Augustin Dumay (born 17 January 1949) is a French violinist and conductor from Paris.
[1] Dumay was invited as a soloist to appear with Yo-Yo Ma in Paris by Herbert von Karajan.
Later on, he performed Béla Bartók's Second Concerto with Colin Davis and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra where he stayed.
He also appeared with such notable German conductors as Kurt Masur, Kurt Sanderling, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Christoph von Dohnányi, along with Seiji Ozawa of Japan, Charles Dutoit of Switzerland, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky of Russia, and French ones such as Marc Minkowski and Emmanuel Krivine.
From 2002 to 2005 he served as a director of the arts at the Menton Festival de Musique and became a professor at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, where he taught many young violinists.