Dr Timo S. Tuhkanen (b. 1983, Muscat, Oman) is a composer, artist, and poet. They studied Tabla & Indian Classical Music at the Oriental Music School of Jerusalem (2002). They received a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) and a Master of Music at Brunel University of West London, and their Doctor of Philosophy from the School of Music, University of Leeds (2019). Timo is currently working with the support of Kone Foundation on their project Microtonal Music Studios, an experimental project combining institutional elements from contemporary art and music, they are also an Affiliate Research at the University of Turku Faculty of Humanities Department of Musicology where they research historical and cultural aspects of touch in music, as well as an 'agent' in The Atlas Project at dieAngewandte University of Applied Arts Vienna and supported by Austrian Science Fund (FWF) in their PEEK-program (Programm zur Erweiterung und Erschliessung der Künste).
Timo is the founder of Microtonal Music Studios in Helsinki where they are also the director of artist run cooperative gallery Myymälä2.
Open call for participants in the Microtonal Music Studios study program for 2022-2023 is here.
Their work as a composer and artist have been featured in BAM - Biennale Arcipelago Mediterraneo, Palermo; Manifesta12, Palermo; 3éme Biennale di l’Art Contemporain Casablanca, Marocco; XXV Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä, Finland; 1st ARS PORI MEGASTORE, Pori; European Mediterranean Art Association, Nicosia, Cyprus; Emma Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland; FILE Festival, São Paulo, Brazil; Moscow Philharmonica, Moscow, Russia; Kallion New Music Days, Helsinki, Finland; Alvar Aalto -museum, Jyväskylä, Finland; Dimitria Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece; Time of Music Festival, Viitasaari, Finland; AAVE-Festival, Helsinki, Finland; Musica Nova Festival, Helsinki Finland; Canterbury Jazz Festival, Canterbury, UK; and the Royal Festival Hall, recorded live on BBC3 Hear and Now, London, UK.
Timo is the founder of Microtonal Music Studios in Helsinki where they are also the director of artist run cooperative gallery Myymälä2.
Open call for participants in the Microtonal Music Studios study program for 2022-2023 is here.
Their work as a composer and artist have been featured in BAM - Biennale Arcipelago Mediterraneo, Palermo; Manifesta12, Palermo; 3éme Biennale di l’Art Contemporain Casablanca, Marocco; XXV Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä, Finland; 1st ARS PORI MEGASTORE, Pori; European Mediterranean Art Association, Nicosia, Cyprus; Emma Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland; FILE Festival, São Paulo, Brazil; Moscow Philharmonica, Moscow, Russia; Kallion New Music Days, Helsinki, Finland; Alvar Aalto -museum, Jyväskylä, Finland; Dimitria Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece; Time of Music Festival, Viitasaari, Finland; AAVE-Festival, Helsinki, Finland; Musica Nova Festival, Helsinki Finland; Canterbury Jazz Festival, Canterbury, UK; and the Royal Festival Hall, recorded live on BBC3 Hear and Now, London, UK.
