Violinist and conductor Augustin Dumay is among the most respected players of his generation, making recordings for EMI and Deutsche Grammophon. He has had a second career as a conductor, becoming the principal conductor of the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie in 2003, and has also become a significant educator, teaching at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Brussels. Dumay's recording career began in the 1980s, recording the complete Beethoven violin sonatas with pianist Maria-João Pires, among other standard repertory works. In 2013, Dumay issued a recording of Saint-Saëns' La muse et le poète, and in 2021, a new recording of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64.