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 Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow State Academic Music Theatre.
In 2017 he graduated from the Moscow State Conservatoire. He is currently a staff conductor with the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow State Academic Music Theatre. His repertoire includes over thirty opera and ballet productions in addition to many symphonic opuses.
Recent engagements include concerts with the Russian National Orchestra and the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, 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).