Vladislav Provotar was born in 1987 in Ryazan. He got educated in the Central Music School at the Moscow Conservatory (Alexei Seleznev's class), then in the Gnessins Music School and the Gnessins Russian Academy of Music (classes of Professor Vladimir Goncha). In 2023, he got his master degree with a dissertation about the principles of cello fingering.

The winner of the Città di Barletta International Competition (Italy, 2008) in solo and chamber ensemble nominations. He got a diploma at the First All-Russian S.M. Kozoloopov Competition (2009) and won the International Competition in Ruza (2015).

In 2007, he organized the Eudemonia duet with pianist Serafima Ushakova; later the duet won a diploma at the first edition of the Shostakovich International Chamber Music Competition held in Moscow and the Rachmaninoff International Competition in St Petersburg and became a laureate of the Maria Yudina Open Festival-Competition. In 2020, the duet recorded 24 Preludes for cello and piano by Sulkhan Tzintzadze.

He is currently the first deputy concertmaster of the NPR cello group, and a docent at the Gnessins Academy of Music.

He is also the founder of the ABM Cello Quartet and plays with the WeAreThe Cellos group as well as with the NPR cello group.

He has taken part as a jury member at many Russian and international competitions and has published a couple of manuals and articles about cello playing. He has also made transcriptions for various groups.