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Flutist Camilla Hoitenga is one of Kaija Saariaho’s most important interpreters and collaborators and is known worldwide for premiering many chamber music and flute works by the most renowned composers of the last 40 years. On the recommendation of the composer, she performed Saariaho’s “Sombre” at the annual conference of the Paul Sacher Foundation and at the Schwetzingen SWR Festival in 2016. Born in the United States, she has lived in Cologne since 1980. Extensive travels have taken her not only to important international music centers such as Salzburg, Paris, Helsinki, and New York, but also to festivals in Moscow, Tongyeoung in Korea, the city of Al Ain in the Emirates, and the Forbidden City in Beijing. She gives regular concerts in the US, Europe, Scandinavia, and, since 1984, increasingly often in Japan. Her focus is on collaborating with numerous contemporary composers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen and Shoko Shida in Cologne, Kaija Saariaho in Finland and Paris, Kenichiro Kobayashi in Tokyo, and Anne LeBaron in New York. She also works with visual artists (including Ansgar Nierhoff, Mutsumi Okada, Jörg Immendorff) and improvises in galleries and museums (including a sound walk on the island of Hombroich in May 2006). Camilla Hoitenga can be heard on radio, CD, and television recordings. The multimedia CD-ROM Prisma and her CD L’aile du songe, featuring Kaija Saariaho’s flute concerto dedicated to her, have received multiple awards.