Dima Dimitrova

Biography

Praised for her “luminous tone and fearless agility” by the South Florida Classical Review, violinist Dima Dimitrova has been recognized as one of today’s most notable chamber and orchestral musicians. She has performed in leading roles with orchestras around the world, including Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra, New World Symphony, Grant Park Festival Orchestra, Tsenov Chamber Ensemble, Salomé Chamber Orchestra, and Britten-Pears Festival Orchestra, among others. Ms. Dimitrova has performed on four continents in major concert venues, including Carnegie Hall and the Metropolitan Museum in New York City, as well as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Royal Albert Hall in London, Beijing Concert Hall in China, and the Amphitheatre Palace Of Charles V Granada, Spain, performing as a solo, chamber and orchestral musician.    
A tireless advocate for arts education, Ms. Dimitrova has been a part of numerous community engagement projects. She also served as a faculty member at Opus 118 Harlem School of Music in New York City, as well as a substitute teacher at the Music Advancement Program at the Juilliard School.
Ms. Dimitrova graduated from the Idyllwild Arts Academy in California, where she served as a concertmaster of the Idyllwild Arts Academy Orchestra, and received the Most Outstanding Artist of the Year Award for 2008. She completed her undergraduate and graduate studies at the Juilliard School in New York City in the studios of Professor Masao Kawasaki and Professor David Chan, Concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera. Ms. Dimitrova played with the New World Symphony in Florida under the baton of  Michael Tilson Thomas from 2014 to 2017.  Ms. Dimitrova served on the First Violin Section of the Charlotte Symphony from 2017 to 2019. She is currently an Assistant Principal Second Violin of the Bern Symphony Orchestra in Switzerland. During summer seasons she serves in the First Violin Section of the Grant Park Festival Orchestra where she was acting Assistant Concertmaster this past summer.