Kaija Saariaho (born October 14, 1952) is a Finnish composer.
She was born in Helsinki and studied music at the Sibelius Academy there. She later studied in Freiburg (under Brian Ferneyhough and Klaus Huber ) and at IRCAM in Paris. Several of her pieces use electronic resources alongisde traditional instruments; Nymphéa (Jardin secret III) (1987), for example, is for string quartet and live electronics.
She has won the Prix Italia and, in 1989, the Prix Ars Electronica1952 birth , received commissions from Lincoln Center for the Kronos Quartet, and from IRCAM for the Ensemble Intercontemporain , and been the subject of a pan-European collaborative project to produce a CD-ROM Prisma about her work.
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