Kaija Saariaho
A picture taken on February 6, 2010 shows Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho during a rehearsal of her opera 'Emilie' on February 26, 2010 at Lyon Opera house. Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour and Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho have won Sweden's 2013 Polar Music Prize, organisers said on May 7, 2013.'A West African griot is not just a singer, but a storyteller, poet, singer of praise, entertainer and verbal historian. Youssou N'Dour is maintaining the griot tradition and has shown that it can also be changed into a narrative about the entire world,' the jury said in its citation.
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Saariaho: La Passion de Simone – review
Saariaho's La Passion de Simone was premiered in Vienna in 2006 in a staging by Peter Sellars, which was widely believed to be the principal reason for its cool reception when it transferred to the Barbican a year later. Now that we have it on disc, however, from Guardian Unlimited Read more »
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N'Dour, Saariaho share Sweden's Polar Music Prize
Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour and Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho have been awarded the 2013 Polar Music Prize, Sweden's most prestigious award for musicians. They will each receive 1 million kronor ($153,300) and an invitation to the prize ceremony in from Wilkes-Barre Weekender Read more »
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At Phillips, Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho exposes the human psyche
a little girl, Kaija Saariaho often heard music as she was falling asleep — so she asked her mother if she could have a quieter pillow. The sounds, of course, were in her imagination, and in the intervening decades the Finnish composer went on to write music from The Washington Post Read more »
