Researcher, teacher. After graduating from the Kazan Music College (1969) Dzhani-zade T. M. entered the Gnesin State Music and Pedagogical Institute (now the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music), which she completed with honors in 1974 The teachers who shaped her professional interests at the Institute were: R. N. Berberov, F. G. Arzamanov, M. S. Bruk, B. V. Levik, T. E. Leiye, as well as the musicologist and literary scholar M. G. Harlap and the philosophers and specialists of cultural studies V. M. Rozin and A. I. Lipkin.
During her studies at the Institute she was awarded a Lenin Scholarship and won several student research competitions.
In 1980 Dzhani-zade T. M. completed her postgraduate studies at the Gnesin State Music and Pedagogical Institute and defended her dissertation at the State Institute for Art Studies (Moscow, PhD thesis, 1984) on the topic «Azerbaijani Mughams: The Problem of Musical Thinking in the Art of ‘ Maqamat’» (1983, — 224 p. + music transcriptions — 140 p.; supervisor F. G. Arzamanov), thereby defining the study of non-European musical cultures as the principal focus of her research.
From 1975 to 2011 Dzhani-zade T. M. worked at the Glinka State Central Museum of Music Culture (now Russian National Museum of Music, Moscow). Here, she developed many lectures on traditional world music and series of thematic clubs for young people («Oriental Salon», «Images of History in Music», «Musical Geography», «Musical Anthropology», «Nine Muses», «Voices of Musical Epochs», and others).
On the basis of the Museum’s collections and manuscripts Dzhani-zade T. M. prepared and published the monograph «The Musical Culture of Russian Turkestan, according to the Materials of Musical Ethnographical Collection of August Eichhorn, Military Kapellmeister in Tashkent (1870-1883)». A Catalog and Research. — Moscow: Glinka All-Russia Museum Association of Musical Culture, 2013, 336 p.
There are the areas of special scientific interests of Dzhani-zade T. M.: the music history and theory of non-European music, ethnomusicology, organology, musical anthropology and cultural studies (the Islam music culture). She was a member of the organizing committee of the International Musicological Symposium in Samarkand (Uzbekistan, 1978, 1983, 1987) and a member of International Council for Traditional Music (1979-2025), actively participating in its Study groups («SG on maqām», SG on Folk Musical Instruments, and others).
There are more than 100 article publications in Russia and other different countries by this author (with the surname: Dzhani-zade, Djani-Zade, Cani-zade), including: Germany, Austria, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, United States, Iran, Jordan, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan. As a scientific editor, compiler, and co-author, she published collections of articles in the series «The Unity of Beauty. Islam and Music»: «The Music in the context of Islam: Traditions of Iran» (Moscow: «Sadra», 2019 — 512+16 p.), and «The History and Anthropology of Muslim World’s Music: Traditions of Regions» (Moscow: «Sadra», 2023 — 664 p.). There are also: the audio anthology «Musical Geography» with the comments («Ridero»-edition, 2019), and CD-edition with the annotation («Classical Music of Iran: Moulavi ensemble», Moscow: Glinka State Museum of Music Culture, 2006).
See the list of main articles of Dzhani-zade T. M. above.
