TAWASTSTJERNA, ERIK T. (, Helsinki), pianist, son of musicologist Erik Tawaststjerna (see TAWASTSTJERNA, ERIK).
Tawaststjerna completed his Ph.D. at New York University in 1982 with a dissertation entitled Finnish Piano Music Since 1945.
He teaches at the Sibelius Academy and became professor of piano there in 1986. He is noted for his recordings of Sibelius's complete piano works and other contemporary Finnish piano compositions. He has also recorded piano duets, all by...