The Orchestra's soloist
Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation
(the percussion)

Alexander Samoilov is one of the leading players of the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra. In 1977 he began his work in Vladimir Fedoseyev's Orchestra. Since then Alexander has been a permanent soloist in all the orchestra's concerts and performed the leading and important parts of the extreme complexity, such as M.Ravel's “Bolero”, N.Rimsky-Korsakov's “Sheikresada”, R. Schedrin's “Karmen-suite” and many others

Alexandr Samoilov has a diploma of the All-Union Variety Art Contest, has been awarded a few honorary diplomas, has participated in international festivals, premiers, has been repeatedly praised both by Russian and also European, Mexican and Japanese critics. He is a soloist of the ensemble established in 2000 and unique in its composition of two harps and the percussion, which has become popular not only in Russia but also abroad.