Timur Bekbosunov

Timur Bekbosunov (born 1983) is a Kazakh-American opera singer based in Los Angeles. He has performed traditional and avant-garde music with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Theatre (Prague),Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, and orchestras around the world since 2008, including many world premieres of new operas. He was nominated in the 66th Annual Grammy Awards for a Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording as a lead vocalist in the opera Black Lodge.

The performer, which the Los Angeles Times dubbed one of “one of Los Angeles’ most distinctive singers”, studied at California Institute of the Arts and USC and is currently the lead vocalist of the glam-opera band, Timur and the Dime Museum. Bekbosunov has also worked as a film producer including the 2019 drama Clemency (film), which won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize.