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Dimov String
Quartet
Since its establishment in 1956 Dimov String Quartet has
won recognition with its
exceptional music style and won the admiration and warm
acclaim of the audience in the
country and abroad. The Quartet was prize winner of
prestigious international competitions
among them those in Berlin (1960), Budapest (1963),
Liege (1964), Munich (1965). Founder
of the quartet and leading violinist for five decades
has been Prof. Dimo Dimov.
Through its 50-year long artistic history Dimov Quartet
has toured all over the world. They have given concerts
in more than 25 countries on four continents, over 50
times they have performed in France. The Quartet has
taken part in prestigious festivals such as Karintischer
Sommer, those in Strasburg and Avinon, Pablo Casals in
France, the festival in Bath, Warsaw Autumn, Prague
Summer, Sofia Music Weeks, March Music Days, Varna
Summer and many others.
In 1965 in France Dimov String Quartet made its first
recording under Harmonia Mundi. Since then they have
released more than 80 disks – all Beethoven and Schumann
quartets, the quintets and quartets by Mozart and
Schubert, the quintets of Boccherini for guitar, musical
series History of the String Quartet. They have numerous
recordings for the radio and TV in Bulgaria and abroad
and many firs performances of works, especially written
for them by outstanding Bulgarian and foreign composers,
among them M. Goleminov, K. Iliev, L. Pipkov, Dim.
Hristov, G. Ferari and others. |
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