Dmitry Smirnov, prize-winner of the ARD International Music Competition, appears as a soloist with renowned orchestras worldwide. He has performed in major concert halls ranging from Carnegie Hall in New York to Nikkei Hall in Tokyo. A highly sought-after chamber musician he regularly collaborates with artists such as Sol Gabetta and Ilya Gringolts, and also serves as concertmaster and soloist in Giovanni Antonini’s Haydn Project 2032.
Recent engagements include his debuts with the Oslo Philharmonic, the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg. In March 2026 he presented the long-lost Violin Concerto by Gavriil Popovat at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow, a work he had completed through months of archival research and transcription.
Dmitry is a laureate of numerous international competitions, including First Prizes at the David Oistrakh Competition in Moscow (2006), the Tibor Varga International Violin Competition (2015) and the Concours d’Interprétation Musicale de Lausanne (2017). He also won Second Prizes at the International Yehudi Menuhin Competition (2008) and the ARD International Music Competition(2021), and received three awards at the Long-Thibaud-Crespin International Competition in 2018.
His solo and chamber music engagements have taken him to prestigious festivals including the Salzburg Festival, Lucerne Festival,Gstaad Menuhin Festival, LuganoMusica, Heidelberger Frühling, Rheingau Music Festival, Davos Festival, Grafenegg Festival,Stresa Festival, Solsberg Festival, Festival delle Muse Salentine and Inverno Musicale in Brazil.
As a soloist he has collaborated with conductors such as Giovanni Antonini, Heinz Holliger, Philippe Herreweghe, Vladimir Spivakov, Gilbert Varga, Stanislav Kochanovsky, Philipp Chizhevsky, Delyana Lazarova and Aurel Dawidiuk. He has performed with orchestras including the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Il Giardino Armonico, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin,Novaya Rossiya State Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Virtuosi, Festival Strings Lucerne, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Basel Chamber Orchestra, Basel Symphony Orchestra, St. Gallen Symphony Orchestra, Argovia Philharmonic, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, and the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie.
Born into a musical family in St. Petersburg, Dmitry Smirnov began studying the violin at the age of four and later continued his training at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory. He subsequently studied with Pavel Vernikov at the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne and later with Rainer Schmidt at the Music Academy Basel.
