Timur Zangiev was born in 1994. He began to study music at the age of three, and at the age of seven he conducted the Symphony Orchestra of the Vladikavkaz Philharmonic for the first time.
In 2011 he entered the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire (class of Gennady Rozhdestvensky), already having experience of appearing with Russia's leading orchestras, among them the Mariinsky Orchestra, the State Academic Chamber Orchestra of Russia, the Moscow Virtuosi and the Novaya Rossiya ensemble. As a first-year student at the conservatoire he took part in the International Eliso Virsaladze Music Festival in Telavi, the festivals Debussy and His Time in Moscow and High Music Days in Samara and he began to collaborate with the Academic Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Musical Theatre. In 2017 he graduated from the Moscow State Conservatoire and started to work as a guest conductor at the Togliatti Philharmonic. <
Since 2012 he has been a staff conductor with the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre. Conducts such operas as Carmen by Bizet, Manon by Massenet, Jenůfa by Janáček, Otello by Verdi, Eugene Onegin by Tchaikovsky, Il barbiere di Siviglia by Rossini. For the premiere of Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress in 2019 Mr. Zangiev was nominated for the Russian National Theatre Award Golden Mask as Best Opera Conductor in the season 2019/20.
Recent engagements include concerts with the Russian National Orchestra and the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, the Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra and the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, as well as with Ailen Pritchin in the Togliatti Philharmonic, Mayerling (with Sergei Polunin), Don Giovanni and La Bohème (with Hibla Gerzmava), Iolanta (with Mariinsky Opera soloists) and Tosca (with Mariinsky Opera soloists, the Mariinsky Chorus and Orchestra and Maria Guleghina).
Honoured Artist of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania.
