Isabel Dimoff, award-winning cellist, was born into a musical family and raised in Cleveland, OH.
She has been a member of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra since 2023 and has also
performed with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, and the
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Additionally, she has recorded with renowned artists such as
Béla Fleck and Gil Shaham. Dimoff is an active member of the Chrysalis Chamber Players with
Mary Bowden, a group that tours the United States featuring works for trumpet and string
quartet. She has also appeared on the national tour of Broadway’s Hadestown in Norfolk, VA.
Dimoff earned an Artist Diploma from Shenandoah Conservatory, where she performed
Dvorak’s Cello Concerto with the conservatory orchestra. She holds a Master of Music from the
University of Michigan and she was a member of the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra while she
earned her Bachelor of Music at the University of Cincinnati. She has spent several summers at
the Eastern Music Festival, both as a student and a fellow playing with the festival orchestra,
and was a fellow at the National Repertory Orchestra, where she was Principal Cello and a
soloist for Brahms’s Double Concerto.
Her primary teachers have included Julian Schwarz, Anthony Elliott, Ilya Finkelshteyn, Mark
Kosower, and Pam Kelly. Dimoff plays on an English cello made by John Betts in 1790.