SAARIAHO, KAIJA (), composer of works which combine orchestra, chamber music, solo instruments, and voice with recorded tape or live electronic sounds, as well as theater music, especially radiophonic music (operatic music intended for radio broadcast).
Kaija Saariaho studied at the Sibelius Academy with Paavo Heininen until 1981 and from 1981 to 1983 in Freiburg with Brian Ferneyhough and Klaus Huber. During 1982 she also studied electronic music in Paris at the IRCAM (Institute...