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, including Verbier, Schleswig-Holstein, the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad and the Kronberg Academy, to perform as a soloist and in collaboration with artists such as Yuri Bashmet, Mischa Maisky, Heinrich Schiff, Christian Zacharias, Sol Gabetta, Yuja Wang, Julian Rachlin, Daniel Hope, Natalia Gutman, Dmitri Sitkovetsky and Gautier Capucon.

In recital he has performed at the Munich Philharmonie, Berliner Philharmonie, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Théâtre du Châtelet, Auditorium du Louvre, Théatre des Champs Elysées, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, and the Auditorio Nacional de Música de Madrid.