*1974
Artem Vassiliev was born in Kazakhstan in 1974 and has lived in Moscow since 1980. He started studying music at the age of 12 and then went on to do his principle studies in composition with Yuri Vorontsov and electro-acoustic music with Anatoly Kisselev at Gnessins College (1991-95) and then with Vorontsov at the Moscow State Conservatoire (1995-2002).