Andrey Rubtsov was born in Moscow in 1982 and is a 2000 graduated from the Central School of Music of the Moscow State Conservatory. At present, he is a post-graduate oboe student under Professor Gennady Kerentsev and he studies composition under Professor Leonid Bobylev.

Rubtsov has been a laureate of several Russian and international youth competitions, and has been awarded scholarships by New Names foundation, Russian Performing Art Heritage Foundation (2004) and other arts organizations. From 1995 to 1999 he was the first oboe in the Youth Symphonic Orchestra of Russia.

As a soloist Andrey has performed with Russian National Orchestra, Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow Symphonic Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic, Musica Viva ensemble and other orchestras. His concerts took place in different Russian cities, several ex-USSR republics, England, Scotland, Italy and Germany.

In 2001 he was invited to join the oboe section of the Russian National Orchestra under Mikhail Plentev as an associate principal (the youngest artist ever in the history of RNO), and became a founding member of the RNO Wind Quintet.

Andrey is a participant of Pacific Music Festival 2001 (Sapporo, Japan) and UBS Verbier Festival Youth Orchestra - 2002, 2003 (Verbier, Switzerland, Artistic Director - James Levine).

As a composer, Andrey Rubtsov's works include Divertimento for flute and strings, Quartet for horns, "Three Moods" for woodwind quintet, Sonata for piano, Waltz for piano quintet, Piece for four flutes, several romances, and other works. His Concerto for oboe and strings was performed by Russian National Orchestra.