworks.com /Voices/schedule.html (3105 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		The music of Kaija Saariaho certainly does not lack for seriousness or haughty purpose: the works on this disc are "about" obscure French poetry, the sun, and the northern lights.
		Saariaho can create an active surface, dizzy with motion and direction, and yet she never uses this construct in an effort to compensate for a lack of substance.
		Even if you are no lover of tape music, Saariaho uses it in such an idiomatic and integral fashion that you might not even notice it--no bleeps or blurps, but rather a sonic expansion of the orchestra.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=5554 (462 words)

	Guardian \| Kaija Saariaho
		A "visualised concert" is Kaija Saariaho's description of From the Grammar of Dreams.
		Her work, composed over the past two decades, laces together a series of independent vocal items involving two sopranos, flute, harp, viola, cello and electronics in various combinations, giving them a musical continuity and a kind of visual, if not dramatic consistency.
		But the visual element, devised by Saariaho and the designer Raija Malka, is awkward and unnecessary, hardly theatrical at all, and more an exercise in colour-coordinated costumes and backdrops than anything else.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4303359-103686,00.html (330 words)

	Amazon.com: Graal Theater / Solar / Lichtbogen: Music: Saariaho,Storgards,Lintu,Avanti Cham Orch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This 2002 Ondine disc contains three pieces by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, whose falling in with the spectralist school in the early 1980s led to a long obsession with timbre as the ultimate component of music.
		"Lichtbogen" (1986) comes from a fairly early stage of Saariaho's career and is typical of her output of this time in its use of live electronics and finding inspiration from a single sound.
		Elegant and unorthodox, organic and uncanny, the music of Kaija Saariaho has an alien beauty that isn't compromised one iota by its resolute modernism.
	www.amazon.com /Graal-Theater-Solar-Lichtbogen-Saariaho/dp/B000069KMS (1450 words)

	Kaija Saariaho, L’Amour de loin, Théàtre du Châtelet, Paris, 29 November, 2001 (FC) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Kaija Saariaho, L’Amour de loin, Théàtre du Châtelet, Paris, 29 November, 2001 (FC)
		The first opera of the famed contemporary composer, Kaija Saariaho held the stage at the Théàtre du Châtelet on the 26, 29 November and 2 December.
		With Kent Nagano and the Orchestre de Paris in the pit, it was the first French performance of L’Amour de loin (The Love from Afar).
	www.musicweb.uk.net /SandH/2001/Dec01/Saariaho.htm (463 words)

	Saariaho: Private Gardens / Dawn Upshaw \| Classical Music Online
		Kaija Saariaho: Cinq Reflets de L'Amour de Loin; Nymphea Reflection; Oltra Mar
		In this day Saariaho was concerned primarily with timbre, in which exploration the electronics were a great resource.
		Kaija Saariaho is a prolific composer and it seems that almost everything she composes proceeds to disc!
	www.onlineclassical.com /ItemId/B00000379L (285 words)

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