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Saariaho Kaija
Aitken, Robert
Arnold, Malcolm
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel
Bach, Johann Sebastian
Berio, Luciano
Bozza, Eugène Joseph
Brown, Elizabeth
Carter, Elliott
Clarke, Ian
Colquhoun, Michael
Dahl, Walter Ingolf Marcus
Debussy, Claude
Dick, Robert
Dohnányi, Ernő
Donatoni, Franco
Erb, Donald
Feld, Jindřich
Ferroud, Pierre-Octave
Françaix, Jean
Fukushima, Kazuo
Heiss, John
Heith, David
Higdon, Jennifer
Hindemith, Paul
Honegger, Arthur
Hoover, Katherine
Hovhaness, Alan
Ibert, Jacques
Ichiyanagi, Toshi
Ittzés, Gergely
Jacob, Gordon
Karg-Elert, Sigfrid
Kuhlau, Friedrich
La Montaine, John
Liebermann, Lowell
Loeb, David
Marais, Marin
Martino, Donald
Muczynski, Robert
Offermans, Wil
Pärt, Arvo
Pattillo, Greg
Persichetti, Vincent
Piazzolla, Astor
Price, William Roger
Ran, Shulamit
Saariaho, Kaija
Sciarrino, Salvatore
Sollberger, Harvey
Somma, Victor
Takemitsu, Tōru
Telemann, Georg Philipp
Varèse, Edgar
Vasks, Pēteris
Coulers du vent for Alto Flute solo
Coulers du vent for Alto Flute solo
K. Saariaho: Couleurs du vent (Colors Of The Wind) for Alto Flute solo was written in 1998 as improvisation from the earlier work "Cendres" (1998) for alto flute, cello and piano. The main idea of the piece as described by composer: "In the face of a fatal disease in my family, the blowing of the wind became the symbol of life to me, and the piece became a story of breathing...". The piece was written for the birthday of flutist Mikael Helasvuo who premiered it in Finland on the C flute. The original alto flute version was premiered by Camilla Hoitenga in 1999.
Saariaho Kaija
Kaija Saariaho (1952) is a Finnish composer who resides in Paris, France. She studied composition in Helsinki, Freiburg and Paris where she moved in 1982. The turning point of her career was her research at IRCAM (Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music) when her initially strict serialism style was replaced by spectralism and developing techniques for computer-assisted composition.