Timur Ismagilov

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.[2] Ismagilov graduated from the Lyceum of Ufa State Institute of Arts (Lyudmila Alexeeva's piano class).[3] In 2005 he graduated from Alexander Tchaikovsky's composition class at the Moscow Conservatory.[4] 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.[5] 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).[6] Besides composing his own music, Ismagilov has made about 600 transcriptions and arrangements for different sets of instruments.

Orchestral music

• Concerto for cello and orchestra, op. 17 (2004–05)
• Elegy for string orchestra, op. 40 (2011, 2017)
• Changes II for piano, 15 strings and triangle ad libitum, op. 42 (2016–17)
• Addiction for orchestra, op. 44 (2018)

Chamber music

• Triptych for string quartet, op. 4 (1996)
• Epitaph for Alfred Schnittke for string quartet, piano and celesta, op. 6 (1998, rev. 2014)
• String Quartet, op. 14 (2002–03, rev. 2006)
• Fantasia for violin and piano, op. 16 (2003–04)
• EDES... for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and prepared piano, op. 20 (2007)
• Ozon kiy [7] (Bashkir: Оҙон көй) for accordion, flute, clarinet, trumpet, violin, viola, cello and double bass, op. 21 (2008)
• Two Sketches and a Song for cello solo, op. 22 (2010)
• Novella for viola solo, op. 23 (2010)
• Evening Music for flute, violin, viola and cello, op. 24 (2010)
• Dialogue for violin solo, op. 27 (2011)
• Trio for violin, cello and piano, op. 31 (2013)
• Jacob's Ladder for double bass solo, op. 35 (2014)
• Sonata for violin and piano, op. 36 (2015)
• The Story of Dove for flute solo, op. 39 (2016)
• Fantasia for clavichord (or piano), op. 43 (2018)
• Fantasia for viola and piano, op. 46 (2019–20)

Vocal music

• Four Japanese Poems for soprano and piano, op. 7 (1998)
• From Mustai Karim, Diptych for male voice and piano, op. 9 (1999)
• The Story of One Picture after Arkady Averchenko for male voice, cello, piano, prepared piano and tape, op. 11 (2001)
• 121, vocal cycle after poems by Dmitry Prigov for male voice and piano, op. 15 (2003)
• From Hafez, vocal cycle for soprano and piano, op. 26 (2011)
• Three Epigrams for low male voice and piano, op. 41 (1999, 2017)

Piano music

• Suite in Folk Style, op. 1 (1995–96)
• Variations on a Folk Theme, op. 2 (1995–96)
• Partita-Offering, op. 10 (2000)
• Homage to John Cage, op. 12 (2001)
• Variations on a Theme of Paganini, op. 13 (2002, rev. 2003)
• 24 Preludes, op. 18 (2005—10)
• Yashen [8] (Bashkir: Йәшен) after the poem by Rashit Nazarov, op. 25 (2011)
• Bagatelles, op. 28 (2012)
• Axis, op. 32 (2012–13)
• Changes, op. 33 (2013)
• 7, op. 34 (2014)
• Three Pieces for Six Hands, op. 37 (2010—16)
• Spring Sketches, op. 38 (2016)
• What Next?, ор. 47 (2020)

• Timur Ismagilov's sheet music on IMSLP
• Conversation with Dmitry Bavilskiy, 2011 (in Russian)