Timur Ismagilov

Timur Aleksandrovich Ismagilov (Russian: Тиму́р Алекса́ндрович Исмаги́лов; born 27 February 1982) is a Russian Bashkir composer and pianist. In his music he combines contemporary composition techniques with Tatar and Bashkir folk elements.

Timur Ismagilov was born in Ufa (Bashkortostan, Russia). He started to compose music at the age of 11 and attended Rustem Sabitov's composition class in 1995–2000. Ismagilov graduated from the Lyceum of Ufa State Institute of Arts (Lyudmila Alexeeva's piano class). In 2005 he graduated from Alexander Tchaikovsky's composition class at the Moscow Conservatory. In 2005–2008 he took a post-graduate course in the conservatory (academic adviser Alexander Tchaikovsky, scientific adviser Svetlana Savenko).

In 2006 Timur Ismagilov founded the Sviatoslav Richter's memorial website. Since 2010 he has organized a number of contemporary music concerts. Ismagilov was one of the composers interviewed by Dmitry Bavilskiy for his book “To be called for: Conversations with contemporary composers” (published in 2014). Besides composing his own music, Ismagilov has made about 600 transcriptions and arrangements for different sets of instruments.