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. During those times he also worked for the
New Japan Philharmonic, the
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the
London Symphony Orchestra, the
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the
Los Angeles Philharmonic, the
Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the
Warsaw Philharmonic, and the even
Mahler Chamber Orchestra. 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. Dumay appeared in various music halls including
Wigmore,
Victoria,
Suntory Hall of Tokyo, and the
Queen Elizabeth Hall. From 2003 to 2012 he is a principal conductor of the
Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie with which he travels throughout
Europe. During the same year he had collaborated with such orchestras as the
Camerata Salzburg,
Orchestre de Picardie, the
Orchestre d’Auvergne, the
English Chamber Orchestra and many others. 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. He also has many award-winning recordings. ==References==