Andrei Samsonov is a Russian composer, recording artist and producer.  Educated in Moscow at the legendary Gnessin School of Music, he first performed as a solo clarinettist at the age of ten. In 1991 he won the last ever Grand Prix of the USSR Woodwind Competition.  He then spent five years in London on a scholarship at the Royal College of Music.

Through the 1990's Andrei  performed numerous concerts in the UK as well as various international festivals in Europe as a clarinettist specialising in contemporary pieces for solo clarinet.

As a composer Andrei explores the outer edges of electro-acoustic music but is also adept composing in a traditional classical mode and in the cut-up universe of contemporary electronica and dance.  In 1997 Mute Records released a collection of his electronic works entitled 'Void In' .

As the millennium approached Andrei composed two major modern classical works entitled 'Polusa' and 'The Red Desert' which he conducted in St Petersburgh and at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.

Since 2000 Andrei Samsonov has produced over fifty albums for major Russian artists and recorded with a diverse range of performers such as Marc Almond, The Rastrelli Cello Quartet, Huun Huur Tu, the revered Tuvan throat singer, and Grammy winner percussionist Evelyn Glennie.

In 2002 Andrei Samsonov's music was featured throughout the documentary 'The Lost Boys' by award winning film maker Clive Gordon.

Working to picture, Samsonov scored a Russian television documentary entitled 'India In Real Time' in 2006 and in 2008 he completed a full score for the Russian feature film 'Oxygen' directed by Ivan Varybaev.