La Scena on the Road | Musikfest Berlin 2024: The Americas & Politics
Musikfest Berlin is an ambitious annual festival that hosts the world’s top orchestras, instrumental and vocal ensembles, together with the major symphony orchestras of the…
Browsing: Kaija Saariaho
Lebrecht Weekly | Album of the Year (2023)
Album of the Year? There’s quite a few, from Vikingur Olaffson’s Goldberg Variations to Yuja Wang’s Rachmaninov concertos, to Semyon Bychkov Resurrection Symphony.
Newswire | Esprit Orchestra Presents CIRCLE MAPS at Koerner Hall
Esprit Orchestra continues its 41st season with CIRCLE MAPS, taking place on November 30th, 2023 at Koerner Hall.
Lebrecht Weekly | Kaija Saariaho: Reconnaissance (Bis)
Two weeks after the composer’s death, an album has been rush-released of her little-known choral music, some of it as captivating as any you will…
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Launches 7th Annual New Music Festival
Vancouver, Canada (January 8, 2020) — Inspired by the theme of (re)creation, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (VSO) is pleased to present the 7th Annual VSO New…
The Problem of Modern Music
“Only madmen invent entirely new languages,” wrote the Viennese-born British critic Hans Keller in a 1961 essay for The Musical Times bearing the same title…
Canadian Isabelle David Amongst 44 Selected for International Maj Lind Piano Competition in Helsinki, Finland
Altogether 44 pianists have been selected for the Fourth International Maj Lind Piano Competition to be held in Helsinki, Finland on August 17–31, 2017. They represent 16…
Best of mySCENA: Amin Maalouf on his collaboration with Kaija Saariaho
The opera L’Amour de loin – or Love from Afar – premiered to conspicuous plaudits in Salzburg in 2000, and has enjoyed numerous productions around the globe. It also…
Amin Maalouf: Up-Close with the Man from “Afar”
INTERVIEW: with Amin Maalouf (Kaija Saariaho’s librettist-collaborator on L’Amour de loin and other works) The opera L’Amour de loin – or Love from Afar –…
So Far! So Good! L’Amour de loin Comes to the Met
OPERA REVIEW: L’Amour de loin by Kaija Saariaho and Amin Maalouf – Metropolitan Opera debut (December 1, 2016) Meditative, poised, sly, and slow-burn, L’Amour de…
