“The fantastic Portuguese pianist Maria Joao Pires is a musical personality that has conquered the world’s heart (…) The violinist Augustin Dumay is also a first rate musician. Like Pires, he plays from the inside, with an enormous “musical frame,” a formidable sound, and charisma that takes one’s breath away (…) He also conducts one of the oldest Belgian orchestras, the respectable “Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia,” which under his baton, produces a marvelous range of colors (…)(…) What a masterly violinist, far above the score, with a sublime sound and purity of expression (…) and that perfect integration of the soloist with his ensemble, so intensely intermixed – a perfect union in a complex architecture, like Mozart had imagined it. Simply brilliant (…) What immeasurable depth and what intensity from all the musicians on stage…Impressive!” 

EINDHOVEN DAYBLAD, Cornelie Hoendervanger, 22 September 2006 – “Mozart” Concerts with Maria Joao Pires, Ricardo Castro and Augustin Dumay in the Brussels Centre for Fine Arts, in Eindhoven and at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris