A First Prize winner at both the 2005 National Society of Arts and Letters Violin Competition and the 2004 William C. Byrd International Young Artist Competition for Strings, Dmitri Pogorelov is a prizewinning young virtuoso violinist and a seasoned performer.

Dmitri is the youngest member of a well-known family of outstanding musicians in his native Russia. He won the international violin competition held at the prestigious Gnessin School in Moscow and the International Competition for Chamber Music in St. Petersburg before coming to the United States in 2001.

Dmitri continued to garner awards, including top prizes at the 2004 Michael and Madelyn Savarick Music Scholarship Competition of the Mizner Centre of the Arts, the 2003 Strad Violin Competition and the 2003 Ludwig Spohr International Violin Competition in Germany. Dmitri has appeared in solo recitals, and as a soloist with orchestras in the United States, Germany, Italy, France, Japan, and Russia, where he performed in the most prestigious concert halls of Moscow and St. Petersburg, including Rachmaninoff Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Maly Hall of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, and the St. Petersburg Stadtskapella.

Following a performance with the Greater Palm Beach Symphony, the Palm Beach Daily News praised his “stellar performance” of the Tchaikovsky Concerto, as “an artist making his own statement…with the skill and panache of a player twice his years.”