Andrey Baranov studied at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory under Vladimir Ovcharek and Pavel Popov, before going on to further studies at the Lausanne Conservatory under Pierre Amoyal, whose assistant he became in 2009. In 2008 he won the Benjamin Britten International Competition (London) and the Henri Marteau Competition (Lichtenberg) and in 2010 he was a laureate of the Sendai (Japan), Indianapolis, Unisa (South Africa), Paganini, and Oistrakh (Moscow) international competitions. Since making his debut with the St Petersburg Philharmonic in 2005, he has played on all five continents in prestigious venues such as the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam) and the Tchaikovsky Hall (Moscow) and at festivals, including the Salzburger Festspiele. In 2012, the family of David Oistrakh honoured the quartet of which Andrey Baranov is the first violinist with his name.