Timo 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.
