There are very few composers that are lucky enough to have their work described using the adjectives ‘luxurious’, ‘mysterious’, and ‘exuberant’, yet Kaija Saariaho’s work more than amply fulfils this objective. She is one of the best-known living composers working in the field of both

Dramatic, Dreamy, Elegant, Experimental, Fantastic, Feminine, Pioneering, Playful

Banal, Bubblicious, Cartoonish, Catastrophe, Expansive, Fantastic, Feminist, Lyrical, Medieval era, Monumental, Sincere, Social realism

Some artists march to the beat of a different drummer, but Erik Satie wrote the melody to accompany that different beat, and then gave the whole piece a crazy name. Dismissed by many critics during his lifetime as an eccentric bohemian whose absurdist humor disguised a lack of talent, Satie is now cr

Ambient, Fantastic, Kaleidoscopic, Parody, Spiritual, Surreal