KARHILO, Liisa

Liisa Karhilo (9 September 1930 – 4 May 1998) was a Finnish pianist and composer. She graduated from the Sibelius Academy in 1953 and later studied at the Vienna Academy of Music and graduated with a master's in music education from Columbia University. Her first piano concert was in 1954. She married ambassador Aarno Karhilo and travelled with him to his various postings, performing concerts in person and on the radio around the world. She published 'Sinaa ja minaa' ("You and Me"), a series of elementary duets for violin or violincello and piano. She recorded Twentieth-Century Finnish Piano Music, published in the United States by the Musical Heritage Society, a collection of music by Finnish composers Jean Sibelius, Aarre Merikanto, Joonas Kokkonen, Erik Bergman, and Einojuhani Rautavaara. She died on 4 May 1998 in Helsinki.