Andrey Baranov is the winner of the 2012 Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition. He also won the Benjamin Britten and Henri Marteau International Violin Competitions, and prizes at more than twenty other international competitions including Indianapolis, Seoul, Sendai, Liana Isakadze, David Oistrakh, and Paganini (Moscow) international competitions.

Andrey is the first violinist of the David Oistrakh Quartet, an outstanding ensemble established in 2012.

Born in St Petersburg in 1986 into a family of musicians, Andrey began playing the violin at the age of five. He attended the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in St-Petersburg and the Consevatoire de Lausanne. He studied with L. Ivaschenko, V. Ovcharek, P. Popov, but the most important teacher for Andrey will always be the legendary French violinist Pierre Amoyal. Andrey also has taken masterclasses from B. Kushnir, L. Isakadze, and K. Kashkashian among many others.

Since making his major debut in 2005 at the St Petersburg Philharmonie hall under V. Petrenko and the Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrey has performed on renowned stages throughout the world including Bozar Brussels, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Großer Saal Mozarteum, Cadogan Hall London, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Konzerthaus Berlin, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow and St.-Petersburg Philharmonic halls.

Many of Andrey’s performances have been broadcast worldwide – on BR Klassik, Radio Orpheus, Espace 2 (Switzerland), YLE Radio (Finland), WFYI, WFMT Chicago (USA) and NHK Sendai (Japan).

Andrey has appeared with leading international orchestras including Luxembourg Philharmonic, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic, National Orchestra of Belgium, MusicAeterna Orchestra, St-Petersburg Philharmonic, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Sendai Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic London, SWR Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra, Montreal Symphony Orchestra,  under direction of K. Nagano, T Currentzis, V. Petrenko, N. Alekseev, M. Tabachnik, W. Weller, K. Yamashita, A. Boreyko and E. Krivine among others.

Andrey has performed alongside such renowned artists as Martha Argerich, Julian Rachlin, Boris Andrianov, Pierre Amoyal, Liana Isakadze.

At the young age of 23, Andrey was appointed as teaching assistant to Pierre Amoyal at the Conservatoire de Lausanne and has since been in demand as a teacher at many international masterclasses. He has been invited to conservatories in Bangkok, Chicago, Riga, Vilnius, Stockholm, Moscow and more.