Born into a family of musicians, Tatiana Samouil began playing the violin at the age of 6. She went on to study at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow under Maya Glezarova and at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Brussels under Igor Oistrakh. She is a laureate of the Queen Elisabeth, Tchaikovsky, Michael Hill and Jean Sibelius competitions. She has performed with such leading orchestras as the Russian National Orchestra, the St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsches Kammerorchester, the Orchestre de Chambre de Toulouse and the Orchestra of Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, and under such renowned conductors as Antonio Pappano, Christian Arming, Kazushi Ono, Dmitry Liss, Gilbert Varga and Jean-Jacques Kantorow. Tatiana Samouil has made more than twenty recordings, winning a Diapason d’Or and a Choc de Classica. She recently released the complete chamber music of Rachmaninov with pianist Andrei Korobeinikov and cellist Pavel Gomziakov, as well as a tribute album to Maria Malibran with her sister Anna Samouil and the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie. A passionate educator, she teaches at the Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles and at the Musikene Higher School of Music in San Sebastián.