Her opera roles include performances in both fully- and semi-staged works. She has performed the title roles in Venus and Adonis and Dido & Æneas, Damon in Handel's Acis & Galatea; Nunzia in La Liberazione di Ruggiero, the characters of Sospecha and Calliope in a production of La Purpúra de la Rosa under the direction of Andrew Lawrence-King at the 2003 Amherst Early Music Festival. She has also performed featured roles in productions of L'incoronazione di Poppea, Il Pastor Fido and Triomphi with the New York Continuo Collective.
Ms. Dimitrova has been an oratorio soloist in Handel's Messiah, Graun's Der Tod Jesu, Saint-Saëns' Christmas Oratorio, and Rutter's Requiem. She was also a soloist in Vivaldi's Gloria in a concert performed in Siena, Italy. As an advocate of new music, Ms. Dimitrova has performed and commissioned works by Paul Moravec, David Tcimpidis, Judith Shatin, Richard Russell, Thomas Addison, Raphael Fusco, Evan Lewis, Marilyn Bliss and Kevin McCarter.
Ms. Dimitrova has enjoyed a broadly 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. She's a founder of Ensemble Solaire with which she's performed in Concerts At One, Midtown Music Series, Stony Brook University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and at the New York Historical Society. 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.
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, where she graduated summa cum laude in 2003. Her teachers include Amy Burton, Catherine Mazzone, Lois Winter and Jill Feldman.
Sofia Dimitrova © 2009
photos: Gabrielle Stubbert
Recognized by audiences for her theatrical flair and sparkling presence, 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.
Highlights of past seasons include: a performance of contemporary music at Merkin Hall; the 'Coffee' Cantata by J.S. Bach (with the Musica Bella Orchestra); and the role of Venus in Venus & Adonis, as well as the role of Sappho in Prismatic Production's show Love Stories. In 2005 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.
