The phrase represents WOXY’s core feature: its philosophy of independence. The idea that you can only be truly independent—creatively and otherwise—if you pursue that independence with and for other people
In this context, Kaija Saariaho’s very last musical work, a concerto for trumpet and orchestra under the title of HUSH (2022-23), stands apart as something knowingly conceived as finale – both in personal and professional terms – winding up (as far as such action is humanely conceivable) a cycle of solo concerti, an œuvre, a life.