30 June

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.

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. 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 premiered many 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.