Violin soloist Dmitri Kogan‘s musical heritage is also significant to the global classical marketplace. His grandfather, Leonid Kogan, often played and worked with Dmitri Shostakovich himself, and his grandmother, Elizaveta Gilels, was the sister of famed Russian pianist, Emil Gilels. Such important family ties have guaranteed that Dmitri Kogan has developed into a masterful interpreter of the music of Shostakovich.