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Since then, Tatjana has built a formidable reputation as one of the leading cellists of today, performing with the most prestigious orchestras including the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, Moscow Soloists, London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich, Basle Sinfonie, DSO Berlin, Lithuanian Philharmonic and the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra under such distinguished conductors as Yuri Temirkanov, David Zinman, Vladimir Spivakov, Yuri Bashmet, Dmitri Kitaenko, Michail Jurowski, Sakari Oramo, Christoph Eschenbach and Krzysztov Penderecki, Vassily Sinaisky and Valery Gergiev.

In October 2006, Tatjana Vassiljeva performed in Japan with Claudio Abbado’s elite Lucerne Festival Orchestra, before giving a series of concerts at the Salle Pleyel, Paris and the Philharmonie Luxembourg with Rostropovich and Orchestre de Paris.

In 2004 Tatjana was named the "Revelation from Abroad" at the 2005 Victoires de la Musique Classique.

Tatjana has built a formidable reputation as one of the leading cellists of today, performing with the most prestigious orchestras including the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, Moscow Soloists, Academic Symphony Orchestra of St.

– Petersburg Philharmonic,…

Described as a "phenomenon", Tatjana Vassiljeva is known as a musician possessing an irreproachable technique and irresistible range of sonorities, whose superlative virtuosity is of only minor importance beside the strength of musical personality and ideas, and her ability to communicate them.

In 2007, she made her debut at the Verbier Festival, playing a solo J.S. Bach recital. In 1994, at the age of 17, she was awarded the second prize at the ARD Competition in Munich as well as the Bunkamura Orchard Hall Award, that included a concert tour in Japan. 2007 also included engagements with the Jerusalem Chamber Orchestra, performances of the Edward Elgar Concerto with l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice/James Judd, followed by the Penderecki Concerto Grosso under the baton of the composer.

Tatjana’s innate musical curiosity is reflected by her extensive repertoire which ranges from baroque to contemporary music and includes several works of which she has given the world première.

Since beginning her performing career at the age of twelve, Tatjana Vassiljeva has performed in Russia and throughout Europe and won prizes at many prestigious international competitions: "Tchaikovsky Youth Competition in Moscow" (1992), the "ARD Munich Competition" (1994), "International Adam Cello Competition" in New Zealand (Grand Prix, 1999), the "Pablo Casals Competition" in Kronberg, Germany (2000), "International Izuminomori Competition" in Osaka, Japan ("Grand Prix" and the "Audience Award", 2001).

She regularly performs chamber music concerts with the soloists of the Berliner Philharmoniker, with whom she performed Johannes Brahms’ sextets and cello sonatas in the J. Brahms cycle in Paris last season and toured Japan in autumn 2008.

Since her first disc, on Naxos, with works by Igor Stravinsky, Benjamin Britten, H. Dutilleux and Debussy, Tatjana Vassiljeva has made three recordings on the Accord/Universal label.

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In 2008 she gave the world premiere of the revised version of the Largo, led by the composer, and recorded his Second Concerto. The first, demonstrating her passion for solo contemporary music (Shchedrin, Dutilleux, Saariaho, Schnittke, Stroppa and Penderecki) was awarded the Diapason d’Or and was followed by a recording of works by Franck, Schubert and Stravinsky.

Since 1998 she has been a pupil of David Geringas' in his master class at the Hanns Eilser Music College in Berlin.

Tatjana Vassilieva has received scholarships and awards at numerous international competitions. In May of the following year, she participated in the concert in memory of the great Maestro given by the same orchestra. The pair here play both chosen Chopin works with all the passion that Ma and Ax bring to the pieces, and perhaps more.

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The first, demonstrating her passion for solo contemporary music (Rodion Shchedrin, H. Dutilleux, Saariaho, Schnittke, Stroppa and Penderecki) was awarded the Diapason d’Or and was followed by a recording of works by Franck, Schubert and I. Stravinsky. Her collaboration with the composer continued in 2009 when they gave concerts in Spain together.

Important projects in 2008 included concerts with the St.

Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra under Yuri Temirkanov in St. Petersburg and Tokyo and in August of this year, Tatjana made her debut at the Edinburgh Festival performing Prokofiev’s Sinfonia Concertante with the London Symphony Orchestra under Valery Gergiev before playing the same work on the LSO tour in Japan. After graduating with distinction, completed her postgraduate degree with David Geringas at the Hanns Eisler Music College in Berlin.

In the Chopin Cello Sonata, Tatjana Vassiljeva and Jean-Frédéric Neuberger are competing against a superstar duo in Yo-Yo Ma and Emmanuel Ax, who play on a single Sony disc both dramatically and subtly the two Chopin works found here as well as the Chopin Piano Trio.

Her musical curiosity is reflected by her extensive repertoire which ranges from Baroque to Contemporary music and includes several works of which she has given the world première.

Since beginning her performing career at the age of 12, Tatjana Vassiljeva has performed throughout Europe but it was as winner of the First Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris at the 7^th Concours de Violoncelle Rostropovitch in 2001 – the first Russian to be awarded the top prize in the history of the competition - and as ‘Revelation from Abroad’ at the 2005 Victoires de la Musique Classique that brought her international recognition.

In February she will made the first of several trips to Japan, performing with the Yomiuri Symphony/Vassily Sinaisky, then with the Nagoya Philharmonic/Koizumi one month later. Other highlights of these seasons were the tour of Spain, concerts in Germany and Holland and a series of concerts devoted to Shostakovich at the Salle Pleyel, Paris and the Philharmonie Luxembourg with Rostropovich and Orchestre de Paris.

Following this, she was invited by Maestro Gergiev to perform in a concert dedicated to the memory of Mstislav Rostropovich with the Symphony Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre in Russia. Important projects in 2008 included a tour with the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and Yuri Temirkanov, the world premiere of the revised version of Penderecki’s Largo, again with the composer, and, following her triumphant debut at the Edinburgh Festival with the London Symphony Orchestra and Valery Gergiev, in October she was invited by Maestro Gergiev to perform in the concerts dedicated to the memory of Rostropovitch with the Mariinsky Orchestra in Russia before they took the Symphony Concerto to Japan for the Gergiev/London Symphony Orchestra Prokofiev Cycle.

In 2000 she was awarded the second prize at the International Pablo Casals Cello Competition in Kronberg and the first prize at the Izuminomori Cello in Japan.

Described as a ‘phenomenon’, Tatjana Vassilieva is known as a musician possessing an irreproachable technique and irresistible range of sonorities, whose superlative virtuosity is of only minor importance beside the strength of musical personality and ideas, and her ability to communicate them.

Her most recent releases are the the Penderecki Concerto No. 2 with Antoni Wit and the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra on the NAXOS label, which received the Contemporary Award at the 2012 International Classical Music Awards, and a CD of works by Dvorak with the Berlin Philharmonic Quintet on PENTATONE.

Tatjana Vassiljeva was born into a musical family in Novosibirsk, Russia and began studying the cello at the age of six with Eugenij Nilov at the Special Music School.