KAIJA SAARIAHO - FINLAND
BORN 14 OCTOBER
Source: Wikipedia and Kaija Saariaho Official Website
Kaija Anneli Saariaho (born 14 October 1952) is a Finnish composer based in Paris, France.
Saariaho studied composition in Helsinki, Freiburg, and Paris, where she has lived since 1982. Her research at the Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music (IRCAM) marked a turning point in her music away from strict serialism towards spectralism. Her characteristically rich, polyphonic textures are often created by combining live music and electronics.
During the course of her career, Saariaho has received commissions from the Lincoln Center for the Kronos Quartet and from IRCAM for the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the BBC, the New York Philharmonic, the Salzburg Music Festival, the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, and the Finnish National Opera, among others.
Her work in the 1980s and 1990s was marked by an emphasis on timbre and the use of electronics alongside traditional instruments. Nymphéa (Jardin secret III) (1987), for example, is for string quartet and live electronics and contains an additional vocal element: the musicians whisper the words of an Arseny Tarkovsky poem, Now Summer is Gone. In writing Nymphea, Saariaho used a fractal generator to create material.
Source: Wikipedia and Kaija Saariaho Official Website
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Spins and Spells by Kaija Saariaho
EVELIN SEPPAR - ESTONIA
BORN 14 OCTOBER
BORN 14 OCTOBER
Evelin Seppar (b. 1986) is currently living and working in Tallinn, Estonia. She has written for solo instruments, various ensembles, solo voice, choir and orchestra, but she is most passionate about vocal and choral music. She has studied at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (Toivo Tulev, Helena Tulve) and at the Academy of Music of Drama (Ole Lützow-Holm), University of Gothenburg. Evelin has been receiving an increasing number of performances around the world with groups like the Netherlands Chamber Choir, Norwegian Soloists’ choir, Latvian Radio Choir and Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir. Her music has been performed in Europe, China and the U.S.
Seppar has written for solo instruments, various ensembles, solo voice, orchestra and electronics and made different arrangements. She has foremost caught attention as an author of choral music. Psalm of David No. 88 received a special prize at the composition competition organised by Estonian Composers’ Union and Pirita Monastery in 2010. Brother in Trouble won the main prize at the competition of choral songs and arrangements in Võro language 2011. Sonnet No. 53 was on the program of the new music festival Arēna in Latvia in 2012. Near was selected on eof the winning works at the Ortus International New Music Competition in the USA.
Her most extensive works so far are the opera Teine (premiere in Tallinn St. Nicholas’s Church in 2012), opera Icarus (premiere in Amsterdam Conservatory in 2014), Lighthouse for vocal ensemble and two instrumentalists (premiere in Nantes in 2014) and Cities for vocal ensemble (premiere in Amsterdam, Muziekgebouw in 2016).
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Igaüks üksi, seisavad by Evelin Seppar
Igaüks üksi, seisavad by Evelin Seppar
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