| Augustin Dumay was born in 1949 in Paris into a family of musicians. He began studying the violin after his parents took him to hear a performance by Nathan Milstein, who later became his teacher. Dumay entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of ten, remaining there for two years before continuing his musical education privately. At the age of 14, Augustin Dumay gave a recital at the 1963 Montreux Festival with Henryk Szeryng and Joseph Szigeti present in the audience; just a week later, Szeryng was asked to substitute for another violinist on a tour of South America. Unable to go himself, he recommended the young Dumay in his place. Upon his return from the tour, Dumay was accepted as a student of Nathan Milstein, who predicted a great career for the young violinist. Later, Dumay also studied with Arthur Grumiaux for five years in Brussels. In recent years, Augustin Dumay has made a name for himself as a soloist and performer of chamber music. International recognition came in 1979, when Herbert von Karajan made Dumay his guest artist for a special celebratory concert in Paris. Immediately afterwards, Dumay was invited to perform Bartok's Violin concerto No. 2 with the Berlin Philharmonic and Sir Colin Davis, a performance which brought great public and critical acclaim. Since then, Augustin Dumay has enjoyed an increasingly busy international career, and is regularly invited to play with the leading European orchestras and conductors. He has performed regularly with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestra de la Suisse Romande, the Japan Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra and some of the most prestigious conductors of our time including Sir Colin Davis, Seiji Ozawa, Charles Dutoit, Kurt Sanderling, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski and Rafael Fruebeck de Burgos. He has toured extensively, and often appears at major festivals worldwide including those in Montreux, Bath, Berlin, Lucerne, Monaco, Aix-en-Provence, Leipzig, Montpellier, Ravinia and at the Lincoln Center. | |
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