Károly Garam is a Hungarian

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

-Finnish

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 cello

Cello

The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...

 player and the brother of violin

Violin

The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....

 player Lajos Garam

Lajos Garam

Lajos Garam, D.Mus., is a Hungarian-born Finnish classical violinist and pedagogue.-Background:Garam was born to a Hungarian father and a Finnish mother, after they had met and married in Finland and then moved to Eger, Hungary in the 1930s. Garam's father worked as a vicar and his mother taught...

. Garam studied cello playing in the Sibelius Academy

Sibelius Academy

The Sibelius Academy is a university-level music school which operates in Helsinki and Kuopio, Finland. It also has an adult education centre in Järvenpää and a training centre in Seinäjoki. The Academy is the only music university in Finland. It is among the biggest European music universities...

 under Vili Pullinen and Yrjö Selin. He held his first concert in 1966. Garam has also worked as the second solo cello player of the Finnish radio symphony orchestra from 1966 to 1986. He is married to Sirkka Garam (née Saarikoski), the sister of writer Pentti Saarikoski

Pentti Saarikoski

Pentti Saarikoski was one of the most important poets in the literary scene of Finland during the 60's and 70's...

. They have four children, Kati, Satu, Sami and Teemu Garam.

Recordings

• Minä rakastan sinua (1979)
• Aattoiltana (1988)
• Lauluja sinulle (1990)