Timo Tuhkanen  (b. 1983, Muscat, Oman) is a composer, artist, and poet. They studied Oriental Music School of Jerusalem: Tabla & Indian Classical Music under Nurit Ofer (2002). They received a Bachelor of Arts (Horns) and a Master of Music at Brunel University of West London, and a Ph.D. from the School of Music, University of Leeds (2019). Timo is currently an Affiliate Research at the University of Turku Faculty of Humanities Department of Musicology and their research deals with touch as a historical and cultural aspect of music.

​​Their work as a composer and artist have been featured in BAM - Biennale Arcipelago Mediterraneo, Palermo; Manifesta12 5x5x5 collateral events, Palermo; 3éme Biennale di l’Art Contemporain Casablanca, Marocco; XX Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä, Finland; 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.

Tuhkanen lives and works in Helsinki where they are also the director of artist run cooperative gallery Myymälä2.