Born in Hong Kong and raised in Vancouver, Vladimir started playing the violin at the age of four. He studied with Lawrie Hill at the Vancouver Academy of Music, Derek Pang, and Lorraine Grescoe, as well as attended a masterclass with Cho-Liang Lin. During his youth, he was a frequent winner in local competitions throughout the Lower Mainland – collaborating with Ailsa Zaenker and Amanda Chan – and was a three-time recipient of the Silver Medal for the Highest Mark in RCM Examinations in British Columbia. In 1999 and 2000, he was a national First Prize winner at the Canadian Music Competitions held in Edmonton and Toronto. In 2006, he received his Associate of the Royal Conservatory of Music (ARCT) diploma with First Class Honours with Distinction, and participated in the 10th Casalmaggiore International Festival in Italy under Taras Gabora, performing Bazzini's La Ronde des Lutins at the Gala Concert. He obtained his Fellowship of Trinity College London (FTCL) diploma in 2009.
In London, Vladimir has served as soloist, leader, conductor, and president with Barts and The London Orchestra, and was co-founder of the Barts String Quartet. He is currently assistant leader of the Thames Philharmonia under Byung-Yun Yu, and is actively involved as soloist and orchestral violinist with the Oxford & Cambridge Music Club and the Barts Academic Festival Orchestra under Professor John Lumley.
Vladimir spent three years as a member of the UBC Chamber Strings under Andrew Dawes and Eric Wilson, and the University of London Symphony Orchestra under John Forster and Daniel Capps. In 2008, he led the United Hospitals Orchestra in Mozart and Tchaikovsky in a charity concert at Southwark Cathedral, and performed Elgar's Salut d'Amour at the National Olympics Memorial Youth Center in Tokyo. In consecutive years, he gave solo performances of Paganini and Bach at the Synergy Show at indigO2, and in 2009, he held a recital of Beethoven's violin sonatas with Sylvia Yee at St. Olave's Church, Hart Street.
In 2012, Vladimir will appear as soloist at the Barts and The London Charity Art Auction, playing sonatas by Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, and Beethoven with pianist Richard Black, and in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with the Barts Academic Festival Orchestra. As part of the Oxford and Cambridge Music Club's concert series, he will perform Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante with violist Rupert Bawden, and Brahms' Symphony No. 1 under Sir Neville Marriner. He will also lead the Thames Philharmonia in Don Giovanni.