Download Evangelia KOPSALIDOU The comparison of Kaija Soriaho`s music

Evangelia KOPSALIDOU
The comparison of Kaija Soriaho’s music to Greek female
composers of the 21st century.
Kaija Soriaho as an innovative composer of the 21st century impresses with her music.
As Greek musicologists and music educators while listening to her music we think of
two active Greek female composers: Lena Platonos (1951-) and Eleni Kalaindrou
(1939-). Even if their work is not so extensive we can think of some similarities
concerning the conception of music, its relation to the text and the use of electronic
sounds.
Lena Platonos was a “child” of Manos Hatzidakis (1925-1994) as she had a
professional relationship with him for many years and a personal friendship. She was
born in Crete, Greece. She is a pianist and a composer of electronic and art song
music. She composes songs, music for theater, ballets, the television and pieces of
contemporary “classical” music.
Eleni Karaindrou is a greek composer best known for scoring the films of the director
Theodoros Angelopoulos (1935-2012). Apart from music studies in Greece and Paris
she has also studied history and archeology. She had composed music for theater and
cinema.
The aim of this paper is to deal with the “music” relationship of these three female
composers concerning mostly the repertory, the use of electronic music and musical
instruments and the connection between text and music. For this purpose we are going
to choose works that have as many similarities as possible without excluding those
ones with notable differences.