“A 20-year-old Russian virtuoso had a crowd of approximately 500 people cheering for him...It was Dmitri Pogorelov and his violin who first brought the crowd to their feet.
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— Lancaster Eagle-Gazette, July 30, 2004
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...