Osmo Tapio Everton Räihälä (born January 15, 1964 in
Suomussalmi,
Finland, name sometimes spelled without umlauts) is a Finnish
composer of
contemporary music. He has mainly written instrumental music for various
chamber music line-ups, five
concertos (one for
mallet instruments, a
viola concerto, an
oboe, a
cello, and a
French horn concerto) as well as for
symphony orchestra. His best-known work is the 2005 orchestral portrait
Barlinnie Nine, a tribute to the
Scottish football player
Duncan Ferguson, then of
Everton, whom Räihälä is known to be a supporter of. In 2004, another orchestral tribute, this time to the
Islay single malt whisky
Ardbeg, was chosen as one of recommended works in the international
Uuno Klami competition. The French horn concerto received the same accolade in 2014.