Tuomas Talvi (b. 1998) is an up-and-coming jazz musician, composer and educator based in Helsinki Finland. Talvi is a versatile bass player (acoustic & electric) capable and willing to adapt to any style while jazz in all it’s iterations is his passion. He has played and recorded with bands such as TRI-, Markus Niittynen New Trio, Emmi U. Quintet, JMI Jazz World Orchestra and Casimir Ekman Quartet. He has also recently performed with Aarni Häkkinen Jazz Orchestra, accompanying a long list of the finest soloists in the Finnish jazz scene. He leads his own band Tuomas Talvi Quintet, which he plans to record with during the year 2024. He has performed with such known musicians as Jussi Lehtonen, Mikael Jakobsson, Markus Niittynen, Jukka Eskola and Raoul Björkenheim.
Talvi holds a master’s degree from Sibelius Academy part of University of the Arts Helsinki. In his studies he focused also on pedagogy completing the necessary pedagogical qualification for various teaching professions. Having taught private students for many years from beginners to more advanced students, he feels that teaching is a vital part of his musicianship. Talvi believes that music is a social process and he enjoys sharing what he already knows and helping the student with specific issues but also the act of learning something new together with the student as equals, amazed by music as an important part of the human experience.
Music technology, recording and producing has long been a vital part of Talvi’s interests. Recently recording and mixing albums has been a growing source of work for him. In 2023 he mixed and mastered the album ”Yellow Light, Go!” by Olli Virtanen (Bopcat Records, 2023, DIGI, CD, LP) and recorded, mixed and mastered the album ”New Trio” by Markus Niittynen (Bobcat Records, 2024 DIGI, CD). He has done audio and video productions for internet and social media purposes for many artists such as Aarni Häkkinen, Helmi Antila and Martti Vesala. In 2022 he revived his skills as a producer and remixed tracks for the jazz band KAIRA. ”Urban Sagas Remixed” (Svart Records, 2023) presents three tracks from Kaira’s debut album revisioned in various styles of electronic music blending together synths, sampling techniques and musicianship of Markus Niittynen (keyboards), Jussi Lehtonen (drums, percussion), Nina Mya & Sam Huber (vocals) and Talvi himself (el. bass, production, arrangement, mixing).