Tatjana Vassilieva, born in Novosibirsk (Russia), began studying the cello at the age of six with Yevgeni Nilov at the Special Music School. Having won the second prize at the 1994 Munich Competition, she moved there to study with Walter Northas at the High School of Music, and continue postgraduate education with David Geringas at the Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik in Berlin.
Winner of the Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris at the 7th Concours de Violoncelle Rostropovitch in 2001, she was hailed as ‘Foreign Revelation’ at the 2005 Victoires de la Musique Classique. Tatjana has performed all over Europe, Asia, South America, Russia, and New Zealand with the most prestigious orchestras, including the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, Moscow Soloists, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Basle Sinfonie Orchestra, Deutsche Sinfonie Orchestra, Lithuanian Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra directed by such distinguished conductors as Yuri Temirkanov, David Zinman, Vladimir Spivakov, Yuri Bashmet, Dmitri Kitaenko, Michail Yurovski, Sakari Oramo, Christoph Eschenbach and Krzysztof Penderecki.
As a chamber musician, Vassilieva has performed at international festivals including Lockenhaus, Kronberg, Colmar, Elba, the Rencontres de musique de chambre at Chambéry, and La Grange de Meslay in collaboration with Viktor Tretiakov, Yuri Bashmet, Gidon Kremer, Maxim Vengerov, Eugene Istomin, Nicholas Angelich, Lilya Zilberstein, and Paul Badura-Skoda, with whom she performed the complete works for cello and piano by Beethoven in 2005. In July 2006, she had her début at the Verbier Festival (Bach solo works). She performs regularly with the Camerata of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; last year they were invited together to perform a cycle of Brahms’s cello sonatas and sextets in Paris. The artist has released a few disks on Naxos and Accord/Universal labels.
She performs on a 1725 Vaslin cello by Antonio Stradivarius, on generous loan from LVMH.