« 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