Kaija Saariaho

Kaija Saariaho is the most successful of contemporary Finnish composers having won a number of international compositions and has become best known for her works which exploit electronics. The inspiration forwriting NoaNoa came at the time of writing the music for the ballet Maa. 'I wanted to write down exaggerate even abuse certain Flute mannerisms that had been haunting me for some years and thus force myself tomove into something new.' NoaNoa is the work of a team and many details in the Flute part were worked out with Camilla Hoitenga. The electronic part was developed under the supervision ofJean-Baptiste Barriere with Xavier Chabot as the programmer. Backing tracks and electronic software available at Saariaho's website - www.saariaho.org

Calices was commissioned by Fundación Albéniz for the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofia Madrid.

The set of parts for the updated version of Miranda's Lament. Composed in 1997 and revised in 2000 the piece is part of 'The Tempest Songbook' and was dedicated as a birthday present for Paavo Heininen. The score forthis edition is available with catalogue number CH69938-01. The score and parts for Saariaho's original 1997 edition are also available using catalogue numbers CH61440 and CH61440-01 respectively.

The set of parts for the original version of Miranda's Lament. Composed in 1997 the piece is part of 'The Tempest Songbook' and was dedicated as a birthday present for Paavo Heininen. The score for this edition isavailable with catalogue number CH61440. The score and parts for Saariaho's 2000 edition are also available using catalogue numbers CH69938 and CH69938-01 respectively.

Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho's Bosun's Cheer composed in 2014. Included here are the score and parts for the Period Instrument Version arranged for a speaker Violin Cello andDouble Bass. Born in Helsinki and having studied composition there and in Freiburg and Paris Kaija Saariaho has achieved a great level of critical and audience acclaim now mid-career. Her previouswork was notable for including electronics alongside more traditional instruments before going on to compose much larger works including the epic opera 'L'Amour de Loin' in 2000 a recording of which won the 2011 Grammy award forbest opera recording.  This piece Bosun's Cheer is an exhilarating work including some inventive instrumental techniques as well as a hauntingly poeticvoice. The version for modern instruments can be found  here .

Nymphea Reflection is a work by renowned composer Kaija Saariaho arranged for String Orchestra. Commissioned by the Schleswig Holstein Festival it was first performed on the 16th of August 2001 inElmshorn Germany by Sinfonietta Cracovia conducted by John Axelrod. Saariaho states that the starting point for Nymphea Reflection came from the idea of arranging her stringquartet Nymphea. Originally working on a straight arrangement she eventually realised that this would be very difficult and she'd need to find a new way of composing that particular piece of music. She designed a formal conceptfor each of the six sections imbuing them with very different characters.  Her simulation of electronic processing by means of orchestration is an innovative take on a new form while the effect ofthe poem by Arseniy Tarkovsky whispered by the musicians gives a haunting new perspective to both music and words.

Cloud Trio was commissioned by the Bastad Kammermusikfestival (artistic Director Karin Dornbusch) Musik i Syd the festival Music Around and Arcana Festival für Neue Musik. It was first performed at the Bastad Kammarmusikfestivalon 2nd July 2010.

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Tocar was commissioned by the International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition of the Sibelius Society and Sibelius Academy as a test piece for the 2010 competition.

Aure is a work for Violin and Cello by Kaija Saariaho. Originally composed for Violin and Viola this version was created in 2015 and was originally an homage to Henri Dutilleux's 95th birthday inspiredby a phrase from one of his compositions. Lasting around 4 minutes these are the Parts.

For baritone and orchestra (2014)-The Vocal Score for True Fire by Kaija Saariaho composed in 2014 and arranged for Baritone Voice and Orchestra. True Fire was commissioned by the Los AngelesPhilharmonic Orchestra NDR Sinfonieorchester BBC Symphony Orchestra and Orchestre national de France. The composition is a setting of five texts three of which are from renowned transcendentalist poet Ralph Waldo Emerson'sSpiritual Laws. The other texts are Irish poet Seamus Heaney's 'The Spirit Level' Songs of the Tewa and a piece of writing by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.  This beautiful workwas first performed at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles on the 14th of May 2015.

Delta (Solo Percussion)-Work for Solo Percussion and Electronics.As the title suggests Trois rivières is divided into three separate sections. The first part introduces all the instrumental colours used in the piece. The rhythmic aspect ishere nearly eliminated giving room for the timbral scales colours resonances attacks and textures to come to the fore. The instruments come from all members of the percussion family but unpitched instruments are given aprimary role.

Score and parts for Saariaho's Cendres arranged for Alto Flute Cello and Piano.Quoting Saariaho: While writing Cendres I was mainly concentrating on the interpretation of particular musical ideas by the threedifferent instruments of the trio each of which has its unique character and palette of colours. Musical tension is created and regulated by sometimes bringing the instruments as close together as possible in all ways (pitch rhythm dynamics articulation colour etc.) or at the other extreme letting each of them express the music in their most idiomatic fashion. Between these two extremes there is an unlimited number of possible ways to createmore or less homogenous musical situations. The consciousness of this variety was the rope on which I was balancing whilst working on the piece.Cendres was commissioned by the Gesellschaft fur Neue Musik Ruhr andKulturbüro der Stadt Essen for the Wolpe Trio. Duration 10 minutes.