Isabel Dimoff, cellist, was born into a musical family and raised in Cleveland, OH. She has been a member of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra since 2023. She is also pursuing an Artist
Diploma, studying with Julian Schwarz at the Shenandoah Conservatory, where she performed the Dvorak Cello Concerto with the Conservatory Orchestra in February 2023. Dimoff was a
member of the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra while she earned her Bachelor of Music at the University of Cincinnati and studied with Ilya Finkelshteyn, Principal Cellist of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. In 2020, Dimoff earned her Master of Music from the University of Michigan, where she studied with Anthony Elliott and founded the Belkorim Piano Trio, winner of
the school’s 2020 Binkow Grant. After graduating, she was a member of a long-distance chamber music group, [sunflower], which commissioned new music and performed exclusively online during quarantine. She has been a fellow at the Eastern Music Festival, playing with the festival orchestra, as well as the National Repertory Orchestra where she sat Principal Cello and performed the Brahms Double Concerto. While growing up in Cleveland, Dimoff studied with Mark Kosower, Principal Cellist of The Cleveland Orchestra, after beginning her cello studies with Pamela Kelly. Dimoff plays on an English cello made by John Betts in 1790.