Marat Bisengaliev is a hugely original, most remarkable musician. Of course, his career gained momentum from picking up awards at international competitions, but he has courted more attention for going against the modern performance style, instead playing music in the spirit of the ideal of a century earlier. According to an American critic, Bisengaliev has all the characteristics to make him a latter-day Ysaÿe. The New York Times believes Bisengaliev “...has taken to heart a style of playing that was a hallmark of violin virtuosity early in the century...”. His Budapest concert of Bruch’s violin concerto and Karl Jenkins’s work Sarikiz, written for the virtuoso violinist, includes Gergely Madaras, a young conductor who is increasingly seen on the international podium.