Stations of the Sun: Kaija Saariaho's Terra Memoria

Stations of the Sun: Kaija Saariaho's Terra Memoria

Saturday, 22 June 2019, 8.00pm

The path ends with Saariaho's especially curated second concert

Louth Contemporary Music Society's Stations of the Sun festival ends with music by the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho. Internationally esteemed for her sonic imagination and expressive power, Saariaho works with contemporary digital means and ancient scales to create dreamlike music, loaded with a strong feeling for nature and with primal human emotion. In Dundalk on Saturday 22 June 2019 nstrumental pieces from throughout her career will be performed by musicians with whom she collaborates closely including the Finnish String Quartet Meta 4, Aliisa Barriere, Camilla Hoitenga and Jakob Kullberg.

Funded by the Arts Council and Create Louth. Supported by RTÉ Supporting the Arts

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Terra Memoria

Published by LCMS on 14 May 2019

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