Roman Mints was born in 1976 in Moscow and began playing the violin at the age of five. In 1994 Roman won a Foundation Scholarship to the Royal College of Music in London and also studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, winning prizes at each.

He frequently appears in the UK and abroad and has participated in festivals in the Ukraine, Russia, Bulgaria, Germany, Bath, Cheltenham, Aldeburgh and others. He has appeared with orchestras including the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, London Mozart Players and Prague Soloists and has made numerous recordings for radio and television.

Roman has given Russian premieres of works by Poulenc, Britten, Desyatnikov, Tcherepnin, Tavener, MacMillan and Dauber and has also given world premieres of over thirty works by Langer, Vassiliev, Raikhelson, Bennett, Tabakova, Buevsky, Miyachi, Dixon, Desyatnikov and others.

In 1998 Roman Mints and oboist Dmitry Bulgakov founded Homecoming Chamber Music Festival in Moscow which later became the basis for the Homecoming Fund - the first organisation in Russia founded by young artists and dedicated to bringing back Russian musicians who live abroad. In April 2002 Roman co-directed the "Suppressed Music" project in Russia, which comprised two concerts and a conference on composers whose musc had been suppressed.

Roman has made several recordings, including his disc Transformations, released by Black Box in 1999. He made his South Bank debut in January 2000. Together with the cellist Kristine Blaumane and violist Maxim Rysanov, Roman established the ASCH Trio which tours extensively in UK and abroad including performances at the Wigmore Hall and the Purcell Room. Roman is a founding member of the EB Ensemble, an experimental group which combines electronic music with live instruments and visual installations.