Tomi Matti Mäkelä (born 3 January 1964 in Lahti) is a Finnish musicologist and pianist, professor at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg in Germany.
[1] He studied music and musicology in Lahti, Vienna, Berlin (West) and Helsinki.
As a pianist he studied with Rauno Jussila and Noel Flores.
He got his doctoral degree 1988 in Berlin under the guidance of Carl Dahlhaus.
[2] His German book on Sibelius Poesie in der Luft (Breitkopf & Härtel 2007) got the award Geisteswissenschaft international 2008[3] and was published in English translation by Steven Lindberg as Jean Sibelius (2011).