Dmitrij Osadchuk is a violinist-composer born in Tromsø. He picked up the violin at 6 years of age, and got lessons from his mother, a violinist herself. In his early teens he began regularly visiting Oslo to take lessons, and at 15 he moved from home to study in Oslo with Stephan Barratt-Due and Bård Monsen. Now he is in the third year of his bachelor with Stephan Barratt-Due as his teacher.