Tomi Salesvuo (b. 1972) played for a long time in the jazz orchestra of Lappeenranta, both in the junior version and the actual Lappeenranta big band that toured actively abroad and gained success in the Imatra Big Band Competition. Salesvuo started his music studies with accordeon but it was replaced by the drums when Salesvuo was 10-years-old. He studied percussions in his teens in the Music School of Lappeenranta and took private lessons from Heikki Sandren and Marko Timonen. Salesvuo started his studies at the junior academy of Sibelius Academy in 1990 and the next fall he started at the jazz department of the Sibelius Academy. Later he also spent a year as an exchange student in the College of Music in Cologne, Germany.

In the beginning of 1990s Salesvuo participated actively in different jazzprojects. Even though the XL-band formed with guitarist Jarmo Saari started to perform actively in the 1990s, Salesvuo had also time for other groups, like for Kirmo Lintinen Trio that accompanied the a cappella ensemble How Many Sisters. In 1997 he leaded the Sävelsuo Quartet, including Salesvuo, vibist Severi Pyysalo, bassist Lasse Lindgren and the German saxophonist Peter Weniger. At about the same time Bitter Sweet, the successful group of Salesvuo and keyboardist Max Tabell, started it's intensive period as the houseband of the Rytmihäiriöclub.

The big band comping skills Salesvuo learned at a young age in the big bands have become handy when Salesvuo has featured UMO Jazz Orchestra once in a while. One of the most recent projects for Salesvuo is the Emma Larsson Quartet whose debut album Irie Butterflies (Imogena 2006) he also produced. Salesvuo knows a wide scale of styles from traditional jazz to fusion and different subgenres of modern rhythm music. Thanks to his versatility, he is a popular drum teacher for example at the Joensuu Conservatory and at the Palmgren Conservatory. In the beginning of the 21st century Salesvuo finished his studies and graduated from the Sibelius Academy with a Master's degree in 2002.