GOTHÓNI, RALF (, Rauma) pianist, chamber musician, accompanist, director of the Savonlinna Festival, composer, and 1994 Gilmore Artist of the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, awarding him prizes and contracts worth a half million U.S. dollars.
Gothóni began his studies on the violin at age three and the piano at age five. At fifteen he debuted as a piano soloist with an orchestra. Gothóni studied at the Sibelius Academy and in Germany. In 1967 he appeared at the Jyväskylä...