Augustin Dumay was first discovered by the public after meeting Herbert von Karajan, giving concerts with the Berliner Philharmoniker and making recordings for EMI (concertos by Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Saint­-Saëns and Lalo). He went on to perform regularly with the world’s finest orchestras – the Berliner Philharmoniker, Orchestre National de France, Japan Philharmonic, English Chamber Orchestra, London Symphony, London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Suisse Romande, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Bayerischer Rundfunk and many others – under the direction of the greatest conductors of our time, such as Sir Colin Davis, Christoph von Dohnányi, Seiji Ozawa, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Daniel Harding, Armin Jordan, Kurt Masur, Eliahu Inbal, Emmanuel Krivine, Rafael Kubelík, Igor Markevitch, Charles Dutoit, Iván Fischer, Frans Brüggen, Kent Nagano, Kurt Sanderling, Evgeny Svetlanov, Alan Gilbert, Dennis Russell Davies, Andrew Davis, Stéphane Denève, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Jukka­Pekka Saraste, Yuri Temirkanov, David Zinman, Alain Altinoglu and Robin Ticciati.

Over the last ten years, in parallel to his international career as a violinist, Augustin Dumay has also become very active as a conductor, both on stage and on disc. He is regularly invited to conduct orchestras such as the English Chamber Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and Sinfonia Varsovia. Since 2003, he has been music director of the Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia (Belgium), and in 2011, he was appointed music director of the Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra (Osaka, Japan).

Since 2004, he has been a Master in residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel (Brussels) where he coaches a select group of highly talented young violinists, a majority of whom have won prizes at major international competitions. The film­maker Gérard Corbiau (Le Maître de musique, Farinelli) made a documentary film about him – Augustin Dumay, Laisser une trace dans le cœur.

His discography – some 40 recordings, the majority of which have received prestigious awards (Gramophone Awards, Audiophile Audition, Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, Grand Prix du Disque, The Record Academy Award) – is available on the Warner, Deutsche Grammophon and Onyx Classics labels. For Onyx, after two recordings conducting the Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra and two CDs with the pianist Louis Lortie – Franck & Strauss Violin Sonatas by ‘one of today’s great violinists’ (The Strad) and Brahms Sonatas, ’a disc to treasure’ (The Guardian) – Augustin Dumay returned to the concerto repertory: he has recorded Beethoven’s Concerto with the Sinfonia Varsovia and Bartók’s Concerto no.2 with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and Kent Nagano.