Now playing in this video: 🎵 Eugène Ysaÿe: "Sonate à George Enescu" (From op. 27 "Six sonata for violin)

Dmitry Smirnov takes on Ysaÿe's Sonata à George Enescu, a virtuosic tour de force from the composer's landmark set of six solo violin sonatas. Rhapsodic and technically dazzling, the piece pays tribute to Enescu's own restless, folk-inflected musical voice.

🌟 About the Artist

Violinist Dmitry Smirnov is described as having an “exuberant artistic personality and wonderful sound, so flexible and sensitive”. Dmitry’s finesse and flexibility extend to a wide range of forms and genres, including solo, chamber, early, contemporary and everything in between. His early studies at the Rimsky-Korsakov Saint-Petersburg State Conservatory, Lausanne Institute of Advanced Musical Studies and Basel Music Academy, under mentors such as Elena Zaiceva, Pavel Vernikov and Rainer Schmidt, have led him to numerous successes in the industry.