Prize-winner of many prestigious international violin competitions such as N. Paganini Competition in Genoa, P.I.Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, R. Lipizer Competition in Gorizia; winner of International Competition in Portogruaro (Italy), Juventus Award (by the European Council), N. and L. Boulanger Foundation Award and Natexis Banque Populaire Foundation Award in Paris, O. and V. Ritter Foundation Award in Hamburg and G. Cziffra Foundation Award (France).

Born in November 1975, he started to study the violin at the age of six and gave his first concert when he was only eight. He finished the famous Tchaikovsky Central Music School in Moscow for the gifted children, First Prize unanimously at the National Superior Conservatory of Music in Lyon, then he completed his post-graduate studies at the High Conservatory of Music in Cologne, Artist Certificate at the Southern Methodist University Meadows School of Arts in Dallas, Chigiana Music Academy in Siena and always obtained the highest honours.
Among his teachers were Boris Belkin, Ivry Gitlis, Edouard Schmieder, Herman Krebbers, Mihaela Martin and Irina Botchkova.

He has performed with Moscow Symphony Orchestra, North Nederland Symphony Orchestra, Kharkov Philharmonic, Orchestra di Teatro di Genova, Freiburg Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Ulianovsk Philharmonic, Gunma Chamber Orchestra, Musica Vitae Chamber Orchestra, Yaroslavl Philharmonic, Plano Symphony Orchestra and many others, conducted by Michel Tabachnik, Anton Nanut, Peter Csaba, Paolo Peloso etc.

Vadim Tchijik gives recitals in France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Holland, Spain, Luxembourg, Sweden, Russia, USA, Japan, Turkey, Bulgaria, Israel, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and other countries all over the world. He is very often invited to participate in prestigious music festivals among which Festival Radio France and Montpellier, Pablo Casals, Guebwiller, Royan, Festival of St-Riquier, Fetes Romantique de Nohant, Semaines Musicales de Tours, Music Festival des Grands Crus de Bourgogne, Japan Music festival, Okayama Music Festival, Young Artists Festival in Los Angeles, Festival of Guil-Durance, Music Art Festival in Grenoble, International Festival in Portogruaro, Settimane Musicale di Ravello, Salon of the Arts in Sofia, Felicja Blumental Festival in Tel Aviv, Euro Musica Vitae Festival in Sweden, Juventus and Salon Musicora in Paris.

He performs in various radio and TV broadcasts in many countries (France Musique, Radio Classique, NHK, France 3, Mezzo, RAI, Japanese, Russian, Swedish television) and his concerts were broadcasted all over the Europe, USA and Asia. He recorded several CD’s for Lyrinx (“Recommandé” by Classica Magazine, “Coup de Coeur” by Piano Magazine), Exton (“One of the best CD’s of the Month” by The Record Geijutsu (Japan) and DOCdata Benelux labels. In 2006 he participates in Japan at the recording of a series of CD dedicated to the 250th Mozart Anniversary.

He played chamber music with Pieter Wispelwey, Emmanuel Pahud, Jean-Claude Pennetier, David Geringas, Cedric Tiberghien, Marc Coppey, Michel Arignon, Alexander Melnikov, Alban Gerhardt, Michel Lethiec, Yves Henry etc. His concerts always receive highest acclamations by critics.

Vadim Tchijik is a Professor of violin at the J.-P. Rameau and E. Satie state conservatories in Paris and gives master-classes in Europe and in Asia.
In 2004, the famous French magazine “Diapason” dedicates one page to Vadim Tchijik entitled “Already Maestro” and in 2007, the famous magazine “String” dedicates to him an exclusive interview of three pages.

Vadim Tchijik is an Artistic Director of the International Music Festival in Hyères and the Musical Week-end in Moulin d'Andé (Normandy). He also edited the violin part of music by Saint-Saens, Ravel and Franck for "Zen On" music edition in Japan.

Vadim Tchijik plays Carlo Ferdinando Landolfi violin made in Milan in 1753.