Finlandia Quartet

A Finnish string quartet. It was founded in 1969 and operated until the mid 1990's. Quartet was founded by producer Reino Bäckman who needed a string quartet to record Jean Sibelius's Voces Intimae for EMI. The quartet came very popular not only in Finland but abroad. Lineup from 1979(?) to 1990's * Seppo Tukiainen - I violin * Jussi Pesonen - II violin * Mauri Pietikäinen - viola * Heikki Rautasalo - cello Former members: * Olavi Pälli - I violin (1969 to 1977) * Okko Kamu - I violin (1977 to 1979...) * Esa Kamu - viola (1969 to 1979...)