Born in Greece, Vassilis Tsotsolis graduated in Violin studies from Thessaloniki’s State Conservatory. He pursued his training in France with T. Afanassieff (violin) and M. Yanouchevtskaya (string quartet, as viola player). Attracted by the historical performance of the Early music he studied Baroque Violin with Sigiswald Kuijken at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels (master’s degree) and Historical/Systematic Musicology at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (master’s degree - thesis and concert on the Mysteries of Rosarium of Heinrich Biber).
He has worked with several European Early Music ensembles such as: La Symphonie du Marais, Les Talens Lyriques, Le Concert Spirituel, Ensemble Vocal de Nantes, La Réjouissance, RCOC, Latinitas nostra, Balkan Baroque Band…Among his recordings: cantatas of Bernier and Granval, cantatas and concertos of J. S. Bach, ballets and operas of Lully, Martin y Soler, Mazzoni, Domènec Terradellas, and music by Haendel, Vivaldi, Charpentier, Fiocco, Zelenka.
In 2007 he created Én Pràxi, a baroque chamber music ensemble and gave concerts in Greece, Taiwan and South Korea. In Taiwan he collaborates frequently with Yun Shen Baroque ensemble.
Vassilis Tsotsolis has taught violin and chamber music in several French and Greek music schools and seminars and is actually teaching in Chiao-Tung U. and at the Department of General Education in Tsing-Hua U. Starting 2017 he is invited at Baroque music Master classes organized by Wei Wu Ying in Kaohsiung.