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Isabel Dimoff, award-winning cellist, was born into a musical family and raised in Cleveland, OH. She has been a member of the Richmond Symphony since 2026 and the Virginia Symphony Orchestra since 2023. Dimoff 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 a 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 currently holds adjunct professor positions at Longwood University and Virginia Wesleyan University. She earned an Artist Diploma from Shenandoah Conservatory, where she performed Dvorak’s Cello Concerto with the conservatory’s 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.

Isabel Dimoff

Acting Principal Cello Weeks 1-3

Isabel Dimoff, award-winning cellist, was born into a musical family and raised in Cleveland, OH. She has been a member of the Richmond Symphony since 2026 and the Virginia Symphony Orchestra since 2023. Dimoff 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 a 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 currently holds adjunct professor positions at Longwood University and Virginia Wesleyan University. She earned an Artist Diploma from Shenandoah Conservatory, where she performed Dvorak’s Cello Concerto with the conservatory’s 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.

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