Dr Timo S. Tuhkanen (b. 1983, Muscat, Oman) is a composer, artist, poet, and conductor. Timo studied Tabla & Indian Classical Music at the Oriental Music School of Jerusalem (2002). Timo received a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) and a Master of Music at Brunel University of West London (2010), and their Doctor of Philosophy from the School of Music, University of Leeds (2019). Timo has studied conducting with Jorma Panula, Petri Sakari, Peter Wiegold, Juha Törmä as well as participated in masterclasses with Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Eva Ollikainen. 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 artistic researcher in the project the Atlas (of creative mechanisms):[conducting-curating]at die Angewandte 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.
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.
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.
