Tatiana Samouil leads a versatile career as a soloist, chamber musician and professor. Born in St. Petersburg, she studied in Moldova before continuing her education at the Moscow Conservatory. She later became a student of Igor Oistrakh at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels. Samouil has won seven international competitions, including the Queen Elisabeth, Tchaikovsky and Sibelius competitions, and regularly serves as a jury member for the Queen Elisabeth, Eugène Ysaÿe and Solo Violin (Korea) competitions. She is currently Professor at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels and the Musikene Superior Centre for the Arts in San Sebastián, Spain. She also serves as Music Director of the New Chamber Orchestra, which she founded in San Sebastián in 2024. This season, Samouil will perform with the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra in Peru and Colombia, and will give recitals in cities including Brussels, Milan and Berlin.

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