Born in St Petersburg, Tatiana studied in Moscow in the class of Professor Maja Glezarova, then with Igor Oistrakh at the Brussels Conservatory of Music. She has won prizes at major international events, such as the Queen Elisabeth, the Tchaikovsky, and the Sibelius competitions. She has served as competition jury member for the Queen Elisabeth, the Eugène Ysaye in Liege, and solo violin competitions in Korea. She has recorded over 20 CDs for Sony Classical, Onyx, Cypres and Indesens labels, and received numerous awards such as ‘Diapason d’or’, ‘Choc de Classica’ and the ‘Prix Caecilia’. Recent releases are a recording of the complete chamber music of Rachmaninov with Andrey Korobeinikov and Pavel Gomziakov, and ‘Il Mondo Felice’ with her sister Anna Samouil. Currently Tatiana teaches at the Brussels Conservatory and at the San Sebastian Music Centre. She plays a Michele Deconet violin (Venice 1745).