Alexei Vasiliev graduated from the St. Petersburg State Conservatory. Since 1992 to 2006 he had worked for the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Since 1995 he has been teaching in the Conservatory.
Nowadays he has been working as the director of the St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Musical College, and as the artistic director of the Paulavičius Youth Symphony Orchestra and he has been participating in different concerts as a soloist and a member of ensembles.