Timur Bekbosunov

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An emerging interpreter of contemporary music in America, tenor from Kazakhstan Timur Bekbosunov has made solo appearances with Los Angeles Philharmonic, Opera Boston, Hollywood Bowl,  Bang on a Can All-Stars, Long Beach Opera, Israeli Opera/YAP, Santa Cecilia Academy, LOOS ensemble, Bakersfield Symphony, Opera Kansas, Redcat Theater, American Repertory Theater, Zellerbach Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall, DeVotchKa band, and Rosanna Gamson Dance Company. Praised by the Wall Street Journal as "program's promise fulfilled" and La Repubblica as "rewarding and effective", Timur has worked and collaborated with many renowned composers, including Thomas Ades (Powder Her Face), Evan Ziporyn (A House in Bali, Oedipus), Anne LeBaron (Crescent City, Silent Steppe Cantata), Silvano Bussotti (Silvano Sylvano), Anthony Davis (Revolution of Forms), Gian-Carlo Menotti (Five Songs), Meyer Kupferman (In a Garden), Gil Shohat (Songs of Darkness) and Geoffrey Pope (The Stone House). As a founder of the Art of Opera Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to modern opera compositions,   he has directed an operatic multimedia installation DO_SCREAM, based on Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and the Death of Virgil by Broch; he co-directed an award-winning music film “Autumn”, based on the diaries of Vadim Kozin. Currently, he is developing the Szymanowski Fantasy, inspired by the Songs of the Mad Muezzin and co-producing The Silent Steppe Cantata, a large-scale sonic portrait of Kazakhstan. His upcoming 2010 performances will include Rosanna Gamson’s dance-theater project Tov at Redcat Theatre (March), west coast premiere of An American Tragedy by Tobias Picker at the Broad Stage (May), world premiere of the Silent Steppe Cantata by Anne LeBaron at the Palace of Peace, Kazakhstan (July), regional premieres of A House in Bali by Evan Ziporyn at the Ravinia Festival and Brooklyn Academy of Music/BAM (October) with Bang on a Can and a solo performance with his band the Dime Museum at the Aloud series in Los Angeles. He is currently recording his debut album inspired by Charles Darwin’s “Origin of Species”, with songs composed by Sondre Lerche, Nick Urata, Amanda Palmer and Kristian Hoffman. For more information, please visit, www.theoperaoftimur.com