Dmitry Ferschtman began his musical education when he was very young at the Central Music School in Moscow and from 1964 at the Moscow Conservatory with Galina Kozoloepova and Natalia Gutman. In his second year at the conservatory he founded (with the altoist Misha Geller, among others) the Glinka string quartet, in which he played from 1966 to 1978 and with which he gave hundreds of concerts in the Soviet Union and abroad. He also performed as a soloist. With the quartet, he won first prize in an international string quartet competition in Liege, Belgium in 1969. From 1969 to 1973, Ferschtman taught chamber music at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1978, Ferschtman emigrated with his wife, pianist Mila Baslawskaja, from the Soviet Union to the Netherlands, where a year later their daughter, violinist Liza Ferschtman, was born. In the Netherlands, he built a new career. He played as a soloist with most conductors such as Frans Brüggen, Kenneth Montgomery, Edo de Waart. He is also active in several chamber music ensembles. For example, again with Misha Geller, he founded a new Glinka Quartet. He forms a permanent duo with his wife Mila Baslawskaya, with whom he has recorded works by Nikolai Myaskovsky, Alfred Schnittke, Dmitri Shostakovich, Claude Debussy and César Franck, among others. With the pianist Ronald Brautigam he recorded works by Sergei Prokofiev, which CD received a 10 in the music magazine Luister.