Timur Rubinshteyn holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Percussion Performance from Boston University. At BC he teaches percussion for the University Wind Ensemble and the Music Department, performs regularly with UWE, and has appeared with BC Symphony. His freelance experience includes Atlantic Symphony, Cape Cod Symphony, Plymouth Philharmonic, Symphony New Hampshire, New England Symphony, and Rhode Island Philharmonic, among others.
He completed both Bachelor of Music with Academic Honors and Master of Music with Academic Honors and Performance Distinction degrees at New England Conservatory, where he received the Zildjian Award for Excellence in the Art of Percussion. He was also a joint winner of the 2002 commencement solo competition (performing with the NEC Honors Orchestra), and one of two members of the graduating class awarded the Gunther Schuller Medal for Extraordinary Contributions to the Life of New England Conservatory. His principal teachers were Frank Epstein and Timothy Genis of Boston Symphony, and Sergey Rizol of Kiev Opera.
Timur R. attended Aspen Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival, National Orchestral Institute, and Tanglewood Music Center (for two summers as a fellow and one as a guest), with orchestral performances led by Kurt Masur, James Conlon, Seiji Ozawa, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Charles Dutoit, Robert Spano, Michael Tilson Thomas, James De Priest, Stanislaw Scrowaczewsky, Jeffrey Tate, Sergiu Commissiona, Gunther Schuller, Stefan Asbury, Ingo Metzmaher, Andrew Litton, Roberto Abbado, Leif Segerstam and other preeminent conductors.
Formerly Timur R. was percussion coach and assistant conductor of the NEC Youth Symphony, and managed the orchestra’s tours of Italy, Greece, and Costa Rica. Other tours have taken him to Israel, Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and France. He also coached percussion and performed in Walnut Hill School’s Lincoln Center Gala in NY.
From 2012-16 he was percussion faculty of the NEC Festival Youth Orchestra. Currently Timur R. coaches percussion at Tufts Youth Philharmonic, and teaches at Concord High School and Carlisle Middle School, Norwood High School and Coakley Middle School, Belmont Day School, Foxboro Regional Charter School, and Common Time Music Studio Summer Chamber Workshop. Timur joined the faculty of Rivers Conservatory in Weston in September of 2017.
