Dmitry Smirnov with violin, bow hair flying across his face. Photo: Matthias Müller

Dmitry
Smirnov

Lalo on gut strings. Haydn with Giovanni Antonini. A Popov concerto, long thought lost, rebuilt from the sources.

“Most interesting interpretation of Stravinsky’s concerto.”

Patricia Kopatchinskaja · on his debut with the DSO Berlin, Philharmonie 2023
Dmitry Smirnov holding the violin high above his head, black and white

Biography

Born 1994, St Petersburg
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The ARD Prize winner has recorded Lalo on gut strings and reconstructed the Violin Concerto by Gavriil Popov, long thought lost. Playing and research go hand in hand.

As a soloist he has performed with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Il Giardino Armonico, the Kammerorchester Basel, the Oslo Philharmonic and the Stuttgart Philharmonic. He works with Giovanni Antonini as concertmaster and soloist, including the Haydn2032 project, and as a chamber musician with Sol Gabetta, Ilya Gringolts, Aylen Pritchin and Sergei Redkin.

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