Born in St Petersburg, Kirill Troussov took his first violin lessons at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory at the age of four, going on to study with Zakhar Bron and Christoph Poppen and to win first prize at the Yehudi Menuhin, Oleg Kagan and the Wieniawski violin competitions.

He has appeared as a soloist with international orchestras including the Munich Philharmonic, Bamberger Symphony, the Staatskapelle Berlin, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre de Paris and Orchestre National de Montpellier under the direction of such conductors as Sir Neville Marriner, Daniele Gatti, Lawrence Foster, Jiri Belohlávek, Vladimir Spivakov, Mikko Frank and Louis Langrée.

He is regularly invited to international festivals, incl...