Photo by Gabrielle Stubbert

Recognized by audiences for her theatrical flair and sparkling performance, soprano Sofia Dimitrova currently makes her home in New York City where she enjoys a busy career exploring and performing a wide range of music – from rarely performed Baroque gems to today’s living composers.

Her opera roles include performances in both fully- and semi-staged works. In May 2012, Ms. Dimitrova will sing Fiordiligi in Cosi fan Tutte. She has sung the role of Venus in Venus & Adonis by John Blow, the title role in Dido & Æneas; the characters of Sospecha and Calliope in a production of La Purpúra de la Rosa under the direction of Andrew Lawrence-King at the Amherst Early Music Festival; and the role of Damon in Handel’s Acis & Galatea. She has also performed featured roles in productions of Caccini’s La Liberazione di Ruggiero (Nunzia), Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea (Drusilla and Damigella), Il Pastor Fido (Mirtillo) and Triomphi with the New York Continuo Collective as well as the role of Sappho in Prismatic Production’s show Love Stories.

Ms. Dimitrova was selected to perform at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall (under the direction of Ton Koopman) as part of the Carnegie Hall Professional Workshop.  She was also a participant in the 2010 Caramoor Bel Canto academy under the baton of Maestro Crutchfield. Her oratorio repertoire includes solos in Handel’s Messiah with the Monmouth Civic Chorus, Graun’s Der Tod Jesu, and Saint-Saëns’ Christmas Oratorio, Brahms’s Requiem among others.  She was also a soloist in Vivaldi’s Gloria in a concert performed in Siena, Italy.

photo by Gabrielle Stubbert

As an advocate of new music, Ms. Dimitrova has performed and commissioned works by Paul Moravec, David Tcimpidis, Richard Russell, Thomas Addison, Raphael Fusco, Evan Lewis, Marilyn Bliss and Kevin McCarter.

Ms. Dimitrova has enjoyed an international career, having performed in Italy, Switzerland, Portugal, Spain, the United States, and in her native Bulgaria. She has sung with The New York Continuo Collective, ARTEK, Musica Bella Orchestra among others and is a founder of Ensemble Solaire. She has performed at Merkin Hall, Symphony Space, Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY Historical Society, Concerts At One, Midtown Music Series, Stony Brook University and on the New York Early Music Series. As a performing member of the New York Composers Circle she has performed in NYU Engleman Hall, St’ Peter’s Church (Midtown Arts Common) and in Recorded Readings produced by the organization as well as Outreach Concerts in New York City schools.

Ms. Dimitrova started her musical education at the age of five on violin. In 1999 she came to New York to study vocal performance at the Mannes College of Music, from where she holds both an undergraduate and Master’s degrees. Her teachers and coaches include Neal Goren, Lois Winter, Amy Burton, Catherine Mazzone, and Jill Feldman, Glenn Morton, Kamal Kahn, and Joshua Greene.

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