July 30, 2015 - Kaija Saariaho has grown to become one of the world's most admired and performed composers of contemporary music. Her music inspires the imagination, seeming to turn light, water, gravity, and nature itself into sound. She speaks with Eleanor Wachtel about her childhood in Finland, the development of her composing style in Paris, and the story of how she came to the forefront of 21st century music