Tatjana Vassiljeva-Monnier

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. 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.

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 Novosibirsk’s Specialized Music School. From 1989 to 1995 she was in the class of Maria Zhuravleva at the Central Music School in Moscow and, having won the second prize at the ARD Munich Competition in 1994, she moved there to study with Walter Northas at the Music High School. After graduating with distinction, she completed her postgraduate degree with David Geringas at the Hanns Eisler Music College in Berlin.